Control Tower vs Traffix 3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Control Tower
Guide aircraft to safe landing zones and prevent collisions by drawing flight paths. This strategy game requires quick reflexes and careful planning to manage air traffic and achieve high scores.
- Guide aircraft to landing zones
- Draw flight paths
- Classic game mode
- Online high scores
- Achievements
- Addictive gameplay
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Take control of the skies and feel the rush of bringing every flight home safely. Draw a line with your finger and watch planes, jets, helicopters and seaplanes follow it to their runway or helipad. You'll get it in seconds, and the busier the sky gets, the sharper you become. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Play in seconds: just draw a line, your aircraft does the rest • Never get bored: 6 unique airports, from a sunny coastline to a polar research base • Pull off daring landings: touch down on an aircraft carrier drifting with the tide • Relax in beauty: switch anytime between crisp Classic art and a hand-painted world • Feel the rush: traffic keeps building until only the sharpest controllers survive • Prove you're the best: 19 achievements and a best score on every airport • Play your way: fast-forward when it's calm, choose dotted or dashed flight paths • Play in your language: fully translated into 51 languages • Made for your screen: looks great on every iPhone and iPad Quick to start and hard to put down. Perfect for a coffee break or a long flight. 51 LANGUAGES English, Српски, Srpski, Русский, Українська, Deutsch, Español, Português (PT), Português (BR), Polski, Čeština, Français, Suomi, Română, Ελληνικά, Svenska, Italiano, Slovenčina, Magyar, Dansk, Nederlands, Slovenščina, Türkçe, Eesti, Indonesia, Melayu, Filipino, Norsk, Lietuvių, العربية, فارسی, Afrikaans, Latviešu, বাংলা, 繁體中文, 简体中文, עברית, 한국어, Български, Català, Íslenska, ไทย, Tiếng Việt, हिन्दी, తెలుగు, தமிழ், اردو, नेपाली, Esperanto, O‘zbek, 日本語
Traffix 3D
Manage traffic flow in a 3D simulation game. Tap and hold to guide cars through intersections, preventing accidents and ensuring safe passage for vehicles and pedestrians. Unlock a variety of cars and explore over 100 cities.
- 3D traffic simulation
- Accident avoidance gameplay
- Car collection mechanics
- 100+ cities to explore
- Unlockable vehicles
- Tap and hold controls
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If you are looking to escape from a traffic jam, what could be better than playing a traffic management simulation game? (not if you’re the driver of course: don’t play this game if you’re driving, actually!!!). Traffic can create stressful situations, but with Traffix 3D, the effect is the exact opposite: you will feel pleasure simply by tapping and holding your finger on the screen and letting the cars pass through the traffic lights. Traffix 3D is actually a game derived from a Premium title powered by Infinity Games: Traffix, but it provides new mechanics, 3D graphics, 100+ cities, dozens of new vehicles and a newly developed atmosphere inspired by the minimalism from the premium version. Unlike the Premium Version, Traffix 3D is 100% free! The goal of Traffix 3D is the same as the Premium Traffix game: Avoid accidents, but at all cost. If you let a single car crash, then you will need to restart the level. You pass the level after safely delivering to their destination a specific number of cars. In other words, you must keep both cars and pedestrians happy. Lastly, you should build your car collection! There are 3 ways to unlock cars: By getting in-app currency: You can win coins by passing the levels successfully. These coins allow you to unlock rare cars. By finding keys during the gameplay and unlocking classic cars from their garages By mysterious ways that will unlock you some Crazy Cars! You will be travelling between different cities from New York, Roma, Berlin, Palermo or Seoul. More cities will be added: Feel free to drop us an e-mail if you want your city to be featured in the game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Traffix 3D at monthly against Control Tower's every 7 months. Traffix 3D also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 185). Control Tower's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 25%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Control Tower sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Traffix 3D sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Traffix 3D holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Traffix 3D has 1.4K ratings behind it against 185, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Control Tower's written reviews are positive against 25% of Traffix 3D's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Control Tower ships an update every 7 months, Traffix 3D monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Control Tower | Traffix 3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (185 ratings) | 4.5 (1.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.8% of reviews — better | 25.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 185 | 1.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 256 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 4 SAVE SOFT DOO NOVI SAD | INFINITY GAMES, LDA |
Customer experience
Control Tower
Traffix 3D
User reviews
Control Tower
From 185 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Addictive and engaging gameplay
- 👍 Simple and easy to learn mechanics
- 🧠 Good brain exercise and attention training
- 🎨 Nice graphics and visual design
- ⚡ Quick to download and lightweight
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes
- 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
- 🎮 Uncontrollable planes at screen borders
- 📱 Poor scaling on newer devices (iPhone 11+)
- 🎯 Unfair gameplay mechanics (planes spawn uncontrollably)
Traffix 3D
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Good game, exactly as ads show
- 👍 Little to no ads
- 🚀 Enjoyable to play
- 🚀 Unique and challenging levels
- 👍 Overall good game
Room to improve
- 💰 Lots of ads, even after paying to remove them
- 🐛 Game resets progress, losing all progress
- 🐛 Ads cause game to freeze or crash
- 🕰️ Short levels, repetitive gameplay
- 💰 Expensive to remove ads
Bugs and requests
Control Tower
Reported bugs
11 issues- Planes spawn on screen edges and cannot be controlled
- App crashes when submitting scores
- App freezes mid-game with no save function
- Touch input delay and unresponsive controls
- Planes crash due to uncontrollable border spawns
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- Screen scaling issues on newer iPhone models
- Ad banner causes crashes when displaying
- Controls flip upside down (orientation bug)
- Pause function does not work properly
- Game won't load or start properly
- Planes don't respond to drawn flight paths
Requested features
9 requests- New maps and levels
- Restore original Flight Control game
- Better sound design and music
- Improved plane graphics and visual clarity
- Tutorial for new players
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- Faster plane spawn rates
- Multiple free levels instead of just one
- Option to disable ads with one-time payment
- Full-screen support for modern devices
Traffix 3D
Reported bugs
5 issues- Game resets progress to level 1
- Ads still shown after paying to remove them
- Game freezes or crashes due to ads
- Incompatibility issues with updates
- Levels not loading properly
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to replay previous levels
- Improve rewards system for watching ads
- Implement cloud saving to prevent lost progress
- Add more levels and increase difficulty
- Allow selection of multiple car skins
In-app purchases
Control Tower
- Unlock FULL game$0.99
Traffix 3D
- Coin Offer 1$0.99
- Coin Offer 2$1.99
- Coin Pack 1$1.99
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- Coin Offer 3$4.99
- Coin Pack 2$7.99
- No Ads$7.99
- Coin Pack 3$14.99
- Coin Pack 4$29.99
- Coin Pack 5$54.99
Questions
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