Blue Attack! vs AstroBlast™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blue Attack!
Engage in an intergalactic war, piloting your squadron against enemy forces. Collect resources from destroyed ships to upgrade your fleet and customize your vessels. Your mission is to protect your carrier and destroy the enemy's home planet.
- Fully customizable ships
- Ship upgrade system
- Retro graphical style
- Global leaderboards
- Multiple control options
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Attack the Red planet! Blue Attack places you on the front lines of the intergalactic war between the Red and Blue forces. Use the scraps picked up from your enemies' wrecked hulls to turn your squadron into an unstoppable army! Protect your carrier, upgrade your wingmen, and cut a path clean through to your target: the Red home planet! Features: - Fully customizable ships, from speed to weapon capabilities - Clean, retro graphical style - Global leaderboards - Touch, tilt, keyboard, and gamepad controls Reviews: "Does Blue Attack deliver on the promise of the earlier game and notch it up a bit? The short answer, Yes. The longer answer, Hell Yes." -appVersity.com "...a surprisingly fun and deep game... Blue Attack! comes highly recommended." -Touch Arcade "...a graphically unique, intense, and engaging shooter. It features some wonderfully varied gameplay, great power-up system, and great options. Even the tutorial is good. I can’t say enough good things about this game." -148apps: 5/5 stars "Blue Attack! The graphics, music, a very high level of space-shooter game…” -AppBank (Japanese) "There are pretty good chances that you will be playing Blue Attack for many hours after reading this review." -igameme.com "Blue Attack! is a great deal ... don’t miss out on this great space shooter!" -OSX Reality "There is a word I rarely use when reviewing a game: exceptional. Yet, Blue Attack! rightly deserves this description." -TouchMyApps.com
AstroBlast™
Pilot a powerful spacecraft to defend Earth from an approaching asteroid field of cube-shaped celestial bodies. Analyze vulnerabilities in real-time and absorb energy from destroyed asteroids to upgrade your ship. Save the universe in this action-packed space shooter.
- One touch controls
- Hundreds of levels
- Cinematic FX
- Hi-res 3D graphics
- Leaderboards
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The year is 2048. The International Global Alliance have discovered an asteroid field fast approaching Earth. These celestial bodies are different from anything they've seen before, because mysteriously, they are perfectly shaped cubes. It quickly becomes clear that these asteroids can not be destroyed with conventional weapons and therefore, in an unprecedented move, the governments of the Earth unite to build the ultimate defence spacecraft, ASTROBLAST™! By analysing the consistency of the alien asteroids in real time, the Elite Pilots of Planet Earth can detect surface vulnerabilities with lightning speed and destroy each asteroid by level of threat. In addition, the state of the art ASTROBLAST™ defender grows stronger with each asteroid destroyed by using a sophisticated technique to absorb the energy generated by the explosions. Become the Pilot of the ASTROBLAST™! Claim your place in history! Save the Universe! Game Features: • Easy One Touch Controls • Hundreds of Intense Levels to Complete • Cinematic Theme FX & Hi-Res 3D Graphics • Ultimate Pilot Game Center Leaderboards
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Blue Attack! at Free against AstroBlast™'s $0.29. Blue Attack! also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 76%) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). AstroBlast™'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On 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
Blue Attack! is free to download; AstroBlast™ costs $0.29 up front. Blue Attack! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AstroBlast™ asks for nothing beyond the download.
AstroBlast™ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blue Attack! has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Blue Attack!'s written reviews are positive against 76% of AstroBlast™'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Blue Attack! ships an update every 4 months, AstroBlast™ every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blue Attack! | AstroBlast™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.29 |
| Rating | 4.8 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews — better | 76.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cat in a Box Software | Marcus Dobler Applications UG (haftungsbeschrankt) |
Customer experience
Blue Attack!
AstroBlast™
Bugs and requests
Blue Attack!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on loading screen after recent update
- Score submission glitch preventing leaderboard updates
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and content for campaign mode
- Ability to select and replay specific campaign levels
- Co-op or multiplayer modes
- More weapon and upgrade options
- Customizable control schemes
AstroBlast™
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Blue Attack!
- Infinite Mode$0.99
AstroBlast™
No in-app purchases
