Back to Earth vs Fire Captain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Back to Earth
Rebuild civilization by exploring Earth's ruins for resources, developing technology, and managing staff. Enjoy idle gameplay with offline benefits and a weekly card privilege for enhanced progression.
- Explore and junkpick ruins
- Research and develop technology
- Deploy staff and manage resources
- Plan and develop your continent
- Casual and idle gameplay
- Offline benefits
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Start with one marble, pick up anything to develop!! By the time that mankind's civilization was about to be destroyed by the outrage of war...... A piece of pure land with the mission of preserving the spark of civilization was pushed into space. People have to start over on this new land, develop their land and go back to earth to collect mankind's remains So the story begins as it is…… 〓Explore & Junkpick〓 Take the spaceship back to the ruins of the earth, search for useful resources and discover the remaining rare treasures. There are hundreds of collection illustrations to satisfy your collection desire. 〓R & D Technology〓 As the game progresses, your development strategy keeps the civilization constantly evolving, ultimately rebuilding a thriving civilization for humanity. 〓Staff Deployment〓 The lives of the people all depend on you to deploy, recruit people of various occupations, produce advanced resources, and form troops to "Junkpick" on the earth. 〓Planning & Development〓 On your continent, everything is up to you, from building scale to civilization development requires your business strategy. 〓Casual & Idel〓 The gameplay is easy to operate and you will have huge offline benefits. We want you to have the joy of a bountiful harvest every time you go online. ■Weekly Card Privileges■ -- Weekly card privileges: Give a lot of free advertising coupons every day, get a lot of marbles immediately, increase the income of food, wood, stone and mineral resources by 10%, enjoy exclusive commodity purchases and break the daily advertising viewing limit and other luxury privileges. -- Applicable period: 1 week. -- Purchase price: USD $4.99. -- User Terms: https://imarinegame.com/page/html/102.php -- Privacy Policy: https://imarinegame.com/page/html/103.php ■SUPPORT■ If you have any questions, you can contact us through the following ways. Email: support@imarinegame.com Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/playjunkman Discord: https://discord.gg/sa6DeuHSnV
Fire Captain
Lead a team of firefighters, doctors, and engineers in this casual strategy game. Build your base, recruit specialized personnel, and tackle exciting missions across various maps. Strategize your approach to overcome challenges and achieve success.
- Base building
- Hire firefighters, doctors, engineers
- Handle exciting missions
- Multiple maps and missions
- Recruit different heroes
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Fire Captain is a Casual Strategy game. In this game, you are acting as a fire captain, you build your base, hire more firefighters, doctor, engineers to work together to handle exciting missions! It offers: *Lots of different missions and maps *Many different heros
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fire Captain at 4.2 against Back to Earth's 2.8. Fire Captain also leads on review sentiment (26% vs 0%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Back to Earth's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). 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. Back to Earth sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Fire Captain sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fire Captain holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fire Captain has 72 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Back to Earth's written reviews are positive against 26% of Fire Captain's.
Back to Earth ships an update every 3 weeks, Fire Captain weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Back to Earth | Fire Captain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (10 ratings) | 4.2 (72 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 25.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 72 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — 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 | 10.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 593 MB | 533 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marine Interactive Entertainment Limited | Fuzhou Lingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Back to Earth
Fire Captain
Bugs and requests
Back to Earth
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Fire Captain
Reported bugs
49 issues- Game stops at level 16
- Game will not load
- Maritime training drill rescue boat doesn't show up
- Boat unavailable in drill
- Helipad built but no aircraft
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- Unable to load boat in mission 15
- Video button for rewards doesn't work
- Game broken and closes app at level 17
- Stuck on first boat mission, click target off-screen
- Glitch in level 15
- Firefighters run through building instead of around
- Doctor goes to opposite side of building in level 6
- AI pathways cannot maneuver around building
- People walk through walls and get stuck
- Medic goes wrong trajectory and gets stuck
- Rescuer gets stuck in door frame in mission 14
- Second fire kills everyone by approaching it
- Cannot put fire out in level 14 without damage
- Cannot carry person in first room of level 14
- Stuck on level 11, character running in place exiting motel room
- Bed tracking issue, not going around to get asset
- Cannot access one of the assets in level 10
- Door in mission 14 in wrong place, units run in but not out
- Game bugs out at a certain point
- Shows close-up of firehouse but does nothing else
- Freezing at level 8, trucks don't come
- Game gets stuck a few levels after level 5 fix
- Game crashes and glitches after level 8
- Captain walks across bed instead of around and gets stuck on desk in level 5
- Captain glitches and walks on bed to get asset but can't get it in level 5
- Captain can't collect asset on mission 5 nightstand, gets stuck
- Asset in bedroom not letting player pick it up, glitched on bed in level 5
- Player gets stuck on invisible box at level 5
- Character gets stuck in level five trying to get asset by the bed on nightstand
- Bug prevents clearing of assets on level 5
- Stuck on level 5, get stuck on invisible barriers
- Captain character gets stuck on nightstand asset in level 5
- Firefighter gets stuck on bed trying to recover asset in mission 5
- Firefighter gets stuck retrieving assets by the bed in mission 5
- Firefighter climbs over bed and gets stuck in level 5
- Captain got stuck on bed in level 5
- Fireman get stuck trying to get money off dresser beside bed in level 5
- Glitch in level five, runs on bed then stands there
- Captain tries to recover asset in bedroom but gets stuck on bed in level 5
- Character keeps glitching and can't reach asset in level 4
- Cannot get one of the assets in the 5th mission
- Firefighters get stuck in invisible walls or run through walls in mission 5
- Captain gets stuck on bed trying to get money from bedside table in mission 5
- Lags and unable to complete missions
Requested features
4 requests- Make more levels
- Fix bugs before release
- Improve AI pathfinding
- More extinguishers for fires
In-app purchases
Back to Earth
- Special-Offer Pack$0.99
- Pile of Dice$1.99
- A few EXP$1.99
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- Pile of Coins$1.99
- Pile of Marbles$1.99
- Heap of Marbles$4.99
- Weekly Card$4.99
- Premium Customized Pack$4.99
- Plenty of EXP$9.99
- Construction Material Pack$19.99
Fire Captain
- A Couple of Gems$0.99
- New Player Package$1.99
- A Handful of Gems$2.99
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- ToolPackage$3.99
- Growth Rewards VIP$4.99
- A Pile of Gems$4.99
- VehiclePackage$8.99
- A Sack of Gems$9.99
- ToolPackageUsualPrice$12.99
- VehiclePackageUsualPrice$29.99
Questions
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