The Trail vs Pilgrims
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Trail
Embark on a frontier adventure, exploring unknown lands, crafting, trading, and building a community. Discover beautiful landscapes and make your fortune in this unique mobile game.
- Explore vast landscapes
- Craft and trade goods
- Build and settle communities
- Collect resources
- Befriend a companion pet
- Relaxing one-thumb gameplay
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The Trail will lead you to adventure and fortune! Join our pioneers on a vast journey across country unknown. Set forth to reach the town of Eden Falls - explore, craft, collect, trade, discover, and eventually settle and build. The newest game from Peter Molyneux, legendary designer and creator of the God Game genre, brings the frontier to life on your mobile device. Peter Molyneux’s previous games include Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Fable, Populous, and Godus. Features of The Trail include: BEAUTIFUL Take in the view as you walk The Trail through different landscapes and fantastic vistas. RELAXING Using only your thumb, swipe and drag to move delightfully along The Trail. Designed for everyone to pick up and enjoy. MAKE YOUR FORTUNE Travel to the new world to make your fortune! Learn to craft and trade. BUILD A COMMUNITY Join a town to unlock more features and work together to make your town the best in the new world! COMPANION Befriend an interactive pet dog to accompany you on your journey, and play together to unwind when at home. UNIQUE You've never played anything like The Trail!
Pilgrims
Embark on a playful adventure game where you explore a world, interact with unique characters, and solve puzzles in multiple ways. Discover humorous outcomes and collect achievements in this hand-crafted experience.
- Playful exploration
- Multiple solutions
- Dozens of items and characters
- 45 achievements
- Hand-crafted animations
- Original music
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Try for free. In-app purchase the full game. Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find? It is most enjoyable if you’re into: - Playfulness: Don’t beat it - play with it! Solve the various tasks using dozens of items and unique characters without being obliged to follow a single designated path. - Replayability: Packed with 45 achievements, Pilgrims is a game designed to be played through more than just once. Can you collect them all? - Hand-crafted appeal: Hundreds of unique animations and custom made sound effects result in countless humorous and unexpected outcomes. Try to discover as many as you can! - Original music: Floex (Machinarium, Samorost 3) is back at it with his mix of live instruments and organic electronics, joined by guests on guitar or clarinet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pilgrims at none against The Trail's shown. The Trail's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (26K vs 485). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. The Trail sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Pilgrims sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for The Trail against 4.5 for Pilgrims. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Trail has 26K ratings behind it against 485, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of The Trail's written reviews are positive against 64% of Pilgrims's.
The Trail ships an update fortnightly, Pilgrims every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | The Trail | Pilgrims |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (26K ratings) — better | 4.5 (485 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better | 64.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26K — better | 485 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 869 MB | 413 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kongregate | Amanita Design s.r.o. |
Customer experience
The Trail
Pilgrims
User reviews
The Trail
From 26K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Enjoyable gameplay
- 👍 Beautiful graphics and music
- 🚀 Relaxing and calming experience
- 👍 Unique concept and exploration
- 🚀 Addictive and engaging
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent glitches and crashes
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
- 🐛 Laggy performance
- 🐛 Inventory and crafting issues
- 🐛 Unreliable quest rewards
Pilgrims
From 485 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Unique and charming art style
- 🤩 Funny and entertaining gameplay
- 💎 Highly replayable with multiple outcomes
- 🎨 Beautiful animations and sound design
Room to improve
- ⏱️ Extremely short gameplay length
- 💰 Poor value for the price
- 🤔 Misleading description about the content
Bugs and requests
The Trail
Reported bugs
5 issues- Freezing and items getting stuck during crafting
- Disappearing items from backpack
- Inconsistent progress tracking and save issues
- Incompatibility with newer devices
- Ads causing crashes or not rewarding properly
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to change appearance and customize character
- Option to send money or items to family
- Multiplayer features and town interactions
- More content updates and new areas to explore
- Improved stamina and resource management
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- Ability to manage and kick inactive town members
Pilgrims
Reported bugs
1 issue- Restore purchases not working for some users
Requested features
2 requests- Longer story and more content
- Additional chapters or a sequel
In-app purchases
The Trail
- 5 Gold bars$3.99
- 50 Favours$4.99
- Fly to Town$4.99
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- New Settler Offer$7.99
- Special Offer$7.99
- New Explorer Offer$7.99
- Fly to Town$7.99
- 20 Gold bars$9.99
- 250 Favours$19.99
- Pet Dog Offer$19.99
Pilgrims
- Pilgrims Full Game$0.99
