DrillKing vs Space LLC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DrillKing
Explore alien planets, mine valuable minerals, and construct your own colony. Upgrade your drill and facilities to unlock new technologies and help your home world. Strategic planning is key to success in this interstellar resource-gathering adventure.
- Explore 5 distinctive planets
- Mine minerals and resources
- Build and upgrade colony infrastructure
- Develop new technologies
- Complete quests for rewards
- Trade for minerals
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Drill down planet surface, mine minerals, craft buildings and upgrade your drill to build your own colony! Simply shake your device to handle various events and make progress! Features Drillking is a game where you mine minerals and build colonies on extraterrestrial planets. There are 5 distinctive planets to explore. Colonize each planet, dig up minerals, develop new technology, and help your home world Earth. How to play Drill down Planet surface to mine Minerals. Use them to build and upgrade infrastructures for your colony. Each Planet has its unique set of Minerals. You must plan carefully where to drill and what to upgrade. Some Planets are restricted, due to its strange gravity. To access these Planets, you must upgrade your Drill. DRILL: The main mining device. The deeper you dig, the more Mineral types you'll find. FACTORY: This is where you extract Minerals from ore. Upgrade Factory to increase mining speed. DEPOT: This is where you keep your Minerals. Upgrade Depot to increase its max Mineral capacity. You can trade Star for Minerals in Star Refinery, but you must unlock it first. PRO TIP: Always check Quests! Quest rewards are very helpful for easier progress. Some Quests will unlock super-effective Lab contents. Tap Comm Sat on the left for helpful tips. Synopsis Planet Earth, 327 Space Year. The human race faces a new crisis, as increasing number of population consumed most of available resources. Scientists began a project to craft an All-terrain mining vessel, capable of drilling any surface to mine minerals… …and after 5 years, The vessel is complete, and an inhabitable planet with rich amount of minerals is found. The New Frontier awaits you! Notes Your data is saved in the device. If you change device, or delete the app, all save files will be terminated. Deleting the app will terminate all save files.
Space LLC
An idle incremental clicker game set in space. Hatch pets, upgrade colonies, and customize your playstyle through a skill tree. Engage in multiplayer to achieve weekly goals and battle UFOs and comets.
- Idle incremental gameplay
- Multiplayer with weekly goals
- Pet hatching and collection
- Colony and freighter upgrades
- Customizable skill tree
- Battle UFOs and comets
- Cloud backups
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-Idle incremental clicker in space! -Multiplayer, play with friends to complete weekly goals! -Realistic graphics! -Hatch eggs to find rare pets, unstable power cores, and more! -16 pets to collect each with it own unique bonus! Stack bonuses to make space bucks faster! -22 unique mining colony upgrades, 10 unique freighters, and 17 mineral levels! -Skill tree allows you to customize your play. Select active or passive bonuses! 4 trees to choose from! -Battle UFOs, and shot down comets for each cash! -Free cloud backups using your iOS key-chain. Keep your game safe even if you upgrade your phone!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Space LLC at 4.3 against DrillKing's 2.5. Space LLC also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 40%) and ratings volume (27 vs 2). DrillKing's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, 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
Both are free to download. DrillKing sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Space LLC sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Space LLC holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Space LLC has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of DrillKing's written reviews are positive against 67% of Space LLC's.
DrillKing ships an update weekly, Space LLC every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DrillKing | Space LLC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 4.3 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JINOH Cho | Adaptive Mobile Development LLC |
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In-app purchases
DrillKing
- DrillKing 100 Stars$0.99
- DrillKing 350 Stars$2.99
- DrillKing 1500 Stars$9.99
Space LLC
- Random Pet$0.99
- Mineral Container Permit Half$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
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- Starter Bonus Package$1.99
- Crack Open Space Piggy Bank$2.99
- Mineral Container Permit$3.99
- Crack Open Space Piggy Bank 2x$3.99
- 1500 Power Cores$4.99
- 3500 Power Cores$9.99
- 7000 Power Cores$19.99
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