Comparison

The Sun vs Pocket ZONE 2

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

Head to head
About

The Sun

Explore a vast post-apocalyptic world filled with danger, quests, and survival challenges. Craft powerful gear, trade with merchants, and fight against mutants and bandits to save your community from hunger and a new catastrophe.

Highlights
  • Post-apocalyptic world exploration
  • First-person shooter combat
  • RPG elements and quests
  • Crafting system for armor and weapons
  • Trade and faction system
  • Mutant and bandit combat
Features
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*** Over 500 thousand downloads on devices. *** A large post-apocalyptic world with many different quests!!! *** Perfect crafting system!!! Assemble your power armor!!! *** Awesome graphics at maximum settings! An action game with RPG elements in a cruel post-apocalyptic world, a world with radiation, hunger and disease. Only a few people managed to survive in that deadly attack that hit the planet from the space, but after a short time a new catastrophe started to threaten the survivors. And the main character, the Chosen of the North-216 Community, will have to deal with it. World of the post-apocalypse. First person shooter for survival. The Sun Origin: Post-apocalyptic action — is a first-person shooter with RPG elements with its own history, hundreds of tasks, a huge arsenal of weapons and armor, trade, fighting factions, mutants, bandits and prowlers. Explore the world with a huge number of locations, buy the best weapons from the merchants and improve them. You will need only the best equipment! After all, your main goal is to save your Community from hunger. And let the struggle for survival begin!!! Brief background. In the year 2050, the sun unleashed a catastrophic surge of energy into space, a wave of power that would plunge our civilization into chaos for centuries. Though predicted for years by the scientific community, their warnings were ignored by the world leaders that instead squabbled over petty territorial concerns. When the wave of energy struck the earth, a storm of radioactive particles blanketed the atmosphere in a deadly, carcinogenic fog. The fog killed indiscriminately… the young, old, rich and poor all fell in equal measure. Only those that had heeded the warnings and taken shelter in abandoned bunkers were spared. When their supplies eventually ran out and these communities were forced to emerge from their shelters, they saw a new world of desolation and chaos. A world in which the laws of civilization had been replaced by the law of the gun. The few areas that still had clean water and arable land were held by ruthless warlords and their armies. It was in this world that a warrior known only as Raven would emerge. A warrior that would save his people by bending the wasteland to his will. A warrior that would one day become a legend. It's a challenge! The world of the apocalypse or you?

About

Pocket ZONE 2

Embark on a survival RPG adventure in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Explore an open world, craft gear, and team up with friends for cooperative raids. Experience a deep role-playing system with unique skills and a challenging survival simulation.

Highlights
  • Open-world survival RPG
  • Cooperative raids with friends
  • Detailed character customization
  • Authentic Chernobyl Exclusion Zone map
  • Real-time survival simulation
  • Extensive loot and crafting system
Features
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Survival RPG from the game developer Pocket Zone, Pocket Survival Expansion - ASG.develop! The second part and continuation of the great mobile RPG survival game in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Now in the open world and with the possibility of cooperative raids with friends in real time. A Unique mix of unusual gameplay from the symbiosis of the great survival setting of the stalkers of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the Role-playing System, a classic RPG in the spirit of the world of Fallout and the Wasteland! Artifacts and mutants, adventurers and bandits, endless generated events in the game with a well-thought-out role-playing system of classes and skills, as well as an indescribable atmosphere of loner survival in the brutal world of the Zone! - The zone challenges you! Can you survive in her strong embrace even for a day? - Your goal is to survive and become fabulously rich! - See the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and achieve your innermost dream with the help of the legendary Wishmaster. Or maybe you just want to get away from the gray and boring life of megalopolises and just wander through the wastelands of the earth, where a person is again left alone with an aggressive environment that dreams of devouring him? Game Features: Create your own hero from hundreds of visual body parts and a high-quality RPG - role-playing system of character classes, their skills and abilities. Large authentic detailed map of the Chernobol Exclusion Zone. Game chats, channels for trading and communication, as well as a convenient system of friends in the game. The ability to go on raids in real-time and co-op with your friends and other players. A real mobile survival system with the RPG component, inspired by the Fallout and Stalker series. Interesting random events, the outcome of which depends only on your choice and on external factors that directly affect your chances of survival. A complex and thoughtful loot system, as well as more than a hundred random events in the search for and confrontation with the aggressive environment of the anomalous world of the Zone. Over 1000 different types of weapons, armor, helmets, backpacks and costumes, items, crafting - including legendary and mythical items! Artifacts and the ability to equip them will add variety to the gameplay. Real tests in the spirit of the first part will give you a taste of the long-forgotten survival hardcore in this abnormal world! Real survival simulation. You need to eat, drink, rest, sleep, treat injuries and illnesses. Lack of a direct, linear plot, as well as the possibility of studying the world of the Zone and stalkers based on indirect events. If you are a fan of games such as STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl, Call of Pripyat, Clear Sky, Metro 2033, Fallout, Exodus, Day-Z then this game is definitely for you! Additional Information: The game is under development and the work is done by two independent developers with sheer enthusiasm. If you find bugs or errors, then write to the mail: asgamesdevelop@gmail.com

