Comparison

Space Buccaneers vs Black Stars

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

Head to head
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Space Buccaneers

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In Space Buccaneers you take over the role of a Space Pirate Captain. It is your job to manage your crew and strategize on the battlefield to defeat the enemy pirates mothership. Are you up for the challenge? Play SpaceBuccaneers together over local network multiplayer or over the Internet using a VPN no matter your platform! Just start one game as host, note the IP address, and enter it on a second game starting as the client. Controls and Mechanics: -Select a card by clicking on its corresponding card. -Place the selected unit by clicking somewhere on the battlefield -Ships can only be placed near your mothership -Units need resources to be played -Basic asteroids will automatically be mined by miners that constantly spawn -To get crystals you need to place Crystal Miners that will automatically mine them -Destroy the enemy Mothership or have more HP left when the time ends to win

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Black Stars

Features
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Command a fleet across a galaxy at war. Black Stars is a real-time space strategy game built around persistent lanes: connect your worlds, commit to Assault or dig in with Fortify, and read the battlefield before it's too late. - Persistent fleet lanes link every world you hold โ€” cut them, reroute them, or let a rear forge quietly supply a frontier bastion. - Assault produces ships and pushes fleets down open lanes. Fortify builds shields and holds your garrison in place. Override the global doctrine world by world. - Three ship types trade speed for firepower: balanced Fighters, hard-hitting Bombers, and fast Interceptors that shoot down enemy ships in transit. - Surge half a world's garrison into an overwhelming wave, then wait out the cooldown. - 72 handcrafted missions across six sectors, each with three stars to earn: victory, a perfect defense, and a par time. - A live tactical advisor tracks fleet balance, exposed worlds, and par time โ€” advice, not autoplay. Black Stars plays fully offline, has no ads, and no subscriptions. The first 10 missions are free; a single one-time purchase unlocks the full 72-mission campaign.

Screenshots

Space Buccaneers3 screens
Black Stars4 screens

Verdict

The call

Space Buccaneers and Black Stars are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Space Buccaneers versus Black Stars: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpace BuccaneersBlack Stars
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 โ€” better13.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size168 MB38 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperBen MeyerArnoHealth SL

In-app purchases

None

Space Buccaneers

No in-app purchases

None

Black Stars

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Space Buccaneers free?
Space Buccaneers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Black Stars free?
Black Stars is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Space Buccaneers or Black Stars have ads?
Neither Space Buccaneers nor Black Stars shows ads.

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