Alien Shooter vs Vector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alien Shooter
Engage in intense survival battles against hordes of monsters in a deserted military complex. Utilize a vast arsenal of weapons, level up your abilities, and compete globally in this action-packed shooter.
- Survive mode
- Global leaderboards via Game Center
- User-friendly controls with auto-aim
- Face huge crowds of monsters
- Level up and gain abilities
- Persistent monster corpses
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This is a SPECIAL version of the legendary Alien Shooter game, created upon the numerous gamers' requests from all over the world! Try Survive mode, gain top results, share your achievements using Game Center and compete with the others across the Globe. "With a wonderful array of weapons, non-stop action, splendid graphics, eerie music and a wonderful adventure setting, Alien Shooter is a game that delivers on every front." - Game Tunnel Deserted military complex. Hordes of merciless creatures. Here you are. Your mission is simple – clear the base so there are just dead monsters' corpses left around. - Enjoy user friendly control schemes with auto-aim option available! - stand up to the huge crowds of monsters appearing on one screen at a time - level up, try out superhuman fighting abilities in an intense battle - corpses of the monsters eliminated do not disappear - check out what happens at the end! - compete with the gamers from all over the world use Game Center! Mow them down and stay alive! REVIEWS: - "A thoroughly enjoyable game, I totally recommend it." - binaryjoy.co.uk - "It's hard to stop once you start." - AG.ru - "All in all, I highly recommend Alien Shooter, especially if you loved the old Doom by ID's because, although substantially different, they share the same frenzy and the same immediacy of play. Definitely a great title." - retrogaminghistory.com "Step forward Alien Shooter, which in the absence of any empirical studies, I'm happy to stake has a higher body count than all the Dooms, Dukes and Gauntlets put together. It's also a bloody good game with an arsenal of weapons any FPS would be proud of." - PC Zone Magazine CUSTOMER REVIEWS: by earthcreator a really good game, totally old school and totally classic by Alien Gonzo Alien Shooter is the best! It is full of action and it just keeps coming at you, you can hardly stop playing until you complete the game. The harder it gets the more you will try. by I Ain't Afraid of No Aliens Alien Shooter is a MUST HAVE for people who can stand a 'little' bit of gore, blood, bodies and a horror scene. by Gaming Grownup Go Ahead - Have Some Grownup Fun. Have you ever felt yourself like machine? A killing machine. Have your muscles ever been so tensed it's hard to breathe? Could you imagine being a single whole with your powerful gun?
Vector
Experience a retro space shooter with dazzling vector graphics and particle effects, reminiscent of unreleased 1980s arcade machines. Engage alien invaders with unique shield mechanics and collect power-ups in an asteroid bonus level.
- Advanced vector graphics and particle systems
- Retro arcade-style gameplay
- Alien shields requiring timed shots
- Asteroid bonus level with power-ups
- Analog synthesized sounds and retro soundtrack
- iCade compatibility
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Based on a mythical vector arcade machine of the late 1980s that was never released, Vector-Z is a space shooter with advanced vector graphics and particle systems designed to dazzle your senses… it's as if the 1980's arcades never went away and the games kept getting better. Vector-Z is a unique, retro-style arcade game with glowing multicolor vector-graphics, analog synthesized sounds, and a retro soundtrack with amazing spaced out tunes to zap extraterrestrial invaders to. Some of Vector-Z's aliens have shields you have to time your shots to break through. There’s also an asteroid bonus level where you can break up asteroids for points, and break up bigger asteroids for power-ups, including bonus shields, extra lives, score multiplier, and a faster fire rate. HINTS: • Vector-Z’s ship holds 2 missiles. One fires from each wing, so there’s a slight offset. There is also a brief reload time. • Aliens are worth more points when they are attacking you. Even more points when they are really close! • Go for the bonus points from accuracy: at 50% you get 100 pts per hit, 200 pts at 75%, 400 pts at 90%, and 800 bonus pts per hit with 100% accuracy! • Aim for the bigger asteroids to collect hexagonal power-ups Vector-Z is compatible with iCade, and requires iOS 7.1 or later.
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Verdict
Alien Shooter and Vector both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of Alien Shooter's written reviews are positive against 40% of Vector's. Alien Shooter also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (57 vs 10). Vector's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 10 months) and chart position (#186 vs unranked). On price, rating, 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
Alien Shooter costs $0.99 and Vector $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 — 4.3 for Alien Shooter against 4.2 for Vector. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alien Shooter has 57 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Alien Shooter's written reviews are positive against 40% of Vector's.
Alien Shooter ships an update every 10 months, Vector every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alien Shooter | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (57 ratings) — better | 4.2 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.9% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #186 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SIGMA TEAM COMPANY LIMITED | Juggleware, LLC |
Customer experience
Alien Shooter
Vector
Bugs and requests
Alien Shooter
Reported bugs
11 issues- No sound
- Not optimized for iPhone XR
- Game notifications distract during gameplay
- Game Center notifications get in the way
- Weapon switching only works half the time
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- Virtual sticks are stiff and not responsive
- Difficulty ramps up too quickly
- Music suddenly changes
- Aliens and player can glitch through walls
- Aliens don't drop power-ups or guns
- Application asks to log into App Store on computer
Requested features
18 requests- Add controller support
- Add a story/campaign mode
- Add more levels/missions
- Add multiplayer/co-op mode
- Add new maps/survival modes
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- Make premium version free
- Add instruction menu
- Add more characters
- Add more upgrades
- Remake the original game
- Add joystick support
- Add gun stand
- Make the second one available for all iOS devices
- Fix weapon swapping issues
- Fix glitches (music changes, clipping through walls, no power-ups dropped)
- Optimize for specific devices (iPhone XS, X Max)
- Improve weapon swapping mechanism
- Add possibility to change weapons with a swipe
Vector
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Alien Shooter
No in-app purchases
Vector
No in-app purchases









