StarQuest vs Pocket Land!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StarQuest
Embark on an epic space adventure, battling enemies and collecting resources to upgrade your ships and gear. Prepare for challenging quests and earn glory and rewards in a vast universe.
- Explore space universe
- Battle challenging enemies
- Scavenge for scraps
- Upgrade loadouts and ships
- Earn glory and rewards
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Explore the StarQuest universe and face off against challenging enemies as you scavenge for scraps. Use scraps, gold, and Infamy to increase your loadouts and ships to take on more exciting challenges for glory and rewards. Prepare for the Quest of a lifetime!
Pocket Land!
Cultivate a charming farm, harvest crops, and manage workers in this top-down simulator. Defend your land from zombies and ants while unlocking new buildings, crafting recipes, and upgrading skills. Embark on quests and enjoy a relaxing farming adventure.
- Farm management
- Crop harvesting
- Worker assistance
- Zombie defense
- Building upgrades
- RPG-style quests
- Pet companions
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Pocket Land is a free-to-play casual mobile farming adventure game built around a simple, satisfying loop: harvest fruits and vegetables, fulfil orders, earn gold, upgrade your crops, and discover new ways to progress. GROW & HARVEST Move around your island and collect fruits and vegetables as they appear. Crops are gathered as you move through them, making the farming loop quick, simple, and satisfying. FULFIL ORDERS & EARN GOLD Each order asks for specific produce. Gather enough to complete it and earn gold, then put those rewards back into your progression. UPGRADE EVERY HARVEST Spend gold to increase how much produce you collect from each crop. As your Per Harvest upgrades improve, a single crop can give you several fruits or vegetables at once. UPGRADE YOUR CHARACTER & WORKERS Improve core character stats such as Movement Speed, Collect Range, and Harvest Range. You can also unlock and upgrade workers that help keep crops growing, with worker stats such as planting time and the number of bushes they manage improving as you progress. COLLECT PETS, MOUNTS & GEAR Find pets and mounts that grant useful bonuses as you play. Equip different pieces of gear for bonuses such as greater gathering range or faster movement, then upgrade your equipment to make those bonuses stronger. Gear also has its own collection loop: merge duplicate pieces, improve equipment over time, and chase higher-rarity items with stronger effects. Pets can also be merged as your collection grows. EXPLORE DUNGEONS & CHALLENGES Dungeons give you different ways to play beyond farming. Some runs focus on wave combat, where you choose temporary attacks, healing, damage boosts, and other upgrades as you progress. Other challenges change the objective completely, such as timed collection runs like Diamond Dungeon. Complete them to earn rewards and return to your wider Pocket Land progression. PLAY LIMITED-TIME EVENTS Take part in rotating events with different objectives, themed areas, mini-games, harvest challenges, and special rewards. Event content changes over time, giving you new reasons to return without changing the core farming loop. DISCOVER MORE Mine for treasure, unlock new skins, complete quests and challenges, and keep finding new things to collect and improve as Pocket Land opens up. PLAY AT YOUR OWN PACE Jump in for a quick harvest, work through a few orders, improve your gear, collect pets and mounts, or take on a dungeon run when you want something more active. Pocket Land keeps the core loop easy to understand while giving you more to discover over time. You can also drop into limited-time events when you want a different objective or reward track. Grow crops. Fulfil orders. Upgrade your harvest. Collect pets, mounts, and gear. Take on dungeons. Discover what comes next in Pocket Land. Upgrade workers, play events, and explore new challenges along the way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: StarQuest at 78% against Pocket Land!'s 38%. StarQuest also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Pocket Land!'s advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (4.3K vs 167). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. StarQuest sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Pocket Land! sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pocket Land! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Land! has 4.3K ratings behind it against 167, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of StarQuest's written reviews are positive against 38% of Pocket Land!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
StarQuest ships an update weekly, Pocket Land! every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StarQuest | Pocket Land! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) | 4.7 (4.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.9% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 167 | 4.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 557 MB | 582 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cosmic Games ULC | GRAND-ATTIC |
Customer experience
StarQuest
Pocket Land!
User reviews
StarQuest
From 167 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Engaging and addictive gameplay loop
- 🎨 High-quality graphics and visual design
- 📱 Easy to learn and understand controls
- ⭐ Fun progression system with ship unlocks
- 🎯 Well-designed for mobile gaming
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and force closures
- 💸 Pay-to-win mechanics in later chapters
- 🔄 Repetitive gameplay with limited variety
- ❌ Poor game balance and difficulty spikes
- 🎯 Auto-aim removes player skill requirement
Pocket Land!
From 4.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Enjoyable and relaxing gameplay
- 👍 No forced ads
- 🎨 Cute character and pet designs
- ⏱️ Good time killer
Room to improve
- 💰 Excessive monetization and pay-to-win elements
- 🔍 Repetitive and lacking content
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
Bugs and requests
StarQuest
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes on startup or loading screen
- Game freezes at chapter 5 war zone
- Cannot tap to start after update
- Enemies spawn directly in front of player
- Lag spikes when using power-up abilities
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- World border collision detection issues
- Item pickup mechanics broken or unreachable
- Shield enemy targeting system malfunctions
- Game exits to home screen unexpectedly
- SFX button doesn't toggle properly
- Ship flickers on spawn
- Hangar ship selection jumps randomly
- Infinite mob swarms with immortal nests
- Boss difficulty scaling problems
- Progress loss when force closing
Requested features
13 requests- Multiplayer and co-op game modes
- Capture the flag game mode
- More diverse game modes and story content
- Password reset/forgot password functionality
- Ability to choose weapon upgrade order
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- Ship stat comparison feature
- In-game tutorial system
- Public Discord community server
- More ships unlockable with in-game currency
- Adjustable joystick position
- Screen transition smoothing and responsiveness
- Detailed stat explanations and tooltips
- Profile page with actual functionality
Pocket Land!
Reported bugs
4 issues- Forced ads after certain level
- Disappearing items and resources
- Broken or non-functioning features
- Syncing and login issues
Requested features
4 requests- More content and updates
- Offline play option
- Ability to zoom in/out
- Improved progression system
In-app purchases
StarQuest
- 100 StarCoins$1.99
- Admiral TrayNee$2.99
- Dawn$3.99
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- The current special deal$4.99
- 550 StarCoins$4.99
- THE REPUBLIC$4.99
- 1200 Starcoins$9.99
- 2500 Starcoins$19.99
- 6500 Starcoins$49.99
- 14000 Starcoins$99.99
Pocket Land!
- Pirate Offer$0.99
- Pirate Offer$1.99
- Camp 2 Pack$2.99
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- Camp 3 Pack$2.99
- Tiny Gems$2.99
- Pirate Offer$2.99
- Chain Offer Small$2.99
- Starter Pack!$4.99
- Small Gems$4.99
- Event Bundle 1$4.99
- Vibes +$4.99
- Dice Pack$4.99
- Decrease Spawn Time$4.99
- King Charles Pack$9.99
- Discount Decrease Spawn Time 2$9.99
- Super Starter Pack$9.99
- Medium Gems$9.99
- Monthly Premium Pass$14.99
- S-tier Epic Item Flash Offer$14.99
Questions
Is StarQuest free?
Is Pocket Land! free?
Which has better reviews, StarQuest or Pocket Land!?
Do StarQuest or Pocket Land! have ads?
Which is updated more often, StarQuest or Pocket Land!?
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