Vanta Wing vs Eagle Cross
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Vanta Wing
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Vanta Wing is a fast neon arcade space shooter built for quick score runs. Drag to dodge, fire automatically, collect power-ups, survive enemy waves, and crack giant orbital bosses in a retro-styled combat lane. Every sortie starts immediately. Learn the bullet patterns, ride the multiplier, protect your shields, and push one more run for a better score. The full game keeps your pilot callsign, best score, sortie history, reduced-motion preference, and a larger hangar of generated retro-future art. Vanta Wing is free to play with fair sponsor breaks only at natural run transitions. There are no ads during active gameplay, no ads in the App Clip sampler, and no paid random loot. The optional Remove Ads Forever purchase removes sponsor breaks from the full game. Gameplay, scoring, and continues stay fair for everyone. Works with iPhone Duo. The mission, combat display and App Clip adapt to the available screen, keeping the playfield and controls together.
Eagle Cross
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Hard, but never unfair. An old-school vertical shoot-em-up: your ship goes up, everything else comes down, and your finger never leaves the glass. Drag to move โ the ship fires by itself, there is no fire button. The whole game is dodging and positioning. TEN WORLDS, TEN BOSSES Asteroid field. Ship graveyard. Cyber city. Sea of dunes. Enemy station. Orbital shipyard. Dry dock. Assembly line. Turbine hall. And the heart of the fortress. Every stage brings a new setting, new enemies and new music, and ends with something too big to fit on screen. FIVE WEAPON LEVELS Your gun powers up when you clear a whole formation. And it drops when you get hit: every death costs firepower, not just a life. If you suddenly can't kill anything, check your weapon level before blaming the stage. DYING DOESN'T SEND YOU BACK TO THE START Three lives per run, but stages unlock as you reach them. Fall on stage eight and the next run starts on stage eight โ with the firepower that stage expects, not stage one's. WHAT'S WAITING FOR YOU Cannon fodder that comes down in formation and never shoots: it's there so your gun can level up. Gunners that aim where you are, not where they're facing. Tanks that soak up damage and fire slow, fat shells. Kamikazes that don't shoot: they just come straight at you. Turrets that spin on the spot throwing blades. And in every stage, something you cannot destroy: asteroids, scrap, dock plating. You don't shoot those. You dodge them. YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR HAND Every hit, every explosion and every death has its own haptic. With the phone on silent, the game still tells you what's happening. NINETIES SOUND Dirty guitar over a running beat, the way shoot-em-ups sounded back then. And if you already had music playing, the game won't cut it off. NOTHING ELSE No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts, no sign-up. No internet connection. It collects no data: your high score and unlocked stages live on your iPhone only, and they go with the app if you delete it. In Spanish and English.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Eagle Cross at none against Vanta Wing's 1. Eagle Cross also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Vanta Wing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Eagle Cross asks for nothing beyond the download.
Vanta Wing ships an update every 2 months, Eagle Cross every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vanta Wing | Eagle Cross |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Rob Rightmyer | ROBERTO BLANCO GOMEZ |
In-app purchases
Vanta Wing
- Remove Ads Forever$2.99
Eagle Cross
No in-app purchases
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