Threadbreaker vs Stellaria
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Threadbreaker
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The Loom writes impossible patterns. You break them. Threadbreaker is a precision bullet-hell action roguelite built around a promise procedural games usually break: fresh challenges that stay readable, fair, and worth mastering. Play on iPhone Duo with an adaptive arena, controls, and menus. Changing displays pauses your run so you can adjust your grip and resume the same run. Every 42-room Revision chooses three shifting sectors from five before entering the Prime Line, drawing eight arena looks from a world of twelve. A deterministic Choreography Engine recombines curated attack phrases, enemy roles, arena shells, and guardian phases while preserving gold telegraphs, recovery beats, and real escape lanes. Every run changes. The rules do not. Read the warning. Find the opening. Step through danger. Graze enemy fire to charge Thread. Then Sever stitched bullets and cut your own path through the pattern. Choose one of twelve cosmic Breakers, each built around the same honest collision core. Combine four Frames and six Weapon Cores with thirty upgrade Knots. Discover named synergies. Push a build far enough to transform its Core into a run-defining capstone. Eight enemy archetypes move and attack differently. Six guardians change body, movement, and pattern language across three readable phases. An original reactive score rises with telegraphs, low Integrity, Sever readiness, and guardian transformations. And when the run ends, it becomes something you can study. Run History preserves the build, room scores, damage sources, grazes, biggest Sever, and cause of defeat. Loom Theater recreates the performance in Cinema mode or overlays honest, moment-by-moment Coaching—without changing the recorded result. ALSO INCLUDED • Daily Score with a shared deterministic seed • Guardian Archive rehearsals and Endless Margin • Earn-only Remnants for permanent gameplay breadth, cosmetics, and prestige • Optional one-time Ad-Free and Full Loom purchases; no subscription • Touch and extended-controller support • Story, Standard, Sharp, and Impossible difficulty • Wider lanes, extra Integrity, automatic Sever, reduced effects, high contrast, left-handed controls, and more • Offline-capable core play with graceful network-service fallbacks • A voiced live How to Play demonstration that teaches by showing Fresh should not mean arbitrary. Hard should not mean cheap. Learn the pattern. Find the thread. Break it.
Stellaria
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Build the stars hidden inside polyhedra, piece by piece: turn each piece with a tap and launch it into its slot before the sky fills up. Free with no time limit: four complete polyhedra. A single purchase unlocks the other 24 for good. Take a solid and extend its faces beyond its edges, and the stars it was hiding appear: its stellations. In Stellaria, you build them. TWO TAPS AND A SWIPE Each piece falls toward its slot, drawn as a ghost on the solid. Tap the right or left half of the screen to rotate it a quarter turn; when it lines up, swipe up and it shoots into place. A misaligned piece bounces and stays in the air while another one comes in; with eight in the air, the sky is full and the game is over. Every second you save earns points, and rescues and master pieces help when things get tight. No reading required: the guided first round, with no timer and no way to lose, teaches you the controls. 28 POLYHEDRA, 234 STELLATIONS Platonic, Archimedean and Catalan solids, prisms, antiprisms, bipyramids and trapezohedra. Nothing is modeled by hand: the game computes every solid on your device from its geometry. Seven cards explain what a polyhedron, a stellation and a cell are. THE 59 ICOSAHEDRA In 1938, Coxeter, Du Val, Flather and Petrie counted the fifty-nine stellations of the icosahedron, and Flather built them in cardboard, one by one. In Stellaria they are the final prize of the full game: earned by completing everything else, then assembled one by one. FROM YOUR SCREEN TO YOUR DESK Every stellation you complete is kept in the Gallery, where you can turn it, zoom in and export it as an STL file. With a 3D printer, the star you just built can end up on your desk. FREE TO START, PAY ONCE Free with no time limit: four polyhedra with their ten stellations, the guided first round, the Gallery and STL export. “The full game” unlocks the other 24 polyhedra with a single purchase. No subscriptions, no ads, no accounts, no data collection. Works offline. Game Center is optional: achievements and leaderboards if you want them; if not, your records stay on your device. Paper, ink and vermilion: the visual language borrows its vocabulary from El Lissitzky’s Prouns. The music and sounds are original, synthesized for this game. Made by one person in Spain.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Stellaria at none against Threadbreaker's shown. Stellaria also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Threadbreaker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Stellaria sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Threadbreaker ships an update monthly, Stellaria weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Threadbreaker | Stellaria |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rob Rightmyer | LUIS FERNANDO LENDRINO DiAZ |
In-app purchases
Threadbreaker
- Upgrade to Full Loom$2.99
- Ad-Free Threadbreaker$3.99
- Full Loom Unlock$6.99
Stellaria
- The full game$4.99
Questions
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