Bugsnax vs Creature Crafter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bugsnax
Embark on an island adventure to capture and feed unique creatures to your companions. Uncover the secrets of Snaktooth Island and the mysterious Bugsnax.
- Capture mysterious creatures
- Feed creatures to friends
- Explore an island
- Solve island mysteries
- Discover creature origins
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Catch mysterious living snacks and feed them to your friends in this unusual island adventure! Bugsnax takes you on a journey to Snaktooth Island, home of the legendary half-bug half-snack creatures, Bugsnax. Invited by intrepid explorer Elizabert Megafig, you arrive to discover your host nowhere to be found, her camp in shambles, and her followers scattered across the island alone... and hungry! It's up to you to solve the mysteries of Snaktooth Island: What happened to Lizbert? What are Bugsnax and where do they come from? But most of all, why do they taste SO GOOD?
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.
- Creature building and customization
- Online multiplayer exploration
- Collect and upgrade creature parts
- Quest completion and battles
- Minigames and roleplaying
- Procedural animation for environments
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Bugsnax at none against Creature Crafter's shown. Bugsnax also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 72%). Creature Crafter's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Bugsnax sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Creature Crafter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
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 1.8K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Bugsnax'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.
Bugsnax ships an update every 2 weeks, Creature Crafter weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bugsnax | Creature Crafter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) | 4.8 (11K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.2% of reviews — better | 71.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K | 11K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.0 GB | 492 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Young Horses, Inc. | Daniel Lochner |
Customer experience
Bugsnax
Creature Crafter
User reviews
Bugsnax
From 1.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Unique and engaging gameplay
- 👍 Excellent character design and writing
- 🎨 Beautiful and creative visuals
- 🎶 Fantastic soundtrack
- 🤯 Unexpected story twists and turns
Room to improve
- 💰 Full game requires purchase after demo
- 🤔 Some areas locked behind paywall in demo
- 🐛 Occasional glitches and crashes reported
Creature Crafter
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great game
- 👍 Soothing sounds
- 👍 Easy to play
- 👍 Accurate representation
- 👍 No ads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Screen gets stuck in servers
- 🐛 Glitches with body parts and mouths
- 🐛 Difficulty with resizing and positioning body parts
- 🐛 Black screen issues
- 🐛 Camera control problems
Bugs and requests
Bugsnax
Reported bugs
3 issues- Glitches with grappling hook and fire
- Difficulty accessing certain areas in demo
- Crashes and performance issues on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More Bugsnax varieties and new islands
- Ability to tame and utilize Bugsnax abilities
- Sequel or DLC to continue the story
- Free or lower-priced full game option
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
Bugsnax
- Bugsnax Full Game$7.99
Creature Crafter
- Pets$2.99
- Premium$5.99
- Supporter$9.99
Questions
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