Survive vs Trash Goblin
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!
Trash Goblin
A cozy shopkeeping game where you discover, clean, and upcycle trinkets for eccentric customers. Customize your shop and tools with no pressure or fail states, focusing on good vibes and creative play.
- Discover and clean trinkets
- Upcycle items into new forms
- Serve eccentric customers
- Upgrade and customize your shop
- Relaxed gameplay with no pressure
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[TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!] Trash Goblin is a wholesome and cosy shopkeeping game where you uncover and clean trinkets for sale! Customise them by upcycling and more to meet the eccentric requests of your endless colourful customers. Spend your savings to upgrade your shop, buy new and better tools, and customise your space! There is no pressure, no risk, no right way to play - it is not a simulator, it's just good vibes and nice customers to serve. DISCOVER PECULIAR TRINKETS Unearth knick-knacks of all kinds by chipping away at the dirt and cruft they're embedded inside, wrestling with different types of dirt that yield in different ways. RESTORE FORGOTTEN CURIOS TO GLORY Scrub all these strange items up nice and clean with your sponge to get them ready for sale! UPCYCLE INTO IMAGINATIVE NEW FORMS! Customise these curios by combining Trinkets together, turning them into strange and wonderful new items! SELL TO A PARADE OF COLOURFUL CUSTOMERS A wide range of intriguing, odd and charming customers will frequent your store, some with interesting stories to tell, others after a particular object, some just browsing... UPGRADE YOUR WORKSHOP Spend your savings to expand your tool set, and unlock more space to work in. Buy a display mat to tempt customers with specific wares, or a soak tub to clean up overnight, an honesty box for getting rid of unwanted trinkets, and more! TREAT YOURSELF Customise your space, decorate your shelves however you like, get some nice plants, change up the wallpaper and bedclothes; make it your own! MAXIMUM CHILL, ZERO PRESSURE There's a gentle limit to how much you can do in a given day but customers will return, you can potter as much as you like, and there are no fail states.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Survive at 100% against Trash Goblin's 45%. Survive also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). Trash Goblin's advantage is price (Free vs $9.99) and ratings volume (242 vs 29). 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
Trash Goblin is free to download; Survive costs $9.99 up front. Trash Goblin sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Survive asks for nothing beyond the download.
Survive holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trash Goblin has 242 ratings behind it against 29, 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 45% of Trash Goblin's.
| Parameter | Survive | Trash Goblin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (29 ratings) — better | 4.5 (242 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 44.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 242 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #35 — better | #210 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 770 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sandbay Games Oy | Doghowl Games Ltd. |
Customer experience
Survive
Trash Goblin
In-app purchases
Survive
No in-app purchases
Trash Goblin
- Base Product Sale$12.99
- Base Offer$14.99









