Comparison

LONER vs Dream Planet

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

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About

LONER

Experience a tranquil and solitary journey as a pilot navigating through a visually minimalist world. This game offers a unique, immersive experience with its simple mechanics, atmospheric music, and procedurally generated challenges that sync with the soundtrack.

Highlights
  • Unique two-hand sliding and gravity sensing controls
  • Visually simple yet varied color palettes
  • Original, atmospheric background music
  • Randomly generated obstacles synced to music
  • Story of a pilot's lonely journey
Features
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LONER is a very simple game, no attributes, no upgrade, or even no score, what it wants to bring you, is only purely tranquillity and loneliness. LONER tells the story of a lonely journey of a pilot, in the journey, you would understand his past and his pursuit. Features **Unique Game Mode It has two modes of operation, two-hand-sliding and gravity sensing, the unique design brings a deeper sense of immersion. **Very Simple but Various Pictures There is no complicated shape and brilliant appearance, but you would set foot on a different kind of color trip. **The Right Original Music Several sad, or quiet background music makes you completely immerse in the game. **Random and Rich Barriers Level barriers are completely random and there is the strong vs strong level. It takes the different levels of players into account; obstacles are based on the music beat, which deepen your inner resonance. Director Profile Before making LONER, I was a game programmer, and really wanted to make a game with my own style. The original idea is to make a 3D version "Flappy Bird" with a different perspective, but in the production process, I suddenly found that the game has a quiet loneliness: A plane flies slowly alone in the dark channel by passing one after another obstacle, but seems never reach the end of channel, which is slight shiny in the distance. In the influence of some literary and artistic works, I have been very interested in loneliness, and there are rarely games which express mainly the lonely sense in the market, so that the game topic is decided as this. As a programmer who begins to learn art, I understand that to create roles and environment with rich details in short time is unrealistic, so I decide to pay a tribute to the art style of the "2001: A Space Odyssey”, and this style features "Loner" that the entire scene tones can be arbitrarily transformed. BGM List 1.Deepsea 2.Sea Sand 3.Time 4.Tunnel 5.Voices 6.Void

About

Dream Planet

Explore a virtual world, play minigames, and nurture the environment to watch trees grow. This game encourages players to take control and cultivate their surroundings, reaping the rewards of their efforts.

Highlights
  • Explore a virtual planet
  • Play minigames
  • Nurture trees and environment
  • Control your world
  • Tap to move
Features
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Go around the planet and play minigames to watch trees grow. The theme is to take control over your world, your life. Nurture all things you have and reap your blessings. Tap the ground or the minimap to move around and go to the various songs. There are mini games to play at most of them. Have fun! (P.S. Whatever you wanna do, do it :))

Screenshots

LONER4 screens
Dream Planet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dream Planet at Free against LONER's $1.99. Dream Planet also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). LONER's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (87 vs 1). On ads, 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

Dream Planet is free to download; LONER costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dream Planet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LONER has 87 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LONER ships an update every 5 weeks, Dream Planet every 17 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
LONER versus Dream Planet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLONERDream Planet
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (87 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings87 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#57 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size279 MB152 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperKunpoNigmatic Sound LLC

Customer experience

LONER

All ratings86 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral1.2%
Negative16.3%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive77.3%
Neutral2.7%
Negative20.0%

Dream Planet

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

LONER

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Game crashes or freezes
  • Game does not load without location access
  • Settings/menus in non-English languages
  • Incomplete sentences or missing parts in story text
  • Grammar issues in story, especially towards the end
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  • Unexpected charges or billing issues
  • Plane can go through walls without exploding
  • Visual glitches with light effects obscuring the screen
  • Issues with plane models/textures
  • Difficulty with English language option
  • Game not loading after purchase
  • App crashes on launch

Requested features

13 requests
  • Add more stories/chapters
  • Option to turn off music
  • Add more aircraft/landscapes
  • Add tactile feedback for obstacles
  • Improve English translation of story
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  • Add more game modes
  • Add Russian language support
  • Option to use own music
  • Add achievements
  • Improve difficulty balancing
  • Add PC version
  • Add more visual customization options
  • Allow continuing after crashing instead of returning to start

Dream Planet

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

LONER

No in-app purchases

None

Dream Planet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LONER free?
LONER costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dream Planet free?
Dream Planet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LONER or Dream Planet?
Dream Planet is rated higher. LONER averages 4.2 out of 5 from 87 ratings, while Dream Planet averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do LONER or Dream Planet have ads?
Neither LONER nor Dream Planet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LONER or Dream Planet?
LONER ships an update every 5 weeks, and Dream Planet every 17 months. Most recently, LONER was updated on October 24, 2026 and Dream Planet on October 24, 2026.

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