Tractor Beam vs Silverfish DX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tractor Beam
Pilot a ship through an asteroid field using only a tractor beam. Slingshot your vessel and use the beam to manipulate asteroids, creating a unique and challenging arcade experience. Enjoy dynamic music or play your own.
- Tractor beam mechanics
- Asteroid field navigation
- Multi-touch gameplay
- Procedurally generated music
- Portrait and landscape modes
- Three difficulty levels
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Your engines are down. Use your tractor beams to move. "Some of the most fun we've had with $0.99 on the iPhone and we still can't put it down" - Slide To Play Tractor beam is a powerfully simple and addictive arcade game inspired by the classics. Unarmed and out of fuel, to survive you must slingshot your ship through an asteroid field using only your tractor beam. But the beam will also send the asteroids on a collision course with your ship, making for a unique challenge as you press onward to earn points. Tractor Beam can be played in either portrait or landscape orientation, and multi-touch gameplay allows for more than one beam and complex strategies. The procedurally generated background music is never the same twice, or choose to listen to your own music from within the iPod application. - Classic arcade look and feel - Multi-touch gameplay - Three levels of difficulty - Dynamic music is created on-the-fly - Allows for music from other applications
Silverfish DX
Engage in fast-paced arcade action by navigating through enemy swarms and collecting power-ups. This game offers a challenging experience designed for touchscreens, testing your reflexes against relentless space bugs.
- Weave through enemy swarms
- Collect Power Pods
- Turn tables on foes
- Pure arcade action
- Designed for touchscreens
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Weave your way through menacing swarms, collect Power Pods and turn the tables on your foes! The space bugs are back and tougher than ever - do you have what it takes to defeat them? Silverfish DX delivers arcade action designed & refined for touchscreens.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tractor Beam at 5.0 against Silverfish DX's 4.5. Tractor Beam also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 21 months) and review sentiment (82% vs 71%). Silverfish DX's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 6). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Tractor Beam costs $0.99 and Silverfish DX $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tractor Beam holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Silverfish DX has 39 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Tractor Beam's written reviews are positive against 71% of Silverfish DX's.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Silverfish DX every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | Silverfish DX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.5 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | Chaotic Box |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
Silverfish DX
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
Silverfish DX
No in-app purchases
