# Rocket Landing: Moon Lander > Slug: `chopstick-landing-games` · Platforms: **Android & iOS** · Category: Games ## Meta - Title: Moon Lander Game — Six Worlds, Free on Android & iPhone - Tagline: A lunar lander game with six worlds, a Starship tower catch, and one global mission a day. Free, plays offline. ## Short description Rocket Landing: Moon Lander is a free moon lander game of thrust, gravity, drift and fuel. Land at Shackleton on the Moon, Jezero on Mars, Titan, Europa, then bring a Super Heavy booster into the tower arms. One daily mission for every pilot on Earth. Offline, no signup. ## Long description Rocket Landing: Moon Lander (formerly Rocket Landing Simulator and Chopstick Landing Games) is an arcade lander game for phones. Fly the classic lunar landing — fight the fall, kill the drift, drop your engine into the pad's inner ring before the fuel runs out — across six worlds: Earth (Boca Chica), the Moon (Shackleton), Mars (Jezero), Titan, Europa, and the Mechazilla tower where a Super Heavy booster has to arrive inside a pair of chopstick arms instead of on a pad. Every day, every pilot on the planet gets the same global mission — same pad, same wind, same fuel — and flies it against a real rival's recorded descent when online. Crash, and the game writes you an Apology Letter to Elon with the crash cause, the second it went wrong, and the altitude and fuel you had left. Eight vehicles, five ranks from Cadet to Legend, commanders with faces, a daily pay calendar, Flight Week, a Pilot Card you can send. Tilt-or-tap controls, full offline play, no signup, optional one-time Captain's Bundle. Free; our separate browser lander, with a Moon pad and a drone ship, also plays free in any browser. ## Official URLs - Landing: https://apps.teamzlab.com/chopstick-landing-games/ - Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teamz.lab.chopstick_landing_games - App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rocket-landing-simulator/id6739433404 - Android package: `com.teamz.lab.chopstick_landing_games` ## SEO keywords - moon lander game - lunar lander game - lander game - rocket lander game - booster landing - super heavy booster catch - space landing game ## Hero - Headline: Moon Lander Game — Land on Six Worlds, Catch a Starship - Subheadline: The lunar lander you remember, built for a phone. Thrust against gravity at Shackleton, fight dust at Jezero, ride out engine flame-outs on Europa, then bring a Super Heavy booster into the tower arms. One mission a day, every pilot on Earth flies it. Free, offline, no signup. - Primary CTA: Install on Google Play - App Store CTA: Install on App Store - Secondary CTA: See how it plays ## Screenshot captions - screenshots/1.jpg: Mechazilla tower catch — Boca Chica, real-time descent, three stars on the line - screenshots/2.jpg: Mars Jezero dust-storm landing — thin atmosphere, low gravity, drift the whole way down - screenshots/3.jpg: Boca Chica night descent — wind, fog and fuel timing - screenshots/4.jpg: Moon Shackleton landing — no atmosphere, lighter gravity, every burn counts - screenshots/5.jpg: Europa landing — little wind, but the most engine flame-outs of any world ## Feature blocks ### Gravity, drift and fuel on six worlds Every world sets its own gravity, drag, wind and fuel burn — tuned for a good game, not copied from real spacecraft. The Moon has no air at all; Mars throws dust-storm gusts; Titan is thick and slow; Europa keeps cutting your engine. Tilt or tap to steer, and every correction burns fuel. Miss the pad and the run ends. ### Today's global mission Every pilot on the planet flies the same mission today — same pad, same wind, same fuel. Three stars on the line: crash and you can fly it again, but once you land, that landing is your result for the day. Your result card is a spoiler-free emoji grid you can send, and online the debrief tells you what percentage of today's pilots you out-scored. ### Fly against a real rival Online, a ghost of another pilot's recorded descent flies today's mission beside you — not a bot, a real run picked from pilots who scored a little above your recent best. Offline, the ghost is your own best run. ### Six worlds, six different problems Earth (Boca Chica), the Moon (Shackleton), Mars (Jezero), Titan, Europa, and the Mechazilla tower. Each world changes the fall, the wind and the fuel burn, and the later ones add gust storms, wind flips and engine flame-outs. You start on Earth; the Moon opens at rank Pilot, after the 13 Earth missions. The Mission Map shows every world from your first launch. ### Starship tower catch No pad. A Super Heavy booster has to arrive inside a pair of chopstick arms, in the gustiest world in the game, with the wind flipping sides every few seconds. Learn it at Boca Chica; master it in the Mechazilla arc. ### Every crash