Clean the Sea! vs Explode And Build
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clean the Sea!
Pilot a boat to collect ocean trash, recycle it for cash, and upgrade your vessel. Engage in mini-games to boost recycling and unlock new global locations. Enjoy a fun simulation of a real environmental issue.
- Collect ocean trash
- Recycle refuse for cash
- Upgrade boat speed and capacity
- Play recycling mini-games
- Travel to global locations
- Clean up different water areas
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Turn harmful ocean trash into lovely green CASH! One little boat can make a difference. Set sail and start scooping up refuse from the water's surface. Drop it off to be recycled safely and get paid. Upgrade your boat. The trash doesn't stop coming and once you're rich enough, you'll be able to collect more, faster with bigger and better boats. Earn extra cash by playing mini-games to help the recycling process. There are many games to discover and each one requires technique to master. Travel around the world! As you successfully clear waters, you'll receive the call to help clean up new areas, from the oceans of Antarctica to the canals of Amsterdam. Keep chugging away and make the planet beautiful again today in Clean the Sea! Humans are responsible for polluting the world's oceans with an endless supply of plastics and other waste. Keeping our oceans clean and our planet healthy is a mammoth task, but every little helps! Please enjoy our fun take on a real environmental issue and consider supporting an ocean cleanup charity of your choice.
Explode And Build
Demolish structures to gather resources and construct new ones. Enhance your fleet of vehicles to improve demolition capabilities and building efficiency.
- Demolish buildings
- Collect bricks
- Upgrade vehicles
- Build new structures
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Crash the building and collect bricks and build new one Upgrade your vehicles
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Clean the Sea! at weekly against Explode And Build's every 3 months. Clean the Sea! also leads on ratings volume (336 vs 2). Explode And Build's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Explode And Build holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clean the Sea! has 336 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Clean the Sea! ships an update weekly, Explode And Build every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clean the Sea! | Explode And Build |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (336 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 336 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 249 MB | 284 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Backpack Games | Bhanuben Patel |
Customer experience
Clean the Sea!
Explode And Build
In-app purchases
Clean the Sea!
No in-app purchases
Explode And Build
No in-app purchases
Questions
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