Comparison

Pixel Starships™ vs Pixel Tribe

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Starships™

Command every aspect of your starship in a persistent online universe. Build, battle, explore, and manage resources in this 8-bit spaceship management game. Form alliances and conquer with friends.

Highlights
  • Build custom starships
  • Command multiple races and factions
  • Online player battles
  • Manage resources and power
  • Explore planets and secrets
  • Form alliances
  • Program AI for automatic combat
Features
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Featured by Apple in Best New Games! From one of the most successful Mobile Game Kickstarter campaigns of the year comes Pixel Starships! Pixel Starships is the world’s first total spaceship management game in an 8bit massive online universe. In Pixel Starships, you command every aspect of your ship from construction to battles in a single persistent world. Featured Reviews - Touch Arcade - Pixel Starships tasks you with outfitting your very own ship with resource rooms, staff, and weapons. This looks Awesome! MMGN - The graphics in this 8Bit indie game is the best we've seen in a retro style game for a long time PocketTactics - I’m intrigued by the cutaway side-view of the starship with turbolifts and transporters at the ready TechTimes - The World’s First 8-Bit Total Starship Management Game Hits The Online Universe The Discovery Channel - A fully immersive starship captain experience. Key Features - ● Build Epic Starships of your own design. ● Many races, aliens, factions to command and conquer. ● Battle it out with other real players in a single massive online universe. ● Manage diplomacy, recruitment, research, exploration! ● Control ship's power and limited resources. Discover epic weapons. ● Build and deploy support ships to support your Starfleet. ● Cross section full ship control and battles. ● Explore planets, discover secrets of space. ● Form alliances and battle with your friends to achieve victory! ● Program situational AI commands to systems and crew allowing automatic combats and offline play. If you're a fan of Star Wars and Star Trek; if you enjoy games like EVE, Clash of Clans, FTL, or Homeworld, you'll love Pixel Starships! Note - Pixel Starships is totally free to play and is designed for perfect balance for all players. However, there are in-app items that can be purchased for real money to help speed up progress or offer cosmetic improvements. If you don't want this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings. Note on Auto-Renewing Subscription - Pixel Starships contains a optional Subscription Membership. Members receive extra missions, bonuses, and daily rewards. Membership content is regularly updated. The Monthly Membership Subscription cost is USD $3.99 per month or a similarly adjusted currency price in your local region. Please refer to IAP menu or in app display for localised pricing. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription is auto renewable and will renew monthly unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription can be cancelled via iTunes subscription manager. There is also a 7 day free trial for the membership; the free trial period is not transferrable and any remaining free time is cancelled if a paying subscription starts. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. EULA: http://www.pixelstarships.com/eula Privacy Policy: http://www.pixelstarships.com/privacypolicy As per Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, you must be at least 13 years of age to play or download Pixel Starships.

About

Pixel Tribe

Build and manage a Viking tribe in a retro pixel art strategy RPG. Craft weapons, upgrade your kingdom, and lead your Vikings in turn-based raids and PVP battles. Farm resources, raise animals, and customize your village to become the ultimate Viking chief.

Highlights
  • Build and upgrade Viking kingdom
  • Craft weapons and armor
  • Turn-based combat raids
  • Farm resources and raise animals
  • Multiplayer clans and PVP battles
  • Customize Viking skills
Features
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Pixel Tribe: Viking Kingdom is a strategy RPG with retro pixel art graphics where you build and upgrade a tribe of Vikings. As the chief, you must build your kingdom, raise a tribe of Vikings, craft weapons and armor, and send your Vikings on epic turn-based raids. Craft items and resources, upgrade your kingdom and improve your Vikings fighting skills. Build, farm, raise animals, decorate, upgrade and customize your own Viking Kingdom. Craft weapons and armor for your Vikings to give them a fighting chance against the toughest enemies in Midgard! PIXEL TRIBE: VIKING KINGDOM FEATURES CRAFT, BUILD & UPGRADE ● Craft and upgrade weapons and armor. ● Build and upgrade buildings like the Weaponsmith, Viking ship, Church and more. ● Craft resources to earn gold and upgrade your kingdom. ● Craft items and gear to upgrade your Vikings fighting skills. ● Upgrade your farm to craft food and more valuable resources. FIGHTING ● Earn rewards by fighting and raid your enemies! ● Level up your Vikings and upgrade your fighting skills! ● Fighting lets you specialize your Vikings as tanks, fighters, archers or mages. ● Top the Leaderboards by fighting your way to glory! FARM, BUILD & UPGRADE ● Build a farm and craft food to heal your Vikings. ● Plant and harvest crops. ● Build your kingdom and raise animals. ● Farm and feed your animals to produce eggs, wool, and milk. MULTIPLAYER ● Clans with Raids, Orders, and Buffs ● PVP battles ● Leagues and Leaderboards ● Visit other Players villages

