Retro Games 9999 vs Eclipse Runner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Retro Games 9999
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Retro Games 9999 brings a collection of arcade inspired games to your iPhone. Jump into fast sessions, chase better scores, and enjoy simple controls designed for quick play anywhere. Play through classic style challenges including space battles, tank action, racing, and more. Each game is built for short rounds, clear goals, and replayable fun. Compete for higher scores, check the leaderboard, and return to your favorite games whenever you want a quick retro challenge. Retro Games 9999 also includes music and sound effects settings, so you can play with the style that feels right for you. Features include multiple retro games, simple touch controls, score tracking, leaderboards, music, sound effects, and a clean arcade experience for casual players and classic game fans. Download Retro Games 9999 and start playing today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Eclipse Runner
Navigate a world plunged into darkness as the last lamplighter. Master precision platforming, utilizing unique powers to overcome challenging levels and uncover hidden secrets. Collect memories and shards to piece together the past.
- Precision platforming gameplay
- Eight unique worlds with 120 levels
- Five unlockable powers (Dash, Shadow Step, Grappling Hook, Light Pulse, Time Echo)
- Collectible shards and memories
- No timers, lives, or energy refills
- Fair progression system
- iCloud save support
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The sun went out. Every lamplighter who went down to relight it is still down there. You are the last one, and the lantern you carry is the last of it. Eclipse Runner is a precision platformer about crossing a world the light left behind. Eight worlds, 120 levels, and only as much of each one as your lantern will show you. **RUN, AND KEEP RUNNING** Jump, dash, swim and climb through levels built to be learned rather than survived. Every world asks something the last one didn't: flooded halls, ice that gives way, a city of glass, machinery that never stops turning, and a sky with less and less left to stand on. Five powers to earn along the way, each one taught by the level that hands it to you: โข Dash โข Shadow Step โข Grappling Hook โข Light Pulse โข Time Echo Eight worlds, eight things waiting at the end of them. **THE DARK KEPT THINGS** Shards to find, and secrets hidden off the obvious path. 97 memories scattered across the eight worlds the record of everyone who came down here before you, read in the order you find it rather than the order it happened. Three stars on every level, for the time, the shards and the secrets. 360 in all, if you want them. **BUILT TO BE FAIR** โข No timers, no lives to wait for, no energy to refill โข If a level beats you twenty-five times, the game opens the next one anyway. You can come back to it. โข Progress saves on the device, and follows you between your own devices with iCloud save โข No account, nothing to sign up for, nothing to log in to **WHAT IT COSTS** Eclipse Runner is free, with an ad between levels. Eclipse Runner Pro removes those ads for good and starts you with 300 shards. The one ad it keeps is the one you choose the offer of a life when you have run out because taking that away would leave a payer with fewer ways out than a free player has. Shards can also be bought outright if you would rather not go looking. Landscape. Touch controls, left- or right-handed. One explorer. One lantern. Keep moving.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Eclipse Runner at none against Retro Games 9999's 1. Eclipse Runner also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Retro Games 9999's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and update cadence there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Retro Games 9999 sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Eclipse Runner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Retro Games 9999 ships an update daily, Eclipse Runner every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Retro Games 9999 | Eclipse Runner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | โ | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Daily โ better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Monetization | โ | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Cristian Velasco | Hiten Soni |
In-app purchases
Retro Games 9999
- Play full month3 Days trial$2.991 Month
Eclipse Runner
No in-app purchases
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