Comparison

DrillKing vs Planetary Conquest

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

Planetary Conquest

Features
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The solar system is up for grabs, Commander. Planetary Conquest is a real-time strategy game with a clean, low-poly look. Claim a homeworld, and every planet you hold grows its own fleet — tap a world you own, then tap another to send ships. Land more ships than the defender to take a world. Outproduce, outmaneuver, and conquer them all. • SOLO CAMPAIGN — authored levels, each with its own commander and a rising difficulty curve. Liberate the system world by world, all the way to the brutal final stand. • QUICK SKIRMISH — jump straight into a match against the AI on any world you like. • TWO GALAXIES — the familiar Sol system and the original Veil Expanse, twelve worlds each. • FAIR OR ASYMMETRIC — play perfectly balanced homeworlds, or let each world's real strengths shape your strategy. • BUILT FOR TOUCH — big tap targets, satisfying haptics, and a screen that stays awake while you play. One rule to learn, a galaxy to master.

Screenshots

DrillKing4 screens
Planetary Conquest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Planetary Conquest at none against DrillKing's 3. DrillKing's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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. Planetary Conquest asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
DrillKing versus Planetary Conquest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrillKingPlanetary Conquest
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJINOH ChoBrian Boler

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DrillKing

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

Planetary Conquest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DrillKing free?
DrillKing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Planetary Conquest free?
Planetary Conquest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DrillKing or Planetary Conquest have ads?
Neither DrillKing nor Planetary Conquest shows ads.

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