Comparison

Tractor Beam vs Revershooter

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

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.

Highlights
  • Classic Reversi strategy
  • Shoot-em-up mechanics
  • Tap to move and fire
  • Chip reversal gameplay
  • Level progression to 99
  • Game Over Gauge management
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Tractor Beam3 screens
Revershooter4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Tractor Beam versus Revershooter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTractor BeamRevershooter
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 13 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperManufacturing ContentMasakazu Yonehara

Customer experience

Tractor Beam

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

Revershooter

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tractor Beam

No in-app purchases

None

Revershooter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tractor Beam free?
Tractor Beam costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Revershooter free?
Revershooter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tractor Beam or Revershooter?
Tractor Beam is rated higher. Tractor Beam averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Revershooter averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Tractor Beam or Revershooter have ads?
Revershooter shows ads; Tractor Beam does not.
Which is updated more often, Tractor Beam or Revershooter?
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, and Revershooter every 13 months. Most recently, Tractor Beam was updated on October 24, 2026 and Revershooter on October 26, 2026.

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