Comparison

Celestial Assault vs Wing Fighter

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

Head to head
About

Celestial Assault

Blast through alien hordes in this retro-style space shooter with RPG elements. Level up your ship, unlock weapons and skills, and take on challenging missions and bosses. Save humanity in this engaging and replayable adventure.

Highlights
  • Retro shmup gameplay
  • RPG ship leveling
  • 80 missions
  • 60+ unique enemies
  • 8 boss fights
  • Special weapons and upgrades
  • Global online leaderboards
Features
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Celestial Assault Reloaded is a blend of retro style side scrolling space shooter and RPG. The alien scourge is back and it's up to you to save humanity! Blast your way through the alien hordes, level-up your spaceship, unlock powerful weapons and skills to take on overwhelming odds in the most challenging and engaging side scrolling space shooter around, absolutely free! As a complete re-imagination of the 2012 original, Celestial Assault: Reloaded delivers an engaging and unique challenge unlike any other space shooter. Features: - Awesome Shmup elements paying homage to great retro games like R-Type, Gradius and Life-force - RPG style ship leveling - 80 missions with 60+ unique enemies - 8 challenging boss fights - 3 additional difficulty levels for a more intense experience every time - 7 Powerful Special Weapons and tons of upgrade able stats to help you on your quest to save the world - Beautiful dynamic space scenes - Awesome soundtrack - Challenging and diverse game-play with extensive replay-ability - Purchasable shortcuts and game add-ins - global online leader board

About

Wing Fighter

Engage in thrilling aerial combat as an air force pilot in this free arcade shooter. Blast through waves of enemies and challenging bosses with a vast arsenal of equipment and powerful skills. Protect the skies and climb the leaderboards in this retro-inspired, modern combat flight action game.

Highlights
  • Shoot down enemy fighters and bosses
  • Enrich equipment arsenal with hundreds of items
  • Choose strong fighters with multiple attributes
  • Hundreds of combat buffs for varied strategies
  • Unlock battle scenes and levels
  • Improve fighter power and climb leaderboards
  • Mysterious talent system with Roguelike elements
Features
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Wing Fighter is an free classic arcade online shooting game, with epic 3D realistic scene, gorgeous and fascinating combat effects and variety of unique bosses and equipment. If you loved arcade shooting games as a kid, this retro, vintage game blend modern combat styles would be the perfect game for you! In every battle of Wing Fighter, You will become an air force pilot, controlling different fighters to fight evil enemies and bosses. It is your mission to defeat them and protect the safety and freedom of the skies! Enemies have invaded, the battle is on the verge of breaking out, come on and start this thrilling combat flight action game now! Features: - Shoot down enemy fighters, challenge powerful and diverse ultimate bosses. - Enrich equipment arsenal, hundreds kinds of equipment to choose. Turn your fighter into flying tank. - Clone skill, furious mode, damage bonus...Choose strong fighters with multiple additional attributes as you wish! - Hundreds of combat buffs, different buffs and attack strategies create different combat experiences. - Complete the mission and unlock battle scenes and levels. - Select multiple activity patterns from normal to nightmare. - Improve fighter power, fight your way to the top of the Leaderboard! - Complete daily missions to gain resources, lots of rewards are waiting for you. - Choose your favorite beautiful pilots and send them out on tasks. - Mysterious talent system that combines Roguelike elements to increase combat power permanently. - Challenge the limit and win big prizes in Endless voyage event. - Easy to operate, no tutorial required. Enjoy the classic thrilling combat flight action game--Wing Fighter. Don’t let the enemy conquer your freedom, shoot and be ready to attack right now! DOWNLOAD AND PLAY IT FOR FREE! Contact us: wszj6868@gmail.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WingFighterOfficial Join Discord to get support: https://discord.gg/2WaJZbqFAy

Screenshots

Celestial Assault3 screens
Wing Fighter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Celestial Assault at none against Wing Fighter's shown. Celestial Assault also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.0). Wing Fighter's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (76% vs 50%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Celestial Assault sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Wing Fighter sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wing Fighter holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wing Fighter has 15K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Celestial Assault's written reviews are positive against 76% of Wing Fighter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Celestial Assault ships an update every 6 weeks, Wing Fighter monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Celestial Assault versus Wing Fighter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCelestial AssaultWing Fighter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings)4.7 (15K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews75.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings315K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#61 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB940 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperLucid Vision GamesMINIGAME ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED

Customer experience

Celestial Assault

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Wing Fighter

All ratings15,023 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.3%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews2,070 reviews
Positive75.5%
Neutral6.8%
Negative17.7%

Bugs and requests

Celestial Assault

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Wing Fighter

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game crashes and freezes
  • Rewards not being properly awarded
  • Progression issues after updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • More diverse enemy and level designs
  • Ability to save progress across devices
  • Improved balancing and difficulty curve
  • More frequent content updates

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Celestial Assault

One-time10
  • 1 Skill Point$0.99
  • Reset Skill Points$0.99
  • Ad Free$0.99
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  • Score Multiplier Cap Increase$0.99
  • 1 Capacity Shard$0.99
  • The Devastator$0.99
  • Mission Pack$1.99
  • 5 Skill Points$2.99
  • 10 Skill Points$4.99
  • 25 Skill Points$9.99
10 purchases

Wing Fighter

One-time10
  • First Charge Gift$0.99
  • Piggy Bank I$0.99
  • Recruitment Daily Pack$4.99
Show 7 more
  • Advance Daily Pack$4.99
  • Piggy Bank II$4.99
  • Super Daily Pack$9.99
  • Piggy Bank III$9.99
  • Allied Squadrons$9.99
  • Piggy Bank IV$19.99
  • Battle Pass$19.99

Questions

Is Celestial Assault free?
Celestial Assault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wing Fighter free?
Wing Fighter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Celestial Assault or Wing Fighter?
Wing Fighter is rated higher. Celestial Assault averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Wing Fighter averages 4.7 from 15K ratings.
Do Celestial Assault or Wing Fighter have ads?
Wing Fighter shows ads; Celestial Assault does not.
Which is updated more often, Celestial Assault or Wing Fighter?
Celestial Assault ships an update every 6 weeks, and Wing Fighter monthly. Most recently, Celestial Assault was updated on November 6, 2026 and Wing Fighter on November 12, 2026.

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