Comparison

Moon Lander Arcade vs Nova

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

Head to head
About

Moon Lander Arcade

Features
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One small lander. Ten worlds to explore. Thirty bosses to face. Moon Lander Arcade is a space action game for iPhone. Control your thrust, sprint, reverse and fire your laser to get past meteors, UFOs, enemies and obstacles. You have six lives: terrain collisions and enemy attacks can damage your craft. A UNIVERSE IN MOTION From the Moon and Mars to Saturn’s rings and the Sun, every environment has its own identity. Explore Neon Prime, a technological planet with glowing cities; a Dyson sphere surrounding a star; a black hole with a luminous accretion disk; Rose Aurora; Verdant; and Bubble Ocean, with waves, floating bubbles and leaping fish. Craters, clouds, passing ships and animated details bring the backgrounds to life. 30 BOSSES, INCREASING DIFFICULTY Face bosses with different attacks and patterns. Each successive boss raises the challenge: decide when to accelerate, reverse and use your laser. CONTROLS AND SETTINGS • Dedicated controls for thrust, sprint, reverse and laser. • Compact indicators for lives, distance and energy. • Separate switches for sound and haptic feedback. • A wheel picker for language selection, including English and Italian. • High score saved on your device. • Privacy and Terms accessible from Settings. • No ads and no account required. Gameplay works offline. FIRST BOSS FREE Play for free through the defeat of the first boss. To continue and face the remaining 29 bosses, a one-time in-app purchase unlocks the full game. No subscription. You can restore your purchase in the app; purchasing and restoring require a connection to the App Store. Fire up the engine and chart your course.

About

Nova

This is a one-finger arcade game focused on momentum and survival. Collect different types of motes to score points and increase your multiplier, while evading hunters that spawn and become more aggressive over time. The goal is to last as long as possible and achieve a high score.

Highlights
  • One-finger controls
  • Momentum-based gameplay
  • Mote collection for scoring
  • Multiplier system
  • Hunter evasion
  • High score chasing
Features
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Press. Drag. Survive. NOVA is a one-finger arcade game about momentum. Every move takes a beat to commit to. That beat is the whole game. Collect motes to score. Chain pickups fast enough and your multiplier climbs — miss the window and the combo resets. • Blue motes — steady points • Green motes — big points, but teleport you somewhere random on the map. Could save you. Could drop you right next to a hunter. • Gold motes — the biggest score, and a shockwave that clears nearby hunters. Getting to one is the hard part. Hunters spawn from the edges and home in on you. More of them, faster, the longer you survive. There's no winning — just how long you last, and whether you beat your best. No timers, no lives, no ads mid-run. Tap in, chase the score, go again.

Screenshots

Moon Lander Arcade4 screens
Nova4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nova at every 3 days against Moon Lander Arcade's every 3 months. Nova also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

Moon Lander Arcade ships an update every 3 months, Nova every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Moon Lander Arcade versus Nova: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoon Lander ArcadeNova
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB15 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperNORIS TALABANPriya Mane

In-app purchases

None

Moon Lander Arcade

No in-app purchases

None

Nova

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Moon Lander Arcade free?
Moon Lander Arcade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nova free?
Nova is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Moon Lander Arcade or Nova have ads?
Neither Moon Lander Arcade nor Nova shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Moon Lander Arcade or Nova?
Moon Lander Arcade ships an update every 3 months, and Nova every 3 days. Most recently, Moon Lander Arcade was updated on October 28, 2026 and Nova on October 25, 2026.

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