Galaxy Swirl vs Dead Frequency
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Galaxy Swirl
Pilot a spaceship through a hexagonal space environment, dodging obstacles and shooting enemies. Enjoy procedurally generated levels, various game modes, and ship customization. Compete globally with power-ups and leaderboards.
- Infinite hexagonal runner
- Spaceship combat and dodging
- Procedurally generated levels
- Multiple game modes
- Ship customization and upgrades
- Power-ups and leaderboards
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Galaxy Swirl: Hexa Endless Run is an adrenaline-fueled sci-fi infinite runner set in the vastness of outer space! Navigate your spaceship around a mesmerizing sphere made of hexagonal pillars, all while an electrifying electronic soundtrack pumps through your speakers. Master the art of dodging treacherous obstacles like lasers, orbital beams, and relentless turrets while showcasing your precision shooting skills to annihilate hostile forces and crush the threat of oncoming robot snakes. Experience the thrill of procedural generation, ensuring that every playthrough is a fresh and exhilarating challenge. Conquer five stages of increasing difficulty, each pushing your skills to the limit. Customize your spaceship to match your style and enhance your gameplay with various ship stats, including acceleration, max speed, handling, size, luck, and lives. Unleash intense power-ups to dominate the leaderboards and achieve the highest score. Soar into orbit for a coin-collecting frenzy, activate protective shields, or regain lost health. Experience Galaxy Swirl in many ways with game modes like Robot Snake, which is the classic snake game but in the Galaxy Swirl universe, you can also try the Hardcore mode that will test your skills, one mistake and it's game over. Share your achievements and compete against players worldwide! With Galaxy Swirl, the faster you go, the higher you score. Immerse yourself in this action-packed adventure and see how far you can navigate through the cosmic chaos. Ready for a space odyssey like no other? Download now and unleash your spaceship's full potential!
Dead Frequency
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Pilot a modular starship through deep space, destroy enemy vessels, and salvage their wreckage to rebuild yourself mid-battle. Dead Frequency is an arcade space combat game about survival, adaptation, and shipbuilding under pressure. Every enemy you destroy can leave behind modules you can drag onto your own ship: weapons, engines, armor, ghost systems, and stranger things. Build fast, fight dirty, and keep your command module alive. Features: • Real-time arcade space combat • Modular shipbuilding from salvaged enemy parts • Touch controls built for landscape mobile play • Global high scores • Multiplayer battles • Unlockable abilities and high-risk power spikes • Atmospheric original soundtrack • No account required • Every run starts small. Every fight changes your ship. Every mistake leaves wreckage.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Dead Frequency at none against Galaxy Swirl's shown. Galaxy Swirl's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Galaxy Swirl sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Dead Frequency sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Galaxy Swirl ships an update every 3 weeks, Dead Frequency every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Galaxy Swirl | Dead Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (60 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 284 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ricardo Mendonca | Nathan Mueller |
In-app purchases
Galaxy Swirl
- 700 Coins$0.99
- Starter Bundle$0.99
- 4000 Coins$4.99
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- Unlimited Double Coins$4.99
- Bulletstorm Bundle$4.99
- 55 Gems$9.99
- 9000 Coins$9.99
- 125 Gems$19.99
- 20000 Coins$19.99
- 55000 Coins$49.99
Dead Frequency
- Neon Dagger$1.99
- Void Relic$2.99
Questions
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