Comparison

DrillKing vs Planet Clash

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Explore 5 distinctive planets
  • Mine minerals and resources
  • Build and upgrade colony infrastructure
  • Develop new technologies
  • Complete quests for rewards
  • Trade for minerals
Features
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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.

About

Planet Clash

Engage in an interstellar battle by building and upgrading your planet. Draft and enhance a deck of heroes to survive cosmic combat. Destroy rival planets to gather matter and grow your own.

Highlights
  • Build and upgrade planets
  • Draft and upgrade heroes
  • Engage in interstellar battles
  • Gather matter by destroying planets
  • Multiplayer planet combat
Features
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Welcome to the interstellar battle of planets. Build and upgrade your planet and face other players and their planets and heroes. Draft you deck of heroes and upgrade them to engage in a battle of survival in space. The more your destroy others planets the more matter you gather and the stronger your planet will get.

Screenshots

DrillKing4 screens
Planet Clash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Planet Clash at 100% against DrillKing's 40%. Planet Clash also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). DrillKing's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. DrillKing sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Planet Clash asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Planet Clash holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of DrillKing's written reviews are positive against 100% of Planet Clash's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrillKing ships an update weekly, Planet Clash daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
DrillKing versus Planet Clash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrillKingPlanet Clash
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB148 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJINOH ChoDipayon Debnath Dip

Customer experience

DrillKing

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

Planet Clash

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DrillKing

One-time3
  • DrillKing 100 Stars$0.99
  • DrillKing 350 Stars$2.99
  • DrillKing 1500 Stars$9.99
None

Planet Clash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DrillKing free?
DrillKing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Planet Clash free?
Planet Clash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DrillKing or Planet Clash?
Planet Clash is rated higher. DrillKing averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Planet Clash averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DrillKing or Planet Clash have ads?
Planet Clash shows ads; DrillKing does not.
Which is updated more often, DrillKing or Planet Clash?
DrillKing ships an update weekly, and Planet Clash daily. Most recently, DrillKing was updated on November 2, 2026 and Planet Clash on October 31, 2026.

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