Comparison

Commander Doogie vs Star Grazer

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

Head to head
About

Commander Doogie

Engage in classic arcade space combat, defending against waves of enemies and challenging bosses. Master single-finger controls to enhance your shooting skills and collect power-ups for superior damage. Advance through levels, improve your ranking, and customize your playstyle with a talent system.

Highlights
  • Classic arcade space combat
  • Waves of enemies and bosses
  • Power-up collection
  • Single-finger controls
  • Talent system for customization
  • Ranking system
Features
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Commander Doogie is a fast, one-finger arcade space shooter starring a very good dog with a very large laser budget. Dodge enemy fire, shred alien swarms, and battle six evolving mini-bosses as the action gets faster, stranger, and much more explosive. BUILD YOUR LOADOUT Swipe through three talent rows and choose the weapons, defenses, and experimental systems that fit your play style. UNLEASH THE POWER-UPS Call in independent Wingmen, launch homing rockets, chain lightning between targets, rain down bombardment fire, deploy Void Mines, bend time, and turn your ship into an orbiting blade saw. CLIMB THE RANKS Earn increasingly ridiculous pilot ranks, chase your personal best, and compete on the all-time Game Center leaderboard. COMPLETE THE MISSION Unlock 24 Game Center achievements, discover new enemy behaviors, and survive long enough to meet every mini-boss. Built for quick runs and easy one-finger control. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just one dog, one ship, and an unreasonable number of explosions.

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Star Grazer

Features
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Rockets fall. You don't get hit. Star Grazer is a one-thumb arcade game about reading what's coming and slipping through it. Drag anywhere on the screen and your ship follows — left, right, and up and down inside a band near the bottom. Every hazard that gets past you is a point. Touch one and the run is over. THE HITBOX IS TINY, AND YOU CAN SEE IT Only the glowing core at the centre of your ship can be hit — a third of the ship's width. It's drawn on screen, so the line between a close call and a dead run is something you can actually judge instead of guess. GRAZING IS THE WHOLE GAME Passing close to a rocket without touching it is a graze, and a graze is worth more than surviving. Chain them and the multiplier climbs. Twelve grazes charge a blast that clears the screen. So the greedy play and the safe play are the same play, and a good run doesn't look like careful — it looks like threading. EIGHT WAVES, EACH ONE DIFFERENT LAUNCH, DEBRIS FIELD, CROSSFIRE, SWARM, DEEP SPACE, EVENT HORIZON, SINGULARITY, THE LONG DARK. Rockets fall straight. Rocks drift. Mines steer toward your column and make you commit. Every cluster is guaranteed to leave a way through — if you died, there was a gap you didn't take. FIVE POWER-UPS, ALL LABELLED SHIELD UP absorbs one hit. SLOW MOTION crawls the world while you still move at full speed. HOMING SHOTS gives you six shots that each pick their own rocket and chase it down. SCREEN CLEARED does what it says. DOUBLE POINTS doubles everything you score. Each one names itself when you grab it and shows its own timer, so you always know what you're holding and how long you have. A DAILY CHALLENGE One fixed layout per day, the same for everybody, resetting at midnight. Your score on it is a real comparison rather than a matter of what the generator happened to roll. BUILT TO BE PICKED UP Instant retry — no menus between runs. A Game Center leaderboard if you want one, and the whole game works if you don't. Plays offline on a plane. A REASON TO COME BACK A daily gift that grows with every day of your streak — keep it for seven days to win the NEBULA engine trail. Three new missions every day, and a level that climbs with every run and pays out grazes as it goes. A HANGAR TO FILL Eleven ships in six different shapes — from the sleek Needle to the Manta, the Saucer and the Twinfang — and twelve engine trails, from ion and plasma to inferno and crystal. Everything is earned by playing. FREE, AND FAIR ABOUT IT No account to create, and your progress follows you across your devices through iCloud. Star Grazer is supported by an occasional ad between runs, and by optional videos you choose to watch to continue a run or double your grazes. A one-time No Ads purchase removes the between-run ads. Nothing you can buy makes the game easier or touches the leaderboards.

Screenshots

Commander Doogie4 screens
Star Grazer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Commander Doogie at none against Star Grazer's shown. Commander Doogie also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Commander Doogie ships an update every 2 weeks, Star Grazer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Commander Doogie versus Star Grazer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCommander DoogieStar Grazer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB5 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperSamuel RadakovitzDom Q Investments

In-app purchases

None

Commander Doogie

No in-app purchases

None

Star Grazer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Commander Doogie free?
Commander Doogie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Star Grazer free?
Star Grazer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Commander Doogie or Star Grazer have ads?
Star Grazer shows ads; Commander Doogie does not.
Which is updated more often, Commander Doogie or Star Grazer?
Commander Doogie ships an update every 2 weeks, and Star Grazer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Commander Doogie was updated on October 7, 2026 and Star Grazer on October 6, 2026.

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