Astrå vs Looped Interactive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Astrå
Embark on an adventure as Hemera, the goddess of daylight, to combat darkness and uncover the secrets of a unique universe. This orbital platformer features beautiful art, soothing music, and intuitive one-touch controls.
- Arcade action gameplay
- Unique art, music, and gameplay
- Simple one-touch controls
- Auto-runner platformer with space physics
- Explore, solve puzzles, and discover secrets
- Game Center integration
- iCloud support
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Astrå is the adventure of Hemera, the goddess of daylight. Help her fight darkness, and discover the wonders and secrets of the unique Astrå universe. In the media: "Astrå is one of those rare titles that proves just how rewarding the simple things in life can be. By taking the tried-and-tested platforming formula and reducing it down to its very core, Molina has managed to assemble one of the most unique, elegant, and bewitching mobile games I've ever had the good fortune of playing." - Chris Kerr (Stuff) "The graphics are beautiful and incredibly detailed, the music is soothing with whimsical sound effects, the controls feel natural and let you play it with one hand, and the gameplay is challenging." - Christine Chan (AppAdvice) - 4.5 / 5 "Really, Astra stands out among other orbital platformers for its unique art and great feel. But it is a trying game"..."that made the successes more rewarding, and it's long way to the top, that's for sure." - Carter Dotson (TouchArcade) - 4/5 Awards and recognition: • App Store Editors' Choice, Best of 2015 and Greatest Indie Games. • Indie Prize Nominee • Big Indie Pitch Nominee • Junceda illustration prize Features: • Arcade action. • Unique art, music and gameplay. • Designed for touch screen. Simple one touch controls. • Auto-runner platformer with space physics. • Go explore, solve small puzzles, and discover secrets. • Master the game in order to compete in the Game Center. • iCloud support • 32 levels to explore (more to come as free updates) Fabuloso team: Pablo Molina - Game design, programming, production, level design Laia Arqueros - Art concept and graphics design Juan Molina - Sound design, level design, QA
Looped Interactive
Engage with a wordless, interactive puzzle story about love, time travel, and a mysterious wormhole. Solve mini-puzzles to guide characters through a narrative inspired by an award-winning short film, enhanced by beautiful hand-drawn animation and an original soundtrack.
- Wordless interactive story
- Mini-puzzle gameplay
- Hand-drawn 2D animation
- Original soundtrack
- Hidden Easter eggs
- Based on award-winning short film
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Looped is a short interactive story in which you solve mini-puzzles to progress a peaceful story about love, rockets, and time travel. This is a story of a love-at-first-sight so powerful it creates a wormhole in time. From the end to the beginning and back again, you follow Him and Her and help them with tasks along their way. A black hole appears suddenly in a young woman’s living room. An unconscious man falls out. He opens his eyes and it’s love at first sight. Or is this the first sight? Features - A wordless story based on an award-winning short film - Illustrated with beautiful hand-drawn 2D frame-by-frame animation - Original soundtrack by United Sound - Find the hidden Easter eggs “Looped” is based on the award-winning short film of the same name, with the film based on the short story appearing in the book Ouvertyr och andra sagor för nästan vuxna written by Thomas Costa Freté in 2022.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Looped Interactive at every 10 days against Astrå's every 5 months. Looped Interactive also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (67% vs 58%). Astrå's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 3) and price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Astrå costs $0.99 and Looped Interactive $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Looped Interactive holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Astrå has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Astrå's written reviews are positive against 67% of Looped Interactive's.
Astrå ships an update every 5 months, Looped Interactive every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Astrå | Looped Interactive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (21 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.9% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 181 MB | 1.6 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pablo Molina Garcia | peter hamlin |
Customer experience
Astrå
Looped Interactive
In-app purchases
Astrå
No in-app purchases
Looped Interactive
No in-app purchases
Questions
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