Comparison

Tractor Beam vs Deep Moon

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

Deep Moon

Experience 80's style arcade action in this retro space shooter. Pilot a stolen enemy ship, battle challenging foes, and destroy the reactor core of a distant base. Escape is your ultimate goal in this fast-paced mission.

Highlights
  • Retro 80's arcade style
  • Fast-paced action
  • Challenging enemies
  • Simple controls
  • Space combat gameplay
  • Reactor core destruction mission
Features
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A Retro Style Space Arcade Game. Quick Action, challenging enemies and simple controls take you back to the arcade games of the 80's. You are an undercover agent on a distant enemy base. After stealing an enemy ship, your mission is to find and destroy the reactor core. Escape is optional but preferred. Good luck!!!

Screenshots

Tractor Beam3 screens
Deep Moon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Deep Moon at Free against Tractor Beam's $0.99. Deep Moon also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). Tractor Beam's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Deep Moon is free to download; Tractor Beam costs $0.99 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 Deep Moon. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Deep Moon every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tractor Beam versus Deep Moon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTractor BeamDeep Moon
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB25 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperManufacturing Contentandrew bell

Customer experience

Tractor Beam

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

Deep Moon

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tractor Beam

No in-app purchases

None

Deep Moon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tractor Beam free?
Tractor Beam costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deep Moon free?
Deep Moon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tractor Beam or Deep Moon?
Tractor Beam and Deep Moon are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Tractor Beam or Deep Moon have ads?
Deep Moon shows ads; Tractor Beam does not.
Which is updated more often, Tractor Beam or Deep Moon?
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, and Deep Moon every 2 months. Most recently, Tractor Beam was updated on September 19, 2026 and Deep Moon on September 8, 2026.

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