Galaxy Attack
Galaxy Attack offers nostalgic arcade shooter fun, but recent updates and a strong pay-to-win model, excessive ads, and persistent bugs are frustrating players, leading to a negative trajectory despite its high lifetime rating.
Galaxy Attack is a classic-style alien shooter game that many users find addictive and reminiscent of old arcade games. However, a significant portion of recent reviews highlights issues with aggressive monetization, an overwhelming number of unskippable ads, and game-breaking bugs that detract from the overall experience.
What users like
What users complain about
- Becomes a 'pay-to-win' game, requiring significant real-money purchases to progress past early levels or compete in PvP.R11R13R16R274
- Excessive and often unskippable ads frequently interrupt gameplay, sometimes causing the game to freeze or crash.R7R14R167R246
- Numerous bugs are reported, including lost progress, deducted in-game currency without upgrades, and game crashes during ads.R18R21R24R260
- PvP matchmaking is highly unbalanced, frequently pairing new or lower-level players against max-rank, fully upgraded opponents.R254R404R53R54
- Developers are accused of manipulating game mechanics, events, and offers to force spending, and of being unresponsive to customer service issues.R9R10R35R42
Latest update · v5.19.4
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy classic arcade-style alien shooters and don't mind a significant challenge, especially if they are willing to invest money to progress R1R23R27. It is not for players who dislike aggressive monetization, frequent and intrusive ads, or unbalanced competitive play R11R13R14R54.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative (40.4% negative), which contrasts sharply with the high lifetime rating (4.7/5). This indicates a significant downward trajectory in user satisfaction, likely due to recent changes in monetization, ad frequency, and persistent bugs. While some positive reviews exist, they are often general and less detailed than the negative ones, which focus on specific, recurring problems.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R49] Classic fun vibe nostalgia: This game is a vibe and all but the negative parts about it is that it’s hard and the waves are too long
- [R23] Satisfying: This reminds me of the arcade games we played in the 80s! The only thing I don’t understand (way down around level 13) is why we bother earning gold when you can’t do anything with it. I don’t want to pay money for all the little upgrades. I’d rather use the gold I earned.
- [R27] Love!: I love how it brings back the memories of old games and I love how it’s oddly addictive
- [R65] Awesome: Great game (minus ads), reminds me of my youth
- [R1] Best game ever: Love the game so awesome
- [R12] galaxy attack: awesome!!!!!
- [R17] The best: This game is just the best no need to explain
- [R71] Awesome: Having tons of fun. I like all the different shooter patterns. Took me a while to beat a couple bosses. That makes it more fun
- [R44] Review: Has good graphics sensor movement on point responsive to every level as far as the game speeds up so the the movement of your ship
- [R11] Turns into pay to win too quickly: Was fun at first, but as you progress the stages become too difficult to complete and require upgrades that aren’t available unless you make in app purchases to gain said upgrades. No longer fun.
- [R13] Don’t bother: The game sucks you in and then u see u HAVE TO SPEND MONEY to advance !!!! Also the ads are getting longer and longer. Long story short, they just want your money….
- [R16] Beware of this Game App: The developer makes this game so complicated that the only way to win is to all the upgrades in the game. I spent almost $600 and it’s still hard to beat a lot of these stages. I might as well buy a plate station. And enjoy the easy games.
- [R274] Good but…: If you are the developer (or A developer) you have probably seen reviews regarding the fact that ships and other currency’s are extremely hard and often force the player to go P2W instead of F2W. The game has a very long history of P2W, first releasing 2022? 2020? I am a veteran of the game and has experienced the game a way no player should. For example: one of the- no several of the s
- [R7] Cool Game But: Game creator does respond to issues. Game has not been working well. Lots of ads to get assets in game. Most times, the ads do not work, which stifles playing and makes it frustrating.