writes you an email Crash and the game composes an Apology Letter to Elon in deadpan mission-control voice — your mission, attempt number, the crash cause, the second it went wrong, and the altitude and fuel you had left. Share them. They are the best part of losing. ### Eight vehicles, five ranks, commanders with faces Falcon-style, Falcon Heavy, Starship, Super Heavy, a lunar lander, a Mars hopper and more — pick the look you like, the landing is the same in all of them. Climb Cadet → Pilot → Commander → Ace → Legend. Each rank brings a new commander who briefs you and roasts your worst landing. ### Come back tomorrow — daily pay, Flight Week, Quick Run A seven-day pay calendar on the Home screen, a week-long Flight Week goal, and a 60-second Quick Run one tap from launch. The habit loop of a daily puzzle, in a lander game. ### Free, offline, no signup Every world, mission and rank plays offline. Ad-supported with optional rewarded ads for extra fuel. One optional one-time Captain's Bundle removes ads, unlocks every current skin and two bundle-only vehicles. No subscription, no account. ## How it works ### Step 1: Pick today's global mission Open the app and tap the daily mission. Same pad, same wind, same fuel as every other pilot worldwide. Read the briefing from your commander. ### Step 2: Land it — or catch it Tilt or tap to steer; every correction burns fuel. Kill the drift early and line up the pad — or the tower arms. Drop your engine into the inner ring: how close to the centre you touch down sets your grade, and finishing under a quarter of the tank, or late on the clock, costs you one. ### Step 3: Send the card, or send the apology Land, and your Pilot Card updates with a shareable result card and a pilot code your friends can use to join you. Crash, and the app writes you an Apology Letter to Elon you will send to the group chat anyway. ## FAQ ### Q: What is Rocket Landing: Moon Lander? A free arcade moon lander game. You fly the classic lunar landing — fight the fall, kill the drift, drop your engine onto the pad before the fuel runs out — across six worlds from Boca Chica to Europa, then bring a Super Heavy booster into the Mechazilla tower arms. One global mission a day, a real rival's ghost to beat, eight vehicles, five ranks, and an Apology Letter to Elon every time you crash. Fully offline, no signup. ### Q: Was this app called Rocket Landing Simulator or Chopstick Landing Games before? Yes — same game, same developer. It shipped as Rocket Landing Simulator on one store and Chopstick Landing Games on the other, and was renamed Rocket Landing: Moon Lander in September 2026 to say what it is: a lander game. Your progress, rank and Pilot Card carry over; the store links on this page point at the same app. ### Q: Is this a lunar lander game like the arcade classic? Same idea, more worlds. Like the 1979 arcade lander, you fight gravity with your engine and have to land on the pad before the fuel runs out. Unlike it, the rules change per world — no air and a fuel-hungry engine on the Moon, dust-storm gusts on Mars, thick drag on Titan, engine flame-outs on Europa — and the last world replaces the pad with a pair of tower arms. It is an arcade game, not a simulator: the numbers are tuned for play, not copied from real spacecraft. A separate, free browser lander with a Moon pad and a drone ship is at tool.teamzlab.com/games/moon-lander/. ### Q: Is this an official SpaceX game? No. Rocket Landing: Moon Lander is an independent physics game built by Teamz Lab. SpaceX, Starship, Falcon, Super Heavy and Mechazilla are real-world references for fans; the game is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. The vehicles are our own models and nothing here simulates any real rocket's flight software or telemetry. ### Q: What is today's global mission? Every day, every pilot on Earth gets the same mission — same pad, same wind, same fuel margin. Three stars are on the line. Crash and you can fly it again; land it and that landing is your result for the day. Your result card is a spoiler-free emoji grid, like a daily word puzzle, and online the debrief tells you what percentage of today's pilots you out-scored. When you are online, a ghost of a real rival's descent flies beside you so you can see exactly where they beat you; offline, the ghost is your own best run. ### Q: How do you land softly in a moon lander game? In this game a landing is about where you arrive, not how fast: your engine has to drop into the pad's inner ring, and anything outside it is a crash. So kill the lateral drift first, and do it high, while you still have time to fix it. Every input burns fuel, so steer in short corrections instead of chasing the pad at the bottom. Your grade comes from how close to the centre you touch down, and landing with under a quarter of the tank, or