Minimal Man vs Space Buster X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minimal Man
Explore a dangerous world, mine for gold and jewels, and acquire powerful weapons. Your mission is to rescue royalty from peril. Engage in daily online tournaments for exciting challenges.
- Gold and jewelry mining
- Weapon shop
- Princess and prince rescue
- Level generation
- RPG system
- Online daily tournaments
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Minimal Man In this game, u'll have to mine gold and jewelry! Get best weapons in the shop and save princess and prince from wild dangerous world! Features: -Level generation -RPG system -Secret weapons -Secret items -Secret characters -Online daily tournament
Space Buster X
Engage in a classic brick-breaking experience with daily challenges and a vast collection of pixel art levels. Rediscover retro arcade fun with unique gameplay, original sound effects, and a competitive online leaderboard.
- Daily new challenges
- 492 pixel art levels
- Online leaderboard
- Retro arcade atmosphere
- Original sound effects
- Power-ups and bonuses
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Play 3 new challenges of 3 levels in different worlds every day and fight to rise on the online leaderboard! The game contains 492 gorgeous pixel art levels, awesome music and sound effects! You thought you knew everything about Brick Breakers? Guess you don’t! With Space Buster X, Farting Ponies will really surprise you. Endowed with an irreproachable gameplay and a cleverly balanced level of difficulty, Space Buster X is still THE mobile bricks breaking game reference! Discover a visual world and original-retro sound effects, full of options and bonuses which will help you to get through the hardest levels. This game is different because of its creativity and the fun of rediscovering those retro arcade games. Relive the genuine atmosphere and charisma of the 1980s arcade games and everything that made them such great classics. Space Buster X will make you lose all track of time...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Space Buster X at none against Minimal Man's 4. Space Buster X also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 31 months). Minimal Man's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 53%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Minimal Man sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Space Buster X asks for nothing beyond the download.
Space Buster X holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 25 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Minimal Man's written reviews are positive against 53% of Space Buster X's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Minimal Man ships an update every 31 months, Space Buster X every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minimal Man | Space Buster X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (32 ratings) | 4.5 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.7% of reviews — better | 53.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Every 9 days — better |
| 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 | 10.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxim Kurilenko | Sylvain Nowe |
Customer experience
Minimal Man
Space Buster X
In-app purchases
Minimal Man
- Chip$0.99
- No ADs (Premium)$1.99
- Winter World$7.99
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- Cid$12.99
Space Buster X
No in-app purchases
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