Rotten Tangerines vs Hyper Vortex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rotten Tangerines
A fantasy-action game where you tap rotten fruit to prevent mold from spreading and build chains for bonuses. Battle monsters by tapping them and manage the "rotten gauge" to avoid game over. Includes a mini-game for smashing collected tangerines.
- Tap to remove rotten fruit
- Trace for chain bonuses
- Tap monsters to defeat them
- Manage rotten gauge
- Tangerine smashing mini-game
- Multi-touch support
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Tap to collect! Trace to build chains! If you leave the rotten tangerines in the crate to sit, they'll spread and make the fresh ones around them moldy! Presenting an all-new fantasy-action tangerine battle game! === Rotten Tangerines === - Tap the rotten tangerines to remove them from the crate! - When rotten tangerines appear in a row, you can trace them with your finger for a chain bonus! - Tap repeatedly on monsters to kill them! - You'll lose time if you tap the healthy tangerines! - If the “rotten gauge” at the top of the screen fills up, it's game over! - The more rotten tangerines onscreen, the faster the “rotten gauge” - The faster you remove the rotten fruit, the higher your score! - Supports multi-touch: play with a friend for even more fun! === Tangerines Smasher === - Bonus: Smash the tangerines you collected in the main Rotten Tangerines game! - The more rotten tangerines you collect in Rotten Tangerines, the more available to you to smash in this mini-game! - Once the stock of tangerines runs out, you can go back to the main game to collect more!
Hyper Vortex
Navigate a spacecraft through a dangerous vortex by tapping the screen. Survive as long as possible in this challenging and fast-paced arcade game. Experience an exciting and difficult journey into the abyss.
- Lightning fast gameplay
- Colorful visual style
- Challenging difficulty
- Tap-to-control spacecraft
- Endless falling mechanic
- Avoid collisions
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Hyper Vortex: Into the Abyss is a lightning fast, colorful, almost impossibly hard game for iOS! It is one of the most challenging, fun, exciting experiences you will have all day. Lasting longer than but a few seconds can be task. You control your spacecraft by tapping either side of the screen as you fall deeper and deeper into the abyss of an oncoming vortex. Avoid collision for as long as possible. Keep Calm.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hyper Vortex at none against Rotten Tangerines's shown. Hyper Vortex also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Rotten Tangerines's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 38 months) and review sentiment (75% vs 50%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Rotten Tangerines against 3.0 for Hyper Vortex. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Rotten Tangerines's written reviews are positive against 50% of Hyper Vortex's.
Rotten Tangerines ships an update every 4 months, Hyper Vortex every 38 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Rotten Tangerines | Hyper Vortex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masakazu Yonehara | Emrah Kavak |
Customer experience
Rotten Tangerines
Hyper Vortex
In-app purchases
Rotten Tangerines
No in-app purchases
Hyper Vortex
No in-app purchases
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