after 85% of the time limit, drops it one grade each. ### Q: What is the difference between landing a booster and catching one? In the game both count the same way: your engine has to drop into the target's inner ring, and how close to the centre you get sets the grade. What changes is the target and the weather. A pad is a flat landing zone; a tower catch replaces it with a pair of chopstick arms, and the Mechazilla world around them has the strongest gusts in the game and a wind that flips sides every few seconds, so most of your fuel goes on holding the centreline. Earth (Boca Chica) teaches the catch with wind, fog and night descents; the Mechazilla arc is where it decides your rank. ### Q: Is there a game where you catch the booster with the tower arms? Yes — that is the Mechazilla arc in Rocket Landing: Moon Lander, and it is a full world rather than a bonus level. A Super Heavy booster has to arrive inside a pair of chopstick arms with no pad underneath, through the gustiest wind in the game, and how close to the centre of the arms you arrive sets your grade. Learn the catch at Earth (Boca Chica) with wind, fog and night descents, then fly the Mechazilla arc where it sets your rank. The game is free; our separate free browser game has a Moon pad and a drone ship, but the tower catch is only in the app. ### Q: What is the difference between a lunar lander game and a booster landing game? A lunar lander game brings a small craft down onto a surface — on the Moon there is no air, so only your engine slows you. A booster landing brings a tall rocket stage back from a launch, and drift and wind matter as much as speed. This game has both: Shackleton on the Moon is the lunar lander, and the drone ship and the Mechazilla tower are the two booster landings. ### Q: Does the game have Falcon 9-style drone-ship landings as well as Starship tower catches? Both. Drone-ship missions put a floating pad at sea under you; tower catches take the pad away and bring your booster into a pair of chopstick arms. Either way the landing counts when your engine drops into the target's inner ring. The ship you fly is your pick from the hangar — a Falcon-style booster and Starship are among the four free ones — and it changes the look, not the landing. The boosters are our own models, not licensed vehicles. ### Q: How many worlds are there? Six. Earth (Boca Chica — tower catches with wind, fog and night descents). The Moon (Shackleton — no atmosphere, a fuel-hungry engine, the first flame-outs). Mars (Jezero — dust-storm gusts on a thin atmosphere). Titan (thick-atmosphere drag, slow descents). Europa (little wind, the most engine flame-outs). The Mechazilla arc (Super Heavy into the tower arms). Each world changes gravity, drag, wind and fuel burn at once. You start on Earth, the Moon opens at rank Pilot after the 13 Earth missions, and the Mission Map shows all six from your first launch so you always know what is next. ### Q: What vehicles can I fly? Eight: a Falcon-style booster, Falcon Heavy, Starship, Super Heavy, a crew capsule, a lunar lander, a heavy booster and a Mars hopper. Four fly free from the start, Falcon Heavy and the heavy booster are bought with credits you earn by landing missions and from the daily pay calendar, and Super Heavy and the crew capsule come with the optional Captain's Bundle along with the skins. The vehicle changes how your rocket looks, not how it lands. ### Q: Can I play Rocket Landing: Moon Lander offline? Yes. Every world, every rank, every mission is fully playable offline. Offline, the daily mission still flies — the rival ghost becomes your own best run and the online percentile simply does not show. Long flights, the subway, no-data zones — pull the app up and keep flying. ### Q: Is the game free? Yes — free to download and free to play. It is ad-supported (standard mobile ads between runs) with optional rewarded ads for extra fuel and retries. No forced subscription, no signup. The one paid item is the Captain's Bundle, a single one-time purchase that removes ads, unlocks every current rocket skin and adds two bundle-only vehicles to the hangar. If you never buy it, every world, mission and rank is still yours. ### Q: What are the five ranks? Cadet, Pilot, Commander, Ace, Legend. Each rank unlocks a new commander — most have portraits now — who briefs your missions and reads out your worst landing on the debrief card. Your Pilot Card is a one-page screenshot-ready record of every world you have cleared and every rank you have earned, built to be sent. ### Q: What is the Apology Letter to Elon? Every time you crash, the game composes a letter formatted like a real apology email — your mission, the attempt number, the crash cause, the second it went wrong, and the altitude and fuel you had left — in one of six deadpan mission-control