Comparison

Cube Runner vs Void Drifter

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

Head to head
About

Cube Runner

Navigate a dynamic landscape, skillfully dodging an array of hazardous cubes. Experience exhilarating flight through tight gaps and canyons with highly responsive, intuitive controls. Enjoy multiple gameplay modes and customizable visual themes.

Highlights
  • Intuitive controls
  • Obstacle avoidance
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • First and third-person views
  • Zen mode for endless play
  • Customizable themes
  • Original soundtrack
Features
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Fly across a landscape whilst avoiding the many treacherous cubes which lie in your path. Swoop through narrow gaps and fly through canyons with the greatest of ease using intuitive controls. FEATURES: - Simple and responsive controls - Various levels of difficulty - First and third person view - Zen mode - just fly forever - Different themes including retro mode and custom - make Cube Runner look how you want it! - The classic Cube Runner music written and produced by Nick Burstein and Nate Belasco of Fancy Hat Productions. - All other music by Bjornar Kibsgaard - https://bjokib.com

About

Void Drifter

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One thumb. One ship. One hundred sectors of hostile void. VOID DRIFTER is a neon space survivor: drag anywhere to fly and your ship fires on its own. Release your thumb and time dilates while you drift — thread the swarm, line up the next move. EVERY RUN MAKES YOU STRONGER Enemies drop energy shards. Shards become level-ups. Level-ups become builds: split cannons, piercing rounds, orbital drones, tractor fields. Max out a matching pair and it EVOLVES — the Nova Lance that carves the whole screen, the Plasma Storm that detonates around you, the Drone Swarm, the Aegis Field. Every 30 seconds you are meaner than you were. A CAMPAIGN WITH A BOTTOM The void is 100 sectors deep, split into ten biomes — the Crimson Nebula, the Verdant Drift, Cobalt Deep, all the way down to The Singularity. Every tenth sector is guarded by a named warden. Kill it, and choose: extract with your haul, or push deeper and risk it all. Greed is a strategy. So is dying. BREACH. REFIT. REDEPLOY. Breaching a gate saves your exact build as a checkpoint — deploy straight back to the frontier next run. Spend salvage in the hangar on 25 levels of permanent ship systems and new hulls. The campaign fuels the hangar; the hangar cracks the campaign. HONEST BY DESIGN • No ads. None. • No consumables, no currencies to buy, no energy timers. • Sectors 1–20 free forever. One single purchase unlocks the full campaign. • Offline from takeoff — no account, no tracking, nothing collected. • Haptics, reduced-effects mode, and one-handed play built in. Runs are 10–15 minutes. Sessions end when you say so — pause anytime, abandon a run and keep most of your haul. The void will be here. How deep will you drift?

Screenshots

Cube Runner3 screens
Void Drifter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cube Runner at none against Void Drifter's 1. Void Drifter's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Void Drifter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cube Runner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cube Runner ships an update every 5 months, Void Drifter fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cube Runner versus Void Drifter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCube RunnerVoid Drifter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (504 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings504 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB62 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAndy QuaThomas Lynghøj

Bugs and requests

Cube Runner

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when downloading level packs
  • Incompatible with older iOS versions
  • Calibration issues on newer devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Customizable control sensitivity
  • Retro visual mode
  • Option to toggle original soundtrack
  • Vertical gameplay mode
  • Level editor and sharing

Void Drifter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Cube Runner

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Void Drifter

One-time1
  • Full Campaign$4.99

Questions

Is Cube Runner free?
Cube Runner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Void Drifter free?
Void Drifter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cube Runner or Void Drifter have ads?
Neither Cube Runner nor Void Drifter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cube Runner or Void Drifter?
Cube Runner ships an update every 5 months, and Void Drifter fortnightly. Most recently, Cube Runner was updated on October 22, 2026 and Void Drifter on October 22, 2026.

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