BlackSun Net vs ColdWire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BlackSun Net
Engage in a simulated cyberpunk hacking experience where you build and upgrade your virtual rig. Breach targets, earn rewards while offline, and compete on global leaderboards without any real-world consequences.
- Simulated cyberpunk hacking gameplay
- Virtual rig component upgrades
- Idle rewards while offline
- Interactive network map with mission tiers
- Skill trees for character progression
- Global leaderboard competition
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BLACKSUN All the hacking. None of the felonies. Blacksun is a cyberpunk idle-hacker built on one pure fantasy: a virtual rig, a map full of hardened targets, and the quiet thrill of breaching every last one. It is 100% simulated. No real systems, no real networks, nothing out there gets touched. The only thing you are actually cracking is the global leaderboard. Every upgrade matters. Build your computer one component at a time (CPU, RAM, motherboard, NIC, firewall) and watch your stats compound. Equip skills across three trees. Put automated data farms to work while you sleep, then wake up richer. CORE GAMEPLAY • 10 mission tiers sprawled across an interactive network map • 5 distinct pre-mission mini-games • Module-based rig upgrades, 5 types and 5 tiers deep • 3 skill trees • Idle rewards that keep earning while the app is closed DAILY ENGAGEMENT • 7-day login streak • Daily contracts with clear, deterministic objectives • Weekly rotating bonuses COMPETITIVE • Global leaderboard PRIVACY-FIRST • No third-party analytics • No advertising SDKs • No location tracking • GDPR and CCPA compliant REQUIREMENTS • iOS 18.0 or later • iPhone and iPad Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ColdWire
Engage in a strategic cyber-heist experience on a hostile global grid. Scout targets, bypass security, and disconnect before being traced. Upgrade your operation, take on contracts, and compete with other players in asynchronous PvP raids.
- Terminal-noir cyber-heist strategy
- Global grid exploration and target scouting
- Layered security breaching mechanics
- Operation and tool upgrades
- Asynchronous PvP raids and defense building
- Crew system and season leaderboards
- Daily and live-ops content
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You are an operator on a global grid. Somebody pays you to get into a machine you have no business being inside, take the one thing they asked for, and leave nothing behind that says you were there. Every connection starts a countdown. ROUTE IN Bounce through relays scattered across the world map. More hops and harder relays buy you time. A direct connection is fast and puts your own address in their log. BREACH UNDER TRACE Crack the security stack layer by layer while the trace climbs toward you. Recon first and you learn what you are walking into: how many walls, how hard, and which two have a gap a bypass kit can slip through. Go in blind and you find out the expensive way. Deep systems want more than a password. Mint a one time code from their own token seed, or ride a session somebody else already authenticated. Plant a toolkit beside their seeds and that machine hands you a code every visit for five hours. TAKE IT AND GO Read the files. Copy the archive, drain the vault, rewrite the record, plant the payload. Then overwrite the access log, because the line it keeps has your address on it, and disconnect before the trace finds home. THE WORK Jobs come from sixteen clients who all want different things and say so in their own voice. A grade fixed before a scholarship review. A record scrubbed a week before an immigration interview. A charge filed against somebody who never earned it. A company whose real machine does not face the internet, reachable only through the gateway you have to read properly first. Or the one job where nobody breaks in at all: a client was hit last week and cannot tell you how. They hand you credentials. Read their access log, find the intruder among a dozen honest connections, name the service that should never have been exposed, and say which file went out of the door. WHAT YOU LEARN ON THE WAY Real services on real ports. A field manual that fills itself in as you meet each one, in plain language. Firewall rules, address ranges, jump hosts, second factors, why a log matters. By the third job you will know what 5432 is without anyone telling you. OTHER OPERATORS Build a subnet of walls, honeypots and tarpits, because other players raid your credits while you sleep. Scout them first, take thirty percent on a clean breach, and watch the replay. Join a crew and climb a season. Free to play. Server authoritative. No ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ColdWire at none against BlackSun Net's 10. ColdWire also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). BlackSun Net's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. BlackSun Net sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. ColdWire asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BlackSun Net against 5.0 for ColdWire. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
BlackSun Net ships an update monthly, ColdWire every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlackSun Net | ColdWire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | GravityFish, LLC | Olamide Olufade |
Customer experience
BlackSun Net
ColdWire
In-app purchases
BlackSun Net
- 100 Cache Pack$0.99
- 100 Data Pack$0.99
- 100 Chips Pack$0.99
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- 500 Data Pack$2.99
- 500 Cache Pack$2.99
- 500 Chips Pack$2.99
- 2500 Metal Pack$9.99
- 2500 Cache Pack$9.99
- 2500 Data Pack$9.99
- 2500 Chips Pack$9.99
ColdWire
No in-app purchases









