Where Did Angry Birds Space Go? Gravity Puzzle Games You Can Still Play

By Codixus Games · 2 November 2026

If you want an Angry Birds Space alternative, look for a game where planets bend your shot. A few exist, and none is a perfect copy. On October 26, 2026, a search of the App Store catalog in the US, UK, Canada and Australia did not return Angry Birds Space, and we found no Rovio statement giving a removal date or a reason.

What Rovio does say, on the App Store listing for Angry Birds Reloaded, is that Angry Birds Space found its reloaded home there. Reloaded needs Apple Arcade. For other gravity-bending shots we checked three more games against their store listings: Moonshot - A Journey Home and two different games called Orbit. Clatter Smash, our own game, is on the list too.

What we can and cannot confirm about Angry Birds Space

Plenty of pages answer "where did Angry Birds Space go" with a date and a reason. We could not source either, so here is only what we checked.

We searched the App Store catalog for Angry Birds Space in four storefronts on October 26, 2026. The results included Angry Birds 2, Angry Birds Friends, Bad Piggies, Red's First Flight and Angry Birds Reloaded. None was called Angry Birds Space. Four storefronts do not prove the game is gone everywhere, and we could not tie a Google Play page to the game, so we say nothing about Android.

Rovio has talked about taking old games down. In a letter to fans dated June 22, 2021, the company wrote that "we took them out of circulation, and didn't say anything and that let you down." The letter names Angry Birds Classic and Angry Birds Seasons, and gives older technology and outdated game engines as the reason. It does not mention Angry Birds Space.

Other pages do give Space a removal date. When we checked, the Wikipedia article on the game gave one, but the news story it cites for that line is about the original Angry Birds game, not Space. Neither Rovio article we read, the 2021 letter or the Apple Arcade announcement, mentions Space. So we leave the date and the reason out. If you see them stated as fact, ask where they come from.

What made Space different from other slingshot games

Angry Birds Space came out in 2012, and gravity was its trick. According to Wikipedia, it was released worldwide on March 22, 2012, and most levels feature planets with gravitational fields that attract nearby objects. The same article describes planetoids that each have their own gravitational field, which affects the trajectory of the birds after launch.

That is the part worth looking for in a replacement: a shot that curves because of what sits near it, not a straight arc under the same pull everywhere. It also means no alternative matches it exactly. Some bend a path around planets, and ours sets one pull per world. In the planet games you predict a path that gravity is editing; in ours the launcher works out the arc for you, and gravity shows in how the stack falls.

Angry Birds Space alternatives you can download today

We read each store description on October 26, 2026. We did not review how well these games play, and prices vary by region, so check the listing before you pay.

On Apple Arcade

Angry Birds Reloaded is Rovio's game for Apple Arcade. According to Rovio's announcement, it launched on July 16, 2021 with seven episodes, and subscribers play without ads or in-app purchases. You start on iPhone or iPad and continue on Apple TV or Mac. Its App Store listing says Angry Birds Space found its reloaded home there, and it advertises new Space birds named Iron Bird, Scarlet Wing and Halgorhythm. The listing does not say the original Space levels are included, so do not expect a level-for-level match.

Moonshot - A Journey Home is from Noodlecake and is also on Apple Arcade. Its listing calls it a physics-based puzzle game in which you play Moon Pi, a young moon separated from Mother Earth. You use a drag and release mechanic to launch yourself past other planets' gravity fields. On paper, it and the first Orbit game below are the closest to the Space idea, since both bend a launch around planets. The listing shows version 1.2.1 from May 1, 2025.

Free to download, with ads

Orbit - Gravity Puzzle Game, from Interconnected, has listings on the App Store and Google Play. Its description says you launch a ball around planets, avoid obstacles and reach checkpoints, and that you aim your shot and let gravity bend its path. Both listings show ads and in-app purchases.

