Tractor Beam vs Odd Cat Out
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
Odd Cat Out
Test your observation skills by finding the unique cat among a group. Collect and study different cat breeds to expand your knowledge. The game ends when the timer runs out.
- Find the odd cat out
- 24 cat breeds featured
- 3 distinct patterns
- Collect breeds in personal collection
- Study breeds for memorization
- Timed gameplay
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Can you spot the cat that's slightly different from the rest? Featuring 24 cat breeds and 3 distinct patterns. The different breeds you encounter will be collected for later viewing! How to Play - Find the odd cat out and tap it! - Once the timer reaches zero, the game is over. - Each new breed of cat will be collected in your personal collection. - Study your collection to memorize the breeds' features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Odd Cat Out at Free against Tractor Beam's $0.99. Odd Cat Out also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). Tractor Beam's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (82% vs 50%). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Odd Cat Out 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 Odd Cat Out. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Tractor Beam's written reviews are positive against 50% of Odd Cat Out's.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Odd Cat Out every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | Odd Cat Out |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | Masakazu Yonehara |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
Odd Cat Out
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
Odd Cat Out
No in-app purchases









