Comparison

Survive vs Winter Burrow

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

Head to head
About

Survive

Experience a bushcraft survival simulation with various challenging scenarios. Your goal is to reach safety in a wilderness setting. This game works offline and offers an immersive survival experience.

Highlights
  • Bushcraft survival simulation
  • Multiple wilderness scenarios
  • Reach safety objective
  • Offline gameplay
  • Immersive survival experience
Features
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SURVIVE - WILDERNESS is a simulation about bushcraft survival. Various scenarios. Get to safety. Works offline. THE WILDERNESS SURVIVAL GAME YOU PLAYED WHEN YOU WERE ON SCHOOL IS NOW HERE ON IOS!

About

Winter Burrow

A cozy woodland survival game where you play as a mouse restoring their ruined home. Explore, gather resources, craft items, and befriend locals to uncover a mystery. Play at your own pace and customize your experience.

Highlights
  • Cozy woodland survival gameplay
  • Resource gathering and crafting
  • Home restoration and decoration
  • Character customization
  • Story-driven mystery
  • Play at your own pace
Features
Currently charting
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Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game. Explore, gather resources, craft tools, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals! In Winter Burrow, you play a mouse who returns from the big city to find their childhood home in ruins. To make matters worse, your Aunt (who was supposed to be looking after it) has gone missing. Restore your broken-down childhood burrow to its former glory so you can relax in front of the fireplace. Brave the elements and journey out into the frozen wilderness to collect vital resources for both yourself and your new home. Beware of the insect wildlife and remember that nobody survives on their own; find new friends, expand your survival handbook and solve the mystery of what happened to your Aunt. Winter Burrow is a survival game you play at your own pace. Customize your character, decorate your burrow and choose a path that fits your play style. This story is yours to tell.

Screenshots

Survive3 screens
Winter Burrow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Winter Burrow at Free against Survive's $9.99. Winter Burrow also leads on ratings volume (549 vs 30). Survive's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Winter Burrow is free to download; Survive costs $9.99 up front. Winter Burrow sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Survive asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Survive holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Winter Burrow has 549 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Survive's written reviews are positive against 63% of Winter Burrow's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Survive versus Winter Burrow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurviveWinter Burrow
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (30 ratings) — better4.6 (549 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better62.9% of reviews
Number of ratings30549 — better
Update frequency—Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#34 — better#112
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB385 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperSandbay Games OyNoodlecake

Customer experience

Survive

All ratings21 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Winter Burrow

All ratings447 ratings
Positive87.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative9.6%
Written reviews151 reviews
Positive62.9%
Neutral11.9%
Negative25.2%

In-app purchases

None

Survive

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Winter Burrow

One-time2
  • Unlock Full Game$5.99
  • Unlock Full Game$9.99

Questions

Is Survive free?
Survive costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Winter Burrow free?
Winter Burrow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Survive or Winter Burrow?
Survive is rated higher. Survive averages 4.9 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Winter Burrow averages 4.6 from 549 ratings.
Do Survive or Winter Burrow have ads?
Neither Survive nor Winter Burrow shows ads.
Which is more popular, Survive or Winter Burrow?
Survive currently peaks at #34 in the App Store charts, and Winter Burrow at #112. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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