Comparison

Tractor Beam vs Insanity Fight

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

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.

Highlights
  • 80s retro graphics and sound
  • Special power-ups (Turbo, Supershot)
  • Unlockable bonus fighters
  • Game controller support
  • Map drawing for strategy
  • High score chasing
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Tractor Beam3 screens
Insanity Fight1 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

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 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tractor Beam versus Insanity Fight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTractor BeamInsanity Fight
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 20 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB7 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperManufacturing ContentChristian Haller

Customer experience

Tractor Beam

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

Insanity Fight

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tractor Beam

No in-app purchases

None

Insanity Fight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tractor Beam free?
Tractor Beam costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Insanity Fight free?
Insanity Fight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tractor Beam or Insanity Fight?
Tractor Beam and Insanity Fight are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Tractor Beam or Insanity Fight have ads?
Neither Tractor Beam nor Insanity Fight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tractor Beam or Insanity Fight?
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, and Insanity Fight every 20 months. Most recently, Tractor Beam was updated on October 24, 2026 and Insanity Fight on October 20, 2026.

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