Comparison

Survivalcraft Day One vs Exploration Lite

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

Head to head
About

Survivalcraft Day One

Explore an infinite blocky world, gathering resources, crafting tools, and building shelters to survive. Hunt animals, grow crops, and tame creatures while uncovering new crafting tiers and electrical possibilities.

Highlights
  • Infinite blocky world exploration
  • Resource mining and crafting
  • Building shelters and traps
  • Hunting and farming
  • Taming and herding animals
  • Complex electrical devices
  • New armor and weapon tiers
Features
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You are marooned on the shores of an infinite blocky world. Explore, mine resources, craft tools and weapons, make traps and grow plants. Tailor clothes and hunt animals for food and resources. Build a shelter to survive cold nights and share your worlds online. Ride horses, camels or donkeys and herd cattle to protect them from predators. Blast your way through the rock with explosives. Build complex electric devices. Possibilities are infinite in this long-running sandbox survival and construction game series. This is the thirtieth release of Survivalcraft, and it adds a new armor and weapons tier - copper! You can now paint stairs, slab, fences and signs and place electric gates on the floor or ceiling. Wander in dense forests full of tall spruces and fallen logs. Explore bigger caves, but watch out for huge magma chambers underground (15x bigger than 1.28). There are new sound generator sounds for you to use, including hi-fi drums! Survivalcraft brings features you love in the PC version of the most popular blocky game to your mobile device: infinite worlds, caves, logic elements (electricity), weather, boats, ridable animals, explosions, clothes, armor and many more. It does so while maintaining its own realistic, survival-themed style. Enjoy! Brief update history so far: - 1.0 (initial release, 16 Nov 2011) - 1.1 (screenshots, torches, lamps, tools, controls sensitivity, recipaedia) - 1.2 (sneaking, stairs, slabs, doors, ladders, snow, ice, christmas tree) - 1.3 (basalt, limestone, marble, furnace) - 1.4 (new world format, clay, bricks) - 1.5 (birds, weapons, throwing, food, eating) - 1.6 (emergency bugfix release) - 1.7 (trapdoors, water animations, snowballs, traps, wildboars, game modes) - 1.8 (buckets, water physics, magma, world properties, view angles) - 1.9 (Dropbox, fences, upside-down stairs and slabs) - 1.10 (optimizations, bulls, signs, sulphur, saltpeter, adventure mode) - 1.11 (explosives, fire, matches, magma as fluid) - 1.12 (wolves, cows, milk, diamonds, flat terrain, controls improvements) - 1.13 (creature spawners, eggs, saplings, compass, thermometer, grass spreading) - 1.14 (emergency bugfix release, hygrometer, sharper text) - 1.15 (big performance improvements, bears, machetes, adventure restart, cacti) - 1.16 (smoother framerate, polar bears, paint, falling blocks, environment modes) - 1.17 (3rd person view, 3d tools, creature shadows, physics optimizations) - 1.18 (rain, snow, thunderstorms, thawing/freezing, werewolves, pumpkins) - 1.19 (electricity, new UI, new recipaedia, new help, germanium + lots more) - 1.20 (community content, better caves, creative options, SD card) - 1.21 (fish, horseriding, electricity improvements, camels, leather + lots more) - 1.22 (survival, farming, boats, islands, more painting, pathfinding, rhinos and many other animals) - 1.23 (content rating, larger visibility range, analog electrics, halloween special, donkeys, bass) - 1.24 (bows and arrows, shooting target, reindeer, tigers, iron fences, ivy, feathers, string) - 1.25 (custom skins, new explosions engine, bombs, crossbows, fire arrows, new UI, stone fences) - 1.26 (clothes, armor, temperature effects, belugas, cassowarys, pumpkin and cotton farming) - 1.27 (moose, campfires, larger inventory, lightning button, more clothes, AI improvements, new engine) - 1.28 (firearms, dispensers, fireworks, digging cracks, left-handed controls) - 1.29 (more paintable items, copper armor and weapons, tall spruces, horizontal logs, bigger caves)

About

Exploration Lite

Create and explore an infinite 3D world by building structures, mining resources, and transforming the terrain. This app offers a sandbox experience for imaginative construction and exploration.

