Comparison

How Human Evolved 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

How Human Evolved

Explore the journey of life from single-celled organisms to future human evolution. Combine creatures, plants, and advance through societal stages in this engaging clicker game. Discover how humanity evolved and imagine its future.

Highlights
  • Evolutionary progression from bacteria to humans
  • Combine and mutate various creatures
  • Evolve plants for bonuses
  • Advance through societal stages
  • Explore future human evolution (cyborgs, robots)
  • Clicker game mechanics
Features
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Find out how people appeared on our planet - go through all stages of evolution from simple bacteria and viruses, to fish, lizards and mammals. And of course get to the evolution of a human! Go through all the main stages of the progress of human society from ancient to modern human. But this is not all - you have a unique opportunity to learn how the human will evolve further and take the main part in this. The cyborgs? Robots? Everything can be, you just need to craft all heroes in our clicker game! Combine different creatures and get new unique kinds of them. At the first underwater level - it is certainly the simplest single-celled and multicellular bacteria and viruses. Then it's crustaceans and fish. Mutate fish in reptiles, and then in lizards. And so on and so on - get various mysterious creatures :). Our game is not just about one creature, like unicorn evolution, cat evolution, giraffe evolution, cow evolution or shark evolution - in our game "How human evolved: cute clicker game" you can evolve a large number of different animals and of course reach a human! In this funny game about the evolution of human, we have not forgotten about the evolution of plants - collect plants and get for them excellent bonuses. For example, algae gives a lot of coins, for which you can buy additional creatures or accelerate evolution.

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

How Human Evolved3 screens
Creature Crafter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: How Human Evolved at none against Creature Crafter's shown. How Human Evolved also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 72%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Creature Crafter's advantage is ratings volume (11K vs 10) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. How Human Evolved sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Creature Crafter 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

Creature Crafter holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Creature Crafter has 11K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of How Human Evolved's written reviews are positive against 72% of Creature Crafter's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How Human Evolved ships an update every 5 weeks, Creature Crafter weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
How Human Evolved versus Creature Crafter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow Human EvolvedCreature Crafter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (10 ratings)4.8 (11K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better72.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1011K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB844 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAnton SlyusarDaniel Lochner

Customer experience

How Human Evolved

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Creature Crafter

All ratings11,163 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral3.0%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews615 reviews
Positive72.4%
Neutral9.9%
Negative17.7%

Bugs and requests

How Human Evolved

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

4 purchases

How Human Evolved

One-time4
  • 80 Gems$0.99
  • 500 Gems$4.99
  • 1200 Gems$9.99
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  • 2500 Gems$19.99
3 purchases

Creature Crafter

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

Questions

Is How Human Evolved free?
How Human Evolved is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Creature Crafter free?
Creature Crafter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, How Human Evolved or Creature Crafter?
Creature Crafter is rated higher. How Human Evolved averages 4.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Creature Crafter averages 4.8 from 11K ratings.
Do How Human Evolved or Creature Crafter have ads?
Creature Crafter shows ads; How Human Evolved does not.
Which is updated more often, How Human Evolved or Creature Crafter?
How Human Evolved ships an update every 5 weeks, and Creature Crafter weekly. Most recently, How Human Evolved was updated on October 24, 2026 and Creature Crafter on November 2, 2026.

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