Tractor Beam vs Revershooter
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
Revershooter
Experience a unique blend of classic Reversi strategy and fast-paced shoot-em-up action. Strategically move your craft, fire chips, and reverse enemy colors to advance through levels. Manage your chip stock carefully to avoid a game over.
- Classic Reversi strategy
- Shoot-em-up mechanics
- Tap to move and fire
- Chip reversal gameplay
- Level progression to 99
- Game Over Gauge management
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A miraculous, game-changing combo: Classic disc-flipping strategy meets shoot-em-up mechanics! Your flip-puzzle is in my shoot-em-up! Your shoot-em-up is in my flip-puzzle! A new breed of action puzzler! Who will reach Level 99 first? ・Tap a row to move your craft and fire a chip ・Chips bounded on both sides by the same color will reverse to that color. ・If your stock exceeds the Game Over Gauge, you’re out!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Revershooter at Free against Tractor Beam's $0.99. Revershooter also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Tractor Beam's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Revershooter is free to download; Tractor Beam costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tractor Beam holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Tractor Beam's written reviews are positive against 100% of Revershooter's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Revershooter every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | Revershooter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 13 months |
| 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 | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | Masakazu Yonehara |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
Revershooter
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
Revershooter
No in-app purchases









