Trance Invasion vs Synthwave Escape
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trance Invasion
Create captivating trance music with a variety of drum kits, melodies, and samples. This app offers an intuitive interface for producing hit songs and beats, even for beginners. Jam directly on your iOS device and enjoy powerful sound effects.
- Hottest trance drum kits, melodies, bass lines, and samples
- Intuitive sample block tapping for beat creation
- 12 Samplekits with 336 samples
- Pattern sequencer for recording and editing sessions
- Save and load beats
- Real-time tempo adjustment
- Metronome
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Make music with your iOS Device that will captivate your audience! Trance Invasion puts the hottest trance drum kits, melodies, bass lines and samples at your fingertips. Produce impressive results in no time even without any prior knowledge. Just by tapping the sample blocks you can develop your own hit songs/beats that will make your friends dance. Trance Invasion is a fun & creative sample machine. Play cool & hot drumbeats, cool kicks, cymbals, smashing power snares, phrases, melodies, stabs, chords, powerful synths and other sound effects. Create your own hit beats. Jam directly on your iOS device. Plug in your headphones and enjoy the sounds & music. Create epic, big-room trance sound guaranteed to heat up your audience. This is Trance music at its finest. 12 Samplekits (336 Samples) to choose from and an easy-to-use design makes this app real fun for everyone. Use the easy-to-use, but powerful pattern sequencer to record, edit and save your Sessions. 12 Sample-Kits Pattern-Sequencer Intuitive Step-Sequencer Record your Tracks Save/Load your Beats Adjust the tempo in realtime Metronome
Synthwave Escape
Embark on a retro rhythm puzzle platformer adventure with an 80s synthwave aesthetic. Guide a team of robots with unique physics to escape a neon bunker and defeat an antagonist. Solve challenges through 60 stages with an original soundtrack and a humorous storyline.
- 60 Retro Rhythm Puzzle Platformer Stages
- 8 All-New Synthwave Tracks
- 4 Escaping Robots with Super Duper Physics
- Robot Storyline
- Dad Jokes
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Synthwave Escape is a Retro Rhythm Puzzle Platformer game with an 80s inspired Synthwave Soundtrack & Aesthetic. Join Doc Grits' team of robots as they attempt to escape the Neon Bunker and defeat the heinously infamous Red Hawk. Use the Escape Bots' skills together to overcome challenges and make it safely to safety! Features • 60 Retro Rhythm Puzzle Platformer Stages • 8 All-New Synthwave Tracks • 4 Escaping Robots with Super Duper Physics • 1 Most Triumphant Robot Storyline • A Plethora of Dad Jokes Oh, you're still reading! Alright, I'll continue. Here's the situation: this dude Grits is locked away in a Neon Bunker by this other bogus dude named Red Hawk. Grits is forced to make deadly contraptions, but manages to build a robot team to help him escape. They almost make it, but then they get caught. Then they get away. Yada, yada - just play the game already! If you enjoy the game please consider leaving a review. And if you really, really enjoy it, tell a friend. Then next time you see that friend, the two of you can do a jumping high five. Thanks for playing! Your Friend, Nick Culbertson Moby Pixel http://www.mobypixel.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Synthwave Escape at 4.6 against Trance Invasion's 3.5. Synthwave Escape also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 58%) and ratings volume (219 vs 2). Trance Invasion's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). 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
Both are free to download. Trance Invasion sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Synthwave Escape sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Synthwave Escape holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Synthwave Escape has 219 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Trance Invasion's written reviews are positive against 83% of Synthwave Escape's.
Trance Invasion ships an update every 4 months, Synthwave Escape every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trance Invasion | Synthwave Escape |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (219 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 219 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Asylum Square Interactive GmbH | Moby Pixel |
Customer experience
Trance Invasion
Synthwave Escape
Bugs and requests
Trance Invasion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Synthwave Escape
Reported bugs
3 issues- Audio option doesn't work
- No invincibility stage after getting hit
- Game won't download
Requested features
5 requests- Longer game or sequel
- More levels
- New music
- PC version
- More cutscenes
In-app purchases
Trance Invasion
- Heaven's Gate$1.99
- Liberation$1.99
- Follow Your Dreams$1.99
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- Piano Symphony$1.99
- Age Of Love$1.99
- Rewind Time$1.99
- Moving Forward$1.99
- Festival$1.99
- Epic Moments$1.99
- Unlock All & Remove Ads$5.99
Synthwave Escape
- 20 Coins$0.99
- 50 Coins$1.99
- Unlimited Coins$4.99
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- Unlimited Coins Deal$4.99
Questions
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