Mobsteria vs Flying Vector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobsteria
Build your criminal empire in this text-based strategy game. Execute daring crimes, recruit and train a crew, craft powerful items, and dominate rivals in a dynamic underworld. Your choices shape your legacy.
- Text-based crime strategy
- Execute daring crimes and heists
- Recruit and train a criminal crew
- Intricate crafting system
- Narrative missions with consequences
- Player vs. player competition
- Daily challenges and live events
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Welcome to Mobsteria – the ultimate text-based crime strategy game where every decision shapes your criminal legacy. Start as a nobody on the streets and claw your way to the top of the underworld through pure strategy, cunning, and ruthless ambition. In this deep, text-driven experience, your imagination and tactical thinking are your greatest weapons. Master the Criminal Arts Execute daring crimes across the city – from quick street hustles to elaborate multi-million dollar heists. Plan grand theft auto operations, choosing your targets wisely as you build an impressive collection of luxury vehicles and establish your reputation as an elite wheelman. Build Your Criminal Empire Start a gang and grow it into a crew of real players, fight for control of the city's districts, run businesses, claim casinos and own the bullet factories that keep the streets armed. Craft Your Way to Power Dive deep into the Workshop's intricate crafting system. Experiment with countless combinations to create powerful tools, weapons, and resources. Unlock rare recipes and master advanced techniques that give you the edge over your rivals. Pull Off Live Heist Events Race across the city when a heist goes live – shoot open a moving van, crack a bank vault, raid a corner store, slip past museum cameras and empty a penthouse safe before the prize pool runs dry. Dominate the Competition Hunt down and eliminate rival players, sharpen your aim at the shooting range, and fight for championships in Fight Club. Join an established crime family or build your own criminal dynasty from the ground up. Always Something New With daily challenges, live events, a player-driven economy, and regular content updates, Mobsteria offers endless opportunities for criminal advancement. Play on iPhone, iPad, desktop or any browser – your empire is always within reach. Your criminal empire awaits. How ruthless will you become? https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Flying Vector
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A vector-drawn world somewhere between an 80s arcade cabinet and a spacey daydream. No engine: just wind, altitude, and speed, traded for one another. Flying stays calm, gliding, almost meditative — but gates matter: they're what keeps the clock alive, and the terrain sharpens as the flight goes on. Pitching down turns altitude into speed; pulling up does the reverse. Fall below stall speed and lift lets go. To climb back up: thermals and ridge lift — the terrain isn't scenery, it's the resource. Stick centered holds your best glide angle — you settle into it and float, without ever stalling. Flying through gates earns points and flight time. Watch out for pylons — hit one and you're gone. Every craft for the session — silhouette, wingspan, handling — is generated at takeoff. Never the same glider twice. CONTROLS: TOUCH, TILT — OR ANOTHER DEVICE AS A REMOTE Touch stick or tilt steering, your choice — a game controller is picked up automatically if you connect one. This iPhone or iPad can also pilot a session running on a Mac, or on another iPad, remotely: the game plays on the big screen, the controls stay in your hand. SEVEN WORLDS, ONE FLIGHT Plain, City, Canyon, Forest, Cave, Space, Combat. Each one keeps the same unhurried, vector-drawn breathing while introducing its own rule: slaloming between towers, ridge-soaring along a cliff face, a canopy ceiling with the first moving threats, gunfire to open a path between floor and ceiling, a weightless world with no up or down. All of them are endless and procedurally generated — including the ones in the pack. Combat isn't for sale. It's earned: six stars, one per world crossed in a single flight, to unlock it. It's the only world that breaks the calm — a duel, you shoot, and you get shot at. THE PLAIN IS FREE, FOREVER The full game — flight, gates, terrain, generated craft — with nothing to unlock. HORIZONS opens the next five worlds (City, Canyon, Forest, Cave, Space) in one purchase. No subscription, no ads, no in-app currency. iOS and macOS, one purchase for both.
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Verdict
Mobsteria and Flying Vector are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Mobsteria sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Flying Vector sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Mobsteria | Flying Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.7 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | JOSHUA PATRICK RICHARDS | DIRECT GRAPHIC S.A.S. |
In-app purchases
Mobsteria
- +30 Days Premium$5.991 Month
- 30 Points Package$2.99
- Points Bonus (April 2026)$9.99
- 105 Points Package$9.99
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- Welcome Pack$12.99
- Points Bonus$24.99
- Points Sale$24.99
- 270 Points Package$24.99
- 550 Points Package$49.99
- 2000 Points Package$149.99
Flying Vector
- HORIZONS$4.99
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