iCave vs Flying Tank
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iCave
Navigate a progressively shrinking cave, dodging obstacles to survive. Control your flight by touching and holding the screen to ascend, releasing to descend. Test your reflexes across three distinct difficulty levels.
- Endless cave navigation
- Touch and hold flight control
- Obstacle avoidance
- Three difficulty levels
- High score tracking
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Fly through an ever decreasing cave avoiding the obsticles in your way. How long can you last? To fly, touch and hold the screen to fly up, release and gravity will take its hold. Three levels of difficulty.
Flying Tank
Pilot a powerful tank to blast aliens and reclaim Earth in this action-packed horizontal shooter. Customize your tank with unique weapons and abilities, and face off against giant bosses across 24 missions. Enjoy offline play and local co-op with a friend.
- 24 action-packed missions
- Tank customization with weapons and bombs
- Unique tank special abilities
- Over 30 upgrades including Bullet-Time and Drones
- Local co-op multiplayer
- Support for game controllers and keyboards
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Slay giant bosses, drop bombs from above and build an arsenal of fun, powerful weapons. Reclaim the stolen Earth in a rich action-packed horizontal shmup! • Embark on 24 missions • Three distinct factions and unique adversaries • Encounter 6 main bosses and 18+ boss fights • Customize your Tank with a variety of Weapons and Bombs • Each Tank comes with a unique special ability • Bullet-Time, Overdrive, Drones, and 30+ other Upgrades • Support for Bluetooth game controllers and keyboards • Team up with a friend for local co-op multiplayer • Premium content with a one-time purchase • The FREE version includes 8 missions • No ads, no microtransactions, offline CREDITS • Artwork by Zsolt Szabo • Sound design by Discofield • Original soundtrack by Kubatko
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iCave at none against Flying Tank's 9. iCave also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.4). Flying Tank's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 64 months) and ratings volume (384 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Flying Tank sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. iCave asks for nothing beyond the download.
iCave holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flying Tank has 384 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of iCave's written reviews are positive against 72% of Flying Tank's.
iCave ships an update every 64 months, Flying Tank every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iCave | Flying Tank |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (384 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.8% of reviews — better | 72.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 384 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Andy Qua | David Peroutka |
Customer experience
iCave
Flying Tank
Bugs and requests
iCave
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Flying Tank
Reported bugs
2 issues- One tank refuses to recover despite full upgrades
- Pilot messages become nonsensical during gameplay
Requested features
5 requests- Add official Backbone app support
- Allow selling or removing purchased equipment
- Make physical changes to ship design with upgrades
- Add ability to toggle between main weapons using gamepad joystick
- Implement Chinese language support
In-app purchases
iCave
No in-app purchases
Flying Tank
- Deluxe Edition (Upgrade)$3.99
- Standard Edition$4.99
- Deluxe Edition (Upgrade)$4.99
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- Standard Edition$5.99
- Deluxe Edition (Upgrade)$5.99
- Deluxe Edition$7.99
- Standard Edition$9.99
- Deluxe Edition$9.99
- Deluxe Edition$14.99
