Survive vs Verdant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Bushcraft survival simulation
- Multiple wilderness scenarios
- Reach safety objective
- Offline gameplay
- Immersive survival experience
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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!
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.
- Text-based life simulation
- Generational family tree
- Diverse career paths
- Relationship simulation
- Property and business management
- Randomly generated worlds
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Survive | Verdant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (34 ratings) — better | 4.8 (389 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 91.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 34 | 389 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #47 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 356 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sandbay Games Oy | Shane vincent |
Customer experience
Survive
Verdant
In-app purchases
Survive
No in-app purchases
Verdant
- 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