Highlights
  • Infinite 3D environment
  • Build bases, castles, kingdoms
  • Mine resources
  • Destroy and transform terrain
  • Save world progress
  • Block crafting
Features
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Build a base, mine, castle, kingdom, empire or whatever you imagine on the infinite 3D environment! Enjoy endless world building games! Everybody loves building games that popular all around the world. Exploration Lite Free is an editor which allows you to move, delete, build craft, destroy, jump, save, building blocks and transforming the terrain in the 3D environment. Explorer and builders, play for free now!

Screenshots

Survivalcraft Day One4 screens
Exploration Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Exploration Lite at 4.5 against Survivalcraft Day One's 3.7. Exploration Lite also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (23K vs 616). Survivalcraft Day One's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 19) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment and device support 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. Exploration Lite sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. Survivalcraft Day One asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Exploration Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exploration Lite has 23K ratings behind it against 616, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Survivalcraft Day One's written reviews are positive against 61% of Exploration Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Survivalcraft Day One ships an update every 19 months, Exploration Lite every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Survivalcraft Day One versus Exploration Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurvivalcraft Day OneExploration Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (616 ratings)4.5 (23K ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.7% of reviews61.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings61623K — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB798 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperIgor KalicinskiSolverLabs LLC

Customer experience

Survivalcraft Day One

All ratings613 ratings
Positive65.1%
Neutral7.5%
Negative27.4%
Written reviews425 reviews
Positive56.7%
Neutral12.9%
Negative30.4%

Exploration Lite

All ratings23,238 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral5.1%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews1,006 reviews
Positive61.2%
Neutral9.0%
Negative29.7%

User reviews

Survivalcraft Day One

From 616 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Realistic and immersive gameplay
  • 👍 Customizable characters and worlds
  • 🤩 Nostalgic for childhood players
  • 💯 Addictive and fun

Room to improve

  • 🕰️ Limited playtime (only one day)
  • 💰 Full version costs $3.99
  • 🐛 Crashes and glitches
  • 🤯 Confusing for new players

Exploration Lite

From 23K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Good alternative for Minecraft
  • 👍 Blocky, fun, and creative
  • 👍 Awesome game
  • 👍 Great game
  • 👍 I love this game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Laggy and crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🐛 Disappearing builds and maps
  • 🔒 Lack of moderation and inappropriate content
  • 💰 Too many ads and in-app purchases

Bugs and requests

Survivalcraft Day One

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Difficulty separating items
  • Infinite health enemies
  • Sudden game exits

Requested features

4 requests
  • Longer playtime or unlimited days
  • Multiplayer mode
  • More animals and mobs
  • Ability to save and continue progress

Exploration Lite

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Disconnection issues and inability to play in offline/single-player mode
  • Disappearing builds and maps
  • Glitches and bugs with block placement and interactions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add beds, furniture, animals, and more interactive elements
  • Implement different realms like Nether and End
  • Add more blocks, items, and crafting options
  • Improve save/load functionality for builds
  • Implement better chat filtering and moderation

In-app purchases

None

Survivalcraft Day One

No in-app purchases

19 purchases

Exploration Lite

One-time19
  • Tiny Pack of Coins$0.99
  • Tiny Pack of Gems$0.99
  • Light Pack of Coins$1.99
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  • Small Pack of Coins$2.99
  • Big Pack of Coins$3.99
  • Medium Pack of Coins$3.99
  • Big Pack of Gems$3.99
  • Large Pack of Coins$4.99
  • Giant Pack of Coins$5.99
  • Huge Pack of Coins$6.99
  • Chest of Coins$7.99
  • Massive Pack of Coins$7.99
  • Bucket of Gems$7.99
  • Golden Chest of Coins$11.99
  • Bank of Coins$16.99
  • Chest of Gems$20.99
  • Treasury of Coins$41.99
  • Bank of Gems$41.99
  • Treasure of Gems$99.99

Questions

Is Survivalcraft Day One free?
Survivalcraft Day One is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Exploration Lite free?
Exploration Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Survivalcraft Day One or Exploration Lite?
Exploration Lite is rated higher. Survivalcraft Day One averages 3.7 out of 5 from 616 ratings, while Exploration Lite averages 4.5 from 23K ratings.
Do Survivalcraft Day One or Exploration Lite have ads?
Exploration Lite shows ads; Survivalcraft Day One does not.
Which is updated more often, Survivalcraft Day One or Exploration Lite?
Survivalcraft Day One ships an update every 19 months, and Exploration Lite every 6 weeks. Most recently, Survivalcraft Day One was updated on October 20, 2026 and Exploration Lite on October 21, 2026.

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