Celestial Assault vs Burning Sky
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Celestial Assault
Engage in a retro-style side-scrolling space shooter with RPG elements. Upgrade your ship's weapons and attributes by destroying enemies, collecting items, and gaining experience. Complete missions with star ratings for a challenging and replayable experience.
- Side-scrolling space shooter gameplay
- RPG style character leveling
- Stackable weapons
- 30 unique missions with boss fights
- Challenging and diverse gameplay
- Replayability with difficulty settings
- Purchaseable shortcuts and add-ins
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Description: Celestial Assault is a blend of retro style side scrolling space shooter and RPG. Destroy enemies to gain experience, collect items and gold to upgrade your ships weapons and attributes until you cut through the toughest foes like butter! Missions each have star ratings for kill %, completion time and ship damage providing and unique challenge and tons of replay-ability. Story: In 2050 hostile aliens will invade earth to put an end to humanity! You are mankind's last hope of survival. Embark on an adventure through some of the most dangerous and equally beautiful parts of space to destroy the alien threat and secure the future of the human race. FEATURES: - Awesome Side Scrolling Space Shooter gameplay! - RPG style character leveling - Stackable Weapons - 30 unique mission featuring 5 boss fights and a combination of small enemy battles and maneuvering sequences. - Challenging and diverse gameplay with extensive replayability - Restart the game on a different difficulty upon completion and keep your inventory - Purchaseable shortcuts and game add-ins - Additional content coming soon!
Burning Sky
Experience a classic arcade-style vertically scrolling shooter with modern 3D graphics. Engage in thrilling aerial dogfights, blast through enemy ships, and face powerful bosses. Upgrade your fighters and drones to become the ultimate ace pilot.
- Classic arcade shooter gameplay
- Modern 3D graphics
- Countless combat stages
- Powerful boss battles
- Various upgradable fighters and drones
- One-finger controls
- Global leaderboards and achievements
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The classic has returned! "Burning Sky: Aircraft Combat 3D" is a simple, yet entertaining 90's arcade-style shooter. It's a retro vertically scrolling shooter game, brought back in modern dogfight style, better and greater! Enjoy the excitement "Burning Sky" presents to you, the thrill that only a combat shooter game can give! Are you ready to become the ultimate Ace Pilot? Blast your way through enemy ships! Dominate the aerial dogfight! • Countless fun and exciting combat stages Evade enemy attacks, and fight against POWERFUL BOSSES! • Various fighters and drones Acquire new skills by upgrade & evolution. • Vertically scrolling shooter with amazing 3D graphics Enjoy the retro "Shoot 'em up" game and reminisce the 1942, 1945 & Raiden style. • Fast and easy game maneuver Play anywhere and any time you want with just a finger! • The ultimate aerial dogfight Rank top of the leaderboard, and accomplish the achievements. Compete with your fellow pilots around the world! ◈ Play now! The ultimate 3D flight shooter, "Burning Sky: Aircraft Combat 3D" ※ Be sure to save the game data before deleting the game or switching devices. ※ This game does not collect or use user's personal information. —————————— Facebook https://www.facebook.com/shmupholic E-mail : shmup.holic@gmail.com Terms of service https://goo.gl/8PY417
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Burning Sky at 4.7 against Celestial Assault's 3.8. Burning Sky also leads on ratings volume (59 vs 4). Celestial Assault's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (85% vs 69%). On price, update cadence, 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. Celestial Assault sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Burning Sky sells 21 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Burning Sky holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Burning Sky has 59 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Celestial Assault's written reviews are positive against 69% of Burning Sky's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Celestial Assault | Burning Sky |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (59 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.0% of reviews — better | 69.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 59 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | 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 | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 172 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Lucid Vision Games | LIVEZEN Corp. |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Celestial Assault
- $10,000 Gold$0.99
- Attribute Point$0.99
- Attribute Reset$0.99
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- Advanced Stacking$1.99
- Deep Space Mission Pack$1.99
- Advanced Ranks$2.99
- $50,000 Gold$2.99
- 5 Attribute Points$2.99
Burning Sky
- 50 Gems$0.99
- Special Pack$2.99
- Growth Stone Pack1$2.99
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- Starter Pack$2.99
- Special Pack$4.99
- Custom Supplies Pack1$4.99
- Limited time offer$4.99
- New Year Pack$4.99
- Gem Handful$4.99
- Beginner's Pack$9.99
- Premium Membership 30 days$9.99
- Custom Supplies Pack2$9.99
- Growth Stone Pack2$9.99
- Gem Pouch$9.99
- Argos$9.99
- Volcanus$14.99
- Apollo$14.99
- Hero's Pack$19.99
- Gem Box$24.99
- Gem Bundle$49.99
- 6,500 Gems$99.99
Questions
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