Magical Creatures vs Mine Treasure Challenge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magical Creatures
Run a magical laboratory to craft potions and heal mythical creatures. Travel through portals to discover new magical places and encounter diverse beings. This fantasy adventure game offers a unique healing experience.
- Craft magical potions
- Heal mythical creatures
- Run a magical laboratory
- Travel through portals
- Discover magical places
- Encounter diverse creatures
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Become a healer for magical creatures around the world. Start running a magical laboratory and learn to craft magical potions for your patients. Later in the game, travel through portals, meet different magical creatures and magical places as well. Adventure awaits. If you like fantasy and idle games, you will enjoy Magical Creatures!
Mine Treasure Challenge
Explore mysterious mines, gather resources, and craft items to unlock a hidden Treasure Door. Navigate randomly generated areas, battle monsters, and brew potions to aid your quest. The game offers intuitive controls and comprehensive in-game help.
- Randomly generated mine areas
- Resource collection and smelting
- Potion brewing for buffs
- Crafting special keys
- Intuitive controls
- In-game help and guide
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Do you have what it takes to open the ancient Treasure Door? Explore the mysterious mines, collect resources, and use them to unlock the Treasure Door! Features: -Explore 4 randomly generated mine areas; each one having ores, crystals, and monsters waiting for your pickaxe. Your Light Torch will light the way, but will slowly fade over time. -Smelt and craft the ore you bring back to create stronger pickaxes. -Brew potions with the collected crystals that can heal, increase your max health, and even extend the life of your Light Torch. -Craft special keys with the extra ore to unlock the 4 locks on the Treasure Door. Easy to use movement, camera direction, and pickaxe controls. Extensive on screen Help and an optional onscreen Guide to help you perform some of the tasks you need to complete the mission. Optionally shares your accomplishments via email, or text messaging. Universal App - supports iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, including standard, Retina, and iPhone X displays. Even runs on Apple Mac or MacBooks equipped with the new Apple’s M1 Silicon chip with easy to use keyboard and mouse controls.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Magical Creatures at Free against Mine Treasure Challenge's $5.99. Magical Creatures also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (22 vs 2). Mine Treasure Challenge's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On 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
Magical Creatures is free to download; Mine Treasure Challenge costs $5.99 up front. Magical Creatures sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Mine Treasure Challenge asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mine Treasure Challenge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magical Creatures has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Magical Creatures's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mine Treasure Challenge's.
Magical Creatures ships an update every 3 months, Mine Treasure Challenge every 18 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Magical Creatures | Mine Treasure Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 306 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Juhani Paaso | Magnin & Associates |
Customer experience
Magical Creatures
Mine Treasure Challenge
In-app purchases
Magical Creatures
- 250 Blue Mana$1.99
- 62 Red Mana$1.99
- 10 Purple Mana$1.99
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- 200 Yellow Mana$1.99
- 4K Gold$1.99
- Double Profits$1.99
- 12K Gold$4.99
- Healer's Kit$4.99
- 240K Gold$44.99
- 1 Million Gold$99.99
Mine Treasure Challenge
No in-app purchases
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