Seedship vs Knight Commander
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Seedship
A text-based strategy game where you guide a colony ship to find a new home for humanity. Make critical decisions about settling planets and navigating random events to ensure your colonists' survival and achieve a high score.
- Text-based strategy gameplay
- Randomly generated planets
- Random in-game events
- Push-your-luck mechanics
- Colony survival simulation
- High score tracking
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An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. A randomly-generated text-based strategy game. Push your luck: do you settle here, on this not-quite-ideal planet, or keep searching and risk your ship being damaged in the journey? The planets you encounter are randomly generated, and as you travel you encounter random events, so each playthrough is different. See the stories of the colonies you found, and keep trying for a higher score.
Knight Commander
Lead a new tribe, manage resources, and build your empire. Customize your people, craft items, and engage in trade and combat. Survive disasters and complete quests to grow your strength.
- Resource gathering and building
- Item crafting and selling
- Tribe customization
- Quest completion
- Combat against AI opponents
- Disaster survival
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You are the leader of a brand new tribe. Look after your people by giving them food and letting them sleep. You can customize their gender and name to make it personal i.e. send Uncle Bob down the mines. Tell them to gather resources and build buildings and craft items to make your empire stronger. Sell your items for gold and further strengthen your empire by buying services from the shop.(No In-App Purchases required) Equip them with weapons that you have made. Complete quests for gold. fight with computer opponents. Survive disasters such as fire, flood and the clowns! Features: Over 150 items to make which include gravy,swords and sheds. High level of customization possible. Rich sound effects. Dynamic in game economy. Intuitive design. Lovely music. A perfect way to waste some time. Fully Voice over compatible. 100% imagination 0% graphics. Any and all feedback very welcome. @2018
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Seedship at Free against Knight Commander's $1.99. Seedship also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (90% vs 72%). Knight Commander's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On ads, 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
Seedship is free to download; Knight Commander costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Seedship holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seedship has 703 ratings behind it against 63, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Seedship's written reviews are positive against 72% of Knight Commander's.
Seedship ships an update every 3 weeks, Knight Commander every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seedship | Knight Commander |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (703 ratings) — better | 4.1 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.6% of reviews — better | 71.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 703 — better | 63 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Space Goblin Games | John Sturt |
Customer experience
Seedship
Knight Commander
User reviews
Seedship
From 703 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple and fun gameplay
- 🚀 Extremely replayable
- 👍 Charming and engaging
- 👍 Thought-provoking decisions
- 👍 Great for short bursts of gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Some small bugs that don't spoil the experience
- 🐛 Occasional UI issues on iOS
- 🔋 Lack of updates in recent years
Knight Commander
From 63 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Accessible for VoiceOver users
- 🎮 Addictive and fun gameplay
- ✨ Great resource management
- 🔊 Good in-game sounds
- 🔄 Frequent updates
Room to improve
- ❓ Unclear item/building uses
- 📉 Some features feel incomplete
- 🎨 Art and sound quality questioned
- 🤔 Confusing for new players
- 📱 UI cut off on certain devices
Bugs and requests
Seedship
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional crashes or freezes
- Compatibility issues with newer devices
Requested features
4 requests- More random events and planet types
- Ability to continue managing the colony after landing
- Soundtrack or sound effects
- Expanded post-landing gameplay
Knight Commander
Reported bugs
47 issues- Bug when tapping character to send to task
- Text cut off on iPhone XS Max
- Cannot create things manually
- Screen freezes and app closes during battle
- Game crashes when clicking resources button
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- Bug when building multiple sheds
- Bug with team auto-assign menu
- Upgrade amounts not increasing correctly
- Cannot add new person when gold is met
- Shop options disappear
- Game crashes when opening
- Feed all button not working
- Automation crashes game
- App keeps crashing after iOS update
- Inventory crashes game
- Quests fail even with items
- Sell price drops to 1 gold
- Energy increase closes app, resets tribe
- Cannot find resource screen
- Automation crashes game
- App crashes several times
- Game closes when inventory is clicked
- Game crashes when opening inventory
- Game closes when trying to open it
- Game crashes when trying to use automation
- Game crashes after last update
- Game closes when inventory is clicked
- Bug with team auto-assign menu
- Upgrade amounts not increasing correctly
- Cannot add new person when gold is met
- Shop options disappear
- Game crashes when opening
- Feed all button not working
- Automation crashes game
- App keeps crashing after iOS update
- Inventory crashes game
- Quests fail even with items
- Sell price drops to 1 gold
- Energy increase closes app, resets tribe
- Cannot find resource screen
- Automation crashes game
- App crashes several times
- Game closes when inventory is clicked
- Game crashes when opening inventory
- Game closes when trying to open it
- Game crashes when trying to use automation
- Game crashes after last update
Requested features
27 requests- Add more updates and complications
- Add more features and tasks
- Expand with children or prisoners of war
- Add romance option for characters
- Allow visiting hospitalized characters
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- Add more music tracks
- Add a guide or chat room
- Add a VoiceOver tutorial
- Add a tutorial for sighted players
- Ability to use three-finger swipe for options
- Add ability to grow cocoa beans and make chocolate
- Ability to make cakes and pies
- Add more sounds for building and crafting
- Allow spending mana on other things
- Ability to get married
- Add more descriptions for items and buildings
- Make the war system clearer
- Balance CPU energy levels
- Ability to listen to original and new soundtracks
- Add more content and contracts
- Add more resources and tasks
- Allow manual creation of items
- Add more sounds for building and crafting
- Improve tutorial comprehensiveness
- Clarify diamond usage
- Add more descriptions for items and buildings
- Ability to assign weapons to multiple people on iPad
In-app purchases
Seedship
No in-app purchases
Knight Commander
No in-app purchases
Questions
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