Blue Attack! vs Space Race Typing
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
Space Race Typing
Race through space by typing quickly and maneuvering your ship. Challenge friends or other players online in this unique type racing game. Dodge obstacles and defeat alien bugs to win.
- Type racing gameplay
- Multiplayer online races
- Solo missions
- Dodge asteroids and lasers
- Battle alien bugs
- Leaderboard rankings
- Classic and Endless Survival modes
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Are you ready to type, tilt, and challenge other players online? Enjoy a first-of-its-kind type racing game! RACE your way to the finish line. Play against friends or on a solo mission in space. Dodge asteroids and lasers hurtling toward you in a harrowing battle against alien bugs! Balance between typing speed, and maneuvering your ship win the day! Rule the Leaderboard in Single or Multiplayer modes Play with friends using invite system, or matchmake with random players. Use Classic Mode to test your skills and train. See how far you can go in Endless Survival mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Space Race Typing at free against Blue Attack!'s free with in-app purchases. Space Race Typing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Blue Attack!'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Blue Attack! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Space Race Typing sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Space Race Typing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Blue Attack!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Space Race Typing's.
Blue Attack! ships an update every 3 months, Space Race Typing every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blue Attack! | Space Race Typing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Cat in a Box Software | Benjamin Welch |
Customer experience
Blue Attack!
Space Race Typing
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
Space Race Typing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Blue Attack!
- Infinite Mode$0.99
Space Race Typing
- F-99 Skin$0.49
- G26 Skin$0.49
- Azure Cobra Skin$0.49
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- Tarantula Hawk Skin$0.49
- Void Albatross Skin$0.49
- Silver Talon Skin$0.49
- Wolf Spider Skin$0.49
- X-5 Skin$0.49
Questions
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