Tractor Beam vs Cosmic Battle
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
Cosmic Battle
Engage in a rapid 1980s arcade-style duel against a friend or AI. Master throwing and deflecting various projectiles across unique cosmic backdrops. Experience authentic retro graphics and sound.
- 1980s arcade duel gameplay
- Throw and deflect projectiles
- Multiple cosmic backdrops
- Authentic retro graphics
- Chip tune soundtrack
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Challenge a friend or take down the computer in this fast-paced 1980's arcade duel for smartphones and tablets. Throw and deflect fireballs, iceballs, flashballs and more! Face off across an asteroid belt or into a mind-bending vortex! Featuring state of the art 1981 graphics and authentic chip sounds & music. Tap to catch, release to throw. Can YOU beat the high score!?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cosmic Battle at Free against Tractor Beam's $0.99. Cosmic Battle also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Tractor Beam's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 29 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
Cosmic Battle 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 Cosmic Battle. 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 Cosmic Battle's.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Cosmic Battle every 29 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | Cosmic Battle |
|---|---|---|
| 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 29 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 | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | Vito Biliti |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
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In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
Cosmic Battle
No in-app purchases








