Kirian vs Shark Sail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Kirian
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Fly a lone gunship through an endless corridor of hostiles, one sixty-second sector at a time. Kirian is a vertical arcade shooter built on a roguelike loop. Losing your vessel does not end the run โ you keep every weapon, every credit, every point you have earned, and drop back to Sector 1 to push deeper than last time. Progress is permanent. Only your hull resets. ELEMENTAL DESTRUCTION Enemies die by the weapon that killed them. Bubble guns burst them into water. Cannons shatter them into ice that falls heavy and cold. Star guns leave them burning with rising flame and drifting embers. Lasers discharge in a flicker of lightning. Blasters implode them into a magenta plasma nova. Each kill reads at a glance. BUILD YOUR GUNSHIP Between sectors, the Com Center is yours: front guns, side guns, generators, hull and shields, all upgradable across twenty-five levels. Power is finite โ a heavier gun drains a generator that cannot keep up, so every loadout is a trade. Score never resets, and crossing its thresholds permanently unlocks the higher weapon tiers. HAND-BUILT WAVES, THEN FOREVER Eighteen hand-authored sectors span six zones, each a tight sixty-second script with its own formations and rhythm. Past them the generator takes over and never stops, difficulty climbing without a ceiling, bosses waiting at every fifth level. TWO PLAYERS, ONE ROOM Co-op runs over local Wi-Fi with automatic discovery โ no accounts, no servers, no internet. One device hosts, the other joins, and you fly the same sector together. FOURTEEN LOOKS Every skin restyles the whole game: ships, enemies, backgrounds, interface, sound. Three ship free with the app. The other eleven are one-time purchases, each permanent, with no ads, no subscriptions and no consumables anywhere in the game. BUILT TO FEEL RIGHT GPU shaders drive bloom, scanlines, vignette and chromatic aberration. Enemies shatter into physics-driven fragments cut from their own sprites. Play by touch, keyboard, or a connected controller. Two Game Center leaderboards rank you by total score and by the deepest level you have ever reached, alongside achievements for kills, sectors and untouched runs. Missing your favourite game skin from childhood? Contact us!
Shark Sail
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The sea is churning and the sharks are hungry. Grab the tiller, pick your vessel, and outsail the swarm across 20 escalating levels. Every run is a sprint for a higher score โ and a higher place in the Hall of Captains. CHOOSE YOUR VESSEL Each ride handles differently, and tougher hulls take less damage: Boat โ light, nimble, takes a full bite. The honest way to sail. Ship โ a braced hull shrugs off some hits. Pirate Ship โ reinforced timbers take even less damage. Warship โ armor plating laughs at ordinary sharks... but it stirs up METALLIC sharks and deep-biting GOLDEN sharks. Hard, but exciting. Royal Pirate Boat โ the gilded champion's vessel, unlocked when you reach the top of the leaderboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shark Sail at none against Kirian's 10. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Kirian sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Shark Sail asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Kirian | Shark Sail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 15.1 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olin Vorechovsky | Revanth Tambisetty |
In-app purchases
Kirian
- 16-Bit Laser Skin$0.99
- Retro PC Pixel Skin$0.99
- Dual-Polarity Skin$0.99
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- Chrome Fleet Skin$0.99
- Sepia Dogfight Skin$0.99
- Wasteland Pixel Skin$0.99
- Neon Voxel Skin$0.99
- Neon Tube Skin$0.99
- Pocket Mono Skin$0.99
- Flat Polygon Skin$0.99
Shark Sail
No in-app purchases
Questions
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