Monster Box vs Miner Gun Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monster Box
Engage in strategic battles against waves of monsters. Upgrade your stickman characters with gold and jewels to enhance their power and defeat increasingly formidable foes. Enjoy a simple yet engaging combat experience.
- Monster battles
- Stickman upgrades
- Gold and jewel currency
- Strategic combat
- Monster evolution
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Monster overflowing and Battle of Stickman! Stickman after upgrade in gold and jewel, please earnestly defeat a lot of monsters. By upgrade the monster, enjoy fight against powerful monsters.
Miner Gun Builder
Pilot a spaceship through missions to earn in-game currency. Use your earnings to purchase parts and construct powerful, customizable weapons for your ship. Upgrade to larger vessels to accommodate more weapon components and explore procedurally generated worlds.
- Build custom weapons
- Upgrade spaceships
- Pilot through missions
- Procedurally generated worlds
- Alliance system
- Skill tree
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This is my first app. I put a lot of effort in it, hope you like it :) You are the captain of a space ship and fly through missions to earn money. With the money you can buy parts to build your weapon in your space ship. You can also buy bigger and better ships which can fit more parts. Building a small weapon is straight forward, but later you can build extremely strong weapons if you use the available space wisely. Features of Miner Gun Builder are: - 8 Captains with custom skills - 100 handmade missions - Infinite procedural created worlds - 50+ Ships - 51 Achievements - 52 Weapon components - 73 skills in the skill-tree - Your own alliance you can invite friends into - over 1.000.000.000.000 possible weapons !!! The game is a light-hearted version of an arcade space shooter and has substantial depth regarding the mechanics. If you like to tinker around and optimize stuff - This is the game for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Monster Box at none against Miner Gun Builder's 19. Miner Gun Builder's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Miner Gun Builder sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. Monster Box asks for nothing beyond the download.
Miner Gun Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 212 and 178 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Monster Box's written reviews are positive against 94% of Miner Gun Builder's.
Monster Box ships an update every 3 months, Miner Gun Builder every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monster Box | Miner Gun Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (212 ratings) | 4.9 (178 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | 93.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 212 — better | 178 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DAN-BALL | GERMAPUR APPS PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
Monster Box
Miner Gun Builder
User reviews
Monster Box
From 212 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 😊 Highly addictive and engaging gameplay
- 👍 Simple and easy to learn mechanics
- 🎮 Fun physics-based interactions with stick figures
- 💰 No pay-to-win mechanics
- 📱 Works well on mobile devices
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game crashes occasionally
- 📏 UI elements too small on high-resolution phones
- 🎮 Limited character variety (only 4 classes)
- ⚠️ Game resets completely on game over
- 🔄 Repetitive gameplay loop
Miner Gun Builder
From 178 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Addictive gameplay
- 👍 Great value (free on mobile)
- 🚀 Simple yet deep mechanics
- ✨ No forced ads
- 💯 High quality game
Room to improve
- 🤔 Outdated on Apple
- ⏳ Can be slow
- ⚖️ Grindy at times
Bugs and requests
Monster Box
Reported bugs
6 issues- Stick figures drift to the right when revived repeatedly
- Game crashes for no apparent reason
- Certain medals are unobtainable (Ohagi medal)
- iPhone X notch cuts off progress bar
- Game data loss when too many monsters spawn
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- Occasional freezing on newer high-definition phones
Requested features
15 requests- More character classes (especially from Stick Ranger)
- Landscape/horizontal mode support
- Zoom feature to see action better
- Cloud save and cross-device progress transfer
- Sandbox mode with infinite monsters
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- More monsters and enemy variety
- Reset progress button
- Backup/save functionality
- Steam port
- Terrain and environment elements
- More upgrade options
- Idle mode that doesn't end at monster cap
- Ad-free premium version
- Larger UI scaling option
- Landscape orientation support
Miner Gun Builder
Reported bugs
1 issue- Alliance code issues (missing 'X' characters)
Requested features
8 requests- More items
- New item merging bullets
- Updates for Apple version
- New faction skill tree
- Special ships
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- Discount options
- Language option
- More updates
In-app purchases
Monster Box
No in-app purchases
Miner Gun Builder
- Buy 100 yellow squares$2.99
- Buy 100 red crosses$2.99
- Small cloud ship$2.99
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- Small Spaceius Ship$2.99
- Small Refla ship$2.99
- Value Pack$4.99
- Medium Cloud ship$6.99
- Small projectile pack$9.99
- Big Cloud ship$9.99
- Big Spaceius ship$9.99
- Big Refla ship$9.99
- No Ads$13.99
- Small premium ship$13.99
- Buy 1000 red crosses$13.99
- Small ship pack$13.99
- Cloud ship pack$13.99
- Refla Pack$13.99
- Medium ship pack$40.99
- Big ship pack$69.99
Questions
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