Comparison

Residual vs Bit Night Runner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Residual

Explore procedurally generated alien planets, harvest resources, and craft sci-fi tools to survive and repair your ship. Uncover ancient secrets in a non-violent survival platformer with a unique nature engine.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated worlds
  • Resource harvesting and crafting
  • Sci-fi tool creation
  • Non-violent survival gameplay
  • Alien lore discovery
  • Customizable survival parameters
Features
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Residual… a new breed of survival platformer from OrangePixel. In a forgotten galaxy full of strange planets, a lone explorer crash-lands on one with an ancient alien secret. Venture forth from the shipwreck across a harsh, unpredictable, procedurally generated world. Harvest food and make campfires to stay alive. Craft science-fiction survival tools like teleporters and mining devices. Unearth alien technology capable of repairing the ship. Hunger, cosmic storms, hostile plant life and the mysterious ooze are among the many obstacles you’ll face. You won’t be alone! PDB (a snarky floating Personal Disaster Bot) will follow and assist you along the way. Sometimes. PDB also helps you discover the hidden lore, revealing the history of the planet as you explore deeper and deeper, assuming you can survive! OrangePixel’s uniquely designed Nature Engine generates 1000’s of planets from a vast set of environment-based rules, then drops explorers on a world brimming with potential. If a planet orbits close to the sun, intense heat, high winds, and sparse vegetation will pose a set of challenges wildly different from other worlds. Further from the sun, long nights make stamina easier to maintain, but reduced solar power turns every suit function—like scanning the planet—into a critical decision. Residual welcomes players to a non-violent survival experience with limitless possibilities and no traditional combat. Jump and descend through colorful, highly detailed pixel art evoking classic 2D platformers. Solve light puzzles to reveal secrets of a long-lost civilization. Select a male, female, or non-binary protagonist, customize survival parameters like how fast time advances, and race to repair the ship, dig up ancient secrets, or collect data entries on hundreds of undiscovered objects.

About

Bit Night Runner

Features
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Bit is a little robot on an endless midnight dash. Tap to jump, hold for height, swipe down to dive — stomp hazards, pogo off ghosts, and graze past danger for combo bonuses as the night races by faster and faster. • One thumb, real platforming — jump, double-jump, dive-slam, stomp-bounce, pogo chains • Fill the Overdrive meter with brave play and erupt into an invincible speed burst • 8 shifting zones — Night Yard, Frost Cliffs, Ember Caves, the Void, Neon Grid, Sunset Dunes, Toxic Bog, Thunderhead • Power-ups: shield, coin magnet, score rush, and the mystery box • High road or low road — launch pads and platform lanes make every run a choice • Down but not out? Spend banked coins on one revive per run • 10 Bit skins + 6 trails to unlock, rotating missions, a daily challenge and streak • Global Game Center leaderboards — Best Score, Distance, and Coins No ads. No accounts. No tracking. Just one more run.

Screenshots

Residual4 screens
Bit Night Runner3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bit Night Runner at Free against Residual's $5.99. Residual's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Bit Night Runner is free to download; Residual costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Residual ships an update monthly, Bit Night Runner every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 11, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Residual versus Bit Night Runner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterResidualBit Night Runner
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating3.5 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPascal BestebroerAnguished LLC

In-app purchases

None

Residual

No in-app purchases

None

Bit Night Runner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Residual free?
Residual costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bit Night Runner free?
Bit Night Runner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Residual or Bit Night Runner have ads?
Neither Residual nor Bit Night Runner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Residual or Bit Night Runner?
Residual ships an update monthly, and Bit Night Runner every 3 weeks. Most recently, Residual was updated on October 11, 2026 and Bit Night Runner on October 11, 2026.

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