Element vs Uciana
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Element
Engage in a visually stunning space strategy game designed for busy players. Mine resources, build units, and battle enemies to escape a decaying solar system and reach new frontiers.
- Real-time strategy gameplay
- Space exploration and combat
- Resource mining and management
- Unit building and deployment
- Visually stunning graphics
- Accessible for short play sessions
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Element is a realtime strategy space game for people who don't have time to play realtime strategy space games. Home no longer provides a means to survive. A fight for resources to escape our system has begun. The future lies beyond… Element is a visually stunning realtime strategy space game with a focus on sharp, accessible gameplay. Element is for lovers of beautifully crafted, original looking games. It is for people who are into space and strategy games but don’t have hours of time to invest. It’s also for gamers who enjoy launching missiles and blowing things up :) You are escaping a decaying solar system. You must visit each planet, mine enough element, and defeat the enemy to progress to the outer planets and beyond. Generate energy, mine element, build attack and defense units, and destroy the enemy while maintaining a balance between earth, air and water. Element A Flightless Game by John O'Reilly & Greg Harding. © 2014-2018 Flightless Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Available for iPhone, iPad, and MacOS. http://elementgame.com http://www.flightless.co.nz http://twitter.com/flightlessnz element@flightless.co.nz
Uciana
Build a space-faring empire in this 4X strategy game. Explore procedurally generated galaxies, manage resources, and engage in turn-based ship combat with customizable fleets. Expand your empire or focus on defense.
- 4X turn-based strategy
- Space empire building
- Procedurally generated galaxies
- Resource management
- Turn-based ship combat
- Ship customization
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Build your own space faring empire in this true 4X mobile game. Discover new technologies, other alien races, derelict ships and much more as you spread your Empire to the Stars. The galaxy maps and star systems are procedurally generated, so with every game there will be something new to discover. You'll have to decide how to manage your Empire's resources between research, farming, and production, depending on your situation in the galaxy. Do you focus on building up your current systems with more buildings, star ports, or defenses? Or do you continue expanding, building instead of Fleet of ships to defend your growing Empire? Uciana features detailed turn-based ship-to-ship combat. In which you can customize the load out of each of your ships, with different weapons, defenses and other components. You'll have to use good strategies and planning to best your opponents in combat. This game has been a dream of ours for many years. We will continue to improve the game play with adding content, balancing, improving the AI, and much more in the months to come.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Uciana at every 10 days against Element's every 10 months. Uciana also leads on chart position (#155 vs unranked) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). Element's advantage is ratings volume (474 vs 42). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Element costs $1.99 and Uciana $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Element against 4.7 for Uciana. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Element has 474 ratings behind it against 42, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Element's written reviews are positive against 78% of Uciana's.
Element ships an update every 10 months, Uciana every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Element | Uciana |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (474 ratings) | 4.7 (42 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.4% of reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 474 — better | 42 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #155 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Flightless | Birdshel, LLC |
Customer experience
Element
Uciana
Bugs and requests
Element
Reported bugs
5 issues- Progress tracking doesn't register completed mines
- Game crashes frequently on iPad Pro M1
- Purchase transaction issues and money deduction without delivery
- UI text too small on iPhone XR and newer models
- Tutorial doesn't adequately explain mechanics
Requested features
12 requests- Multiplayer/PvP mode
- More levels and planets
- Random world generator or sandbox mode
- Local co-op gameplay
- Skirmish/custom difficulty modes
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- Infinite/survival mode
- Alien races or unique planet variants
- Sequel or prequel
- Bonus missions for capturing all mines
- Special upgrades for captured planet ores
- Larger UI text scaling for iPhone
- Post-game content or endless mode
Uciana
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Element
No in-app purchases
Uciana
No in-app purchases
