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It's a Space Thing – Casual Game Review
It's a Space Thing is a Casual/Action game from Brad Erkkila, first launched in 20th August 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 39+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes It's a Space Thing Stand Out
Take part in an epic struggle for space supremacy in this high-powered, action-packed arcade experience! One must keep their reflexes sharp as Space Things big and small attack without mercy.
Features include:
• Challenging, high score chasing single player action against tough AI opponents.
• Boss battles against 10 different enemies.
• Complete missions to unlock bosses for an endless Boss Mode.
• Old-school, retro inspired Invaders Mode.
• Tons of player skins to use.
• Local multiplayer on one device. Challenge your friends to best of three matches.
• Utilize power-ups to devastate your enemies.
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, It's a Space Thing is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th October 2021
Recent improvements include:
• Addressing some crashing issues on newer devices running 1OS 15
Download & Availability
It's a Space Thing is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get It's a Space Thing on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Widowmaker boss can go offscreen and not come back (we think because of targeting either player or shields).
This game is very addictive and good but the controls are a little twearky.
We love this game because its chanlanging and fun.
We were fighting the Widowmaker in boss mode and it went off screen and disappeared, please fix this.
You just stop moving and die because the controls are so precise.
We love this game and we can tell that we will be playing for a long time, but as soon as we hopped in, we found out that sometimes when you move or place a shield it doesnt work and you have to try the control button again. This can make it hard to do whatever you are trying to do. We will anticipate the button not working and so we press it twice, but then, it just so happens that we moved the first time we pressed the button and then we are dead.
THis is the one of the most fun games Ive played. We love how there are no ads, but it would be cool to have the ability to level up.
This is a great game its just what we like its retro its a shooter and its 2D witch is better than 3D we would add an option to create a new space thing.
Hi this is a wonderful game! However there is a bug in a two player mode where player 1s (player playing on the bottom of the phone, or a non-flipped side) block button disappears after the first round.
This game is really fun, but for some reason it glitches out when we try to play two player. For P1 after the first round it doesnt allow him to use his shield no matter who won that round, but P2 can always use shields no matter what round it is. This leaves an unfair advantage to P2, so we had to devise the rule no shields after the first round. And we always have to explain why. But yeah its a good game, we like it a lot.
Fun but controls dont work 50% of the time.
So these guys or guy or woman or women just made a completely awesome game that's completely free as far as we can tell. No freemium baby! This game is really good too and totally deserves the 5 stars we gave it.
The game is good. It is really a fun time to use. We play game much time over our time. Very good. We very America like. Thank the man who created game.
Amazing game.Wonderful Idea in general.Breathtaking animation.
This is a completely free game. It has no ads, and no in app purchases. It's fun to quickly play with a friend. And also it works off-line. In addition the developer has done a good job of constantly updating the game with meaningful content like extra characters and new modes.
We think this game is amazing, you can't get any better, and we can play this forever trying to learn better attack patterns. It would be great if there was a local wifi multiplayer and a worldwide multiplayer. (Maybe later on, private worldwide matches being available.) Also, if there was a currency system. Don't make in app purchases though. With the new "currency", we could buy different weapons, but start off with a slightly worse weapon, making the better weapons seem even better. Like a burst fire weapon spraying 3-5 lasers at a time. And charge weapons where you hold the fire button to launch a laser that has area damage. You can honestly go anywhere with this. But, don't make the weapons cost ridiculous amounts of currency. That would just ruin a perfectly addicting game. But, we think most of these would improve it further.
We keep playing this game for hours. It's very entertaining! Hope you can implement an online multiplayer one day.
Wrote a paragraph but got deleted because someone took our username so just gonna list it. 1. Add a horizontal screen mode would be so much easier to play since in vertical the buttons are bunched up 2. 2 player mode should have a Bluetooth option instead of 2 people on one device you cant really play anywhere else but on a table because its a flat surface but what if were on a road trip the cars gonna be moving us all around messing up the game, but if you had Bluetooth you could practically play everywhere 3. Maybe add an online mode and play with other players.
Hey Brad. Great work on the new update. The new skins and the addition of the two new bosses has freshened up the game once again. Our only complain comes with the new Marauder boss. We think he's too easy of a boss, seeing as his two weapons practically useless, since they can be countered too easily with your shields. Maybe some rebalancing would be useful. Instead of two heat-seeking missiles to destroy a shield, it should be one, and he should be a tad bit more aggressive with his gatling guns. That's just our opinion though. Once again, great work on this solid update, and we hope (along with every other player) that you keep this game alive. -Starkiller2213.
The game from 90th. We don't like it:(.
This game is stupid and gets boring. Good idea though. Don't purchase because it is stupidly boring after the first minute of play.
Super fun to play by ourselves and with our brother. Thanks for fixing buggy 2 player keep up the good work and make some more fun games like this Old review: Single player modes are fun but in local multiplayer only one button will work at a time for the 2nd player sometimes. Other than that great job this game is really fun.
This game brings amazing simplicity to an awesome idea! It's super smart! And has some sweet gameplay against AI, AI BOSSES and some strategic multiplayer! For sure a must download game.
Love this game! Played with our bro and it's a lot of fun. PPl are definitely gonna be playin it at school so we're gettin our practice in ;).
For the dude u fight we always do the same thing, wait for the shields, put ours down where his arnt then wait for him to shoot there. It would be great if it was different.
We love it, but -1 star because HOW DO YOU BEAT WIDOWMAKER!? He literally has infinite lives. That makes it impossible to get ANY other boss other than Turbo Triant.
Not bad, but we just can't seem to get the controls to work for us. They're placed very awkwardly close to the bottom of the screen and half the time we end up missing the buttons because of this.
As of right now, there does not exist a 1 player mode. Although the option is available, but the levels don't seem to begin. You're stuck in this limbo. We're giving it a 3 because of the cool retro graphics, sprites and soundtrack, and the potential of having really fun/funny 2 player mode. Will invest. *tosses app in space games pile.
Its a really fun game but there are sooooo many ads… We wouldnt even mind paying to get rid of them because we enjoy this app so much. We havent been able to get past the second boss but even then we still play because Space Thing is just that fun. Highly recommend.
This game is super fun and only a little bit infuriating. All the best games make you mad at least a little.
Just click get, just do it, don't even read the rest of this review, This is one of the greatest apps of all time, simple gameplay, and fun gameplay, but can you add cross platform multiplayer.
We love this game! It's sooo addicting! We need to show our little sister, she'll love it!! We love the split-screen play. We'll be sure to share it:D Thanks Brad! You're pretty rad.
Saw it from Twitter from someone retweeting it glad we saw it cuz we're addicted and needed a fun game like this.
Boss battles and multiplayer are great and frustrating just like we want it.
This game is full-throttle. Fun arcade shooter, but different than any other game we've played. Love the art too.
First off, we love this game. It's fun. It's intense. The art style and pixel graphics are fantastic. We love boss mode and single player. We love being able to share to social media! The reason we removed a star is because there's no in app purchase to remove the forced ads. We want to pay. We don't want forced ads. Let us pay you for the work so we can just enjoy the game! We'd love to see different characters you can get or unlock. That would be great also. Great job dev. Just please add the IAP. Thanks.
After about 4 times re trying you get blasted with ads it's really annoying the game is fun and addicting but once you get the hang of it it's easy until the 1st boss you can try the game out just note it has a lot of ads.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6.3
- Size: 37.28 MB
- iOS: 12 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Brad Erkkila]()
Last updated: 13th October 2021 | Genre: Casual, Action | Developer: Brad Erkkila