Slender vs Space Swoosh
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Slender
Experience a chilling survival horror game based on the Slender-Man urban legend. Navigate dark environments with only a flashlight and your wits to evade the terrifying entity. Collect hidden tapes to uncover the mystery before it's too late.
- Survival horror gameplay
- Slender-Man urban legend theme
- Flashlight navigation
- Collect hidden tapes
- Evade the Slender Man
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Slender-Man is the original survival horror game for mobile based upon the Slender-Man urban legend and "Der Großmann" myth. See how long you can survive before Slender Man gets you, with only your wits and a flashlight to aid you! Can you find all eight hidden tapes before Slenderman gets you?
Space Swoosh
Navigate a spaceship through challenging cosmic environments with simple one-tap controls. Experience a voiced 42-day story or test your skills in an endless mode with global leaderboards. This offline game offers cosmetic ships and no pay-to-win mechanics.
- One-tap zigzag controls
- 42-day voiced story mode
- Endless space runner
- Global high score leaderboard
- Cosmetic ships
- Offline play
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Space Swoosh is a free one-tap space arcade game. Steer a tiny spaceship through asteroid fields, black holes and portals with a single tap, follow a voiced 42-day story, or fly the endless mode and chase a spot on the global leaderboard. Plays offline, no wifi needed, and every ship is cosmetic, never pay to win. You're always moving. The only choice is which way you lean. Grab the blue to keep your fire burning, thread gaps barely wider than your hull, and carve a line through everything trying to end you. No clutter. No homework. Just you, the drift, and the next gap. But underneath the arcade is something quieter. JOURNEY Forty-two days, and a story told the way a late-night radio finds you: one line at a time, from a voice called NAV. She's guiding your small ship across an enormous silence, toward the source of a broken signal. Someone, somewhere, once tried very hard to be heard. You are the one who finally went looking. Where it ends is yours to discover, and yours to answer. OPEN SPACE No story. No mercy. No finish line. Just how far the dark will let you go. Fly the endless run for the pure feel of it, and if you make the top 100, your call sign goes on the Space Board for everyone to chase. This is the mode you'll come back to when you just want to fly. TO PLAY Chase the blue. It's fuel, and it's the only warm thing out here. Snap on a shield and tear straight through the rocks. Thread a gap barely wider than you are for a SWOOSH. Fall through portals, swing wide of black holes, kiss the walls and live. WHAT'S INSIDE One-tap zigzag controls: easy to learn, hard to master A 42-day story mode with a fully voiced narrator An endless space runner with a global high score board Leaderboards with your friends 40 spaceships, each leaving its own trail. Cosmetic only, never pay to win A Space Log that quietly fills as you fly Stars to earn on every Journey day Short runs, made for a quick break, a commute or a flight Works offline, no internet required No ads Headphones recommended. A small game with a long reach. Turn left. Or right. Or become debris.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Space Swoosh at 5.0 against Slender's 3.8. Space Swoosh also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Slender's advantage is ratings volume (323 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Slender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Space Swoosh sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Space Swoosh holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slender has 323 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Slender ships an update monthly, Space Swoosh every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Slender | Space Swoosh |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (323 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 323 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ammonite Design Studios Ltd | VLAD-CONSTANTIN TUDOSE |
Customer experience
Slender
Space Swoosh
In-app purchases
Slender
- Remove Ads$6.99
Space Swoosh
- Darner Ship$0.99
- Puff Ship$0.99
- Koi Ship$1.99
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- Boreal Ship$1.99
- Wisp Ship$1.99
- Argus Ship$1.99
- Chime Ship$1.99
- Plume Ship$2.99
- Spore Ship$2.99
- Luna Ship$2.99
Questions
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