The Trail vs Wanderness
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!
Wanderness
Explore serene natural landscapes and capture beautiful moments with your camera in this walking simulator. Immerse yourself in a zen-inspired world designed to calm your mind and ease anxiety. Reconnect with nature at your own pace.
- Explore 360-degree photo landscapes
- Relaxing soundscape
- No timers or pressure
- Full day-night cycle
- Capture and share photos
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Discover peace and tranquility with Wanderness, a new type of walking sim that takes you through serene natural landscapes. As you wander, capture stunning moments with your trusty camera and immerse yourself in a soothing, zen-inspired world that calms your mind and eases anxiety. Reconnect with the beauty of nature and find your center, one peaceful step at a time. Features: -Explore a stunning world crafted from real 360-degree photographs. -Relaxing and uplifting soundscape that transports you to serenity. -No timers and no pressure. Just wander and capture photos at your own pace. -Experience a full day cycle as the landscape gracefully transforms from dawn to dusk and into night. -Easily share your lovely photos with friends and family.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wanderness at none against The Trail's 10. Wanderness also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). The Trail's advantage is ratings volume (26K vs 6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. The Trail sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Wanderness asks for nothing beyond the download.
Wanderness holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Trail has 26K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of The Trail's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wanderness's.
The Trail ships an update fortnightly, Wanderness every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Trail | Wanderness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (26K ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 869 MB | 1.4 GB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kongregate | Moolion Inc |
Customer experience
The Trail
Wanderness
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
Wanderness
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Wanderness
No in-app purchases