styles. You can share them. They are the best part of losing and the easiest way to get a friend to install the game. ### Q: What controls does it use? Tilt the phone or tap — pick whichever feels right. Tilt reads the motion sensor and gives finer drift control once your hands learn it; tap is more predictable under pressure. If the phone sends no motion-sensor data, the game switches to tap controls on its own, and tap clears every world. Your first landing on Earth has a gentle assist — a wider pad and a slower final approach — that switches off after your first touchdown. ### Q: How is this different from Spaceflight Simulator or Kerbal Space Program? Those are sandbox builders — you design the rocket and fly the orbit. Rocket Landing: Moon Lander is the other end of the loop: the rocket is built, the orbit is over, and the only thing left is the descent. Short sessions, a daily mission, a rival to beat, mobile-first. If you want the 60-second lander loop between meetings rather than a two-hour build, this is that. ### Q: Does it run on older or budget phones? Yes. It is built with budget phones in mind — a low graphics setting, fast time-to-gameplay, and tap controls when a phone has no motion sensor. If your phone runs the launch stream, it runs this. ### Q: Can I play against friends? Yes, the way a daily puzzle works. Today every pilot on Earth gets the identical pad, wind and fuel, so your three stars and score are directly comparable to anyone who flew today. Share your result card and send your pilot code so friends can join you. There is no live head-to-head mode, and you do not have to be online at the same time — or online at all, except for the rival ghost and the percentile. ### Q: Is there a browser or PC version? Partly. Our separate browser lander at tool.teamzlab.com/games/moon-lander/ has a Moon pad and drone-ship missions, free, with a retro green screen or modern look, no download and no sign-up. It is its own game with its own handling, not a port of the app. The tower catch, the six worlds, the ranks, the rival ghost and the daily global mission are in the app. ### Q: What is a rocket landing game? A rocket landing game gives you a vehicle that is already falling and asks you to put it down intact — fight the fall, kill the sideways drift, hit the pad before the fuel runs out. It is the opposite of a launch game: there is no countdown and no ascent, only the descent. The genre is the 1979 arcade lunar lander and everything built on it since. What separates them is what changes between landings. In Rocket Landing: Moon Lander each world has its own gravity, drag, wind and fuel burn — no air at all on the Moon, the thickest drag and slowest fall on Titan — tuned for a good game rather than copied from real spacecraft. ### Q: How long does one landing take to play? A single descent runs well under a minute, and there is a 60-second Quick Run one tap from the Home screen for exactly that. Today's global mission has three stars on the line and is done once you land it — crash and you fly it again — so a full daily session is a couple of minutes. It is built to be picked up between other things, offline, and put down again — the whole game plays without a signup or a connection. ### Q: Who built Rocket Landing: Moon Lander? Teamz Lab — a small Manchester (UK) studio building Flutter apps and games. This is our space-physics title; DeviceGPT, No Trace Chat, Phosphor and Toss are some of our other shipped apps. We take custom Flutter app and game builds on Upwork — see the Built by Teamz Lab block below. ## Privacy (from content source) ### Data safety Rocket Landing: Moon Lander collects minimal anonymized usage and crash data to improve gameplay. Ads are served by Google AdMob and may use standard ad identifiers. Play Games / Game Center sign-in is optional; the game plays without it. We do not sell your personal data. When you land the daily mission online, your score and a short trace of your flight path are stored under a random per-install pilot ID (no name, email or account) to work out the daily percentile and to fly as a rival ghost for other pilots. If you are signed in to Play Games or Game Center, your rank, mission progress, streak and chosen ship are also saved to that account. ### Permissions The game requests only the permissions needed for core features — network (daily mission score and rival ghost, ads), storage (saved progress and Pilot Card), and the motion sensor (tilt controls; tap controls are the fallback). Game Center / Play Games sign-in is optional. ### Policy URL https://teamzlab.com/privacy-policy ## Store / monetization (from content; verify on store) - Price: free - In-app purchases: true ## Third-party trademarks SpaceX, Starship, Falcon 9, Super Heavy, and Mechazilla are real-world rocket and spaceflight references. