Comparison

Sam's Level Maker vs Creature Crafter

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

Head to head
About

Sam's Level Maker

Design and build your own custom game levels with a wide variety of tiles, objects, and enemies. Bring your creative ideas to life with an easy-to-use interface and share your creations with others. Offers endless possibilities for platforming gameplay.

Highlights
  • Easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface
  • Wide range of tiles and objects
  • Variety of enemies and power-ups
  • Share created levels with others
  • Super Sams World-style gameplay
  • Endless replay value
Features
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About

Creature Crafter

Design unique creatures with extensive customization tools, then bring them to life to explore vibrant online worlds with friends. Collect new parts to enhance abilities, complete quests, battle foes, and engage in minigames or roleplaying.

Highlights
  • Creature building and customization
  • Online multiplayer exploration
  • Collect and upgrade creature parts
  • Quest completion and battles
  • Minigames and roleplaying
  • Procedural animation for environments
Features
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Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit! The core gameplay loop involves constructing creatures to explore hand-crafted worlds and collecting body parts and patterns to further upgrade your creature. You can then use your newly acquired abilities to complete quests to earn cash and re-invest into your creature. If you’re just interested in creating creatures, however, then simply switch over to creative mode and everything will already be unlocked! The creation tool consists of three different modes: ● BUILD: Customize the shape of your creature by manipulating its spine and attaching transformable body parts. Altering your creature then changes its statistics (e.g., weight, speed, health etc.) and attaching certain body parts gives it special abilities (e.g., flying, swimming, biting etc.). ● PAINT: Change the color of your creature’s body and attached body parts, as well as the pattern and texture of your creature’s skin. ● PLAY: When you’re finished designing your creature, you can bring it to life! Traverse lush forests, swim in the ocean or fly high above the clouds — your creature will procedurally animate to adapt to its environment. Please note that this project is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected to EA, or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.

Screenshots

Sam's Level Maker4 screens
Creature Crafter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Creature Crafter at weekly against Sam's Level Maker's every 3 months. Creature Crafter also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (11K vs 460). On price, review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sam's Level Maker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Creature Crafter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Creature Crafter holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Creature Crafter has 11K ratings behind it against 460, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Sam's Level Maker's written reviews are positive against 72% of Creature Crafter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sam's Level Maker ships an update every 3 months, Creature Crafter weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sam's Level Maker versus Creature Crafter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSam's Level MakerCreature Crafter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (460 ratings)4.8 (11K ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.2% of reviews72.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings46011K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB492 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMustafa RasheedDaniel Lochner

Customer experience

Sam's Level Maker

All ratings434 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews141 reviews
Positive70.2%
Neutral7.8%
Negative22.0%

Creature Crafter

All ratings10,956 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral3.0%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews608 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative17.9%

User reviews

Sam's Level Maker

From 460 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun level creation
  • 🚀 Simple and intuitive
  • 💡 Reminds of Mario Maker
  • 🎨 Good art style

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 💰 Too many ads
  • 🔒 In-app purchases not working
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding good levels

Creature Crafter

From 11K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great game
  • 👍 Soothing sounds
  • 👍 Easy to play
  • 👍 Accurate representation
  • 👍 No ads

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Screen gets stuck in servers
  • 🐛 Glitches with body parts and mouths
  • 🐛 Difficulty with resizing and positioning body parts
  • 🐛 Black screen issues
  • 🐛 Camera control problems

Bugs and requests

Sam's Level Maker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Levels being deleted on water placement
  • Enemies not moving or interacting properly
  • Crashing when placing certain objects

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more enemies and tiles
  • Implement boss fights
  • Allow more customization options
  • Improve level search functionality
  • Fix music reset issue on death

Creature Crafter

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Screen going black and freezing
  • Inability to move the camera
  • Creatures turning into recent creations when saved
  • Difficulty with resizing and positioning body parts
  • Issues with the creature workshop and unlocking parts
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  • Creatures walking backwards
  • Incompatibility with older devices

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add more body parts, accessories, and customization options
  • Implement a map maker for mobile
  • Add more maps and environments to explore
  • Introduce a cell stage, tribal stage, and civilization stage
  • Implement a spawn tool to summon created creatures
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  • Add more range attack options like lasers and poison
  • Improve animation and smoothness of creature movements
  • Implement a chat filter and moderation system
  • Add the ability to build structures and nests
  • Introduce a leveling system with attributes and skills

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sam's Level Maker

One-time3
  • Get one extra Life$0.99
  • Get 10 more level slots$1.99
  • Remove all Ads in the game$3.99
3 purchases

Creature Crafter

One-time3
  • Pets$2.99
  • Premium$5.99
  • Supporter$9.99

Questions

Is Sam's Level Maker free?
Sam's Level Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Creature Crafter free?
Creature Crafter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sam's Level Maker or Creature Crafter?
Creature Crafter is rated higher. Sam's Level Maker averages 4.5 out of 5 from 460 ratings, while Creature Crafter averages 4.8 from 11K ratings.
Do Sam's Level Maker or Creature Crafter have ads?
Both Sam's Level Maker and Creature Crafter show ads.
Which is updated more often, Sam's Level Maker or Creature Crafter?
Sam's Level Maker ships an update every 3 months, and Creature Crafter weekly. Most recently, Sam's Level Maker was updated on October 15, 2026 and Creature Crafter on October 18, 2026.

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