Galaxy Attack: Alien Shooter

Classic Space War Invasion

Ratings

Age

9+

Games

Languages

English

Latest Version 5.21.6

Wed Oct 14 2026

- Mini Event

- Bug fixes and performance improvements

Galaxy Attack: Alien Shooter puts the fate of the Earth in your hands. Control a lone spaceship and defend against massive alien swarms in increasingly hazardous environments. This space shooter features 140 challenging levels, multiple extreme boss battles, and high-quality graphics optimized for all screens. Collect items to upgrade your weapons and master active skills to dominate the leaderboard in both single-player and multiplayer modes.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

84/100

Galaxy Attack: Alien Shooter is the gold standard for modern mobile shoot-'em-ups (SHMUPs). It takes the classic Galaga-style gameplay and injects it with modern progression, high-quality visuals, and intense multiplayer modes. The sense of scale is fantastic; you start with a lone spaceship and eventually pilot massive, lethal craft capable of clearing swarms of alien invaders with screen-filling special abilities.

What makes Galaxy Attack stand out is its content density. With over 140 levels and multiple extreme boss battles, there is always a new challenge to tackle. The upgrade system is deep, requiring you to collect items during combat to enhance your weapons on the fly. The recent updates, including the Lunar New Year events and new ships like the Soul Reaper, show that the developers are committed to keeping the game exciting. It’s fast, polished, and perfectly captures the 'just one more level' feeling of the arcade era.

Dinsun reviewed on: Wed Feb 25 2026

Features

140+ Challenging Levels

Real-Time Multiplayer Mode

Extreme Boss Battles

In-Depth Weapon Upgrade System

Optimized HD Graphics

Tips & Walkthrough

Combat Survival

Always stay on the move to avoid enemy fire. Prioritize collecting the colored power-up items that drop; they change your primary fire and can drastically increase your damage output. Save your active skills (like shields or mega-blasts) for the boss's most dangerous attack phases.

Gameplays

High-Octane Dogfights

Slide your finger to move your ship and auto-fire at oncoming enemies. Tackle waves of varied alien craft and navigate bullet-hell patterns during epic boss encounters to earn currency for permanent upgrades.

Screenshot

Q&A

Items collected during levels can upgrade your current weapon's power, change your weapon type, or provide temporary shields and bonuses.

Ratings & Reviews

Pretty good game barring the sound design

Thu Jan 25 2018 MarioManiac88

Ok let’s get that second part of the review name out of the way first. I point out the sound design not because it’s necessarily bad, but it appears to be at least partially stolen. Well I can’t pinpoint the source of everything exactly, but the Mario 1 coin effect and the Smash 64 Mario/Luigi victory theme are stolen. I’m willing to give the game the benefit of the doubt that the rest wasn’t stolen, as it doesn’t harm the game in any way (aside from the stolen smash song just not fitting with the game). The only other things to note about the sound is that sometimes a song will continue longer than it should, and songs have a period of silence in between the end and second start instead of looping seamlessly Now let’s get to everything else. The graphics themselves may not be anything to write home about, but the enemy designs and ship designs are well done. The gameplay is pretty generic for the most part, basically being a blend of games like Galaga and games like Touhou. However, generic as it may be, it is still fun. It does try to be creative at points though, so far I’ve seen this in an asteroid segment. The controls work very well, and aside from the aforementioned sound issues there are no bugs. I’d also like to applaud the inclusion of an achievement system that isn’t locked to Game Center. This game would get 3.5 stars, but since that isn’t an option and I’m feeling generous I’ll give it 4. The sound issues and the fact that the game could very easily be written off as essentially just another Galaga clone keep me from rating it higher

The campaign mode is fun and challenging, but you have to spend money to advance far

