Bit Journey vs MoonstruckMackerel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bit Journey
Embark on an open-world adventure where time travel vortexes unleash enemies. Survive, collect items, and defeat foes to improve your character. Train pets to assist you in battle and explore diverse roles from ninja to warrior.
- Limitless open-world exploration
- Time travel vortexes and enemies
- Character skill improvement
- Pet sidekicks with training
- Diverse character roles
- Leaderboard competition
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Explore a gigantic, limitless and rich world. It's a brand new open-world experience. The world has gone mad, time travel vortexes are appearing everywhere and spawning incredible enemies that are trying to dominate the whole world while our seven heroes are trying to survive! Destroy everything in the world, collect items and defeat amazing enemies. Score by doing anything in the world, improve your character skills and prepare to survive. You can even conquer secret bases, defeat super bosses and compete with your friends in the leaderboards! You can also use your Watch to take care of pets and use them as sidekicks in the game! You can feed them, play with them, train them and it will impact in their performances during gameplay! To fight side-by-side with Chip, Catty and Fairy, just raise your wrist while playing or access them through the Base and have fun! Be a mysterious ninja, an army soldier, a baseball player, a famous artist, or even a medieval warrior. Survive the journey and reach the higher glory. There's a little bit of everything in Bit Journey. ** Through the years, we were featured on the App Store's: ** Best New Games Best Pixel Art Games Games with Great Protagonists Apps Made in Brazil Games made in Latin America Celebrating National Talents Brazilian Games Great Brazilian Games Best Retro-Modern Games Cute Heroes Cult Classics 20 under 20 Our Favorites for Apple Watch ** We trended on: ** #1 in 2 Countries on the Games Category, Action and Adventure Subcategories #5 in 30 Countries on the Games Category, Action and Adventure Subcategories #25 in 15 Countries on the Games Category, Action and Adventure Subcategories Top 100 in 100+ Countries on the Games Category, Action and Adventure Subcategories
MoonstruckMackerel
Embark on a retro-style 2D platforming adventure as a walking mackerel. Explore diverse environments, from underwater realms to cloud caves, and battle invading robots. Strategically use water and air bullets to defeat different robot types and reach the moon.
- Retro-style 2D platforming
- Horizontal and vertical scrolling
- Amphibious walking mackerel protagonist
- Water and air bullet mechanics
- Diverse exploration environments
- Infinite lives with attempt tracking
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Moonstruck Mackerel is a retro-style 2D platformer game with both horizontal and vertical scrolling. Play as an amphibious walking mackerel, and rid the kingdom of the invading robots! Explore underwater rooms, gardens, castles, and cloud caves. Fight your way from the ground to the sky, and reach the moon at the end of each level! Destroy the robot factory and save the kingdom! * Shoot water bullets on land, after being in the water. * Shoot air bullets in the water, after being on land. * Land and air robots cannot become wet. You can destroy them with water. * Underwater robots cannot leave the water. You can destroy them with air. * You regain a health point with either 10 gems or 1 large gem. * Strategically sacrifice a health point to save a bullet for later, then refuel with gems as soon as possible. * Strategically ration your bullets, and plan where to refuel air or water. * If you lose all your health points, you automatically teleport back to the start of the level, without losing progress. * You have infinite lives, but your number of attempts is incremented each time you restart a level, automatically or manually. * You can manually teleport to the start of a level without losing progress. This is useful when you don't want to backtrack from a dead end, or just as a fun way to escape the robots.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MoonstruckMackerel at 5.0 against Bit Journey's 4.0. Bit Journey's advantage is ratings volume (52 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MoonstruckMackerel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bit Journey has 52 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Bit Journey | MoonstruckMackerel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (52 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Marcos Morais | Douglas Keith-Nakamura |
Customer experience
Bit Journey
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In-app purchases
Bit Journey
No in-app purchases
MoonstruckMackerel
No in-app purchases
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