Orbit - Playing with Gravity, from HIGHKEY Games, also has both listings. It calls itself a gravity simulator at the heart of a puzzle game: you launch planets with a flick of a finger and try to settle them into orbits around black holes. Both listings show ads and in-app purchases too. It is closer to orbit-building than to Angry Birds shooting, so treat it as a gravity puzzle, not a slingshot game. The two Orbit games are by different developers, so check the name before you install.

If you only want the birds, Angry Birds 2 and Bad Piggies are listed on both stores, but their App Store descriptions do not mention planets or gravity. Our post on games like Angry Birds covers those and more.

Clatter Smash: our game, built on real surface gravity

Clatter Smash is our own game, made by Codixus Games, and it is not affiliated with Rovio. You aim, launch a ball and try to take the whole stack off the deck. Each of its 75 levels is a shape with one weak point, such as a wall, an arch, a vault or a bridge. The stacks mix nine materials, including glass, ice, rubber, TNT and stone, and the game has two balls, Steel and Heavy.

The gravity part is simple to state. The game has five worlds, and each runs its real surface gravity: Earth at 9.81 m/s squared, the Moon at 1.62, Mars at 3.72, Saturn at 10.44 and Jupiter at 24.79. The launcher works out the arc for each world's pull, so the ball still flies to the piece you aim at. What changes is how the stack comes down: slowly on the Moon, hard on Jupiter.

It is not Angry Birds Space. Space has planets pulling the bird along its path. Clatter Smash has no small planets. Each world has one even pull, so the Moon feels floaty everywhere and Jupiter feels heavy everywhere. There is no time limit on a level. It is free to play, with ads and optional in-app purchases, on iOS and Google Play. The world picker on our home page shows all five. If you like the stack-breaking more than the gravity, our list of destruction games for mobile goes wider.

How to adapt your aim when gravity changes

Two textbook formulas cover most of it, with air ignored. The time to fall from height h is the square root of 2h divided by g. The range of a launch on level ground is the launch speed squared, times the sine of twice the launch angle, divided by g.

Take a ball launched at 10 m/s (about 22 mph) at 45 degrees. Its range is about:

• Earth (9.81): 10.2 m (33 ft)
• Moon (1.62): 61.7 m (203 ft)
• Mars (3.72): 26.9 m (88 ft)
• Saturn (10.44): 9.6 m (31 ft)
• Jupiter (24.79): 4.0 m (13 ft)

A 2 m (6.6 ft) drop takes about 0.64 seconds on Earth, 1.57 on the Moon and 0.40 on Jupiter. These are plain physics for a thrown ball, not a description of how any one game works inside.

The rule of thumb is that range goes as 1 over g. The same throw carries about six times as far on the Moon as on Earth, and about 40 percent as far on Jupiter. To land on the same spot at the same angle on another world, launch speed has to scale with the square root of g. That means about 1.6 times faster on Jupiter than on Earth, and about 0.4 times as fast on the Moon. If a game lets you set launch power, that is the adjustment to make first.

Where do the g values come from? Wikipedia's surface gravity table lists multiples of Earth's standard gravity, where 1 g is 9.80665 m/s squared. Jupiter's 2.528 g works out to about 24.79 and Saturn's 1.065 g to about 10.44, with gas giants measured at the 1 bar pressure level. NASA's planetary fact sheet prints 23.1 for Jupiter and 9.0 for Saturn, and rounds the Moon to 1.6 and Mars to 3.7. The gap is where you measure. NASA's notes define the value at the equator including the effects of rotation, while Wikipedia's Jupiter and Saturn figures are midlatitude values. The Moon's 1.62 and Wikipedia's 0.1657 g, about 1.625, differ only by rounding.

If you want the original levels

The only route we can point to is the one Rovio's own listing describes: Angry Birds Reloaded on Apple Arcade. We cannot say whether its Space content matches the original levels.

If you own an old copy on an old device, we cannot tell you from here whether it still runs or can be downloaded again. Your store account's purchase history is the place to look. We do not recommend unofficial APK or IPA files from third-party sites, and we will not link to one.