EVO ISLAND vs Rubylands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EVO ISLAND
Guide an intelligent species through eons of adaptation on a new world. Balance population, resistances, intelligence, and warrior upgrades to conquer territories while defending against predators. Can you achieve self-awareness and survival?
- Population growth management
- Resistance and intelligence upgrades
- Warrior unit development
- Territory conquest
- Predator defense
- Species adaptation
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Play the first 7 matches for FREE! In-app purchase is required to unlock unlimited games. Thank you for taking the time to download and try our game. After eons of adaptation, you find yourself on the shores of a new world. A new beginning... To achieve victory you must balance population growth, resistances, intelligence, and warrior upgrades to fully populate every territory in the region with your intelligent species. But beware, you aren't alone and must protect yourself from predators who will stop at nothing to bring you to extinction. Do you have what it takes to survive, grow, and achieve self awareness?
Rubylands
Engage in real-time strategy with settlement building, resource management, and defensive combat. Build epic defenses, compose armies, and use magic to overcome enemies in this offline RTS experience.
- Real-time RTS strategy
- Settlement building and defense
- Resource gathering
- Offensive and defensive combat
- Survival sandbox mode
- Magic system
- Offline play
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The key to success is your resource gathering, settlement building, defense and offensive combat RTS skills. Regularly adjust to enemy tactics and build up your RTS military strategy troops! Build an epic defense of towers, magic that withstands the toughest encounters with ease. Compose your armies, RTS defense strategy wisely, because your kingdom depends on them. Recapture your islands by destroying colossus or try to survive with an RTS. Use magic to win in the most difficult situations when there is no hope. Be prepared for any epic quests and defenses that lie ahead! Features: Real-time RTS strategy with no direct control of units. Build a strong settlement defense with towers that will withstand any attack. Choose the troops and defense towers with which you want to build your way in the RTS. Survival sandbox mode. Try yourself in SANDBOX survival mode, as long as you can hold out fighting off endless attacks from various golems that want to destroy your settlement. Create or destroy. Use magic to create the world around you, or destroy all living things. And much more. Are you ready to lead your settlement to victory? Do you have the best strategy for victory? The world of RUBYLANDS is waiting for you. Community: Discord: https://bit.ly/3xgBjDe Get the latest information: https://rubylands.info/ Terms of Service: RUBYLANDS is free to download and play, but some game elements can be purchased for real money. If you do not want to use these features, please disable in-app purchases in your device settings. You can play this RTS offline without wi-fi or internet connection Download RUBYLANDS - RTS game for FREE! If you are experiencing any problems, please do get in contact with me here: dev@supermoonbox.com Leave a feedback or suggestions if you want to see more features and units in this free real time strategy game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rubylands at every 3 weeks against EVO ISLAND's every 4 months. Rubylands also leads on rating (2.9 vs 2.7). EVO ISLAND's advantage is ratings volume (166 vs 33) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. EVO ISLAND sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Rubylands sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Rubylands holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EVO ISLAND has 166 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of EVO ISLAND's written reviews are positive against 50% of Rubylands's.
EVO ISLAND ships an update every 4 months, Rubylands every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EVO ISLAND | Rubylands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (166 ratings) | 2.9 (33 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.8% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 166 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| 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 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 205 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Team17 USA | Artem Karpenko |
Customer experience
EVO ISLAND
Rubylands
In-app purchases
EVO ISLAND
- Unlock the full game!$0.99
Rubylands
- Premium content$0.99








