Comparison

Zetan Invaders vs Pocket Arcade Retro Games

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

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About

Zetan Invaders

Features
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THE INVADERS ARE HERE. Relive the golden age of arcade gaming with Zetan Invader, a high-octane space shooter optimized perfectly for the Apple Watch. Experience the classic "shoot 'em up" gameplay with a premium modern feel and a stunning dot-matrix aesthetic. PRECISION CONTROLS Forget clunky touch controls. Zetan Invader uses the Digital Crown for ultra-responsive horizontal movement. Combined with high-frame-rate interpolation, your ship glides across the screen with surgical precision. Tap anywhere to unleash a barrage of green laser fire. STRATEGIC DEFENSE Use the environment to your advantage. Deploy behind destructible asteroid barriers to shield yourself from incoming enemy fire. Watch as the asteroids take realistic damage, chipping away until they vanishโ€”use them wisely, or youโ€™ll be left wide open! ELITE ENEMY AI Itโ€™s not just a shooting gallery. The alien grid moves with increasing speed as you clear their ranks. Watch out for the Bonus Spiral Aliensโ€”rare, high-value targets that move in unpredictable patterns. Sack them for 50 bonus points to climb the leaderboard! KEY FEATURES: Haptic Feedback: Feel every impact and explosion through the Apple Watch Taptic Engine. 3-Life System: Survive the onslaught with a tactical health system and visual damage indicators. Retro Aesthetic: A beautiful dot-matrix "Green Phosphor" UI that mimics classic 80s hardware. Visual FX: Spriteless particle explosions and smooth animations make every victory feel impactful. Pick-Up-And-Play: Zero load times. Launch from your watch face and start blasting in seconds. Can you survive the invasion? Ready your sensors. Rotate that crown. Save the Earth!

About

Pocket Arcade Retro Games

Experience a collection of 26 original retro arcade games on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing and shooters to puzzles and pinball, with intuitive controls and offline play. Unlock all games with a single purchase.

Highlights
  • 26 original arcade games
  • Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Controller support for iPhone/iPad
  • Offline play
  • Game Center leaderboards and achievements
  • Single purchase to unlock all games
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Pocket Arcade packs 26 original arcade games into one beautifully crafted app โ€” for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. No ads, no nonsense: pick a game and play in seconds. From a neon maze chase and a brick-breaker to a pseudo-3D arcade racer, a tube shooter, a snake game, a physics pinball with four tables, falling-block, sliding-number and match-3 puzzles, an asteroids-style drifter, a boss-battling sky shooter, table tennis and more โ€” every game is hand-built with its own controls, music, and high-score table. FEATURES โ€ข 26 original games across Arcade, Pinball, Shooters, Puzzle, Racing and Board โ€ข Big, clear on-screen touch controls tuned per game โ€” plus Apple Watch Digital Crown support โ€ข Play with a game controller on iPhone and iPad โ€” Xbox, PlayStation and MFi pads, 23 of the 26 games โ€ข Plays on iPhone, iPad AND Apple Watch โ€” your high scores sync across all three over iCloud โ€ข Game Center leaderboards and achievements โ€ข Filter games by category and star your favorites โ€ข High scores, attract demos, and a clear how-to-play guide for every game โ€ข The maze chaser evolves as you climb โ€” split mazes and rotating biomes over a deep-space sky โ€ข Original artwork and sound โ€” no third-party trackers, fully playable offline FREE TO PLAY Four games are free forever โ€” a maze chaser, tic-tac-toe, a brick-breaker, and a snake game. Unlock the full collection โ€” every current and future game โ€” with a single one-time purchase. No subscriptions, ever. THE GAMES Arcade โ€” a neon maze chase, a road-and-river crossing dash, a snake, a flag-grabbing maze rally, table tennis, and a maze-bombing blast-'em-up. Pinball โ€” a real-physics table with flippers, ramps and multiball across four distinct playfields. Shooters โ€” defend against a swarm, dodge a diving fleet, drift-and-blast through a rock field, ride a geometric tube, loop a dream world blasting bosses, and storm an isometric gauntlet of floor mazes and six towering bosses. Puzzle โ€” stack falling blocks, pop color-matched bubbles, break out a wall of bricks, chain match-3 gem cascades, catch and clear tumbling tiles, and merge tiles to 2048. Racing โ€” race an endless circuit, choose your route to the coast, carve an endless downhill, and run a fugitive off the road in a siren-blaring pursuit. Board โ€” tic-tac-toe, connect-four, and a full game of solitaire, vs the device or a friend. Designed for quick play on the go: grab your iPhone or iPad, or glance at your Apple Watch, and dive into a game in seconds.

Screenshots

Pocket Arcade Retro Games4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zetan Invaders at none against Pocket Arcade Retro Games's 1. Zetan Invaders also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Pocket Arcade Retro Games sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Zetan Invaders asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Zetan Invaders versus Pocket Arcade Retro Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZetan InvadersPocket Arcade Retro Games
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyโ€”Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
Monetizationโ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB188 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developerari lintzerisPascal Peltriaux

In-app purchases

None

Zetan Invaders

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pocket Arcade Retro Games

One-time1
  • Unlock All Games$3.99

Questions

Is Zetan Invaders free?
Zetan Invaders is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Arcade Retro Games free?
Pocket Arcade Retro Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Zetan Invaders or Pocket Arcade Retro Games have ads?
Neither Zetan Invaders nor Pocket Arcade Retro Games shows ads.

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