Deep Moon vs Swashteroids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deep Moon
Experience 80's style arcade action in this retro space shooter. Pilot a stolen enemy ship, battle challenging foes, and destroy the reactor core of a distant base. Escape is your ultimate goal in this fast-paced mission.
- Retro 80's arcade style
- Fast-paced action
- Challenging enemies
- Simple controls
- Space combat gameplay
- Reactor core destruction mission
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A Retro Style Space Arcade Game. Quick Action, challenging enemies and simple controls take you back to the arcade games of the 80's. You are an undercover agent on a distant enemy base. After stealing an enemy ship, your mission is to find and destroy the reactor core. Escape is optional but preferred. Good luck!!!
Swashteroids
Pilot a spaceship to mine asteroids for treasure while fending off aliens. Utilize power-ups for enhanced combat and navigation. This fast-paced, retro arcade experience offers multiple control options and increasing difficulty.
- Retro arcade gameplay
- Asteroid mining and treasure collection
- Alien combat
- Power-ups for combat and navigation
- Multiple control options (on-screen, accelerometer, controller)
- Increasing difficulty with levels
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Take command of the USS Swashbuckler in Swashteroids, a fast-paced retro vector arcade game where every asteroid field hides danger—and treasure. Mine asteroids, collect valuable cargo, and fight off alien workers and soldiers that want the loot for themselves. Each cleared field brings a tougher level, faster hazards, and more relentless enemies. Power up your ship with: • Plasma torpedoes and long-range phasers • Shields for protection • Hyperspace for emergency escapes • Phasing to pass safely through hazards • X-Ray vision to reveal treasure-bearing asteroids Master Newtonian spaceflight using on-screen controls, tilt steering, or a compatible game controller. A guided Training mode teaches every control and mechanic. Compete across five leaderboards, earn an extra ship every 5,000 points, and record your greatest runs. Watch replays, adjust their playback speed, and share .swrep replay files with friends. Swashteroids is small, fast, and built for quick arcade sessions on iPhone and iPad. How long can the USS Swashbuckler survive?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Deep Moon at Free against Swashteroids's $0.99. Deep Moon also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Swashteroids's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On rating, in-app purchases 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
Deep Moon is free to download; Swashteroids costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Deep Moon against 5.0 for Swashteroids. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Swashteroids has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Deep Moon ships an update every 2 months, Swashteroids every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deep Moon | Swashteroids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | andrew bell | John Nyquist |
Customer experience
Deep Moon
Swashteroids
In-app purchases
Deep Moon
No in-app purchases
Swashteroids
No in-app purchases