- [R14] ADS ruin it. Can’t clock out of ads.: Fun game very entertaining. But the ads force you to download and you can’t click out of them. Horrible. Do not download. Use to be fun. But now it’s very dissatisfying. Thanks for taking time to reply. If the ads had a way to exit back to the game, that works. But the big issue is that once you click an add because of an upgrade option, you can’t click out.
- [R167] Good yet bad: So this game is fun. Im at level 17, done 3 pvps, got light phantom and the game is great. But whenever i play after almost everything i get an ad. Could you mind adding a no ad feature thats like 10 bucks?
- [R246] Ads: The ads in this game are TERRIBLE and overly consistent.
- [R18] WTF!!!: Just did the update and LOST EVERYTHING!!! Why? Was a fun game but, I am NOT starting over!!
- [R21] Stupid game: I tried to upgrade ships with chrono shards. Most of the times it doesn’t go through but the chrono shards gets deducted. Same is the case with hextech chest. With lot of difficulty we get these. When we upgrade, account will be deducted while ship won’t be upgraded or chest won’t be opened.. I have proof this time..
- [R24] Fun but has some bad bugs: If you do a lot of stuff and then go to open a hextech chest it may pop up a synch dialog and hangs. I lost fifty dollars worth of purchases because of this and they aren’t responding to my email
- [R260] Crashing during Ads: The game is fun but hard to progress without paying. My main problem is how many rewards/progress I’ve lost due to the game crashing during ads
- [R254] Terrible multiplayer: I get paired against a max rank with all max upgraded ships i have no chance
- [R404] Had to delete, such a shame: It is a great game. But I had to delete it because just now, in the new PvP season, in all the games, I was matched with level 150 players who easily won me because of better ships and additional attacks. I am level 53. I noticed that it happens to the start of every single new pvp season. I don’t know how your algorithm is or what’s the purpose of this algorithm. I wo
- [R53] i hate it now: this game i played is now ruined as there are a hell lot of payments and the multiplayer game mode sometimes will just match you with someone way more powerful than me
- [R54] Unfair PvP: ABSOLUTELY THE MOST UNBALANCED UNFAIR PvP in any game anywhere.
- [R9] Cheaters: It looks like they have deleted my reviews in some way, Latest update they started to freez the plant to prevent you to win. Update: I really never seen like that cheating in this game, it’s developers kill’s themselves to let you lose. They used up normal and irregular ways to let you loose, including freezing your plans sometimes. I just deleted it, as it is not fair and not game.
- [R10] Horrible: Greedy POS’s. Cannot win unless you literally spend thousands of dollars. When you do buy something they keep taking money out without your permission even on a one time purchase. They do not refund even after proving it. Stay away from this game
- [R35] Money Hungry Company: You’re gonna spend thousands in real money for them to promise certain rewards and just like that they change it up after you done paid to get certain items daily. Don’t waste your time or money. No matter how many time you email them they very rarely respond with any help and when they do they usually send some smart remark.
- [R42] Game is rigged: I wouldn’t bother with this game. The company will scam and cheat you every opportunity they get with its gameplay. None of it is random - this game is 100% rigged for each outcome with is designed to make it take longer for you to progress than what you deserve because they want you to spend money. It will set matchups for you to automatically lose, intentionally give you fewer re
- [R26] Update done and deleted all data: Enjoyed playing this game for years. An update was done and all data was deleted. Back to level 1. Wrote to app and nothing…….
- [R32] Communist run company: This game has so many elements in it that you can’t control. Ship drops, power drops, how much power you actually have. It won’t matter if you fill up your clan tech, tech tree or even complete your battle gear, this company will nerf your account and then without your permission will raise your combat power to justify them to match you with opponents that you can not beat A
- [R39] Takes PVP points: It really sucks to enjoy a game but “updating “ once or twice a month is ridiculous. It takes your PVP points which makes it impossible to win against certain players whose PVP points are magically in the thousands. If everyone is required to “update” then there shouldn’t be those accounts who have literally thousands of PVP points. What a scam.
- [R6] I remember this: I remember playing this when I was 7 I lik it
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store