Cube Runner vs Void Drifter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Intuitive controls
- Obstacle avoidance
- Multiple difficulty levels
- First and third-person views
- Zen mode for endless play
- Customizable themes
- Original soundtrack
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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
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?
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Void Drifter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cube Runner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cube Runner ships an update every 5 months, Void Drifter fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.
| Parameter | Cube Runner | Void Drifter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (504 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 504 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Andy Qua | Thomas 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
Cube Runner
No in-app purchases
Void Drifter
- Full Campaign$4.99









