Comparison

Don't Get Stranded! vs Cratebound

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Don't Get Stranded!

Solve physics-based puzzles to guide a monkey to its food by strategically moving rafts. This free game offers 144 challenging levels with no time limits, featuring cute graphics and jazzy music.

Highlights
  • Physics-based raft movement
  • 144 challenging levels
  • No time limits
  • Cute graphics
  • Jazzy music
  • Customizable critter costumes
Features
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Welcome to Don’t Get Stranded, a beautiful, free puzzle app! Marooned on an island, your monkey's only source of food is too far to reach. Build a path out of the rafts around you, but be careful: one wrong move and you’ll be stranded! Whenever you jump off of a raft, Newton's first and third laws of motion come into play. The raft is forced in the opposite direction, and continues until it hits a wall. You'll have to plan ahead to position every element where you need, to build the enigmatic path to your bananas. You’ll catch on quick, but don’t let the cute graphics fool you—this game features challenges that will test the mental limits of even the best puzzle solvers! Are you clever enough to clear every level? Dress your critters up in silly costumes and listen to the beautiful, jazzy music as you puzzle your way through each level. There are no time limits, so play at your own pace! This game features 144 free levels, from easy little baby levels to nearly impossible challenges that will be bugging your brain for hours.

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Cratebound

Features
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Most box-push games just want you to finish. Cratebound wants you to finish perfectly. Every warehouse is a Sokoban puzzle with one rule: push every crate onto a goal pad. You can only push, never pull — so one careless shove into a corner and that crate is lost for good. Think before you move, and the whole board opens up. TAP TO PLAN, THE FEATURE THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING - Tap any crate and Cratebound lights up every single square it can be pushed to from where you stand - Dead corners, where a crate could never reach a goal again, are marked in red before you ruin your run - Tap a highlighted square and the keeper walks the route and makes the push for you — no fumbling one step at a time - It turns a game famous for fat-finger mistakes into pure, clean planning A REAL PAR, NOT A GUESS - Every level ships with its optimal push count, worked out by a solver built into the app - Match that number and you earn a Perfect Clear and three stars, so a win always means something - Watch your lifetime push efficiency climb as you stop wasting moves - The par is provable, because each board is generated in reverse from a solved state and then verified SIMPLE TO PLAY, HARD TO MASTER - Swipe to move the keeper; tap a floor tile to have him walk there on his own - Unlimited undo, one push at a time, so a mistake is never the end of a board - A hint that shows the next optimal push without ever moving a crate for you - No timers rushing you, no lives to run out, no move limit to fail 100 HAND-BUILT LEVELS ACROSS FIVE WAREHOUSES - Start in the Depot on small, friendly boards and finish in the Citadel on dense five-crate puzzles - Each warehouse ramps up gently: bigger floors, more crates, tighter walls - Every level is a fresh, solver-checked layout, never a reskin of the last one - An Endless shift keeps dealing new boards when you just want to keep playing, no stars, no pressure A DAILY SHIFT FOR EVERYONE - One shared board a day, identical for every player on earth, with its own certified par - Build a streak and watch your month fill in on the calendar - The board grows over the week, from a quick Monday to a meaty weekend - Share your pushes and streak with a single tap STATS THAT ACTUALLY MEAN SOMETHING - Lifetime push efficiency, wasted pushes and perfect clears, all from real play - An efficiency trend chart that shows whether you are genuinely improving - A consistency heatmap of the last 15 weeks - This week against last, your best day of the week, and personal records - 40 badges across 10 families, from your first clear to your hundredth streak day PERFECT FOR - Anyone who loves a logic puzzle with a right answer, not a lucky one - Sokoban and push-box fans who want a modern, forgiving take on the classic - Players who bounced off other warehouse puzzles because a single slip lost the level - People who want a calm brain workout for a coffee break or a commute - Anyone who prefers thinking to tapping, and patience to reflexes - Long flights, waiting rooms, the underground: it never needs a signal Cratebound is fully offline. No account, no sign-up, no subscription, and your progress never leaves your device. Push the first crate and see how few moves it really takes.

Screenshots

Don't Get Stranded!4 screens
Cratebound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Don't Get Stranded! at none against Cratebound's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Don't Get Stranded! versus Cratebound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDon't Get Stranded!Cratebound
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 86 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSamuel NielsonFerran Espuna

In-app purchases

None

Don't Get Stranded!

No in-app purchases

None

Cratebound

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Don't Get Stranded! free?
Don't Get Stranded! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cratebound free?
Cratebound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Don't Get Stranded! or Cratebound have ads?
Cratebound shows ads; Don't Get Stranded! does not.

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