Comparison

TapTapDrift vs Lunar Patrol

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

Head to head
About

TapTapDrift

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TapTapDrift is a fast-paced arcade drifting game built for smooth one-finger control. Swipe to steer, master every corner, and stay in control as the road pushes back. Story Mode Play through handcrafted levels and improve your drifting skills step by step. Endless Mode Drive as long as you can, beat your high score, and push your limits. Features โ€ข Simple one-touch controls โ€ข Fast restarts for quick gameplay โ€ข Smooth and responsive drifting โ€ข Story levels + endless replayability Easy to learn. Challenging to master.

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Lunar Patrol

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The moon's night side. One buggy, three wheels, and a horizon full of things that want you stopped. Craters break open in front of you, real impact craters with raised rims and terraced walls, deep enough to swallow the buggy whole. Tanks dig in and shell you from range. Striders come over the ridge on three legs, tall enough that a low shot passes clean underneath. Saucers strafe overhead. Trains of linked fliers snake across the sky in one long chain. And every so often the sky itself comes down: a meteor, burning all the way in, digging a fresh crater in the ground up ahead. Tilt the phone to drive: forward speeds you up, level holds whatever you have got, and tilting back brakes you to a stop and then backs you up. Jump sits under your left thumb, and there are two triggers under the right: a laser that fires flat ahead and a mortar that lobs straight up. They share one heat sink. Lean on either and the gun jams, and a jammed gun just coughs at you until it cools. Pick your shots. (Prefer keys? Turn tilt off and the pad grows a brake and a throttle.) BUNKER MISSIONS Every few levels the road ends at an enemy bunker behind a barrier that runs all the way up to the sky. You cannot jump it and you cannot shoot through it. Only a plasma bomb opens it, and the plasma bomb is somewhere behind you. Back up, get it, drive it in, and be well clear when it goes. GO BACK FOR IT The buggy does not only run forward. Stop dead, reverse, line up the jump again. Missed a fuel cell? It is still hanging there. LEARN IT IN FIVE SECONDS Two thumbs. The left one drives and jumps, the right one shoots. No tutorial, no menus between you and the game. READ IT AT A GLANCE Everything is drawn in the same near-black and lit only at the edges, and the edge colour tells you what a thing is. Red hunts you. Magenta is the elite hardware โ€” the striders and the chained fliers. Pale blue is terrain โ€” jump it. Green is the thing you came back for. Cyan is you. You will never wonder what a thing on screen is for. BUILT TO BE REPLAYED Levels get longer and meaner, and the sky changes colour as you cross into new regions. Checkpoints keep you honest without sending you back to the start. Game Center leaderboards and achievements if you want to know where you stand. PLAYS ANYWHERE No account, no ads, no internet needed. Works on iPhone and iPad, in landscape, with everything running on your device. FREE TO PLAY, HONESTLY Two minutes a day free, in full โ€” no locked levels, no energy meters. After that your buggy is stuck at double speed until tomorrow, which is playable but punishing. One in-app purchase removes the limit permanently. That's the only purchase in the app, and there are no subscriptions.

Screenshots

TapTapDrift4 screens
Lunar Patrol4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TapTapDrift at 15.0 against Lunar Patrol's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TapTapDrift ships an update every 5 days, Lunar Patrol weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
TapTapDrift versus Lunar Patrol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTapTapDriftLunar Patrol
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days โ€” betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size571 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArsalan wahabAnton Popov

In-app purchases

None

TapTapDrift

No in-app purchases

None

Lunar Patrol

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TapTapDrift free?
TapTapDrift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lunar Patrol free?
Lunar Patrol is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TapTapDrift or Lunar Patrol have ads?
Neither TapTapDrift nor Lunar Patrol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TapTapDrift or Lunar Patrol?
TapTapDrift ships an update every 5 days, and Lunar Patrol weekly. Most recently, TapTapDrift was updated on October 25, 2026 and Lunar Patrol on October 21, 2026.

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