Tractor Beam vs Bullet'nSurf
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
Bullet'nSurf
Experience an extreme Japanese-style bullet hell shooter where you shoot and ride on the wave of a return cartridge. Choose from four unique 'Surf Rider' types, each with distinct shooting and combat abilities, and master the exhilarating bullet-back shot system to achieve high scores.
- Japanese-style bullet hell shooting
- Ride on the wave of a return cartridge
- Four distinct 'Surf Rider' types
- Surf Sword for close combat
- Bullet-back shot system (Bullet Surf)
- Score magnification via Surf rate
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--------------------------------------- Bullet'nSurf is Japanese style 'bullet hell' shooting game! --------------------------------------- Shoot and ride on the wave of a return cartridge! Extreme bullet hell Japanese style shooting game. BULLET'N SURF ['Surf Rider' of the 4types that can be selected] 01:Wide and Narrow This 'Surf Rider' with high flexibility which changes and fights a wide shot and a concentration shot. 02:FREE STYLE And free shots can be divided into left and right shot Possible to switch the lock shot of front fixing! 03:SWORD MASTER Close combat type range distance is short. Can be used to 'Surf Sword' to open off the barrage! ('Surf Sword' charge by three at a certain time. It can stock up to up to 12.) 04:GOLDEN TWIN TAIL 05:AUTO AIMING * If you tap the weapon button in the lower right of the screen, And switching of the shot, you can use 'Surf Sword'! [Exhilarating new sensory system!] Bullet-back shot 12way might occur if you defeat the enemy! If you defeat the enemy to take further the bullet-back shot ... Bullet-back shot occurs again! (Bullet Surf) It is possible to shoot down enemy aircraft one after another in succession! As you connect the bullet-back shot, Also rise (score magnification) Surf rate, I can aim at a high score! To increase the own machine and earn score, and try to achieve the all clear! (8 Million Every extended setting.)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tractor Beam at $0.99 against Bullet'nSurf's $1.99. Tractor Beam also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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 Bullet'nSurf $1.99 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 Bullet'nSurf. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Tractor Beam's written reviews are positive against 78% of Bullet'nSurf's.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Bullet'nSurf every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | Bullet'nSurf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | koji shimono |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
Bullet'nSurf
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
Bullet'nSurf
No in-app purchases