Sun Dec 05 2021 RocketRG

Very challenging game - fun and even addictive. Excellent graphics and endless variety of enemies. The campaign mode gets very challenging as you advance, but unfortunately, it becomes impossible to advance towards the higher levels unless you either spend money on the game to upgrade your ship’s power, or unless you literally have hundreds to thousands of hours to spend time playing a video game – which no successful business owner does! Lol. Might be a good game for certain millennials who have lots of time to spend playing games. One more comment – the live battles against other players is a great concept, but they ruin this feature by making the battles entirely lopsided, and also by having you mostly play against computers instead of playing real people. So you often wind up getting paired against “people” (mostly computers) who have a ship many times stronger than yours - and they can clear the levels much faster than you or use tricks (called “talents”) to spontaneously destroy your ship and kill you. Therefore, you have almost no chance of winning a significant percentage of those games. It would be like playing chess against your opponent without a queen - or playing a physical sport against an opponent with no arms or legs. A battle, or test of skill, should provide both opponents with the same tools - or at least similar ones. Pretty dumb concept.

A mixed bag

Sun Jul 31 2022 Memnarc

The gam is fun with some really good mechanics and great visuals, but like most these days, it heavily favors those that are willing to spend piles of cash. I honestly believe all the “pvp” type stuff is just bots, so beat the computer, if you can. As far as the game play, be ready to drop giant wads of cash, or play for multiple months religiously to gain enough traction to make reasonable progress. For example, I have unlocked most ships and upgraded all of them as far as I am able and don’t do enough damage to pass the second level of the birthday event. Seems like the devs tried to do some type of balance between free to play and pay to play, but lost their way and just went for the money. If I could offer any advise to the devs, cut the difficulty by 1/4 and cut the resource requirements by 2/3 at least. Make a game that we want to spend money on because we love to play it, not that we have to. Update: I just got done losing multiple pvp matches against opponents that are FAR beyond my ability to compete with. Also, I’ve been attempting to play this birthday event and even it is an overly difficult absolute joke. On birthday events, the players are supposed to be able to celebrate with the devs. On this event, the difficulty curve is so high and the rewards so poor, that even after a week of solid play, I will not be able to get a single item from it. Get it together devs. The only thing holding this game back is you.

Absolutely frustrating.

Sat Jun 01 2024 Jadexoxo.

I’m honestly just about done with this game. I’ve had SO many issues trying to log into an account, only to get logged out and logged into my Facebook account when I was trying to play on my Apple account. When I got the game about a month ago, I realized I had already played from my Facebook account a long time ago. I’ve had issues with Facebook login in the past with other games, so I decided to leave the Facebook in the past and used my Apple account. Well about a week ago it started trying to log me into my Facebook account. I’m level 40 on my Apple account, the one I actually play on. And only 26 on the Facebook one, which I DO NOT WANT THAT ACCOUNT AT ALL. I ended up logging into the Facebook account, and when I logged out, all of my entire Apple progress was GONE. Level 40 is gone, along with all of my upgrades and ships. It didn’t give me the option to save anything, it just completely wiped my account. This has happened once before where I started over. This time, I’m not starting over. I’m going to delete the app, and forget about it. I don’t understand why all of my progress was wiped clean, and I don’t understand why it kept trying to log me in and out. When I finally get back to the Apple account, I have my ships, but I start from level 1!! I played this game a lot when I was having anxiety, really good distraction and the game itself is a 10/10 or 5 stars. But I can’t rate this any higher than a 2 star because of how terrible my experience has been just trying to play on one account.

Last update killed it on the iPhone X.

Mon Feb 05 2018 Jefftuel86

I like this game well enough, and haven’t experienced most of the bugs that are reported on here (although I’ve never tried to actually purchase anything with real money). I would have given it four stars, but had to give it two now that this last update completely broke the game for me. The four star review would have said that this game is a lot of fun and doesn’t have a lot of needless stuff to make it confusing like some of the other similar games I’ve tried. However, there are a LOT of ads. And a lot of them are pop ups for the game wanting you to buy/unlock stuff for $100!! The unlocks in this game are way, WAY overpriced. I can honestly say I probably would have bought several things on here if they weren’t overpriced so incredibly badly. I’m talking like the cheapest pop up I’ve seen was about $30 to unlock a ship. It’s ridiculous. This rating, unfortunately, dropped down to two stars today. The update that released a few hours ago made it to where I can’t see the sides of the game on my iPhone X. I think the developer tried to make it work on the X, but instead of making the app longer for the new screen, he just zoomed in and now you can’t see everything. I tried to contact the dev and nothing. And the link provided here in the App Store goes to a web page that isn’t even running. There’s literally no way to contact him, so I hope he sees this review.

