The Fleet vs Spacing Out
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Fleet
Embark on an epic interactive novel to reclaim your home world from alien invaders. Forge alliances, make critical choices that shape the narrative, and battle your way to victory with a vast arsenal. Your decisions will determine the fate of your planet and your own destiny.
- Interactive story choices
- Intergalactic alliance building
- Alien invasion combat
- Expandable arsenal
- Branching narrative paths
- Multiple endings
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Take back your home world from alien invaders! Forge an Intergalactic Alliance (with untrustworthy allies) to reclaim your planet; blast your way to victory with an ever-expanding arsenal. Will you sacrifice civilian lives to exact vengeance on your enemies? "The Fleet" is an interactive novel where you control the main character. In each chapter, your choices determine how the story proceeds. Will you return home as a military dictator, a prisoner of war, or the president of a puppet state? Will you even recognize home when you get there?
Spacing Out
Embark on a 50,000-word personal tale of exploration and intense battles on a planet of nightmares. Lead a team of futuristic warriors, evolve your combat skills, and forge alliances with alien races to retrieve a powerful artifact and shape your future.
- 50,000-word personal tale
- Lead a team of futuristic warriors
- Evolve combat expertise
- Befriend alien races
- Claim a powerful artifact
- Choose gender and romance options
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Explore the planet of nightmares with your small team of warriors. Retrieve a powerful artifact from the claws of adversaries or die trying. Meet an enigmatic race of insectoid beings and befriend their hybrid queen, helping her bring peace to a captured hatchery. Get assisted by a powerful Pleiadian woman who mingles with the structure of time itself. Claim the artifact and embrace the options it gives you to forge a future of your desire. • Enjoy a 50,000-word personal tale of exploration, intense battles and reestablishing yourself in a world of your choice. • Lead a small team of futuristic warriors. • Evolve your expertise at sniping, close-range combat, melee combat, healing and forcefield generation. • Get saved by a beautiful Pleiadian woman. • Meet the enigmatic race of the insectoids and befriend their queen. • Claim a powerful artifact and decide what to do with it. • Play as male or female, gay or straight. • Choose between 3 optional romances.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Spacing Out at Free against The Fleet's $4.99. The Fleet's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (63% vs 33%). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
Spacing Out is free to download; The Fleet costs $4.99 up front. Spacing Out sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. The Fleet asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Fleet holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of The Fleet's written reviews are positive against 33% of Spacing Out's.
The Fleet ships an update every 8 months, Spacing Out every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Fleet | Spacing Out |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (24 ratings) — better | 3.7 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Choice of Games LLC | Hosted Games LLC |
Customer experience
The Fleet
Spacing Out
In-app purchases
The Fleet
No in-app purchases
Spacing Out
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