Tractor Beam vs Space Hero 50
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
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.
- Nostalgic 80s LCD game feel
- Become a space hero
- Defeat 50 alien invasions
- Use laser rifle
- Deploy super bomb
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | Space Hero 50 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | gon lee |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
Space Hero 50
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
Space Hero 50
No in-app purchases






