Craft World 3D vs Survival Island
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Craft World 3D
Explore an endless cubic world where you can build, survive, and create your own adventures. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings, and farm or hunt in diverse biomes. Enjoy a rich voxel universe with various game modes and character customization.
- Resource gathering and crafting
- Building and decorating structures
- Survival mechanics
- Farming and fishing
- Diverse biomes and animals
- Multiple game modes
- Character customization
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Craft World 3D is a survival simulator and building sandbox in an endless cubic world where you create your own adventures! Get resources, process them into tools and building blocks. Build houses, decorate rooms with different styles, farm, fish, hunt and enjoy the beautiful views of the voxel universe! - Over 300 different blocks and items - Many different animals peaceful and aggressive - Many different skins for the character - Over 30 different unique biomes - Many game modes and special maps - View from 1 and 3 persons - Much more inside! If you have any questions about the game or find bugs, please let us know in your review or at: support@knuckle.games
Survival Island
Embark on a survival adventure on a deserted island. Explore, gather resources, hunt wildlife, and craft essential tools and weapons. Build your shelter, cultivate a farm, and trade goods to develop and prosper in this open-world simulator.
- Open world survival
- Resource gathering
- Crafting tools and weapons
- Hunting wildlife
- Building houses and farms
- Market trading
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Be a Survivor on a desert island! Explore the world, hunt animals, collect resources, mine ore, craft tools, grow vegetables. Build a house & farm! Sell and buy goods on the market! Develop and prosper! Good luck! FEATURES - Be the Survivor on the Ocean Island! - Amazing 2D Island environment and survivor experience; - Open world survival game and hunting adventure; - Free survival simulator game; - Explore new lands and territories; - Mine materials, craft weapons, and create items - Collect resources - wood, ore, food, and many other things; - Hunt the wildlife on the desert island; - Build a house, develop a farm - your shelter home! - Sell and buy items on the market; - Realistic and easy to use controls; - Stunning graphics and enriched visuals; - No internet connection required. You have full freedom to survive! Explore the world and craft things necessary for life. Your survival adventure starts here! Cut trees, mine ore, grow vegetables, hunt animals, build a house, and a farm. The Island is your shelter home now for free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Survival Island at every 11 days against Craft World 3D's every 2 months. Survival Island also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Craft World 3D's advantage is ratings volume (29K vs 508) and review sentiment (30% vs 16%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Craft World 3D sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Survival Island sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Survival Island holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Craft World 3D has 29K ratings behind it against 508, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Craft World 3D's written reviews are positive against 16% of Survival Island's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Craft World 3D ships an update every 2 months, Survival Island every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Craft World 3D | Survival Island |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (29K ratings) | 4.6 (508 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.5% of reviews — better | 15.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29K — better | 508 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 237 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Yevhen Isayev | DRAGONITE MARKETING MANAGEMENT EST |
Customer experience
Craft World 3D
Survival Island
User reviews
Craft World 3D
From 29K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game
- 🔥 Awesome graphics
- 🎨 Variety of customization options
- 🏠 Ability to build houses and structures
Room to improve
- 🤬 Too many ads
- ⏱️ Limited fly time
- 🐛 Glitchy and buggy
- 🔍 Limited resources and blocks
- 🕷️ Annoying animals/enemies
Survival Island
From 508 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and enjoyable gameplay
- 🎨 Appealing graphics
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent bugs and glitches
- 💰 Excessive ads and in-app purchases
- 🔁 Progression issues and resets
Bugs and requests
Craft World 3D
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes when creating new worlds
- Blocks disappearing after building
- Character getting stuck or falling through the ground
- Inability to enter or exit buildings
Requested features
6 requests- Increase fly time
- Reduce ads or provide ad-free option
- Add more building materials and blocks
- Improve character controls
- Introduce creative mode
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- Add more customization options
Survival Island
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to progress to next island
- Workers getting stuck
- Disappearing resources and progress
- Crashes and freezes
Requested features
4 requests- Unlock third island
- Fix cloud and movement issues
- Improve NPC functionality
- Reduce ads and improve monetization
In-app purchases
Craft World 3D
- Premium crafting and building!$0.99
Survival Island
- Starter Pack$2.99
- No Ads$4.99
- DOGGY$4.99
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- Golden Tools$15.99
Questions
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