Comparison

Event Horizon Rider vs Padfall

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Event Horizon Rider

A minimalist arcade game testing your reflexes as you navigate a ship through collapsing rings around a black hole. Master one-touch controls to survive increasingly challenging levels and an endless gauntlet. Experience hypnotic visuals and a pulsing soundtrack.

Highlights
  • One-touch controls
  • Five hand-crafted levels
  • Endless gauntlet mode
  • Hypnotic visuals
  • Pulsing soundtrack
  • High score chasing
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Ride the edge of a black hole. Event Horizon Rider is a fast, minimalist arcade game of pure reflex. Circle the event horizon and thread your ship through the gaps in collapsing rings of debris as they hurtle inward. One slip and you're gone. Simple to learn, brutally hard to master — steer around the black hole, find the gap, and survive just one more ring. • One-touch controls — pick up and play in seconds • Five hand-crafted levels, ending in an endless gauntlet • Hypnotic black-hole visuals and a pulsing soundtrack • Chase your best time and push your reflexes to the limit • No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Just the game. How long can you ride the horizon?

About

Padfall

Guide a reusable rocket to a soft, upright landing on various celestial bodies. Master steering and thrust control to achieve perfect touchdowns across diverse mission challenges.

Highlights
  • Precision rocket landing
  • Campaign missions on Earth, Moon, Mars
  • Moving recovery decks and crosswind
  • Thrust and attitude control
  • Touchdown grading system
  • Daily landing challenges
  • Optional leaderboards
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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 • Daily Drop: one landing challenge a day, the same for everyone, with unlimited retries • Optional Game Center leaderboards for the Daily Drop and your banked Cadence score • Flight cards for your best landings, with a share button • Progress and settings are saved on your device • Supported by ads; optional paint schemes for the booster as in-app purchases (including a free, limited-time Halloween paint); no account of its own

Screenshots

Event Horizon Rider4 screens
Padfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Event Horizon Rider at none against Padfall's 10. Padfall's advantage is device support. On price, rating, ratings volume and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Padfall sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Event Horizon Rider asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Event Horizon Rider against 5.0 for Padfall. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Event Horizon Rider versus Padfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvent Horizon RiderPadfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 days
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScott LerchBRADLY MICHEAL PLUMMER-RIX

Customer experience

Event Horizon Rider

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Padfall

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Event Horizon Rider

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Padfall

One-time10
  • Japan Paint$1.99
  • Israel Paint$1.99
  • Iran Paint$1.99
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  • 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
  • Country Paint Collection$9.99

Questions

Is Event Horizon Rider free?
Event Horizon Rider is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Padfall free?
Padfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Event Horizon Rider or Padfall?
Event Horizon Rider and Padfall are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.

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