Flatout ATC vs Harbor Shift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flatout ATC
Command real-world airspace by guiding aircraft through 28 detailed airports. This fast-paced puzzle game tests your skills with realistic procedures and daily challenges. Manage arrivals, departures, and emergencies to achieve perfect landings.
- Realistic airspace command
- 28 meticulously mapped airports
- Approach and landing guidance
- Daily challenges
- Escalating difficulty
- Free Play mode
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Flatout ATC puts you in the tower. Vector arrivals, sequence departures, clear approaches, and keep every aircraft safely separated across real airports from New York to Tokyo. NEW IN 3.0: THE WATCH A career campaign told in seasons. Step into the tower as a new controller and earn your place shift by shift, with a full cast, a story that carries across episodes, and a debrief after every shift. - Season 1: First Watch. Seven episodes. Your first solo, your first radio failure, your first engine-out. - Season 2: The Incident Desk. Seven episodes of search and rescue, including a cooperative multi-aircraft rescue. REAL CONTROL - Tap an aircraft to give it a heading, altitude, or speed. - Clear published approaches and issue crossing restrictions like a real controller. - Fly search and rescue: follow the signal, hold a steady hover to hoist, and beat the survival clock. LIVE TRAFFIC Work a shift against real aircraft flying right now over New York, London, and Atlanta, streamed from live ADS-B data. One free live shift every day. NO ADS Every advert was removed. No interruptions, no rewarded videos, just you and the airspace. A WHOLE WORLD Dozens of real airports with satellite-accurate runways, published procedures, 3D terrain and towers, weather you can fly around, helicopters, and a daily challenge. THE LOGBOOK Every level you clear writes a permanent record you can look back on. Already own the Full Game? You keep the base game and every season, free, forever.
Harbor Shift
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Run a complete vessel-control shift where every arrival needs a pilot, tug approach, inspection, cargo authorization, and departure clearance. The Harbor Control Desk tracks three live vessel cases at once. Watch individual deadlines, spend tug fuel on approaches, inspect manifests and storm lashings, authorize cargo work, and clear each departure in the correct order. Fog and storms alter findings. Late work accumulates delay, while every decision changes the shift's safety and throughput scores. Close a shift to receive a persistent graded report, then compare past performance in the Reports tab. The separate Operations tab adds cargo contracts, twelve ship routes, weather payouts, specialist hiring, facilities, and multi-shift progression. Features: - Five-stage vessel-control workflow - Concurrent deadlines and resource pressure - Weather-dependent inspection findings - Tug fuel, safety, delay, and throughput metrics - Persistent graded shift reports - Contracts, crew, and facility progression - Offline local save Harbor Shift is an offline single-player management game. There are no accounts, purchases, chat, user-generated content, or cloud saves.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Harbor Shift at none against Flatout ATC's 12. Harbor Shift also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). Flatout ATC's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Flatout ATC sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Harbor Shift asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Flatout ATC | Harbor Shift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (41 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 545 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Craig Kennedy | jeongeun lee |
In-app purchases
Flatout ATC
- Unlock Small Fields$0.99
- Mid Size Fields$0.99
- Unlock Military Complication$0.99
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- Unlock International Airports$0.99
- Unlock Regional Northeast Airspaces$0.99
- Unlock the US 'Big Dog'$0.99
- Unlock the Final Bosses$0.99
- The Watch — Season One$2.99
- Season 2: The Incident Desk$2.99
- Season 3: The Crossing$2.99
- Base Game Unlock$4.99
- Unlock Full Game$4.99
Harbor Shift
No in-app purchases









