Padfall vs Catchyard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Padfall
Guide a reusable rocket booster to a soft, upright landing on various celestial bodies and challenging environments. Master steering and thrust control to achieve perfect touchdowns and earn high scores. Progress through campaign missions and test your skills in a unique chain-of-drops challenge.
- Precision rocket landing gameplay
- Steering and thrust control
- Eight campaign missions
- Moving recovery decks and adverse conditions
- Scoring system for touchdowns
- Cadence challenge mode
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Padfall is a precision rocket landing game. Guide a reusable booster to a soft, upright touchdown with careful steering and thrust. Steer with the left pad and set thrust with the right. The altitude tape shows a burn bracket: the last altitude where a full vertical burn still stops you at the deck. Light the engine there, manage your sideways drift, and touch down soft, upright and on the pad. • Twenty campaign missions on Earth, the Moon and Mars, unlocked one landing at a time • Moving recovery decks at sea, night recoveries, crosswind and thin Martian air • Thrust and attitude control • Grades for every touchdown: Nominal or Perfect, with a score for softness, centring, attitude and fuel left • Cadence: a chain of drops that climbs higher each time, with a growing score multiplier • Progress and settings are saved on your device • Supported by ads; optional paint schemes for the booster as in-app purchases; no account
Catchyard
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A rocket is coming down. Your tower has two arms. Don't miss. Catchyard is a space rocket game about the most nerve-racking part of spaceflight: bringing the booster home. Take over a falling rocket, fire its two engines, line it up with the tower and let the catch arms grab it – gently, or it all goes up in flames. ROCKET CATCHING • Two-engine controls: left engine pushes right, right engine pushes left, both together lift you up • Watch your speed and tilt – too fast and the arms won't hold • Grab fuel from drones and tankers along the way SEVEN WORLDS, ONE RIVAL • Start in the rusty harbour of Rustcove, then climb Shroomrock, cross Mistsea, dive into Icetooth and go further • Every world has its own hazards: thermals, fog banks, rogue waves, lightning, low gravity, sandstorms, laser gates • Orbitron wants every tower in the system. Beat it to the contracts and finish at its own station • Hundreds of levels – and when a world's story ends, it keeps going BUILD THE SHIPYARD • Take contracts from the board and get paid for every clean catch • Upgrade your tower, drones and crew • Bid at the tower auction to open new worlds MAKE IT YOURS • Rocket skins, exhaust trails and catch celebrations • Three stars on every level Short levels, simple controls, real physics. Play offline – your progress is backed up when you're online.
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Verdict
Padfall and Catchyard are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Padfall sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Catchyard sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Padfall | Catchyard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BRADLY MICHEAL PLUMMER-RIX | ZIPPEX Yazılım |
In-app purchases
Padfall
- India Paint$1.99
- Japan Paint$1.99
- Israel Paint$1.99
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- Iran Paint$1.99
- North Korea Paint$1.99
- South Korea Paint$1.99
- Ukraine Paint$1.99
- United Kingdom Paint$1.99
- France Paint$1.99
- New Zealand Paint$1.99
Catchyard
- Retro Space$1.99
- Balloon Festival$1.99
- No Ads$2.99
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- Mistsea$2.99
- Founder Pack$4.99





