Space Bandits vs Extinction Eclipse Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Space Bandits
Engage in intense space combat, defending vital energy cells from relentless space bandits. Utilize power-ups to enhance your action and compete for top scores on Game Center leaderboards.
- Intense action gameplay
- Defend energy cells
- Collect power-ups
- Game Center Leaderboards
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The Space Bandits are coming for your energy cores. Take command of your ship, hold the line, and stop wave after wave of pirates from escaping with your cargo. Space Bandits is a fast-paced arcade defense game built around responsive twin-stick action. Move with the left control, aim and fire with the right, and adapt as new enemies, hazards, and challenges enter the battle. DEFEND YOUR CORES Enemy ships will attack, distract, and attempt to tow your energy cores away. Destroy the bandits before they escape, recover stolen cores, and keep your defenses intact. MASTER THE CAMPAIGN Battle through 24 handcrafted levels featuring increasingly dangerous combinations of pirates, attackers, bosses, hulks, missiles, mines, and fast-moving enemy ships. BUILD YOUR SCORE Destroy enemies, protect every core, and complete perfect defenses to increase your score multiplier. Collect combat power-ups, chase personal records, and compete through Game Center. PLAY YOUR WAY • Responsive twin-stick touch controls • Adjustable control size, opacity, and layout • Left-handed control option • Tap, aim, and automatic firing options • Compatible game-controller support • High Contrast and Reduced Effects settings • First-run tutorial and detailed in-game help • VoiceOver-friendly menus and accessible controls FREE TO START Levels 1–5 are free and fully replayable. A single, optional Full Game purchase permanently unlocks: • Campaign levels 6–24 • Daily Challenges • Full Game Center competition • Additional progression and rewards • Endless Mode after completing level 24 The Full Game is a one-time purchase. Space Bandits has no subscriptions, paid currency, random rewards, extra lives, or paid continues.
Extinction Eclipse Mobile
Command human forces in a desperate space battle against an alien invasion. Mine resources, build a powerful fleet, and defend your bases to save Earth from a mysterious grid.
- Resource mining and management
- Base building and defense
- Fleet customization and upgrades
- Story-driven campaigns
- Procedurally generated skirmish mode
- Strategic real-time combat
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Extinction Eclipse is an action real time strategy game set in space. You are the commander of the human forces in their effort to find the necessary resources to build a fleet of spaceships to defeat an alien invader. You start with only a couple of miner ships and a probe, and your mission is to find and conquer asteroid fields that can be mined, in order to extract their precious metals and water. You will build your fleet gradually, and before each mission, you can choose which ships to use. After you build your ships, any of them that manage to survive during the mission will become part of the available fleet. You will also accumulate unused metal and water to trade for upgrades and power ups in the shipyard. These upgrades will make you faster and stronger, increasing your chances of succeeding. But be careful, the aliens will not sit back and relax while you expand. They will attack your bases by surprise, so be prepared to defend them constantly! -Story- There is a point in space between the Sun and Earth, known as the Lagrange L1, that is gravitationally stable. Anything you place in there, will stay there. This is the spot our scientists observed when temperatures on Earth started to drop inexplicably after a reduced input of sunlight. What they found was disturbing. A grid of gigantic hexagon-shaped objects was being build on Lagrange L1 by an unknown alien intelligence. They were hostile to the space probes we sent to explore. Humanity has only one path: build a fleet of combat spaceships, destroy the grid, and the aliens building it! The game offers two game modes: The Story Mode is divided into campaigns with several missions each. Completing a campaign will unlock others so you can play in a non-linear way. You decide the path to victory. The Skirmish Mode allows you to configure the match: mission type, goal, initial fleet and upgrades, etc. The world will then be procedurally generated, offering a unique experience everytime! -Key Features- - Resource mining and management: Use miner ships to mine water and metal from asteroids. Miners will bring the resources to the closest Space Station or resource deposits. Use them to build your ships, bases and for upgrades. - Base Building: Expand your territory by building space stations, communication satellites, research centers and resource deposits. - Defend your base: strategically place defense towers around your bases and precious resources. They will activate automatically and attack enemies that get too close. - Resupply mission: if you are running low on ships and resources, you will have access to a procedurally generated mission with asteroids and just a few enemies. - Upgrades store: trade accumulated metals and water for upgrades for your fleet. Your ships can be faster, stronger and sturdier!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Space Bandits at 67% against Extinction Eclipse Mobile's 0%. Space Bandits also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Extinction Eclipse Mobile's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads and device support 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
Space Bandits is free to download; Extinction Eclipse Mobile costs $2.99 up front. Space Bandits sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Extinction Eclipse Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Extinction Eclipse Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Space Bandits's written reviews are positive against 0% of Extinction Eclipse Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Space Bandits | Extinction Eclipse Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 227 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Red Hawk Studios, LLC | TuanisApps SRL |
Customer experience
Space Bandits
Extinction Eclipse Mobile
In-app purchases
Space Bandits
- English US$3.99
Extinction Eclipse Mobile
No in-app purchases
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