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is the trademark owner. Rocket Landing: Moon Lander is an independent physics game and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by SpaceX. ## Changelog (from content) ### 2.2.0 (2026-09-07) - Renamed: Rocket Landing: Moon Lander on both stores - Your commanders have faces now — portraits on the briefing, debrief and roast cards - Daily pay calendar and Quick Run live on the Home screen - Mission Map shows every world from day one - Share any landing as a card; invite friends with your pilot code - A gentler first landing on M01 - Wind audio and small-screen layout fixes ### 2.1.0 (2026-05-16) - New: Today's Global Mission — every pilot on Earth flies the same mission today - New: Five-rank career — Cadet, Pilot, Commander, Ace, Legend - New: Mechazilla arc — bring a Super Heavy into the tower arms - New: Apology Letter to Elon — procedurally generated crash letter you can share - Six worlds — Earth, Moon, Mars, Titan, Europa, Mechazilla — each with its own gravity, wind and fuel burn - Captain's Bundle one-time purchase — remove ads, unlock every current rocket skin - Tap-control fallback for phones without a motion sensor ## Built by Teamz Lab Rocket Landing: Moon Lander was designed and built by Teamz Lab on Flutter. Want a custom mobile game, physics simulator, or polished Flutter app for your brand? Hire us on Upwork — escrow protected, fixed scope, fixed price. --- ## Landing page body (full markdown below the fold on site) ## A moon lander game with six worlds and a tower at the end Most rocket games stop at the launch. **Rocket Landing: Moon Lander** starts where the classic lunar lander started — a ship falling toward a surface, an engine, a fuel gauge, and a pad you have to hit — and then keeps going. Six worlds, each with its own gravity, wind and fuel burn. A tower at the end that takes the pad away. One mission a day that every pilot on Earth flies against the same wind. It is free, plays fully offline, and asks for no signup. If you want to try the genre before you install anything, our separate free browser lander at [tool.teamzlab.com/games/moon-lander/](https://tool.teamzlab.com/games/moon-lander/) has a Moon pad and a drone ship. --- ## The lunar landing, world by world The lander game you remember from the arcade had one trick: gravity pulls, thrust pushes, fuel runs out, and the pad is the only safe place to stop. Every lander game since has been a riff on that trick. This one keeps the trick and changes the conditions on every world. It is an arcade game, not a flight simulator — **gravity, drag, wind and fuel burn are tuned per world for play**, not copied from real spacecraft: - **The Moon — Shackleton.** No atmosphere and a lighter fall than Earth, but the engine drinks fuel three times as fast, and the first engine flame-outs start here. Fuel is the whole problem. - **Mars — Jezero.** Thin air, just enough drag to lie to you, and dust storms that push you off-line the whole way down. - **Titan.** Thick atmosphere, slow descents, everything happens late. The patience world. - **Europa.** Barely any wind, but the engine cuts out more often than on any other world, every cut drops you faster, and a lopsided nozzle keeps nudging you sideways. - **Earth — Boca Chica.** Full gravity, wind, fog, night descents. The teaching world, and the place you learn the catch. - **The Mechazilla arc.** No pad at all. A Super Heavy booster has to arrive inside a pair of chopstick arms. You will feel the difference the first time the wind walks you off the centreline on the way down and the ship comes down beside the pad instead of on it. The game tells you exactly what happened — the crash cause, the second it went wrong, the altitude and fuel you had left — in a letter you will want to send to someone. --- ## "Rocket landing game" — which landing are you actually after? People search **rocket landing game** meaning four quite different descents, and it is worth knowing which one you came for, because each asks something different of you. - **A pad landing with no atmosphere.** The classic lunar lander: Shackleton on the Moon, no air, and an engine that eats fuel fast. This is the one most people picture, and it is where our separate free browser lander starts you. - **A pad landing with atmosphere fighting you.** Mars gives you thin air and dust storms, Titan gives you thick drag and slow descents, Europa gives you an engine that keeps cutting out. Same rule, three different lies. - **A drone-ship landing at sea.** The Falcon-style recovery onto a small floating pad. There is still a surface under you, so putting your engine down on the pad's centre is the whole job — the gentlest way into the genre after the Moon. - **A tower catch with no pad at all.