Comparison

Kaamos vs Space Salvager

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

Head to head
About

Kaamos

Engage in turn-based tactical combat by matching tiles on a grid. Explore a dark medieval world, collect equipment, and build your character and deck to overcome foes in this unique roguelike experience.

Highlights
  • Turn-based tile matching combat
  • Character and deck building
  • Looting equipment from foes
  • Dark medieval world exploration
  • Roguelike progression
Features
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Kaamos is a bite-sized turn-based puzzle roguelike where battles are fought by matching tiles on a grid with looping rows and columns. Build your character and deck of tiles by looting equipment from your foes. Traverse a dark medieval world where the Sun went down and never rose again.

About

Space Salvager

Pilot a salvage tug to derelict ships, cutting free valuable parts while the structure crumbles around you. Race against rivals and manage your greed to get home with your haul, or risk losing everything.

Highlights
  • Push-your-luck gameplay
  • Salvage derelict ships
  • Rival salvager encounters
  • Multiple ship types
  • Collectible personal effects
  • Daily seeded wrecks
Features
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There's a fortune inside this derelict, and nobody left alive to stop you taking it. Every part you cut free makes the wreck likelier to come down on top of you. Nothing warns you when to leave. There's only what's already in your hold, and how much of it you're willing to bet on one more cut. Space Salvager is a push-your-luck game about greed and timing. You captain a beat-up tug on the edge of explored space: find the dead ships, strip them, and get out before the structure fails. Take too little and you can't afford the fuel home. Take too much and you lose the lot. THE CUT THAT COSTS YOU Every component has a price in stability. Below half, each removal can start a collapse - girders fail, fires start, arcs jump the hull, radiation floods a section. You can always ride it out for one more piece. People do. That's how ships get lost. SEVEN KINDS OF DEAD SHIP Freighters, mining rigs, research vessels, military frigates, colony transports, luxury liners - and occasionally a contact matching no hull design on record. Sealed compartments can be gambled open for a fortune or for slag. Some wrecks hold things that were never meant to be aboard. YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE OUT HERE Rival salvagers arrive mid-job and start cutting the far side. Pay them off, threaten them, or race them to the good parts before they get there. WHAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND Abandon a wreck and it doesn't reset. It stays out there in real time, decaying, getting picked over by someone else. Come back in three days and find out what's left of it. FIFTEEN HULLS, THREE BERTHS The Kestrel is out before the hull knows it was there. The Ox carries everything and leaves slowly - you will fill the hold, and you will regret it when the countdown starts. The Lamprey strips a wreck faster than anything in the registry and takes damage like wet paper. The Bastion is built to survive the collapse rather than avoid it. No hull is strictly better than another. The right one depends on the wreck. THE SHIP'S LOCKER Twenty personal effects, recovered from seven crews. The Long Haul. Cold Hypothesis. Promise of Rain. Seventeen Thousand Years. Sell them for credits, or keep them and eventually learn what happened aboard. Selling the last piece of a set costs you the ending. THE DAILY WRECK One seeded wreck a day, the same for every salvager, flown on a loaner rig. One attempt. Come back tomorrow. NO PAYWALL Free to play, with no in-app purchases. Ads are opt-in rewards only - you choose to watch one, at a moment you picked, for something specific. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that plays uninvited. Credits, fuel and repairs are never for sale. The risk is the game - we're not selling you a way around it. Find it. Strip it. Get out alive.

Screenshots

Kaamos4 screens
Space Salvager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Space Salvager at Free against Kaamos's $3.99. Kaamos's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Space Salvager is free to download; Kaamos costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kaamos ships an update weekly, Space Salvager every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Kaamos versus Space Salvager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKaamosSpace Salvager
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB55 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperFreedom Games, LLCMason Moran

Customer experience

Kaamos

All ratings15 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral7.1%
Negative21.4%

Space Salvager

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Kaamos

No in-app purchases

None

Space Salvager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kaamos free?
Kaamos costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Space Salvager free?
Space Salvager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kaamos or Space Salvager have ads?
Space Salvager shows ads; Kaamos does not.
Which is updated more often, Kaamos or Space Salvager?
Kaamos ships an update weekly, and Space Salvager every 6 weeks. Most recently, Kaamos was updated on October 24, 2026 and Space Salvager on October 25, 2026.

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