Celestial Assault vs Space
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Celestial Assault
Blast through alien hordes in this retro-style space shooter with RPG elements. Level up your spaceship, unlock powerful weapons, and take on challenging missions and boss fights to save humanity. Enjoy dynamic scenes and an awesome soundtrack in this engaging and replayable adventure.
- Retro side-scrolling space shooter gameplay
- RPG-style ship leveling and upgrades
- 80 missions with diverse enemies
- Challenging boss fights
- Unlockable special weapons and skills
- Global online leaderboards
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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
Space
Defend Earth in this retro arcade space shooter against relentless alien invaders. Pilot unique spacecraft, utilize various weapons, and collect power-ups to survive increasingly difficult waves and boss battles. Compete on global leaderboards for the highest score.
- Unique spacecraft with advantages/disadvantages
- Varied alien enemy types
- Multiple weapon types
- Challenging boss levels
- Shield, Weapon, and Health power-ups
- Global leaderboards
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Defend the Earth from hordes of alien attackers! Endless retro arcade space shooter. How long can you defend the Earth for? No Ads and no in-app purchases - just simple honest 100% free gaming! - Choose between various unique space craft - each with its advantages and disadvantages. - Various alien enemy types, which get gradually more difficult. - Switch between different weapon types. - Boss levels which get significantly harder each time. - Collect Shield, Weapon, and Health power-ups to help with the ever increasing might of the enemy. - Explosions. Explosions. Explosions! - Your shields and weapon battery recharges, but your health does not. - Global stats and leaderboards!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Space at none against Celestial Assault's 10. Space also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Celestial Assault's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 3) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Celestial Assault sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Space asks for nothing beyond the download.
Space holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Celestial Assault has 45 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Celestial Assault's written reviews are positive against 100% of Space's.
Celestial Assault ships an update every 6 weeks, Space every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Celestial Assault | Space |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 136 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lucid Vision Games | Scratchmark Ltd |
Customer experience
Celestial Assault
Space
In-app purchases
Celestial Assault
- 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$1.99
- 5 Skill Points$2.99
- Mission Pack$2.99
- 10 Skill Points$4.99
- 25 Skill Points$9.99
Space
No in-app purchases
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