** A Super Heavy booster has to arrive inside a pair of chopstick arms, through the gustiest wind in the game. This is the hardest descent in the game and the one the Mechazilla arc is built around. All four are in **Rocket Landing: Moon Lander**, free, offline and without a signup. If you want to try the genre before installing anything, our [separate free browser lander](https://tool.teamzlab.com/games/moon-lander/) has a Moon pad and a drone ship; the tower catch, the six worlds and the daily global mission are in the app. Our [other games](/games/) are on the games page. --- ## Today's global mission — same pad, same wind, every pilot on Earth The mechanic the whole game is built around: **today, every pilot in the world flies the same mission**. Same pad, same wind speed, same fuel margin, same fog. Three stars on the line. Crash and you can go again; land it and that landing is your result for the day. Online, the debrief tells you what percentage of today's pilots you out-scored. You do not fly it alone. Online, **a ghost of a real rival's recorded descent flies beside you** — not a bot, another pilot's actual run on today's mission, picked from pilots who scored a little above your recent best. When they pull ahead at thirty metres you can see exactly what they did that you did not. Offline, the ghost is your own best run. The share card is **spoiler-free** — an emoji grid, like a daily word puzzle, no result given away. Send it to the group chat, send your pilot code so friends can join, and watch the streak anxiety set in. The mission resets at midnight, local time. --- ## How to land cleanly — what the three stars measure New pilots crash the same way: they leave the drift until it is too late to fix and come down beside the pad. On a career mission, stars come from one **landing grade** — S, A, B or C — set by **how close to the centre of the pad your engine touches down**. Landing with **under a quarter of the tank**, or after **85% of the time limit**, drops the grade by one each. S is three stars, A is two, B or C is one. The daily mission turns the same landing into points — time, fuel left and the grade all count — and gives its three stars from those. - **Kill the drift early.** Wind pushes you sideways the whole way down. Correct it high, while you still have time to fix it, not in the last seconds when one more correction can carry you past the pad. - **Do not burn the fuel margin early.** Every input fires the engine and costs fuel. Landing with under a quarter of the tank drops a grade, and an empty tank ends the run, so steer in short corrections instead of constant ones. - **Watch the centre, not the speed.** The pad does not check how fast you arrive; it checks where. The landing counts only if your engine drops inside the pad's inner ring, and the closer to the centre, the better the grade. - **Pick the control scheme honestly.** Tilt (the motion sensor) gives finer drift control once your hands learn it; tap is more predictable under pressure. If a phone sends no motion-sensor data, the game falls back to tap on its own, and tap clears every world. - **Learn the worlds in order.** Earth teaches the approach. The Moon takes the air away and makes fuel the problem. Mars adds dust-storm gusts and a wind that switches sides. Titan slows everything down. Europa keeps cutting your engine. You have to clear them in order anyway — the Moon opens at rank Pilot, after the 13 Earth missions. - **Your first landing is gentler on purpose.** Until you land once, M01 widens the pad and slows the final approach. It switches off the moment you land, and nothing after it gets that help. --- ## Starship landing or Falcon-style drone ship — two recoveries, two skills People arrive here from two searches. Some typed **falcon 9 landing** and want the drone-ship recovery they have watched a hundred times. Some typed **starship landing** and want the tower. The game has both, and they are not the same skill. - **Drone-ship landing — the Falcon-style recovery.** Your booster comes back to a floating pad at sea. The pad is small and it moves, but it is still a *pad*: there is a surface under you, and putting your engine down on its centre is the whole job. - **Tower catch — the Super Heavy recovery.** No pad. Your booster has to arrive **inside a pair of chopstick arms**, through the strongest gusts in the game and a wind that flips sides every few seconds. The Mechazilla arc is this recovery, and it is the one that decides whether the rank on your Pilot Card means anything. The practical difference: **on the tower, your fuel goes on fighting drift.** The landing check is the same as on a pad — your engine has to drop inside the target's inner ring — but the tower world has the strongest gusts in the game. Arriving too fast never costs you the catch; drifting off the centreline does, and the arms close on nothing. **What the vehicles are.