Comparison

Various Sea Creatures! vs Creature Crafter

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

Head to head
About

Various Sea Creatures!

Dive into an underwater adventure to collect coins and goldfish. Navigate through the ocean, encountering various sea creatures while avoiding larger marine life.

Highlights
  • Underwater exploration
  • Treasure collection (coins & goldfish)
  • Encounter sea creatures
  • Avoid whales and dolphins
  • Simple gameplay
Features
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A creature feature under the sea! Swim under water and collect treasure (coins & "goldfish") but watch out for whales, dolphins & various other sea creatures!

About

Creature Crafter

Design unique creatures with extensive customization tools, then bring them to life to explore vibrant online worlds with friends. Collect new parts to enhance abilities, complete quests, battle foes, and engage in minigames or roleplaying.

Highlights
  • Creature building and customization
  • Online multiplayer exploration
  • Collect and upgrade creature parts
  • Quest completion and battles
  • Minigames and roleplaying
  • Procedural animation for environments
Features
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Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit! The core gameplay loop involves constructing creatures to explore hand-crafted worlds and collecting body parts and patterns to further upgrade your creature. You can then use your newly acquired abilities to complete quests to earn cash and re-invest into your creature. If you’re just interested in creating creatures, however, then simply switch over to creative mode and everything will already be unlocked! The creation tool consists of three different modes: ● BUILD: Customize the shape of your creature by manipulating its spine and attaching transformable body parts. Altering your creature then changes its statistics (e.g., weight, speed, health etc.) and attaching certain body parts gives it special abilities (e.g., flying, swimming, biting etc.). ● PAINT: Change the color of your creature’s body and attached body parts, as well as the pattern and texture of your creature’s skin. ● PLAY: When you’re finished designing your creature, you can bring it to life! Traverse lush forests, swim in the ocean or fly high above the clouds — your creature will procedurally animate to adapt to its environment. Please note that this project is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected to EA, or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.

Screenshots

Various Sea Creatures!4 screens
Creature Crafter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Various Sea Creatures! at none against Creature Crafter's 3. Various Sea Creatures! also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 72%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Creature Crafter's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). 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. Creature Crafter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Various Sea Creatures! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Various Sea Creatures! ships an update every 6 weeks, Creature Crafter weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Various Sea Creatures! versus Creature Crafter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVarious Sea Creatures!Creature Crafter
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (11K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better72.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—11K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB844 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJohn CretellaDaniel Lochner

Customer experience

Various Sea Creatures!

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Creature Crafter

All ratings11,163 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral3.0%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews613 reviews
Positive72.3%
Neutral10.0%
Negative17.8%

Bugs and requests

Various Sea Creatures!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Creature Crafter

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Screen going black and freezing
  • Inability to move the camera
  • Creatures turning into recent creations when saved
  • Difficulty with resizing and positioning body parts
  • Issues with the creature workshop and unlocking parts
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  • Creatures walking backwards
  • Incompatibility with older devices

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add more body parts, accessories, and customization options
  • Implement a map maker for mobile
  • Add more maps and environments to explore
  • Introduce a cell stage, tribal stage, and civilization stage
  • Implement a spawn tool to summon created creatures
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  • Add more range attack options like lasers and poison
  • Improve animation and smoothness of creature movements
  • Implement a chat filter and moderation system
  • Add the ability to build structures and nests
  • Introduce a leveling system with attributes and skills

In-app purchases

None

Various Sea Creatures!

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Creature Crafter

One-time3
  • Pets$2.99
  • Full Game$5.99
  • Supporter$9.99

Questions

Is Various Sea Creatures! free?
Various Sea Creatures! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Creature Crafter free?
Creature Crafter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Various Sea Creatures! or Creature Crafter have ads?
Both Various Sea Creatures! and Creature Crafter show ads.
Which is updated more often, Various Sea Creatures! or Creature Crafter?
Various Sea Creatures! ships an update every 6 weeks, and Creature Crafter weekly. Most recently, Various Sea Creatures! was updated on October 12, 2026 and Creature Crafter on October 23, 2026.

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