Comparison

PixelTerra vs Crystal Cavern Idle Mine

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

Head to head
About

PixelTerra

Survive a dangerous world by building shelters, gathering resources, and defending against monsters. Explore dungeons, craft items, and farm to thrive in this survival-focused adventure.

Highlights
  • Over 100 craft recipes
  • Dungeons with treasures
  • Customizable world generation
  • Adaptive difficulty
  • Loot with random properties
  • Day/Night cycle and weather
  • Farming and hunting
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The world of PixelTerra is quite dangerous so you need to build a shelter, find some food supply and get ready to protect yourself from monsters in order to survive at least a couple of days. Then you can only hope that the walls of your shelter will be strong enough to withstand the onslaught. In this game you will see: ● More than 100 recipes in the craftbook ● Dungeons with treasures ● Customized world generation and adaptive difficulty ● Loot with random properties ● Day/Night cycle + weather effects ● Hunting and fishing ● Animal and crop farming ● Trading with aborigines Tips for the beginner: ● If you don’t like Survival mode, you can turn off strong monsters and starvation in the settings. ● Also you can slow down game speed If you play for the first time or constantly die. ● Do not try to build a good shelter right away. Hide yourself first in the stone arrays. New blocks, items and recipes are permanently added in the game to make it more diversified and interesting to play. This game is not only about minecraft, but more about survival on a dangerous island and finding a loot with better properties. The gameplay contains elements of roguelike and rpg games.

About

Crystal Cavern Idle Mine

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Crystal Cavern is an idle game with no sound at all. Tap the crystal in the middle of the screen and you earn crystals. That is the whole basic move. Spend them on buildings and the cave keeps earning every second, even while the app is closed. You can collect up to eight hours of it when you come back. ■ No sound No music, no effects. If you cannot hear, or you are somewhere you cannot make noise, nothing is lost. Haptics are there instead. ■ You choose what reads well Four text sizes. Five colour schemes, two of them maximum contrast — white on black and black on white. ■ Twelve seams As you dig, the seam changes and the crystal shifts colour and shape. You start at Quartz; twelve layers lie below. Each rebirth opens a deeper one. ■ Rebirth Melt everything down into cores. Each core adds +2% to your tap value and income, permanently. The deeper you dig, the more cores are left behind. ■ Glowing orbs Now and then an orb drifts across the screen. Tap it before it fades for a bonus. The best one multiplies everything by five for thirty seconds. ■ Built to be easy to use - Playable from a keyboard - Respects the reduce-motion setting - Progress saves itself on this device - A save code moves your progress to another device - Pause whenever you like; nothing accumulates while paused About adverts: a short video plays only when you claim a bonus. The game is fully playable without watching one. No advert is ever required to progress. Languages: 17 (English, Japanese, Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian), shown automatically in your iPhone's language.

Screenshots

PixelTerra4 screens
Crystal Cavern Idle Mine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Crystal Cavern Idle Mine at Free against PixelTerra's $0.99. Crystal Cavern Idle Mine also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months). PixelTerra's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Crystal Cavern Idle Mine is free to download; PixelTerra costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PixelTerra ships an update every 4 months, Crystal Cavern Idle Mine every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PixelTerra versus Crystal Cavern Idle Mine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelTerraCrystal Cavern Idle Mine
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.4 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB5 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAnton SkvortsovYoshihiko Okano

In-app purchases

None

PixelTerra

No in-app purchases

None

Crystal Cavern Idle Mine

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PixelTerra free?
PixelTerra costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crystal Cavern Idle Mine free?
Crystal Cavern Idle Mine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PixelTerra or Crystal Cavern Idle Mine have ads?
Crystal Cavern Idle Mine shows ads; PixelTerra does not.
Which is updated more often, PixelTerra or Crystal Cavern Idle Mine?
PixelTerra ships an update every 4 months, and Crystal Cavern Idle Mine every 9 days. Most recently, PixelTerra was updated on November 6, 2026 and Crystal Cavern Idle Mine on November 6, 2026.

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