Comparison

Gears Forever vs Airspace Overload

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

Head to head
About

Gears Forever

Embark on an enchanting 3D ball-rolling platformer adventure. Explore three distinct worlds filled with imaginative challenges, gather gears, and race against the clock. Enjoy intuitive controls and high-definition steampunk graphics.

Highlights
  • 3D ball-rolling platformer
  • Explore three distinct worlds
  • Gather gears and race against time
  • Intuitive swipe controls
  • High-definition steampunk graphics
Features
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The spiritual successor to the original ball rolling App Store hit is here! Explore the enchanting realm of Gears Forever, an exquisite 3D ball-rolling platformer brimming with imaginative challenges. Accumulate points with a simple swipe of your finger. Race against the clock while gathering gears across an endless realm spread across three distinct worlds! Key Features: Embark on adventures in three distinct worlds: The Brass Menagerie, Rivers of Magma, and the Cavern of Omens. Navigate an endless realm brimming with obstacles and puzzles. Intuitive controls let you roll the ball with your finger. Enjoy high-definition Steampunk style graphics that bring the game's world to life. Connect with us: Twitter: http://twitter.com/cm_games Facebook: http://facebook.com/crescentmoongames

About

Airspace Overload

Guide incoming airplanes to safe landings and avoid collisions in this top-down arcade air traffic game. Master challenging levels and increasing difficulty as the skies fill with planes. Compete globally on leaderboards in endless air traffic chaos.

Highlights
  • Guide planes to safe landings
  • Avoid collisions
  • Challenging handcrafted levels
  • Increasing difficulty
  • Survival Mode with ghost flights
  • One-touch controls
  • Global leaderboards
Features
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Land planes safely in endless air traffic chaos — now with a worldwide daily championship. Take control of the skies in this top-down arcade air traffic game. Guide incoming airplanes to safe landings, avoid collisions, and keep the airspace under control as the challenge ramps up. NEW — Daily Pile-Up Championship One shared sky. Every player on Earth. One winner per day. Every flight anyone lands today layers into the same airspace as a ghost, building shared traffic from dawn until midnight. Whoever lands the day's final flight wins it. Drop in whenever you've got a few minutes — the sky will be a little more crowded each time you come back. How to play: - Tap a plane to select it. - Tap anywhere else to set its course. - Line it up with the runway and bring it in for a safe landing. Sounds simple? Just wait until the skies get crowded. Game Modes - Classic landings — handcrafted scenarios with rising difficulty - Survival Mode — every plane you successfully land returns as a ghost, retracing its approach again and again. How long can you keep guiding fresh arrivals through a sky already full of yourself? - Daily Pile-Up Championship — worldwide async multiplayer Daily Rewards & Play Streaks Show up each day to claim a rotating reward — bonus credits, free Pile-Up entries, soft-start perks, even a guaranteed clear-skies day. Keep your streak going for milestone bonuses at Day 3, 7, 14, and 30. Smoother Flight Control The physics engine has been tuned up — guiding planes through the airspace feels more precise than ever. Whether you've got five minutes between meetings or want to climb the global standings, Airspace Overload delivers pure arcade air traffic action. Can you keep the skies safe?

Screenshots

Gears Forever4 screens
Airspace Overload4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Airspace Overload at none against Gears Forever's 6. Airspace Overload also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). Gears Forever's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks). On price 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

Both are free to download. Gears Forever sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Airspace Overload asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gears Forever holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gears Forever has 18 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Gears Forever's written reviews are positive against 67% of Airspace Overload's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gears Forever ships an update every 9 days, Airspace Overload every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Gears Forever versus Airspace Overload: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGears ForeverAirspace Overload
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (18 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB103 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperCrescent Moon Games LLCPavel Golovatenko Abramov

Customer experience

Gears Forever

All ratings17 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral11.8%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative42.9%

Airspace Overload

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Gears Forever

One-time6
  • 500 gears$0.99
  • 5 Extra Lives$0.99
  • 1500 Gears$1.99
Show 3 more
  • Remove ads$2.99
  • Unlock all levels$4.99
  • Unlock all balls$6.99
None

Airspace Overload

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gears Forever free?
Gears Forever is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Airspace Overload free?
Airspace Overload is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gears Forever or Airspace Overload?
Gears Forever is rated higher. Gears Forever averages 4.2 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Airspace Overload averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Gears Forever or Airspace Overload have ads?
Gears Forever shows ads; Airspace Overload does not.
Which is updated more often, Gears Forever or Airspace Overload?
Gears Forever ships an update every 9 days, and Airspace Overload every 5 weeks. Most recently, Gears Forever was updated on November 8, 2026 and Airspace Overload on November 9, 2026.

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