Comparison

Pocket City 2 vs Comet Trails

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pocket City 2

Construct and explore a vibrant 3D metropolis, managing zones, landmarks, and special buildings. Live the life of a mayor, from building your own house to surviving disasters and hosting events. Enjoy a dynamic world with seasons, a day-night cycle, and engaging minigames.

Highlights
  • Build unique cities with zones and special buildings
  • Explore your city as an avatar
  • Dynamic environment with seasons and day/night cycle
  • Play minigames like street racing and plane flying
  • Survive disasters and host fun events
  • Customize avatar and become a homeowner
  • Collaborate on cities in real-time
Features
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Build and explore your own city in this 3D sequel to the original Pocket City! Create using roads, zones, landmarks, and special buildings. Drop your avatar into the world and roam freely. Buy your own house, host events, survive disasters, and live the life of a successful mayor! No microtransactions or long wait times, everything is unlocked and rewarded through gameplay! FEATURES - Build a unique city by creating zones and new special buildings - Explore your city by controlling your avatar directly - Enjoy a dynamic environment with seasons and a day night cycle - Play minigames like street racing, plane flying, and much more - Trigger fun events like block parties, or disasters like tornadoes - Complete quests to earn XP and money - Customize your avatar with clothing and tools - Become a homeowner and furnish your own house - Visit buildings in your city to buy items and find loot - Invest and build long-term mega projects - Encounter and help NPCs around your city - Spend research points to gain valuable perks - Invite a friend to collaborate on your city in real-time - Unlock special rewards by competing against rival towns - Unleash your creative side in Sandbox Mode - Play in both landscape and portrait mode

About

Comet Trails

Guide comets through space, using their light trails to recreate specific drawings. Manipulate trajectories with cosmic elements like black holes and reflectors to overcome challenges. Strategize and execute plans to conquer this unique cosmic puzzle.

Highlights
  • Draw with comet light trails
  • Modify comet trajectories
  • Use black holes and solar wind
  • Cosmic puzzle challenges
  • Strategic gameplay
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Fly comets through space and use their light trails to match the drawings. Modify their trajectories along the way using black holes, solar wind, reflectors, and more. Plan and execute new strategies with the items at your disposal in order to beat this cosmic challenge! Created by Matthew Loges Music by AJ Damito

Screenshots

Pocket City 24 screens
Comet Trails4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Comet Trails at Free against Pocket City 2's $4.99. Comet Trails also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Pocket City 2's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (806 vs 8). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Comet Trails is free to download; Pocket City 2 costs $4.99 up front. Comet Trails sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pocket City 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Comet Trails holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket City 2 has 806 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Pocket City 2's written reviews are positive against 100% of Comet Trails's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Pocket City 2 versus Comet Trails: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket City 2Comet Trails
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (806 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings806 — better8
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#39 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size304 MB115 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperCodebrew Games Inc.Matthew Loges

Customer experience

Pocket City 2

All ratings800 ratings
Positive90.3%
Neutral4.8%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews536 reviews
Positive79.7%
Neutral10.4%
Negative9.9%

Comet Trails

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Pocket City 2

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when entering certain buildings
  • Graphical glitches and disappearing elements
  • Freezing and performance issues with larger cities
  • Bugs with regional city and money transfer features
  • Issues with road building and placement

Requested features

6 requests
  • More building styles and architectural variety
  • Improved traffic management and transportation options
  • Expanded regional city functionality
  • Mayor customization and more interactive features
  • Better save/load and cross-device syncing
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  • Optimization for older devices

Comet Trails

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket City 2

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Comet Trails

One-time1
  • Comet Trails Full Game$2.99

Questions

Is Pocket City 2 free?
Pocket City 2 costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Comet Trails free?
Comet Trails is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pocket City 2 or Comet Trails?
Comet Trails is rated higher. Pocket City 2 averages 4.6 out of 5 from 806 ratings, while Comet Trails averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Pocket City 2 or Comet Trails have ads?
Neither Pocket City 2 nor Comet Trails shows ads.

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