Comparison

Tractor Beam vs Space Hero 50

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Tractor beam mechanics
  • Asteroid field navigation
  • Multi-touch gameplay
  • Procedurally generated music
  • Portrait and landscape modes
  • Three difficulty levels
Features
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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

About

Space Hero 50

Experience retro arcade gameplay as a space hero defending the galaxy. Utilize a laser rifle and super bomb to defeat waves of alien invaders. Relive the nostalgia of 80s color LCD handheld games.

Highlights
  • Nostalgic 80s LCD game feel
  • Become a space hero
  • Defeat 50 alien invasions
  • Use laser rifle
  • Deploy super bomb
Features
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‘Space Hero 50’ is a game where you can feel the nostalgia of the color LCD handheld games of the 80s. In this game, you become a space hero, the guardian of the universe, and face 50 invasions of the Invaders. Use a powerful laser rifle and a super bomb that compresses the power of a black hole to defeat the invaders that invade one after another.

Screenshots

Tractor Beam3 screens
Space Hero 504 screens

Verdict

The call

Tractor Beam and Space Hero 50 both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Space Hero 50's written reviews are positive against 82% of Tractor Beam's. Tractor Beam's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and price ($0.99 vs $2.99). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tractor Beam costs $0.99 and Space Hero 50 $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tractor Beam against 5.0 for Space Hero 50. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tractor Beam has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Tractor Beam's written reviews are positive against 100% of Space Hero 50's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Space Hero 50 every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tractor Beam versus Space Hero 50: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTractor BeamSpace Hero 50
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB48 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperManufacturing Contentgon lee

Customer experience

Tractor Beam

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive82.0%
Neutral9.8%
Negative8.2%

Space Hero 50

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tractor Beam

No in-app purchases

None

Space Hero 50

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tractor Beam free?
Tractor Beam costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Space Hero 50 free?
Space Hero 50 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tractor Beam or Space Hero 50?
Tractor Beam and Space Hero 50 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Tractor Beam or Space Hero 50 have ads?
Neither Tractor Beam nor Space Hero 50 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tractor Beam or Space Hero 50?
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, and Space Hero 50 every 12 months. Most recently, Tractor Beam was updated on November 6, 2026 and Space Hero 50 on November 3, 2026.

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