Ashworld vs Pocket ZONE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ashworld
Explore a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic world where survival depends on finding scarce resources like food and water. Battle dangerous creatures and road warriors, utilizing a variety of weapons, vehicles, and crafted items. Improve your character's skills through experience gained from missions and exploration.
- Procedurally generated gameplay
- Modifiable touch controls
- Vehicle driving and combat
- Diverse weapon selection
- Resource scavenging
- Vehicle customization
- Crafting system
- Character skill progression
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Ashworld is an open world survival adventure set in a post apocalyptic world a few hundred years from now. Water and food are valuable, rare and the most important things you'll have to find, as you try to survive in the rage-lands. An area of the world terrorized by the Ragers. A stereotypical group of road-warriors with no respect for the little life that's left. During the night creatures, called the Skellies, roam the world and are becoming more dangerous as time passes. Use your smarts, combined with the various weapons, cars, gadgets and raw materials that can be found inside the many underground area's, buildings, old sky-scrapers, and other area's of the Ashworld. QUICK list of FEATURES: - Procedurally generated gameplay (no 2 games are the same) - Modifiable touch-controls (check options menu!!) - Run and drive around the ragelands, visiting buildings, talking to people, beating up ragers and skellies. - Use different weapons: boomerangs, chainsaws, rocket launcher, shotgun, machinegun, plasma rifle, flame thrower. - Search through buildings, underground cavern's, and unexplored area's of the Ashworld for usable items. - Find,Steal and drive a variation of different cars, all with their quirks and challenges. - A host of story missions and sub-missions to guide you around the world. - Craft new weapons and tools - Gain experience points and use them to improve your character skills
Pocket ZONE
Embark on a co-op survival adventure in a post-apocalyptic Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. This text quest and RPG hybrid features character customization, a detailed map, and a hardcore survival system. Trade with players and uncover the Zone's secrets.
- Co-op survival gameplay
- Text quest and RPG mechanics
- Character customization
- Detailed Zone map
- Player trading
- Hardcore survival simulation
- Random events and loot system
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New co-op survival game from the developers of Pocket Survivor, Pocket Survivor 2, Pocket Survivor: Expansion has reached an unprecedented level of nuclear addicting mix in the direction of text quest and RPG, event visualization and hundreds of different character animations! A burning cocktail of unusual gameplay from the symbiosis of the Unique 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? Features of the game: Create your own Hero from hundreds of visual body parts and high-quality RPG - role-playing system of character classes and their skills and abilities Large detailed map of the Zone with ten unique locations. Ability to exchange and trade found items between real players and friends. A hardcore real-life mobile survival system with the best RPG component inspired by the Fallout and Stalker series Interesting random text events, the outcome of which depends only on your choice and on external factors that directly affect your chances of survival. A complex and well-thought-out loot system, and more than a hundred random events while searching for and confronting the aggressive environment of the anomalous world of the Zone. Over 100 different types of weapons, armor, helmets, backpacks and costumes, including legendary and mythical items! Artifacts and the ability to equip them will add variability to the gameplay. Real radio stalkers in the spirit of the previous parts will help raise morale and survive in this abnormal world! Real survival simulation. You need to eat, drink, rest, sleep, and heal injuries and illnesses. Lack of a direct, linear plot, and the ability to study the world of the Zone and stalkers by indirect events. If you are a fan of games such as STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl, Call of Pripyat, Clear Sky, Metro 2033, Fallout, Exodus, then this game is definitely for you! Play as a stalker - the Hero of the Chernobyl Zone, who found himself in harsh post-apocalyptic conditions and help him survive in a world unfit for existence! We use the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pocket ZONE at Free against Ashworld's $3.99. Pocket ZONE also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.3) and review sentiment (80% vs 38%). Ashworld's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Pocket ZONE is free to download; Ashworld costs $3.99 up front. Pocket ZONE sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Ashworld asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket ZONE holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket ZONE has 3.8K ratings behind it against 71, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Ashworld's written reviews are positive against 80% of Pocket ZONE's.
Ashworld ships an update every 2 weeks, Pocket ZONE every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ashworld | Pocket ZONE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (71 ratings) | 4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.8% of reviews | 79.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 | 3.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 228 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Pascal Bestebroer | APPWILL COMPANY LTD |
Customer experience
Ashworld
Pocket ZONE
User reviews
Ashworld
From 71 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great retro style
- 💡 Open-world roguelite
- 👍 Fun sandbox world
- 👍 Good concept
- 👍 Awesome fun
Room to improve
- 🐛 Poor controls
- 🐛 Unresponsive controls
- 🐛 Tiny buttons
- 🐛 Frustrating platforming
- 🐛 Inconsistent UI
Pocket ZONE
From 3.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great pocket version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games
- 👍 Friendly community
- 🤝 Supports developers
- 🕹️ Unique and immersive gameplay
- 🌆 Atmospheric and well-designed
Room to improve
- 🔁 Repetitive and grindy progression
- 🐛 Bugs causing loss of items
- 🔍 Unclear tutorial and lack of guidance
- 🔫 Unbalanced difficulty scaling
- 💰 Premium currency tied to characters
Bugs and requests
Ashworld
Reported bugs
15 issues- Mission items not appearing
- Dog disappeared
- Cannot launch after iOS update
- Saves at random spots
- Buggy quests
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- Impossible to escape dungeons
- Game crashes frequently
- Skill upgrade menu crashes
- Game-crashing bug on loot skill
- Map button not working
- World stability issues (buildings disappear)
- Stuck at bottom of areas
- Cannot reach topmost left square of map
- Joystick doesn't work well
- Game gets stuck on dialog
Requested features
10 requests- More vehicles
- More food
- More enemies
- More locations
- Quest log
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- Tutorial
- Easier skill assignment
- Spanish language option
- Sequel
- 3DS release
Pocket ZONE
Reported bugs
5 issues- Disappearing items in storage
- Weapons getting deleted after repairs
- Anomaly damage being inconsistent
- Accuracy and hit chance issues
- Language translation problems
Requested features
5 requests- More quests and story content
- Ability to change character class
- Improved inventory management
- Multiplayer and co-op features
- Ability to save progress across devices
In-app purchases
Ashworld
No in-app purchases
Pocket ZONE
- Premium (1 Week)$2.997 Days
- Buy 500 Neuro$0.99
- Buy 50000 Bruble$0.99
- Buy 1000 Neuro$1.99
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- Buy 2000 Neuro$3.99
- Buy 5000 Neuro$5.99
- Buy 10000 Neuro$8.99
- Buy 1000000 Bruble$8.99
- Buy 50000 Neuro$64.99
- Buy 100000 Neuro$99.99
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