** The boosters in this game are ours, not licensed models. "Falcon-style" is a slim single-stick booster and "Super Heavy" a large one; you choose the ship you fly in the hangar, and it changes the look, not the landing. The game is tuned for play; nothing here simulates any real rocket's flight software or telemetry, and the game is not affiliated with SpaceX. --- ## "Catch the booster" — the game mode, and how the catch is actually scored If you came here looking for a **catch the booster game** — the one where the rocket comes back to the tower and two arms close on it instead of legs touching a pad — that is the **Mechazilla arc**, and it is a full world, not a bonus level. Here is what the catch asks of you, in order: 1. **Arrive on the centreline, not near it.** Your engine has to drop inside the inner ring at the centre of the arms; outside it the run is a crash, and inside it the closer you are to the centre, the better the grade. How fast you arrive is not checked — where you arrive is everything. 2. **Kill the drift high.** Correcting early leaves time to settle; correcting in the last seconds tends to carry you past the arms. The wind pushes you off-line the whole way down — and in the Mechazilla arc it flips sides every few seconds — so the correction is continuous, not a single input. 3. **Hold the fuel margin.** Every correction burns fuel. Finish with under a quarter of the tank and the grade drops by one; run the tank dry and the catch is over before the arms. Where to learn it: **Earth (Boca Chica)** teaches the catch with wind, fog and night descents while the stakes are low. The **Mechazilla arc** is where it decides your rank. If you want the pad version first, the drone-ship recovery above is the gentler teacher — and our separate free browser lander at [tool.teamzlab.com/games/moon-lander/](https://tool.teamzlab.com/games/moon-lander/) has a Moon pad and a drone ship, though the tower catch itself lives in the app. More of our games are on the [games page](/games/), and the wider app catalogue is on [the Teamz Lab apps home](/). --- ## Eight vehicles, five ranks, commanders with faces Every world cleared moves you up the rank: **Cadet → Pilot → Commander → Ace → Legend.** Each rank brings a new commander — most have portraits now — who briefs your missions and, when you crash, reads your worst landing back to you on the debrief card. Your **Pilot Card** is a one-page, screenshot-ready record of every world you have cleared and every rank you have earned. Built to be sent. The hangar holds **eight vehicles**: a Falcon-style booster, Falcon Heavy, Starship, Super Heavy, a crew capsule, a lunar lander, a heavy booster, and a Mars hopper. Four fly free from the start; Falcon Heavy and the heavy booster are bought with credits you earn by landing missions and from the daily pay calendar; Super Heavy and the crew capsule come with the Captain's Bundle. The ship changes how your rocket looks, not how it lands — every mission plays the same in any of them, so pick the one you like. --- ## Come back tomorrow — the loop a lander game never had The classic lander was a high-score reset. This one has a week in it. - **Daily pay calendar** on the Home screen: seven tiles, today claimable on a tap, tomorrow's already showing what it pays. - **Flight Week**: seven seeded dailies form a named week. Land five of the seven and the week pays out a cosmetic booster trail. - **Quick Run**: a sixty-second random Earth descent, one tap from the hero card, for when you have one minute and not five. - **Mission Map** visible from day one: all six worlds, the locked ones telling you exactly what opens them. --- ## Every crash writes you an email — the Apology Letter to Elon You do not just crash. The game **composes an Apology Letter to Elon**, formatted like a real email — your mission, the attempt number, the crash cause, the second it went wrong, and the altitude and fuel you had left. Six deadpan mission-control styles, all of them shareable — made for the group chat, where a friend sees theirs and wants to know what their own would say. --- ## Free, offline, no paywall — and how we keep it that way Rocket Landing: Moon Lander is **free to download and free to play**. **No forced subscription. No signup. No account.