Lunar Lander vs Rocket Space Program Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lunar Lander
Navigate a spaceship through hazardous alien terrain, collecting diamonds while avoiding exploding gems. Compete with others by posting your scores to an online leaderboard.
- Spaceship navigation
- Diamond collection
- Hazardous terrain
- Exploding gem avoidance
- Game Center enabled
- Online leaderboard
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Fly a borrowed rocket for company wages, buy your own ship, and build a shipping company across four alien worlds. Lunar Lander is a physics lander game about careful flying and big ambitions. Tilt to steer, touch to thrust, and land gently: every job pays when you touch down safely back on the pad. FROM COMPANY PILOT TO SHIPPING MAGNATE Start with a borrowed Tin Can and a courier bag. Save for a deposit or buy your first ship outright, pay it off, and climb the ranks: Independent Pilot, Owner-Operator, Company Owner, Frontier Operator and, at last, Shipping Magnate. The depot always shows your next step, and a career roadmap shows how far you have come. SEVEN SHIPS, EACH WITH WORK ONLY IT CAN DO • Tin Can – a nimble courier that squeezes through narrow caves • Mule – a light lifter for slung cargo, water tanks and fragile eggs • Longhaul – long range for routes other ships cannot finish • Bulwark – a heavy carrier that clamps big loads under its hull • Starling – a passenger liner for crews, rescues and a festival choir • Anchor – harpoons asteroids and tows them home • Leviathan – a giant recovery carrier for the heaviest rocks of all Pick the right ship for each job on the depot carousel, then upgrade its engines, fuel tank, hull and winch, and paint it your way. FOUR LIVING WORLDS Fly over purple ridges on Littlerock, warm gardens on Hearth, misty marshes on Verdigris and the lava fields of Cinder. Every world has painted plants and creatures, a distant skyline, and caves hiding extra loot for pilots who explore. Plants burn, fire spreads, and animals have minds of their own. DOZENS OF JOBS • Deliver parcels and medicine through tunnels and over passes • Sling cargo under a lifter and set it down upright for a bonus • Ferry passengers, rescue a crashed survey team, and race rising lava to evacuate a mining crew • Burn a firebreak before the wildfire reaches the homes, or drop water on burning reeds • Lead heat-seeking soot hounds away from the mine with your exhaust • Herd wildlife to safety, plant seed pods on scorched ground and carry a nest of eggs to a safe ledge • Plant sensor beacons deep in a cave, haul freight across a wide map, or tow a giant meteorite home • Blast ore seams, drain lava lakes and prospect asteroids in weak gravity PLAN AHEAD Take on ventures and regional projects that pay off over several flights, open operating berths on new worlds, and keep an eye on the rates: fly the same job again and again and the pay drops until you try something else. FUEL IS EVERYTHING Early routes have fuel canisters in the air; later work expects you to land and refuel. Every landing counts. FREE, WITH NO ADS No ads, no in-app purchases and no account. Your career saves on your device. A brand-new Lunar Lander, rebuilt from the 2012 classic with a whole career to fly. Questions or ideas? Email support@honkhonkpunch.com.
Rocket Space Program Simulator
Design, build, and launch rockets in a realistic 3D simulator. Manage a space agency, complete missions to celestial bodies, and establish bases on other worlds. Earn from satellite networks and research grants as you expand your interplanetary empire.
- Part-by-part rocket builder
- Realistic 3D launch simulator
- Satellite deployment and network earning
- Space agency management
- Automated launch pads
- Moon and Mars missions
- Interplanetary spaceports
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BUILD ROCKETS AND RUN YOUR OWN SPACE PROGRAM • Design rockets part by part in the rocket builder • Launch them in a realistic 3D rocket launch simulator • Put satellites into orbit and earn from your networks • Run a space agency and automate up to 8 launch pads • Land on the Moon and build your own Moon base • Fly missions to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune • Build spaceports on six worlds and launch from there Rocket Space Program Simulator is a 3D rocket simulator and space agency tycoon in one. Design rockets in the hangar, launch them from your own spaceport, put satellites into orbit and lead your space program from the first launch pad to the Moon, Mars and the edge of the solar system. BUILD YOUR OWN ROCKETS The rocket builder gives you booster engines, orbital engines, fuel modules, heat shields, cargo bays and landers. Every part changes mass, thrust and fuel, and the hangar warns you when thrust is too low or the fuel won't reach orbit. Add, move and remove sections freely. Start with a small rocket ship, then unlock medium, heavy and super-heavy rocket classes – or pick a ready-made rocket from the garage and fly right away. REALISTIC ROCKET LAUNCH SIMULATOR Hit start and watch the liftoff in full 3D: smoke and steam over the launch pad, the climb through the troposphere and stratosphere, stage separation and orbital insertion. Rocket physics, thrust-to-weight and fuel budget are simulated, so a good design reaches orbit and a bad one falls short. Live telemetry shows altitude, speed and payload. Open the cargo bay, deploy satellites and wait for the right transfer window to fly to the Moon. A rocket launch game with real physics behind every number. RUN YOUR SPACE AGENCY Grow your space agency from one launch pad into an interplanetary space company. Take satellite launch contracts, deliver payloads to orbit and get paid. Every satellite joins your communication network and earns money from subscribers every second. Buy new rocket parts, unlock up to eight launch pads and automate them, so your rockets keep flying while you plan the next mission. Level up to unlock better parts and bigger payouts. A space tycoon game where every launch is a real flight, not a progress bar. MOON LANDING AND MOON BASE Start the Moon program: send a lander, land a rover, place a relay and build a Moon base module by module with cargo flights. Once the rover picks the site, buy your first spaceport beyond Earth and launch missions straight from the Moon. MARS AND THE OUTER PLANETS Space exploration never stops: each world unlocks the next one. Land on Mars, then on Ganymede at Jupiter, Titan at Saturn, Titania at Uranus and Triton at Neptune. Each world has its own rover: an ice rover on Ganymede, a methane rover on Titan, a geyser rover on Triton. Build a spaceport on every world and launch new missions from there. Set up research networks that earn data and grants, haul interplanetary freight, open space mines and send a deep space probe out of the solar system – it pays you every day. EASY TO LEARN, DEEP TO MASTER No rocket science degree needed. A step-by-step tutorial guides your first rocket launch and every new chapter: contracts, automation, rocket upgrades, the Moon and beyond. Clear goals always show the next step, while rocket design and the space economy give you plenty to optimize. You also get a 3D spaceport on an island by the sea, a telescope view of your whole space program, offline play, cloud save, 30 languages and a compact HUD for small screens. Love space games, rocket games, space flight simulators or tycoon games? Rocket Space Program Simulator puts a whole space agency in your pocket – part rocket simulator, part space tycoon. Download it now and start the countdown: 3, 2, 1… liftoff!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lunar Lander at none against Rocket Space Program Simulator's 5. Lunar Lander also leads on ads (none vs shown). Rocket Space Program Simulator's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, 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. Rocket Space Program Simulator sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Lunar Lander asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lunar Lander ships an update monthly, Rocket Space Program Simulator weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lunar Lander | Rocket Space Program Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 272 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alan Cushway | Marcin Tuzel |
Customer experience
Lunar Lander
Rocket Space Program Simulator
In-app purchases
Lunar Lander
No in-app purchases
Rocket Space Program Simulator
- Handful of Coins$1.99
- No Ads$4.99
- Chest of Coins$7.99
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- VIP Account$9.99
- Cargo Bay of Coins$19.99





