Space Span vs Lunar Patrol
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Space Span
Pilot a spacecraft through challenging levels, upgrading skills and battling waves of enemies and giant bosses. Unlock and command different ships in this fast-paced arcade shooter. Test your survival instincts in intense space combat.
- Level-based progression with increasing difficulty
- Multiple ships to unlock and pilot
- Epic boss battles with unique mechanics
- Offline play
- Stunning space-themed visuals
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Your next run starts in the hangar. Choose your starship, upgrade its systems and launch into a galaxy of enemy waves, changing battle events and powerful bosses. BUILD A DIFFERENT RUN Choose one of three perks between sectors. Add cannons, piercing rounds, critical hits, hull protection and more to shape your strategy as you survive. EXPLORE 10 GALACTIC ZONES Battle through 10 zones with different enemies, battle events and 10 distinctive bosses. GROW YOUR FLEET Unlock 10 starships with different abilities, from rapid fire and twin cannons to regeneration and shockwaves. Improve weapons, hull and ship abilities in the hangar, and watch your engine effects evolve as you upgrade. MASTER THE COMBO Chain enemy defeats to raise your score multiplier. Beat your best score, reach a new sector and push your longest streak further. RETURN READY FOR BATTLE Claim daily credit rewards and use your daily free revive for another chance. Earn credits through play to unlock ships and purchase permanent upgrades. Play offline on iPhone and iPad. Optional in-app purchases offer credit packs, the Phoenix Starter Pack and the Commander Pack. Purchases and restoring purchases require an internet connection. Launch, adapt and see how far your build can take you.
Lunar Patrol
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The moon's night side. One buggy, three wheels, and a horizon full of things that want you stopped. Craters break open in front of you, real impact craters with raised rims and terraced walls, deep enough to swallow the buggy whole. Tanks dig in and shell you from range. Striders come over the ridge on three legs, tall enough that a low shot passes clean underneath. Saucers strafe overhead. Trains of linked fliers snake across the sky in one long chain. And every so often the sky itself comes down: a meteor, burning all the way in, digging a fresh crater in the ground up ahead. Tilt the phone to drive: forward speeds you up, level holds whatever you have got, and tilting back brakes you to a stop and then backs you up. Jump sits under your left thumb, and there are two triggers under the right: a laser that fires flat ahead and a mortar that lobs straight up. They share one heat sink. Lean on either and the gun jams, and a jammed gun just coughs at you until it cools. Pick your shots. (Prefer keys? Turn tilt off and the pad grows a brake and a throttle.) BUNKER MISSIONS Every few levels the road ends at an enemy bunker behind a barrier that runs all the way up to the sky. You cannot jump it and you cannot shoot through it. Only a plasma bomb opens it, and the plasma bomb is somewhere behind you. Back up, get it, drive it in, and be well clear when it goes. GO BACK FOR IT The buggy does not only run forward. Stop dead, reverse, line up the jump again. Missed a fuel cell? It is still hanging there. LEARN IT IN FIVE SECONDS Two thumbs. The left one drives and jumps, the right one shoots. No tutorial, no menus between you and the game. READ IT AT A GLANCE Everything is drawn in the same near-black and lit only at the edges, and the edge colour tells you what a thing is. Red hunts you. Magenta is the elite hardware โ the striders and the chained fliers. Pale blue is terrain โ jump it. Green is the thing you came back for. Cyan is you. You will never wonder what a thing on screen is for. BUILT TO BE REPLAYED Levels get longer and meaner, and the sky changes colour as you cross into new regions. Checkpoints keep you honest without sending you back to the start. Game Center leaderboards and achievements if you want to know where you stand. PLAYS ANYWHERE No account, no ads, no internet needed. Works on iPhone and iPad, in landscape, with everything running on your device. FREE TO PLAY, HONESTLY Two minutes a day free, in full โ no locked levels, no energy meters. After that your buggy is stuck at double speed until tomorrow, which is playable but punishing. One in-app purchase removes the limit permanently. That's the only purchase in the app, and there are no subscriptions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lunar Patrol at weekly against Space Span's every 6 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Space Span ships an update every 6 months, Lunar Patrol weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Space Span | Lunar Patrol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Creanity Teknoloji Anonim Sirketi | Anton Popov |
In-app purchases
Space Span
No in-app purchases
Lunar Patrol
No in-app purchases
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