** Every world, every rank, every mission and the daily global mission play **fully offline** — the real-rival ghost and the daily percentile appear when you are online. The game is **ad-supported** (standard banner and interstitial ads between runs from Google AdMob) with **optional rewarded ads** for extra fuel and retries — never forced. The one paid item is the **Captain's Bundle**, a single one-time purchase that removes ads, unlocks every current rocket skin and adds two bundle-only vehicles (Super Heavy and the crew capsule) to the hangar. If you never buy it, every world, mission and rank is still yours. Pilot Card progress and rank history **are saved on your device**, and also to your Play Games or Game Center account when you are signed in. A daily landing made online sends your score and a short flight trace under a random pilot ID — no name or account — for the percentile and the rival ghosts. See our [Privacy Policy](https://teamzlab.com/privacy-policy) for the full data summary. --- ## How it compares to other lander and rocket games - **The arcade lunar lander and its browser clones.** One pad, one gravity, one high score. This game keeps the rule — fight gravity, land on the pad before the fuel runs out — and adds five more worlds, a tower with no pad, a daily mission and a rival. If you only want the classic, a Moon pad plays free in our separate browser lander at [tool.teamzlab.com/games/moon-lander/](https://tool.teamzlab.com/games/moon-lander/). - **Spaceflight Simulator.** An excellent open-ended rocket builder — design and orbit. This is the other half of the loop: the rocket is built, the orbit is done, the only thing left is **the descent**. Short sessions, mobile-first, daily mission. - **Kerbal Space Program.** The genre's grandparent. Deep, sandbox, desktop-first. We are not trying to be KSP on a phone — we are the **60-second lander loop** KSP fans pull up between meetings. - **Generic "rocket launch" arcade games.** Tap-to-launch, no physics, no landing. This game leads with **the landing** — the only part of a launch stream everyone actually holds their breath for. --- ## Who it is for - **Anyone who played a lunar lander game once** and still remembers the exact feeling of drifting past the pad with the fuel gauge on empty. - **Launch-stream watchers** who wanted a phone version of the tower catch the moment the arms closed for the first time. - **Spaceflight Simulator and KSP fans** who love the build but want a five-minute descent loop too. - **Daily-puzzle players** who want one shared mission a day with a shareable result card and a real rival. --- ## The real catch the tower arc is built on On **13 October 2024**, SpaceX flew a Super Heavy booster back to its launch tower at Starbase in Boca Chica and caught it in the tower's two articulated arms — the first time a returning orbital-class booster was caught by a tower instead of setting down on legs. That descent is the moment the Mechazilla arc is built around. What the game takes from it, and what it does not: - **The lateral problem is the real problem.** A tower catch has no pad to aim at, so sideways error is what decides it. That is why centring sets your landing grade and why wind pushes you off-line the entire way down. - **Fuel is the constraint that decides everything.** Every correction burns propellant, an empty tank ends the run, and finishing with under a quarter of the tank costs a grade. - **What it is not.** An independent arcade game, not a simulation of any real vehicle's flight software, telemetry or engine performance, and not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by SpaceX. The numbers are tuned for play, and the booster is ours. --- ## Built by Teamz Lab — and available for hire Rocket Landing: Moon Lander is built in **Flutter** by [Teamz Lab](/), a small UK studio. The same team ships [DeviceGPT](/devicegpt/) (phone diagnostics), [No Trace Chat](/no-trace-chat/), [Phosphor](/notetube-ai/), and [Toss](/toss/) — shipped work is on [our portfolio](/portfolio/) and the people behind it are on [the team page](/team/). If it is another of our games you want rather than another of our apps, [Arrow Jam 3D](/arrow-jam-3d/) is the 3D logic puzzle and [Kintsugi Pottery: Goldmend](/goldmend/) is the pottery game — throw clay, let the kiln crack it, then mend the break with gold. The [poker trainer](/launch/poker-trainer-private-tables/) is a free browser prototype that scores your Texas Hold'em decisions and explains the better line, if you want something to think about rather than something to fly. If you want a custom mobile game, a physics or simulation app, or a polished cross-platform Flutter build for your own brand, we take client work through [our Upwork agency profile](https://www.upwork.com/agencies/1904602719490921565/) — milestone escrow, so money moves only when you approve the deliverable. Start with [our app development service](/hire-app-developer-for-startup/) if you are scoping a build from scratch. --- **Bottom line:** If you want a **moon lander game** with somewhere to go after the Moon — six worlds, a Starship tower catch, one global mission a day, a real rival, and an Apology Letter on every crash — install **Rocket Landing: Moon Lander** from the buttons on this page. Free, offline, no signup. Three stars on the line, every day.