Residual vs Bit Night Runner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Procedurally generated worlds
- Resource harvesting and crafting
- Sci-fi tool creation
- Non-violent survival gameplay
- Alien lore discovery
- Customizable survival parameters
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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.
Bit Night Runner
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
Residual ships an update monthly, Bit Night Runner every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 11, 2026.
| Parameter | Residual | Bit Night Runner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (14 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pascal Bestebroer | Anguished LLC |
In-app purchases
Residual
No in-app purchases
Bit Night Runner
No in-app purchases









