Comparison

Creature Crafter vs Octo Boost

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

Head to head
About

Creature Crafter

Design unique creatures with extensive customization tools, then bring them to life to explore vibrant online worlds with friends. Collect new parts to enhance abilities, complete quests, battle foes, and engage in minigames or roleplaying.

Highlights
  • Creature building and customization
  • Online multiplayer exploration
  • Collect and upgrade creature parts
  • Quest completion and battles
  • Minigames and roleplaying
  • Procedural animation for environments
Features
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Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit! The core gameplay loop involves constructing creatures to explore hand-crafted worlds and collecting body parts and patterns to further upgrade your creature. You can then use your newly acquired abilities to complete quests to earn cash and re-invest into your creature. If you’re just interested in creating creatures, however, then simply switch over to creative mode and everything will already be unlocked! The creation tool consists of three different modes: ● BUILD: Customize the shape of your creature by manipulating its spine and attaching transformable body parts. Altering your creature then changes its statistics (e.g., weight, speed, health etc.) and attaching certain body parts gives it special abilities (e.g., flying, swimming, biting etc.). ● PAINT: Change the color of your creature’s body and attached body parts, as well as the pattern and texture of your creature’s skin. ● PLAY: When you’re finished designing your creature, you can bring it to life! Traverse lush forests, swim in the ocean or fly high above the clouds — your creature will procedurally animate to adapt to its environment. Please note that this project is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected to EA, or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.

About

Octo Boost

Embark on a fast-paced, retro-style underwater shoot 'em up adventure. Battle fierce sea monsters, dodge traps, and collect treasures. Upgrade your arsenal and face epic boss battles in a beautifully crafted pixel world.

Highlights
  • Epic boss battles
  • Weapon and gear upgrades
  • Retro pixel-art style
  • Loot, power-ups, and achievements
  • Fast-paced arcade action
Features
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Dive Into the Ultimate Underwater Pixel Shooter! Embark on an epic pixel-art adventure beneath the waves! In Octo Blast, you’ll battle fierce sea monsters, dodge deadly traps, and collect treasures in a fast-paced underwater shoot 'em up. Perfect for fans of retro-style action games! Features: Epic Boss Battles Fight massive underwater bosses with unique attack patterns and abilities. Strategy is key! Upgrade Your Arsenal Unlock powerful weapons and gear to crush enemies and survive deeper dives. Retro Pixel-Art Style Experience beautifully crafted pixel environments teeming with sea life and danger. Loot, Power-Ups & Achievements Collect rare gems, unlock achievements, and customize your playstyle. Fast-Paced Arcade Action Non-stop shooting action and reflex-based gameplay—easy to play, tough to master.

Screenshots

Creature Crafter4 screens
Octo Boost4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Octo Boost at none against Creature Crafter's 3. Octo Boost also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). Creature Crafter's advantage is ratings volume (11K vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Creature Crafter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Octo Boost asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Octo Boost holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Creature Crafter has 11K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Creature Crafter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Octo Boost's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Creature Crafter ships an update weekly, Octo Boost every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Creature Crafter versus Octo Boost: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCreature CrafterOcto Boost
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (11K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11K — better4
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size492 MB140 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDaniel LochnerEdward Mason

Customer experience

Creature Crafter

All ratings10,956 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral3.0%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews608 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative17.9%

Octo Boost

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Creature Crafter

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Screen going black and freezing
  • Inability to move the camera
  • Creatures turning into recent creations when saved
  • Difficulty with resizing and positioning body parts
  • Issues with the creature workshop and unlocking parts
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  • Creatures walking backwards
  • Incompatibility with older devices

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add more body parts, accessories, and customization options
  • Implement a map maker for mobile
  • Add more maps and environments to explore
  • Introduce a cell stage, tribal stage, and civilization stage
  • Implement a spawn tool to summon created creatures
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  • Add more range attack options like lasers and poison
  • Improve animation and smoothness of creature movements
  • Implement a chat filter and moderation system
  • Add the ability to build structures and nests
  • Introduce a leveling system with attributes and skills

Octo Boost

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Creature Crafter

One-time3
  • Pets$2.99
  • Premium$5.99
  • Supporter$9.99
None

Octo Boost

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Creature Crafter free?
Creature Crafter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Octo Boost free?
Octo Boost is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Creature Crafter or Octo Boost?
Octo Boost is rated higher. Creature Crafter averages 4.8 out of 5 from 11K ratings, while Octo Boost averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Creature Crafter or Octo Boost have ads?
Creature Crafter shows ads; Octo Boost does not.
Which is updated more often, Creature Crafter or Octo Boost?
Creature Crafter ships an update weekly, and Octo Boost every 9 days. Most recently, Creature Crafter was updated on October 19, 2026 and Octo Boost on October 2, 2026.

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