Comparison

Final Outpost vs The Final Earth 2

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

Head to head
About

Final Outpost

Lead the last remnants of civilization to survive a zombie apocalypse. Build and manage your outpost, assign citizens to vital tasks, and craft weapons to defend against the undead. Balance resources, research, and defense to ensure your community's survival.

Highlights
  • Build and upgrade outpost structures
  • Manage citizen jobs and skills
  • Craft weapons and tools
  • Scavenge and manage resources
  • Defend against zombie attacks
  • Simulated weather and day/night cycle
Features
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===Final Outpost 2.0 is available now!=== Top-100 strategy game in 140+ countries worldwide! Build your Outpost • Manage your citizens • Survive the zombie apocalypse ​ As the leader of one of the last remnants of civilization, you must manage your citizens, use resources to expand your outpost, and protect your citizens from both starvation and zombies. ​ In the face of this great challenge, you are given control over the construction of new buildings for your citizens to live and work in. Striking the right balance of building types is critical to maintaining the resource stockpiles so valuable to your citizens. Equip your workforce with the right tools for the job as the needs of your Outpost are shaped by its growth. Craft weapons to protect and defend your Outpost from zombies that wander too close... -------------------- ==BUILD== Improve your base over time to shelter your citizens from the outside world, and stockpile resources to save as many lives as possible. ==UPGRADE== Upgrade the capabilities of your citizens with the skill tree. Earn skill points by killing zombies and ensure the survival of your citizens by guiding them from novice to warrior as you play. ==MANAGE== Lead your citizens into a new age of prosperity by assigning them the right jobs, including farmers and guards. ==CRAFT== Give your citizens the tools they need to survive. Build a workshop to unlock advanced crafting and create weaponry to fend off the dead. ==SURVIVE== Combat famine and the dead by perfecting your long-term strategic balance of management, research, building and crafting. GAME FEATURES • Assign your citizens to scavenge, hunt, farm, mine and more • Craft tools and manage your resources • Construct and upgrade 12+ building types • Defend your walls from 5+ zombie types • Feed your hungry citizens as your Outpost expands • Simulated weather, seasons and day/night cycle • Upgrade your citizens with the skill tree -------------------- Send your feedback and bug reports to support@exabytegames.com Join the newsletter: https://cutt.ly/news-d

About

The Final Earth 2

Build a thriving space colony on a new world after Earth's destruction. Manage resources, research technology, and design your city from a small settlement to a sprawling metropolis. Explore different game modes and uncover secrets.

Highlights
  • Vertical city building in space
  • Resource gathering and research
  • Thousands of simulated inhabitants
  • Over fifty unique buildings
  • Scenario, Free Play, and Sandbox modes
  • Worker assignment and production graphs
  • Citizen tracking and observation
Features
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Build a great city in this vertical city builder in space! Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build? The earth has been destroyed, and it's up to your space colony on a tiny world to save humanity! Can you feed, house and entertain everyone and then build the city of your dreams? - Features • Build a huge city with thousands of inhabitants, all fully simulated! • Over fifty different buildings to discover! • Great, fully original music by Stijn Cappetijn! • Discover the story in scenarios, or go wild in Free Play or Sandbox mode. • There might even be a secret society... - Build What You Want! With many different buildings, you can design the city you want. Will it be a green hippie paradise full of gardens, a huge party, or one big factory? Will your colony be a single, enormous building or will you spread it out over hundreds of worlds? Does your transport consist of efficient teleporters or a chaotic mess of landing pads? It's all your choice! There's plenty to discover in The Final Earth 2, including hackers, hippies and even a secret society. There are way over fifty buildings to find and more coming in the future, including some truly sci-fi (science fiction) inventions! - Manage Your Colony! With useful features like worker assignment, production graphs, boosting building upgrades and building modes, you can manage your space colony to make it as optimal as you want and make your citizens happy! Organize festivals for a huge additional boost! - Sit Back and Enjoy Your City! After you've built a huge city, sit back and see it in action for a while. It's like watching an ant colony! You can also follow any citizen to make this even more fun. Find the person with the craziest commute, or discover hidden details like a stargazer. - Story It's 2142, and earth is a wasteland. You built a space ship, but now your food is running out. Fortunately, you see a world just in time. It is a bit small, but certainly better than nothing. You build some farms and houses, and fulfill the basic needs of your citizens. Then, it's time to build the true city of the future! Research advanced technology and make your city grow to a huge metropolis. When your tiny world gets too small, fly to other worlds with space ships, or even build teleporters. - Updates are coming! I'm still working on The Final Earth 2, so you can be sure this colony builder / city builder will become even better in the future! - No intrusive ads! The amount of ads is very limited and they're only placed at natural break points. You can also remove all ads or get the premium version with extra features as an one-time purchase! - A proper city builder While this can definitively be seen as an incremental game as there are many things to discover, this is not just an idle city builder with days-long timers and microtransactions all the time. You can't lose, but active play is definitively rewarded. The web version of The Final Earth 2 has been played by millions of people, won the Kongregate June 2019 contest and was described by MakeUseOf as one of the best browser-based city building games available at the current time; I hope you'll enjoy the game on your iPhone or iPad as well! Have fun and I'm happy to hear what you think!

