Space Squad Survival vs Pest Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Space Squad Survival
Command your spaceship and crew to survive in the vastness of space. Explore planets, manage resources, hunt alien creatures, and battle ruthless pirates to ensure your squad's survival. Your strategic decisions are key to overcoming the challenges of the cosmos.
- Ship Management
- Hunting Alien Creatures
- Planet Exploration
- Battling Space Pirates
- Building and Development
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Survive in endless space as the commander of your own spaceship! Take charge of your crew, explore uncharted planets, hunt for food, and defend against ruthless space pirates. Your decisions will determine the fate of your squad! Download now and begin your space adventure! AWESOME FEATURES: ● Ship Management: Expand your ship, optimize resources, and maintain crew morale. ● Hunting Alien Creatures: Gather food and defend against alien threats using a variety of weapons and tactics. ● Planet Exploration: Mine resources, discover mysterious locations, and build up your base. ● Battling Space Pirates: Defend your ship from pirate attacks and board enemy vessels to collect unique resources and gain experience. ● Building and Development: Upgrade technologies, create new modules, and enhance your survival skills in the harsh environment of space. Lead your space squad and prove you can survive in the toughest conditions!
Pest Control
Engage in a tactical night-vision sniper experience, focusing on clean eliminations through a thermal scope. Complete contracts, face diverse targets, and upgrade your gear in various game modes.
- Night-vision thermal scope gameplay
- 53 unique contracts across 15 sectors
- Diverse enemy AI and behaviors
- Guard contracts to protect assets
- Multiple game modes: Contracts, Ranked, Time Attack, Daily Ops
- Earnable gear upgrades and loadout customization
- Cross-platform play on Mac, iPhone, and iPad
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The city sleeps. You don't. Mount the PC-7 thermal sensor, settle the reticle, and go to work. Pest Control is a night-vision sniper game about one thing done well: clean, quiet elimination through a thermal scope. No run-and-gun, no cover shooter. Just you, a bolt gun, and a field full of heat signatures that would rather not be seen. Read the brief. Range the shot. Control your breathing. Put down every target before the client's problem becomes yours. THE JOB Take 53 contracts across fifteen sectors. Every client has their own ground, drawn the way thermal sees it: the kitchen door behind a trattoria running hot, a storm outfall steaming under the overpass, a churchyard bell tower, a runway lit to the horizon, a catfish pond gone black and still. Every contract is hand-written, with a client, a body count, and a reason the lights are off. NEW IN 2.0 • Bats pour out of the belfry in waves and never fly straight • Geese hold the runway while a plane is on final. Clear the strip before the landing lights reach the threshold, or the tower waves it off • Iguanas barely show on thermal until a cold snap knocks them out of the palms • Armadillo shells deflect rounds. Wait for the soft side • Nutria swim and dive. Follow the wake. Something bigger lives in the pond • Protected deer graze among the hogs. Hit one and it comes out of your pay WHAT YOU'RE UP AGAINST Nineteen species, and every one moves differently. Rats run the cover, snakes weave through the scrub, hogs soak a light round and charge, owls hide in the canopy, prairie dogs vanish into their burrows, and recon drones hunt your heat and strike back. Named targets lead the worst of them. Put them down and the crew scatters. PROTECT WHAT'S YOURS Guard contracts field hens you must never shoot. Predators stalk in from the dark, and if they take the whole flock, the farm cancels the job. Discipline pays. A clean sheet is worth more than a fast one. MODES • CONTRACTS: the career. 53 ops, from a back-lot cleanup to last-stand sieges. • RANKED OPS: a skill-normalized global ladder. Every operator is issued the identical rifle, so the rank measures your aim, not your wallet. • TIME ATTACK: one arena, one clock, your best score. • DAILY OPS: a fresh bounty every night and a streak that pays. THE ARMORY Earn bounties, bank the Gold, kit out the loadout: sharper optics, bigger magazines, faster glass. Every upgrade can be earned in the field. PLAY IT YOUR WAY On iPhone and iPad, drag to traverse and pinch to zoom. On Mac, aim with the mouse, click to fire, and rebind every key. STRAIGHT DEAL No pay-to-win: the ranked rifle is the same for everyone. Ads never appear during a mission, in Ranked, or in Time Attack. Optional purchases exist, and they're exactly that: optional. Licensed Nuisance Elimination, est. 2026. Night Ops Division. The reticle's warm. Take the shot.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Space Squad Survival at 1.2K against Pest Control's 1. Pest Control's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Space Squad Survival sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Pest Control sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pest Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Space Squad Survival has 1.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Space Squad Survival ships an update every 4 days, Pest Control every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.
| Parameter | Space Squad Survival | Pest Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 325 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cezary Rajkowski | Vima Brosta Interactive LLC |
Customer experience
Space Squad Survival
Pest Control
Bugs and requests
Space Squad Survival
Reported bugs
3 issues- Saved game not syncing between devices
- Camera issues
- Shooting system needs improvement
Requested features
5 requests- Add an endless mode without a timer
- Allow redesigning the ship at will
- Implement ship-to-ship battles
- Add more destructible elements
- Support gamepad controls
Pest Control
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Space Squad Survival
- Pinch of Gems$0.99
- Starterpaket$3.99
- Stack of Gems$4.99
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- Pile of Gems$9.99
- Premium Offer$9.99
- Hoard of Gems$49.99
Pest Control
- Field Kit (Intro Pack)$0.99
- Credit Pouch$4.99
- Bounty Roll$9.99
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- Contract Purse$19.99
- Payload Crate$49.99
Questions
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