Comparison

Survive vs Verdant

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

Verdant

Experience a text-based life simulation where you navigate every choice from birth to death. Build a career, foster relationships, manage a home, and create a lasting legacy through diverse life paths and generational play.

Highlights
  • Text-based life simulation
  • Generational family tree
  • Diverse career paths
  • Relationship simulation
  • Property and business management
  • Randomly generated worlds
Features
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Live an entire life. Every year, every choice, every consequence. Verdant is a deep text-based life simulation where you're born into a randomly generated world and live from cradle to grave. Your choices shape everything. LIVE YOUR STORY • Born into a random family, country, and era (1960s–2000s) • Navigate childhood, school, careers, love, and legacy • 20+ deep career paths including law, medicine, military, music, and more • Build a property empire, start a business, or go underground RELATIONSHIPS MATTER • Date, fall in love, marry, have children • Multi-date talking stage before commitment • Love languages, arguments, therapy, divorce • Every relationship has real depth and consequences YOUR HOME, YOUR LIFE • Buy or rent homes that affect your mood and relationships • Interact with neighbors, decorate rooms, host parties • Garden, cook, and build the life you want • Survive homelessness or thrive in a mansion BUILD YOUR EMPIRE • 50+ career hustles from YouTuber to manga artist to cult leader • Invest in stocks, property, and businesses • Run a law firm, open a restaurant, become a fighter • Social media fame with real platform mechanics MAKE YOUR MARK • Write your will, plan your legacy, mentor the next generation • Bucket list system for your final years • Family tree spanning multiple generations • Every playthrough is completely different Optional crime paths for adult characters (18+): drug growing and dealing, weapons, and prison, with real consequences.

Screenshots

Survive3 screens
Verdant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Verdant at Free against Survive's $9.99. Verdant also leads on ratings volume (389 vs 34). Survive's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and chart position (#47 vs unranked). On rating, 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

Verdant is free to download; Survive costs $9.99 up front. Verdant sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Survive asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Survive against 4.8 for Verdant. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Verdant has 389 ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Survive's written reviews are positive against 91% of Verdant's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Survive versus Verdant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurviveVerdant
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (34 ratings) — better4.8 (389 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better91.0% of reviews
Number of ratings34389 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#47 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB356 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperSandbay Games OyShane vincent

Customer experience

Survive

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

Verdant

All ratings383 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews145 reviews
Positive91.0%
Neutral4.1%
Negative4.8%

In-app purchases

None

Survive

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Verdant

One-time9
  • Inheritance £250k$1.99
  • Inheritance £500k$3.99
  • Inheritance £1M$5.99
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  • Inheritance £5M$9.99
  • Fame Pack$12.99
  • God Mode$12.99
  • Inheritance £10M$14.99
  • Verdant Premium$17.99
  • Verdant Life VIP$29.99

Questions

Is Survive free?
Survive costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Verdant free?
Verdant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Survive or Verdant?
Survive is rated higher. Survive averages 4.9 out of 5 from 34 ratings, while Verdant averages 4.8 from 389 ratings.
Do Survive or Verdant have ads?
Neither Survive nor Verdant shows ads.

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