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Critical Mass

Sean O'Connor · Strategy · United States store
NOT IN TOP 100 HERE
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Revenue a month, worldwide EST
$293
Likely $98 to $878
New ratings
Tracking
Daily counts start building from today
Rating
4.5 of 5
39 ratings in this store
Countries it ranks in
0
was 0 on Oct 18, 2026

Revenue

Estimated from the grossing charts of Oct 25, 2026 in the 53 countries we track, and ratings growth on the App Store.

EST. REVENUE / YEAR · WORLDWIDE
$3.5K
0.4 new ratings a month on average since launch
LIFETIME INSTALLS (GOOGLE)
438
About 8 per month on average since launch
WHERE ITS USERS ARE · SHARE OF RATINGS
  • United States 25 ratings58%
  • United Kingdom 7 ratings16%
  • Canada 3 ratings7%
  • Australia 3 ratings7%
  • Germany 2 ratings5%
  • France 2 ratings5%
  • Japan 1 ratings2%
HOW SURE ARE WE
Not in any grossing chart, so this comes from ratings growth (0.4 new ratings a month on average since launch): revenue grows with new ratings, more slowly for apps that collect ratings fast. Tested on 418 apps with verified revenue: typically off by about 2 times, and big earners tend to come out low. Countries we don't track (and Google Play in China, which doesn't exist) aren't included, and neither are ads or web payments. Gross revenue before store fees.
RATINGS
39
AVG RATING
4.53
PRICE
$5.49
IN APP PURCHASES
No
CONTAINS ADS
No
LAST UPDATE
283d ago
RELEASED
Jan 7, 2022
CONTENT RATING
Everyone

Last 30 days

From our daily snapshots of every grossing chart.

DAYS IN A GROSSING CHART
0 / 30
COUNTRIES NOW
0 (was 0)
EST. REVENUE FROM CHARTS, DAILY · BOTH STORES ONLY EST
Show daily values
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Best rank Sep 26, 2026: not ranked. Now: not ranked. Days at zero are days outside every grossing chart.

Money and momentum

Measured from the store, not estimated.

WHAT IT CHARGES
No in-app purchases
Earns from its upfront price, ads or payments outside the store.
REVIEW MOMENTUM
0.1 reviews / week
  • Trendfalling
  • Recent reviews average4.5 stars
  • Recent 1 and 2 star share8%
From the latest 24 written reviews, covering 1747 days.
RATING BREAKDOWN
38 ratings
5★84%
4★0%
3★5%
2★11%
1★0%

What users want

From the latest 24 reviews on the United States Google Play, Jan 12, 2022 to Aug 9, 2026: 8% are 1 or 2 stars. Open a theme to read what people wrote.

WHAT THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT · SHARE OF BAD REVIEWS

Only 2 of the latest 24 reviews are 1 or 2 stars, too few to find patterns. Users are mostly happy.

WHAT THEY ASK FOR
  • Well worth the money I would love to see more retro titles like this 5★, Apr 29, 2024
  • O'Connor, would you please make Rats work on Android? 2★, Mar 5, 2024
  • Would be nice if some of the functions from the PC version was added though. 4★, Jan 4, 2023
WORDS THAT KEEP COMING UP IN BAD REVIEWS

Nothing stands out.

WHAT THEY LOVE · SHARE OF GOOD REVIEWS
Fun, addictive38%

8 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.

★★★★★ Great adaptation of a game I enjoyed playing on the PC years ago.
★★★★★ A simplistic yet addicting dogfighting game.
★★★★★ And this game is still fun, I've been play with this game every night before bed for past 3 months

Found by matching words and phrases in the reviews, not read by a person. A review can count toward more than one theme.

What users say

Latest reviews, United States Google Play.

★★★★★Aug 9, 2026

Niche port of a niche game, but limited in scope. Only one playable faction, 12 ships with insufficient niches for each price range, and some missile changes that don't make sense. Orik was turned into an unguided rocket as opposed to its long range desktop counterpart, but all guided missiles still have awful tracking because they use pure pursuit homing w/o any lookahead, making point blank low speed intercept the only viable use. You'd expect true proportional navigation at the very least...

★★★★★Mar 25, 2026

need more missions

★★★★★Mar 14, 2026

Interesting and venerable rougelite with a shiny coat of paint, but missing a few features from how I remember it: cannot change your squadrons formation and rules of engagement anymore, and cannot quit out of a run either, and you're not allowed to leave any ship slots empty. Stealth cheese is real.

★★★★★Mar 12, 2026

Difficulty scaling is pure stupid. You're continuously outnumbered and outgunned. Just not fun.

★★★★★Sep 12, 2025

Great adaptation of a game I enjoyed playing on the PC years ago. Only reason I haven't given a full 5 stars is that it's missing a few features like audio/volume controls and a way to exit/forfeit the current game (you have to watch every game to it's conclusion even if you die early on) etc.

★★★★★Sep 12, 2025

Excellent game. I'm almost sure I played the shareware Windows version as a kid. 4/5 stars. I'd give 5/5 if there were in-game volume/mute controls, as I would like to play this whilst listening to a podcast or my own music.

Store screenshots

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App Store ads

Apple Search Ads this app ran in the last 90 days, from Apple's public ad repository.

No App Store ads in the EU
None in the last 90 days.

Apple only publishes ads shown in the EU (EU Digital Services Act), with a 7 day delay. An app that advertises only outside the EU shows nothing here. Shown for the App Store version (Critical Mass - war in space).

Growth research

Where this app is buying and earning its users. Each link opens pre filtered.

ASO keywords

Most repeated terms in the listing. Highlighted ones also appear in the title or short description.

different types3spaceships3enemy3game2squadron2different2types2mission2missiles2

What's new in 1.1.2

- update for latest versions of Android

Store description

Critical Mass is a game set in the future, where you are the commander of a squadron of spaceships. You will be sent on one of 46 different types of mission, ranging from protecting a convoy, to attacking an enemy starbase, to defending Earth. You fight enemy spaceships using six different types of missiles which home in on the nearest target, so you have to be careful not to destroy your own friends. Defend yourself with forcefields, or cloak to go invisible, and hyperspace out of there if things aren't looking good. The game is turn based, but with missiles homing in on your tail, enemy ships weaving to get out of your line of sight and sirens screaming warnings at you it can get pretty frantic! After the mission you can replay the entire battle from the point of view of your or any of your squadron members' spaceships.

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