Asteroidy vs Hoshikari
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Asteroidy
Pilot a spaceship through an asteroid field, blasting aliens and collecting valuable golden asteroids. Control your ship by dragging or tilting, and tap to fire lasers. The game offers immediate action without menus or levels, increasing in difficulty as you play.
- Drag or tilt ship control
- Tap to fire lasers
- Collect golden asteroids for credits
- Target and shoot hidden UFOs
- Immediate action, no menus
- Progressively increasing difficulty
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Casual retro space ship & ufo's firing game! Your mission is to patrol an asteroid field and make sure it's free from useless dirt rocks and aliens! Drag your finger to move the ship and tap to fire! If you tap faster, you will shoot two lasers instead of just one, but you won't be able to do this if you get damaged! You can also pilot the ship by tilting your iPhone/iPad. Be careful with valuable golden asteroids and try not to destroy them either by shooting or collision! You can capture them with the tractor beam and earn credits. Some asteroids have hidden UFOs. Once they appear, you need to target them and avoid incoming fire. They get slower as you hit them, but you need more hits as the game progresses. There’s no main menu or splash screen. You tap and just jump right into action. There’s no difficulty settings. It’s easy when you start and harder as you go. There’s no ending or levels. That doesn’t mean you're invincible!
Hoshikari
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Hoshikari is a first-person, on-rails space shooter with a Japanese ink-wash soul. You fly a craft of light through a painted sea of stars, lock the swarm that streams toward you, and loose a fan of homing light-arrows to hunt whole clusters in a single breath. THE FEEL No twin-stick, no auto-fire. You paint your lock-ons by dragging across the screen, then release to fire. The bigger the lock, the bigger the volley - and every chained hit climbs a half-step in pitch, so a good run sounds like a rising chord. Meteors break apart in strokes of ink. It is built to be the kind of shot you want to take again and again. HOW IT PLAYS - Drag your finger to paint lock-ons across the meteors and drones streaming toward you. Lock as many as you can before you fire. - Release to loose a fan of homing light-arrows. They chain through every locked target at once. - Dodge the debris you can't shoot - your craft weaves toward wherever you aim. - Collect star-ore to spend on your craft, and grab shields to shrug off a hit. - Ride the overdrive to surge faster. Clear each track before the star-sea swallows you. A SEA OF STARS TO HUNT - Fly through distinct sectors - launch, nebula, asteroid belt, comet field, aurora, and the deep - each with its own palette, hazards and rhythm. - Short, punchy tracks bundled by constellation, with a rising difficulty curve. - Chase your best on every track, and unlock an endless "meteor storm" run. UPGRADE YOUR CRAFT - Spend star-ore at the Dock on permanent upgrades: a wider lock range, more light-arrows, a longer shield, and a better overdrive economy. MADE TO LOOK LIKE NOTHING ELSE - A living ink-wash night sky lit by aurora - hand-tuned, not another neon starfield. - Real-time first-person flight with a genuine sense of speed. MORE TO ENJOY - 12 languages supported - Plays in portrait or landscape - Sound and haptics on/off, anytime - Plays offline after install - Made by an independent studio (PixelRyu) Free to play, supported by ads. Watch an optional ad to revive, double your star-ore, restock stars, or boost your next run. Lock the swarm. Loose the light. Hunt the stars.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hoshikari at none against Asteroidy's 1. Asteroidy's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). On price 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. Asteroidy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hoshikari asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Asteroidy | Hoshikari |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 217 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Emidio Cunha | Kenji Kobayashi |
In-app purchases
Asteroidy
- 100 Credits$0.99
Hoshikari
No in-app purchases









