Comparison

Residual vs Call KCC for Buck

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

Head to head
About

Residual

Explore procedurally generated alien planets, harvest resources, and craft sci-fi tools to survive and repair your ship. Uncover ancient secrets in a non-violent survival platformer with a unique nature engine.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated worlds
  • Resource harvesting and crafting
  • Sci-fi tool creation
  • Non-violent survival gameplay
  • Alien lore discovery
  • Customizable survival parameters
Features
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Residual… a new breed of survival platformer from OrangePixel. In a forgotten galaxy full of strange planets, a lone explorer crash-lands on one with an ancient alien secret. Venture forth from the shipwreck across a harsh, unpredictable, procedurally generated world. Harvest food and make campfires to stay alive. Craft science-fiction survival tools like teleporters and mining devices. Unearth alien technology capable of repairing the ship. Hunger, cosmic storms, hostile plant life and the mysterious ooze are among the many obstacles you’ll face. You won’t be alone! PDB (a snarky floating Personal Disaster Bot) will follow and assist you along the way. Sometimes. PDB also helps you discover the hidden lore, revealing the history of the planet as you explore deeper and deeper, assuming you can survive! OrangePixel’s uniquely designed Nature Engine generates 1000’s of planets from a vast set of environment-based rules, then drops explorers on a world brimming with potential. If a planet orbits close to the sun, intense heat, high winds, and sparse vegetation will pose a set of challenges wildly different from other worlds. Further from the sun, long nights make stamina easier to maintain, but reduced solar power turns every suit function—like scanning the planet—into a critical decision. Residual welcomes players to a non-violent survival experience with limitless possibilities and no traditional combat. Jump and descend through colorful, highly detailed pixel art evoking classic 2D platformers. Solve light puzzles to reveal secrets of a long-lost civilization. Select a male, female, or non-binary protagonist, customize survival parameters like how fast time advances, and race to repair the ship, dig up ancient secrets, or collect data entries on hundreds of undiscovered objects.

About

Call KCC for Buck

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In 2150 the solar system mostly works. The airlocks open. The machinery runs. Shareholders remain confident. But sometimes something weird happens: clowns on the Moon, rogue teddy bears on Mars, or plants with teeth. Then you call KCC for Buck. Call KCC for Buck is a mission-based isometric action game about dangerous work, strange contracts, and the contractor sent in when ordinary maintenance is no longer an option. Guide Buck through hazardous worksites, abandoned facilities, and places management insists are completely under control. Fight hostile creatures, rescue stranded workers, recover valuable salvage, disable dangerous machinery, and make it to extraction. Along the way, MARGO will explain the mission, monitor your performance, and remain professionally unconcerned about your chances of survival. Features - Fast isometric action built around movement, aiming, shooting, and environmental awareness. - A campaign of strange contracts across the solar system. - Clowns, rogue machinery, aggressive vegetation, and other workplace hazards. - Rescue, salvage, sabotage, access, and extraction objectives. - Multi-level environments filled with secrets, hazards, and things that should not be moving.

Screenshots

Residual4 screens
Call KCC for Buck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Call KCC for Buck at $1.99 against Residual's $5.99. Call KCC for Buck also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Residual's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Residual costs $5.99 and Call KCC for Buck $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Residual ships an update monthly, Call KCC for Buck every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Residual versus Call KCC for Buck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterResidualCall KCC for Buck
Price$5.99$1.99 — better
Rating3.5 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB315 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPascal BestebroerJoao Donker

In-app purchases

None

Residual

No in-app purchases

None

Call KCC for Buck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Residual free?
Residual costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Call KCC for Buck free?
Call KCC for Buck costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Residual or Call KCC for Buck have ads?
Neither Residual nor Call KCC for Buck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Residual or Call KCC for Buck?
Residual ships an update monthly, and Call KCC for Buck every 2 weeks. Most recently, Residual was updated on November 7, 2026 and Call KCC for Buck on October 31, 2026.

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