Tractor Beam vs Insanity Fight
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
Insanity Fight
Experience an 80s-style arcade space shooter with retro graphics and sound. Utilize special power-ups like turbo and supershot to achieve high scores and unlock bonus fighters. Compatible with game controllers for an authentic retro feel.
- 80s retro graphics and sound
- Special power-ups (Turbo, Supershot)
- Unlockable bonus fighters
- Game controller support
- Map drawing for strategy
- High score chasing
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Now you can carry Insanity Fight in your pocket and play it like in the good old eighties. All graphics soundeffects are identical to the eighties version. Watch the special elements: Turbo, supershot, invisible fighter, changed steering, mirroring, less energy - more score. Win an additional fighter for every 15000 points. Draw a map to be successful. Don't hit the ground stations. Use your gamecontroller like an Amiga joystick! Get ready starfighter! Starfighter ready.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Insanity Fight at Free against Tractor Beam's $0.99. Tractor Beam's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 20 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Insanity Fight 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 Insanity Fight. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Tractor Beam's written reviews are positive against 75% of Insanity Fight's.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Insanity Fight every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | Insanity Fight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | Christian Haller |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
Insanity Fight
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
Insanity Fight
No in-app purchases