I hate this game.

Sat Jun 05 2021 PoolboyKJV

When I started it was ok. I won some, I lost some. Now, you can only play super league twice a day. They force you to play free league and I’m constantly going against people with better ships and upgrades. You have to fight the aliens and sometimes 3-4 attacks from opponents at the same time! It’s like putting a teenager in the cage with a pro MMA fighter. It don’t stay fun long, you get what I’m saying? Now I’m definitely not the best player, even if I was fully upgraded, but I can promise you this...in an even playing level I would be winning more than I am now which is about 10% of the time. Even in free leagues, if you’re against someone who doesn’t have upgrades it’s like 8 times out of 10 they immediately get their most powerful ship and I get the two least powerful until like wave 9 or 10. By that time you can’t catch up if the player is good enough. I hate to delete this game because I actually just spent real money on it just to buy one ship. But I’m gonna. I’m so done I just want everyone else to know, you cannot compete unless you spend money. I repeat, you cannot compete unless you spend real money or deal with losing for 10 years to finally upgrade some stuff to get to where you can compete. My only hope in winning free league is if one of the other opponents quit or is killed early or if my teammate has lots of upgrades and attacks them and then I just ride my teammates coat tails to victory. It just gets old.

Obsessed but serious game issues.

Wed May 08 2019 Bethany Bae

Love this game I’ve had it for two years and I play it often. Only a couple of things. You have to make a purchase to achieve one of the upgrade cards which is really stupid for a requirement. Another Is under PVP you’re suppose to get an award every win you achieve and it’s completely broken. I’ve never gotten a prize and I should’ve gotten a lot of tokens and crystals (form of currency for upgrades) if it was working. On the multiplayer portion you have to spend crystals to even join, and sometimes when you win there’s no gain in coins. You randomly get matched but you can get matched with people who have obviously spent money on the game and get unfair advantages over you. The other complaint if have (multitude of them) is the rewards portion. After each win in a chance of only 3 loses then you have to spend more crystal, you’re suppose to get a reward after each win. I have ONCE received a reward. Needs to be fixed because only gaining 17 points for winning a round is unfair. The top complaint I have is how expensive it is or almost unreasonable it is to move up a level or upgrade a ship without spending real dollars. The cheapest ship I saw was $30 which is asinine to say the least. The contact the maker section in Apple takes you to a website where there’s not really a way to even connect with him/her. It’s an awesome game but I’ve been stuck on level 91 for months and CANNOT get past unless I spend money. I love this game and there’s so many cons that quickly surface.

Pay to play and they don’t try to hide it

Thu Jul 07 2022 Concerned Sports Guy

I’ve never seen a game so obviously pushing for you to pay to progress in the game. And the costs of some things aren’t even in the realm of fair. Subscriptions can go up to $30 a month, boxes or just basic small amounts of items can be$5-$10 each. Even watching the 30-60 seconds ads at every turn will only marginally help you. You can manage to get maybe 5 crystals a day (without paying or watching ads) and some ships or upgrades start at 150+ crystals. And that’s just for the base ship. There are 10 ships, and hundreds of combinations of skins/upgrades/cards, all increasing in price. Some expert items require 70 individual upgrades just to use and you’ll be lucky to get 1 draw a day from a pool of 70+ items. You’d have to clock thousands and thousands of hours to reach some of these metrics. The gameplay itself can be fun, but also completely random and frustrating. Yes there are walkthrough videos for each level, but after level 50 you’ll have to watch a video every time you play. That is, of course, if you don’t pay for upgrades and skins that would actually make this game playable. In order to get users to want to pay you have to at least make the game playable at the base level and make some upgrades at least somewhat obtainable to get through playing. Once you’ve played a few days and passed some levels you will quickly learn there is no realistic way to play this game without paying. There’s so much potential to this game, but they have seemingly made every wrong decision they could make to keep the average user away.