Blast HD vs Retro Cloud Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blast HD
Engage in a thrilling space shooter experience with stunning visuals and immersive audio. Destroy alien invaders, gather power-ups, and defend your home planet. Customize your gameplay and compete for the top spot on the leaderboards.
- Modern shooter gameplay
- Great graphics and effects
- Cool music and sound
- Destroy enemy spacecrafts
- Collect power-ups
- Protect your planet
- Customize difficulty and shooting style
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A modern shooter game. Featuring great graphics, nice effects and cool music. Enjoy Blast for hours, destroying enemy spacecrafts, collecting power-ups and protecting your planet from invasion. Customize Blast by selecting your game difficulty and shooting style, and compare your score on baKno’s Top Players list.
Retro Cloud Player
Play classic games on your Apple devices with this emulator. It utilizes iCloud for ROM storage and requires a companion app for collection management. A gamepad or keyboard is necessary for gameplay.
- Legacy gaming emulation
- iCloud ROM storage
- Libretro cores integration
- Companion app for ROM management
- Gamepad/keyboard support
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The Retro Cloud Player is an emulator for legacy gaming systems. The ROMs are stored in iCloud. The Retro Cloud Companion app is needed in order to manage your collection of ROMs. A gamepad or keyboard is also required. This emulator include cores from the Libretro project.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Retro Cloud Player at 3.5 against Blast HD's 2.0. Retro Cloud Player also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Blast HD's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Blast HD sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Retro Cloud Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Retro Cloud Player holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Blast HD | Retro Cloud Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (3 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 41 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | baKno Games | Julien Eyriès |
Customer experience
Blast HD
Retro Cloud Player
In-app purchases
Blast HD
- Blast 10 Game Sessions$0.99
- Blast Unlimited for One Month$1.99
- Blast Full Game Unlimited$24.99
Retro Cloud Player
No in-app purchases