Screenshots

The Sun4 screens
Pocket ZONE 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pocket ZONE 2 at Free against The Sun's $0.39. The Sun's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.9) and ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

Pocket ZONE 2 is free to download; The Sun costs $0.39 up front. The Sun sells 17 one-off in-app purchases and Pocket ZONE 2 sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Sun holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Sun has 348 ratings behind it against 41, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of The Sun's written reviews are positive against 41% of Pocket ZONE 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Sun ships an update every 2 weeks, Pocket ZONE 2 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
The Sun versus Pocket ZONE 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe SunPocket ZONE 2
Price$0.39Free — better
Rating4.4 (348 ratings) — better3.9 (41 ratings)
Positive reviews68.0% of reviews — better40.5% of reviews
Number of ratings348 — better41
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.3 GB397 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperIgor MigunAPPWILL COMPANY LTD

Customer experience

The Sun

All ratings344 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral6.7%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews565 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral9.7%
Negative22.3%

Pocket ZONE 2

All ratings41 ratings
Positive70.7%
Neutral9.8%
Negative19.5%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive40.5%
Neutral24.3%
Negative35.1%

Bugs and requests

The Sun

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Game crashes when entering certain areas
  • Quests getting stuck or unable to progress
  • Inventory/equipment issues (items disappearing, unable to equip)
  • Inconsistent performance and frame rate drops
  • Saving/loading problems (saves not working, loss of progress)

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more languages (Spanish, Japanese, etc.)
  • Improve quest tracking and objective clarity
  • Expand the map and add more locations to explore
  • Enhance controller/gamepad support
  • Implement an autosave feature

Pocket ZONE 2

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

17 purchases

The Sun

One-time17
  • Set "Ammunition"$0.29
  • Set "Medicine"$0.29
  • Food 1$0.29
Show 14 more
  • Set "Squall"$0.99
  • Set "Stranger"$0.99
  • Random weapon v.1$0.99
  • Ammunition 4$0.99
  • Ammunition 10$0.99
  • Ammunition 7$0.99
  • Ammunition 3$0.99
  • Ammunition 5$0.99
  • Set "Wasteland scout"$1.99
  • Random weapon v.2$1.99
  • Skill points v.2$1.99
  • Set "Energetic"$2.99
  • Set "Stormtrooper"$3.99
  • Set "Titan Mk 1"$4.99
9 purchases

Pocket ZONE 2

One-time9
  • 500 Neuro$0.99
  • 50 000 Bruble$0.99
  • 1 000 Neuro$1.99
Show 6 more
  • 5 000 Neuro$7.99
  • 10 000 Neuro$14.99
  • 1 000 000 Bruble$14.99
  • 50 000 Neuro$69.99
  • 100 000 Neuro$99.99
  • 10 000 000 Bruble$99.99

Questions

Is The Sun free?
The Sun costs $0.39, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Pocket ZONE 2 free?
Pocket ZONE 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Sun or Pocket ZONE 2?
The Sun is rated higher. The Sun averages 4.4 out of 5 from 348 ratings, while Pocket ZONE 2 averages 3.9 from 41 ratings.
Do The Sun or Pocket ZONE 2 have ads?
Pocket ZONE 2 shows ads; The Sun does not.
Which is updated more often, The Sun or Pocket ZONE 2?
The Sun ships an update every 2 weeks, and Pocket ZONE 2 every 3 months. Most recently, The Sun was updated on October 26, 2026 and Pocket ZONE 2 on October 25, 2026.

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