SimpleSticks vs ASCII Gunship
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleSticks
A fast-paced stickman platformer with one-touch controls. Navigate an endless world of floating platforms and obstacles, with two game modes offering progressive challenges and unique environments. Collect coins and power-ups to achieve high scores.
- One-touch jump controls
- Endless procedurally generated levels
- Two distinct game modes
- Five unique visual zones
- Offline play supported
- High score tracking
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SimpleSticks is a fast-paced stickman platformer that's easy to pick up but impossible to put down. Tap to jump and guide your stick figure through an endless world of floating platforms, treacherous obstacles, and exciting power-ups. START SIMPLE, GO FAR Run automatically through beautifully crafted environments. Time your jumps to land on platforms, collect coins for bonus points, and see how far you can push your high score. TWO GAME MODES - Simple Mode: Pure running and jumping — test your reflexes in a clean, distraction-free experience. - Classic Mode: 60+ progressive features unlock as you play — coins, double jumps, moving platforms, enemies, shields, conveyor belts, spikes, and much more. FIVE UNIQUE ZONES Journey through five distinct environments, each with its own look and feel: - Plains — Where every run begins - Frost — Icy blue landscapes - Desert — Warm sandy terrain - Twilight — Mysterious purple haze - Forest — Lush green canopy PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGE Classic Mode rewards your skill with new gameplay mechanics that unlock as your score climbs. What starts as a simple run transforms into a thrilling obstacle course with enemies, fireballs, wind gusts, crumbling platforms, and boss encounters. FEATURES - One-touch controls — just tap to jump - Minimalist stickman art style - Procedurally generated levels — every run is unique - Offline play — no internet required - Lightweight and fast — under 1 MB - Track your high scores across both modes How far can your stickman go?
ASCII Gunship
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Your gunship is made of characters. So is everything trying to kill it. ASCII GUNSHIP is an arcade vertical shoot-em-up rendered entirely as a live terminal character grid. Every ship, bullet, boss and explosion is a glyph in a bright ANSI palette, with optional CRT scanlines. Drag to fly. Your cannons never stop. Tap the bomb when the screen fills with fire. BUILD A DIFFERENT GUNSHIP EVERY RUN Clear a wave, then pick 1 of 3 upgrade cards: fire rate, orbiting drones, chain lightning levels, tail guns. 18 cards and 8 weapons, from VULCAN and LASER to TESLA ARC and PLASMA SNAKE. BOSSES WORTH FIGHTING Every fifth wave a multi-part ASCII boss fills the top of the terminal. Shoot off its turrets, survive three escalating gun phases, and salvage the credits. A CAMPAIGN, THEN MORE Fight through 5 sectors with their own procedural backdrops and enemy rosters, then loop them at MK-2 ferocity and beyond. Keep your chain multiplier alive up to x9. THE HANGAR Spend salvage on 8 gunships, each with its own passive and starting weapon, from the reliable RAPTOR to the drone-carrying PALADIN. FEATURES - Everything is text: real-time character-grid renderer, zero sprite art - 8 weapons, 18 upgrade cards - 5 multi-part bosses with destructible parts and 3-phase patterns - 8 buyable glyph gunships with real passives - 5 sectors + endless MK tiers, chain multiplier up to x9 - CADET / VETERAN / ACE difficulty, CRT scanline toggle - Offline, private, no accounts, no tracking - No ads, no paywalls. Every ship earnable in-game (optional tip jar) From Anguished Studio. Fly. Fire. Pick a card. Beat your best.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SimpleSticks at none against ASCII Gunship's 3. SimpleSticks also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). ASCII Gunship'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. ASCII Gunship sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. SimpleSticks asks for nothing beyond the download.
SimpleSticks ships an update every 3 days, ASCII Gunship every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | SimpleSticks | ASCII Gunship |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fantasyscape Inc | Anguished LLC |
In-app purchases
SimpleSticks
No in-app purchases
ASCII Gunship
- Small Tip$0.99
- Unlock All Ships$4.99
- Big Tip$4.99









