Comparison

Galactic Grudge vs Star Grazer

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

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About

Galactic Grudge

Engage in a fast-paced arcade space shooter with a campaign mode across six unique sectors and an endless mode for ultimate survival. Collect badges, unlock powerful weapons and power-ups, and compete on global leaderboards. Master overdrive mechanics for temporary invincibility.

Highlights
  • Campaign mode with 6 handcrafted sectors
  • Endless mode with global leaderboards
  • Badge and achievement system
  • Unlockable weapons and power-ups
  • Overdrive meter for temporary boosts
  • Simple drag-to-fly controls
Features
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Galactic Grudge is a fast, one-thumb arcade space shooter built for iOS 26. The bosses never forget: they keep score, taunt you by name, and the one that's beaten you most becomes your nemesis. ONE THUMB, ZERO MERCY Drag anywhere and your ship follows, firing while your finger is down. Lift it and time crawls, so you can pick your line. CAMPAIGN Six handcrafted sectors and 30 missions, each sector guarded by a colossal boss. Earn five medals on every level: Clear, Ace, Flawless, Sweep and the level's own Signature, on Easy, Medium and Hard. Lose, and the card shows exactly how close you came. And past the Warlord, something waits. BOSSES WITH A GRUDGE All six bosses are rebuilt from scratch. They watch you, laugh when you're hit and crack apart as the fight turns. Beat your nemesis and it comes back angrier. THE DAILY RUN AND THE WEEKLY GRUDGE Every day, one run that's the same for everyone, with a new twist: eight waves and a boss in about three minutes. Every week, one boss, one twist, one clock. Kill it faster than everyone else before Monday. ENDLESS No sectors, no checkpoints: an ever-escalating swarm, with a boss every ten waves. One more wave. Always. WEAPONS, POWER-UPS AND THE STASH Five guns, from Single Shot to Plasma Nova, and every W powers yours up. Grab shields, repairs, rapid fire, slow time, combat drones, extra lives and double score. Smart Bombs and the new Seeker Swarm wait in your stash: lift your finger, then tap one to let it go. OVERDRIVE Near misses charge your overdrive. Fill it for faster fire and double score, and chain kills to keep the combo alive. PILOT RANK AND THE HANGAR Every run earns XP, win or lose. Rank up for new engine glows and titles the bosses will use against you, and master sectors to unlock six hulls. GAME CENTER Leaderboards for campaign, endless, boss times, daily and weekly runs, and 56 achievements to chase with friends. Your progress follows you through iCloud.

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Star Grazer

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Rockets fall. You don't get hit. Star Grazer is a one-thumb arcade game about reading what's coming and slipping through it. Drag anywhere on the screen and your ship follows — left, right, and up and down inside a band near the bottom. Every hazard that gets past you is a point. Touch one and the run is over. THE HITBOX IS TINY, AND YOU CAN SEE IT Only the glowing core at the centre of your ship can be hit — a third of the ship's width. It's drawn on screen, so the line between a close call and a dead run is something you can actually judge instead of guess. GRAZING IS THE WHOLE GAME Passing close to a rocket without touching it is a graze, and a graze is worth more than surviving. Chain them and the multiplier climbs. Twelve grazes charge a blast that clears the screen. So the greedy play and the safe play are the same play, and a good run doesn't look like careful — it looks like threading. EIGHT WAVES, EACH ONE DIFFERENT LAUNCH, DEBRIS FIELD, CROSSFIRE, SWARM, DEEP SPACE, EVENT HORIZON, SINGULARITY, THE LONG DARK. Rockets fall straight. Rocks drift. Mines steer toward your column and make you commit. Every cluster is guaranteed to leave a way through — if you died, there was a gap you didn't take. FIVE POWER-UPS, ALL LABELLED SHIELD UP absorbs one hit. SLOW MOTION crawls the world while you still move at full speed. HOMING SHOTS gives you six shots that each pick their own rocket and chase it down. SCREEN CLEARED does what it says. DOUBLE POINTS doubles everything you score. Each one names itself when you grab it and shows its own timer, so you always know what you're holding and how long you have. A DAILY CHALLENGE One fixed layout per day, the same for everybody, resetting at midnight. Your score on it is a real comparison rather than a matter of what the generator happened to roll. BUILT TO BE PICKED UP Instant retry — no menus between runs. A Game Center leaderboard if you want one, and the whole game works if you don't. Plays offline on a plane. A REASON TO COME BACK A daily gift that grows with every day of your streak — keep it for seven days to win the NEBULA engine trail. Three new missions every day, and a level that climbs with every run and pays out grazes as it goes. A HANGAR TO FILL Eleven ships in six different shapes — from the sleek Needle to the Manta, the Saucer and the Twinfang — and twelve engine trails, from ion and plasma to inferno and crystal. Everything is earned by playing. FREE, AND FAIR ABOUT IT No account to create, and your progress follows you across your devices through iCloud. Star Grazer is supported by an occasional ad between runs, and by optional videos you choose to watch to continue a run or double your grazes. A one-time No Ads purchase removes the between-run ads. Nothing you can buy makes the game easier or touches the leaderboards.

Screenshots

Galactic Grudge4 screens
Star Grazer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Galactic Grudge at none against Star Grazer's shown. Galactic Grudge also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Star Grazer's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Galactic Grudge ships an update weekly, Star Grazer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Galactic Grudge versus Star Grazer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGalactic GrudgeStar Grazer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB5 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperCOREY GREGORY WALLDom Q Investments

In-app purchases

None

Galactic Grudge

No in-app purchases

None

Star Grazer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Galactic Grudge free?
Galactic Grudge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Star Grazer free?
Star Grazer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Galactic Grudge or Star Grazer have ads?
Star Grazer shows ads; Galactic Grudge does not.
Which is updated more often, Galactic Grudge or Star Grazer?
Galactic Grudge ships an update weekly, and Star Grazer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Galactic Grudge was updated on October 14, 2026 and Star Grazer on October 6, 2026.

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