Screenshots

Final Outpost4 screens
The Final Earth 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Final Earth 2 at 4.9 against Final Outpost's 4.0. The Final Earth 2 also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 67%). Final Outpost's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Final Outpost sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and The Final Earth 2 sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Final Earth 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.9K and 2.2K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Final Outpost's written reviews are positive against 93% of The Final Earth 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Final Outpost ships an update every 8 days, The Final Earth 2 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Final Outpost versus The Final Earth 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinal OutpostThe Final Earth 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1.9K ratings)4.9 (2.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews93.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.9K2.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size278 MB46 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperExabyte Games LtdFlorian van Strien

Customer experience

Final Outpost

All ratings1,875 ratings
Positive74.9%
Neutral9.0%
Negative16.1%
Written reviews456 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral15.1%
Negative18.2%

The Final Earth 2

All ratings2,165 ratings
Positive98.8%
Neutral0.7%
Negative0.5%
Written reviews163 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral1.2%
Negative5.5%

User reviews

Final Outpost

From 1.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great game
  • 👍 Addictive gameplay
  • 🚀 Challenging but fun
  • 👍 No ads or pay-to-win
  • 🚀 Frequent updates

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🔍 Lack of difficulty scaling
  • 🔍 Repetitive late-game
  • 🐛 Unresponsive workers
  • 🔍 Tedious resource management

The Final Earth 2

From 2.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Relaxing and fun gameplay
  • 🔍 Interesting mechanics and depth
  • 🎨 Charming art style and music
  • 🌐 Offline playability
  • 🔧 Customizable buildings and city

Room to improve

  • 💰 Premium content locked behind paywall
  • 🔊 Ads disrupt gameplay and audio
  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and performance issues
  • 🔁 Repetitive gameplay after a while
  • 🌍 Lack of new content or challenges

Bugs and requests

Final Outpost

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Workers not responding
  • Snipers/guards not activating
  • Resources disappearing
  • Progress reset after updates
  • Zombie invincibility glitch
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  • Inconsistent resource collection

Requested features

12 requests
  • Sandbox mode
  • Difficulty settings
  • Ability to rearrange outpost
  • More building/job variety
  • Skill progression for workers
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  • Ability to skip tutorial
  • Faster time controls
  • More enemy/event variety
  • Multiplayer/co-op mode
  • Ability to repair walls
  • Food/resource storage upgrades
  • Scavenging/exploration missions

The Final Earth 2

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Freezing/crashing issues
  • Glitches with building upgrades
  • Citizens getting stuck or not moving
  • Compatibility problems on older devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add military/defense mechanics
  • Introduce alien invasions and natural disasters
  • Implement a crime/law enforcement system
  • Allow deleting/resetting worlds
  • Provide more building/service variety
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  • Add more story and progression elements

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Final Outpost

One-time10
  • Set Traps$0.79
  • Set Traps$0.99
  • Continue$0.99
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  • Additional Save Slots$1.99
  • Ambush Survivors$1.99
  • Ambush Survivors$2.99
  • Search for Resources$4.99
  • Search for Resources$7.99
  • Raid Nearby Settlement$12.99
  • Raid Nearby Settlement$16.99
3 purchases

The Final Earth 2

One-time3
  • Premium Upgrade$2.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Premium$8.99

Questions

Is Final Outpost free?
Final Outpost is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Final Earth 2 free?
The Final Earth 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Final Outpost or The Final Earth 2?
The Final Earth 2 is rated higher. Final Outpost averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while The Final Earth 2 averages 4.9 from 2.2K ratings.
Do Final Outpost or The Final Earth 2 have ads?
The Final Earth 2 shows ads; Final Outpost does not.
Which is updated more often, Final Outpost or The Final Earth 2?
Final Outpost ships an update every 8 days, and The Final Earth 2 every 2 months. Most recently, Final Outpost was updated on October 24, 2026 and The Final Earth 2 on October 30, 2026.

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