Tractor Beam vs PewPew!
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
PewPew!
Engage in a fast-paced arcade experience by tapping to shoot and alter your trajectory. Score points by eliminating incoming alien threats. Simple controls offer immediate action for quick gameplay sessions.
- Tap to shoot
- Change direction
- Score points
- Eliminate aliens
- Simple controls
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Tap to shoot and change direction ! Earn points for shooting aliens !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PewPew! at Free against Tractor Beam's $0.99. Tractor Beam's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 23 months). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
PewPew! is free to download; Tractor Beam costs $0.99 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 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, PewPew! every 23 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | PewPew! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 23 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 | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | RedLine Games |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
PewPew!
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
PewPew!
No in-app purchases
