Comparison

ASTEROIDS. vs TR

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ASTEROIDS.

Experience the classic 1979 arcade game. Pilot your ship through an asteroid field, shooting down incoming rocks while avoiding collisions. Relive a piece of gaming history on your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Original arcade gameplay
  • Retro graphics
  • Simple controls
  • Classic space shooter experience
Features
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go back in time and play the original asteroid arcade game from 1979

About

TR

Uncover a WWII-era mystery by navigating a vast archive of obscure texts. Communicate with a handler through an interactive audio drama to find a stolen book and unravel the secrets of the machine's creators before it's too late.

Highlights
  • Narrative deduction gameplay
  • Interactive audio drama
  • Archive exploration
  • Link obscure texts
  • Uncover creator secrets
  • Dynamic dialogue system
Features
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A voice is saying your name. A WWII-era machine, long hidden in a church basement, whirs to life. Through a crackling speaker a man asks you to find a stolen book. He only knows the title. Time is running out. The machine, created by Bletchley Park engineers Cecil Caulderly and Beatrice Dooler, contains a vast archive of obscure books, letters, and journals fed in over the span of fifty years in an attempt to crack the code of reality. As their lives fell apart, the machine kept working. Navigate the computer’s archive. Link its obscure texts and uncover its creators’ secrets. Communicate with the man behind the speaker to figure out your role in this mystery. Destroy the book at the core of the machine — before it’s too late. NARRATIVE DEDUCTION - Deduce links through the archive to locate hidden sources. - Unravel the stories and unearth the secrets of the books’ authors and the machine's creators. - Map the archive and find the book that will rewrite the world. INTERACTIVE AUDIO DRAMA - Talk with your handler at any time, creating a dynamic audio drama that responds as you explore. - Featuring the voices of Rebekah McLoughlin (The SCP Archives, Eternal Threads), Paul Warren (A Highland Song, Viewfinder, The Séance of Blake Manor) and Phillipe Bosher (Baldur's Gate 3, Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). - Original soundtrack by Laurence Chapman (A Highland Song, Heaven's Vault, The Mask of the Rose). INSPIRATIONS TR-49 takes inspiration from narrative deduction games like The Roottrees are Dead and The Return of the Obra Dinn, and from audio dramas like The Magnus Archives and ars PARADOXICA. Written and created by the award-winning team behind 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, Overboard!, and A Highland Song.

Screenshots

ASTEROIDS.3 screens
TR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TR at 67% against ASTEROIDS.'s 0%. TR also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (37 vs 3). ASTEROIDS.'s advantage is price ($2.99 vs $6.99). On update cadence, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ASTEROIDS. costs $2.99 and TR $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TR holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TR has 37 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of ASTEROIDS.'s written reviews are positive against 67% of TR's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ASTEROIDS. ships an update weekly, TR every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ASTEROIDS. versus TR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterASTEROIDS.TR
Price$2.99 — better$6.99
Rating1.0 (3 ratings)4.5 (37 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings337 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB527 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMatthew Reinerinkle

Customer experience

ASTEROIDS.

All ratings3 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

TR

All ratings37 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

ASTEROIDS.

No in-app purchases

None

TR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ASTEROIDS. free?
ASTEROIDS. costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TR free?
TR costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ASTEROIDS. or TR?
TR is rated higher. ASTEROIDS. averages 1.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while TR averages 4.5 from 37 ratings.
Do ASTEROIDS. or TR have ads?
Neither ASTEROIDS. nor TR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ASTEROIDS. or TR?
ASTEROIDS. ships an update weekly, and TR every 6 days. Most recently, ASTEROIDS. was updated on October 9, 2026 and TR on October 12, 2026.

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