Tractor Beam vs Text Invaders Game
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
Text Invaders Game
An arcade-style mobile game that tests your typing speed and accuracy. It's inspired by classic arcade games and designed to improve your texting abilities.
- Arcade-style gameplay
- Typing speed challenge
- Inspired by classic arcade games
- Improves texting ability
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Inspired by the arcade classics, Text Invaders is an arcade-style mobile game that challenges players ability to text fast!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tractor Beam at 5.0 against Text Invaders Game's 4.4. Tractor Beam also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (82% vs 71%). Text Invaders Game's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Tractor Beam costs $0.99 and Text Invaders Game $1.99 up front. Text Invaders Game sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tractor Beam asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tractor Beam holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Tractor Beam's written reviews are positive against 71% of Text Invaders Game's.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Text Invaders Game every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | Text Invaders Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.4 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | Rectangle Circle, Inc. |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
Text Invaders Game
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
Text Invaders Game
- Text Invaders Extra Lives$0.99
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