Tractor Beam vs Gamie
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
Gamie
Experience classic arcade gameplay with a space-themed brick-breaking adventure. Enjoy retro graphics, sounds, and music. Unlock challenging difficulties for an enhanced experience.
- Space-themed brick breaking
- Retro arcade graphics
- Classic sound and music
- Unlockable insane difficulty
- Relaxing gameplay
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Old school arcade nostalgia? You found the right game. Tap to win! Cruise through space and blast those pesky bricks popping in, all the while enjoying the arcade graphics, sounds and music. Gamie is for those long waits, stressful afternoons or just plain old fun and relaxation. Unlock Insane difficulty for a real challenge! *** Credits *** Background Music/Soundtrack: Jan125
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Gamie at Free against Tractor Beam's $0.99. Gamie also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Tractor Beam's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2). On rating, update cadence, ads 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
Gamie is free to download; Tractor Beam costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tractor Beam against 5.0 for Gamie. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Tractor Beam's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gamie's.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Gamie every 10 months. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | Gamie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | Simpel Nem IT |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
Gamie
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
Gamie
No in-app purchases
