NeonVortex vs Brass Reckoning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NeonVortex
Experience a psychedelic arcade survival game with fast-paced action and high score challenges. Rotate the vortex to aim enemies, collect power-ups, and survive increasingly chaotic waves. Enjoy a unique visual and audio experience with a tracker soundtrack.
- Rotation-based arcade survival gameplay
- Psychedelic vector visuals
- Shape-shifting playfields
- Power-ups and bonus rounds
- Tracker soundtrack playback
- Game Center leaderboards and achievements
- Controller-friendly
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Enter Neon Vortex, a psychedelic vector arcade survival game built for quick runs, high scores, and screen-filling chaos. Rotate the vortex to line enemies into your firing lane. Chain perfect shots, collect power-ups, survive bonus rounds, and push deeper as the geometry shifts around you. Every run ramps into faster waves, heavier projectiles, brighter explosions, and bigger score opportunities. Features: • Fast arcade survival built around rotation, timing, and positioning • Psychedelic vector visuals with shape-shifting playfields • MOD/XM/S3M tracker soundtrack playback • Audio-reactive music visualizer mode • Power-ups including slow-mo, rapid fire, nukes, shields, and twin sweeps • Game Center leaderboards and achievements • iPhone and Apple TV support • Controller-friendly gameplay
Brass Reckoning
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Brass Reckoning is a premium steampunk twin-stick shooter built for fast runs, explosive weapons, and pure mechanical mayhem. Blast through industrial zones packed with rust-bots, cogwork sentries, boiler hounds, snipers, bruisers, and worse. Collect cogs, unearth deadlier weapons, outlast escalating waves, and push toward a final showdown with Baron Vulcanus von Kessel. Every run is a fight for momentum. Swap weapons on the fly, watch your health, dodge what you can't outgun, and clear each zone before the factory overwhelms you. Features: - Fast, twitchy twin-stick combat - Steampunk enemies, bosses, and industrial ruin - Multiple weapons, each with a distinct fire style - A boss finale against Baron Vulcanus von Kessel - Cogs, loot, upgrades, and run stats - Overpressure mode — unlocked after your first victory - No ads. No accounts. No tracking. Buy once. Play offline. Survive the reckoning.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NeonVortex at Free against Brass Reckoning's $3.99. NeonVortex also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.5). Brass Reckoning's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, ads 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
NeonVortex is free to download; Brass Reckoning costs $3.99 up front. NeonVortex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Brass Reckoning asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for NeonVortex against 5.0 for Brass Reckoning. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NeonVortex has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | NeonVortex | Brass Reckoning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jeff Curtis | Frankie Ross |
In-app purchases
NeonVortex
- Full Game Unlock$0.99
Brass Reckoning
No in-app purchases