Screenshots

Pixel Starships™4 screens
Pixel Tribe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pixel Starships™ at none against Pixel Tribe's shown. Pixel Starships™ also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 weeks) and ratings volume (35K vs 4K). Pixel Tribe's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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. Pixel Starships™ sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Pixel Tribe sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Pixel Starships™ against 4.9 for Pixel Tribe. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Starships™ has 35K ratings behind it against 4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Pixel Starships™'s written reviews are positive against 89% of Pixel Tribe's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Starships™ ships an update every 9 days, Pixel Tribe every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pixel Starships™ versus Pixel Tribe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel Starships™Pixel Tribe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (35K ratings)4.9 (4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.9% of reviews89.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35K — better4K
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size450 MB308 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperSavy Soda Pty LtdKvannli AS

Customer experience

Pixel Starships™

All ratings35,060 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews781 reviews
Positive81.9%
Neutral4.7%
Negative13.3%

Pixel Tribe

All ratings3,962 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews321 reviews
Positive89.4%
Neutral4.7%
Negative5.9%

User reviews

Pixel Starships™

From 35K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Decent game with no pay wall harassment
  • 🚀 Great little game
  • 🚀 Good game
  • 🚀 Straight gas
  • 🚀 Amazing game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitchy
  • 🐛 Horrible backend, would not recommend for slower devices
  • 🐛 Cleverly disguised ad farm
  • 🐛 Needs some fixing
  • 🐛 Unfair in battle

Pixel Tribe

From 4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great game
  • 🚀 Addictive gameplay
  • 🔒 No ads or pay-to-win
  • 👍 Cozy and nostalgic aesthetic
  • 👍 Satisfying progression

Room to improve

  • ⏱️ Slow progression and long wait times
  • 🔍 Lack of content and features
  • 🔍 Limited customization options
  • 🔍 Repetitive gameplay
  • 🔍 Imbalanced leveling and resource acquisition

Bugs and requests

Pixel Starships™

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Crew abilities not working as intended
  • Losing resources and trophies due to connection issues
  • Ads not rewarding the promised amount of Starbux
  • Scrolling issues when rearranging ship layout
  • Inconsistent loading times
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  • Missions consuming daily allowance even on error
  • Starbux purchases not being credited
  • Resources not properly credited after selling on the market

Requested features

17 requests
  • Lower how much bux people can ask for items and resources
  • Set a limit on bux that's not too ridiculous
  • Add more galaxies to explore
  • Add larger ships
  • Add smaller support craft that can fight alongside the main ship
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  • Add a faction war mode with 3v3 or 5v5 battles
  • Add a way to have multiple ships in your fleet
  • Add a ranking system for top players and top ships
  • Add more ship customization options
  • Add a way to remove items from the market
  • Add a panel to view all crew stats
  • Add a button to fix all modules at once
  • Add multiple AI preset options for combat
  • Add a way to fight against your own ship to test vulnerabilities
  • Add a permanent live PvP mode
  • Add a way to change the email associated with an account
  • Add a daily login bonus that increases over consecutive days

Pixel Tribe

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional crashes or bugs
  • Soft-locking issues due to progression imbalance

Requested features

7 requests
  • Ability to rename or customize Vikings
  • Expanded clan/multiplayer features
  • More diverse building and decoration options
  • Reduced crafting/production times
  • Offline/background progression mode
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  • Challenging boss battles or events
  • Improved quest/progression system

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Pixel Starships™

Subscriptions1
  • One Month Membership7 Days trial$3.991 Month
One-time10
  • Special Offer$1.99
  • Clip of Starbux$4.99
  • Special Offer$4.99
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  • Season Pass$8.99
  • Roll of Starbux$9.99
  • Special Offer$9.99
  • Stash of Starbux$19.99
  • Special Offer$19.99
  • Case of Starbux$49.99
  • Bank of Starbux$99.99
7 purchases

Pixel Tribe

One-time7
  • Pocketfull of Gems$0.99
  • Pile of Gems$1.99
  • Bag of Gems$4.99
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  • Sack of Gems$9.99
  • Box of Gems$19.99
  • Chest of Gems$49.99
  • Golden Gem Chest$99.99

Questions

Is Pixel Starships™ free?
Pixel Starships™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixel Tribe free?
Pixel Tribe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pixel Starships™ or Pixel Tribe?
Pixel Tribe is rated higher. Pixel Starships™ averages 4.7 out of 5 from 35K ratings, while Pixel Tribe averages 4.9 from 4K ratings.
Do Pixel Starships™ or Pixel Tribe have ads?
Pixel Tribe shows ads; Pixel Starships™ does not.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Starships™ or Pixel Tribe?
Pixel Starships™ ships an update every 9 days, and Pixel Tribe every 4 weeks. Most recently, Pixel Starships™ was updated on October 26, 2026 and Pixel Tribe on October 21, 2026.

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