Neon Wings vs DreadLands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Neon Wings
Pilot a customizable aircraft, strategically choosing skills to enhance its capabilities. Engage in challenging battles against formidable bosses, aiming to build the ultimate flying machine.
- Skill selection
- Aircraft customization
- Boss battles
- Strategic gameplay
- Plane building
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Carefully select your skills, build the strongest plane and defeat bosses!
DreadLands
Experience a dark-fantasy twin-stick wave shooter with procedurally generated worlds and unique heroes. Survive endless waves of monsters and challenging bosses, utilizing elemental powers and evolving enemy forms. Enjoy drop-in, one-handed gameplay perfect for quick sessions.
- Ten playable heroes with signature powers
- Sixteen evolving enemy types
- Eight rotating bosses
- Procedurally generated infinite world
- One-handed, drop-in gameplay
- Elemental power chaining
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Survive the endless dread. Ten playable heroes. Sixteen monstrous enemies. Eight rotating bosses. An infinite, ever-shifting world. DreadLands is a dark-fantasy twin-stick wave shooter built for one-handed, drop-in sessions. One stick moves and aims in a full circle; the other fires. Every wave ramps the pressure — chain elemental powers, stack bolts, go Titan-sized and start throwing punches, or ring yourself in an explosive barrage to clear a swarm. Every five waves, the world seals shut around you and a boss steps out of eight rotating horrors, each with its own attack pattern and a growing threat as you go deeper. - 10 characters, each with a signature power and a fully articulated fighting rig - 16 enemy types that evolve into Hardened and Ancient forms the longer you survive - 7 biomes on an endless cycle, from bone deserts to starfields - Fully procedural — every visual and every note of music is generated, nothing pre-rendered - Optional rewarded ad for a single continue after death — never required, never forced
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DreadLands at 100% against Neon Wings's 16%. DreadLands also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (daily vs every 6 days). Neon Wings's advantage is ratings volume (6.4K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neon Wings sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and DreadLands sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DreadLands holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Neon Wings has 6.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Neon Wings's written reviews are positive against 100% of DreadLands's.
Neon Wings ships an update every 6 days, DreadLands daily. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Neon Wings | DreadLands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 554 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Voodoo | Thomas Masters |
Customer experience
Neon Wings
DreadLands
Bugs and requests
Neon Wings
Reported bugs
3 issues- Can't beat first boss on level 280
- Forced to equip module but none available
- Data reset after update
Requested features
2 requests- Unlock level 13 upgrades
- Explain what upgrades/abilities do
DreadLands
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Neon Wings
- Revive Skip It Pack 1$0.99
- Gem Pack 1$0.99
- Saw Blade Pack$1.99
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- Super Revive$1.99
- Starter Pack$1.99
- Revive Skip It Pack 2$2.49
- No Forced Ads$2.99
- Curve Laser Pack$3.99
- Gem Pack 2$4.99
- Drone Bundle #2$9.99
- Premium Pack$14.99
- Gem Pack 3$14.99
- NO RV$24.99
- Gem Pack 4$29.99
- Gem Pack 5$49.99
- Gem Pack 6$99.99
DreadLands
- Xirak$0.99
- Theme Pack 1$0.99
- Theme Pack 2$0.99
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- Character Pack 1$1.99
- All Soundscapes$1.99
- All Themes$1.99
- Character Pack 2$1.99
- All Characters$3.99









