Building Crafter vs Road Builder Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Building Crafter
Mine stones with your truck, process them into valuable materials, and construct buildings to earn wealth. Upgrade your vehicle, hire workers, and build bridges to expand your city.
- Mine stones with a truck
- Process raw materials
- Construct and sell/rent buildings
- Upgrade truck capabilities
- Hire workers
- Build bridges to new areas
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Are you ready to take on the challenge of building your own city from scratch? With your trusty truck equipped with a powerful drill, you can mine through different stones of varying difficulties and gather raw materials to construct buildings that will earn you wealth and prestige. You control your own truck and explore different areas to collect raw materials. Every stone area has its own requirements, which you must meet to unlock and access the stones. Once you've gathered enough raw materials, head to the factory and process them to make them more valuable. But your job doesn't end there! You must then deliver these processed materials to different buildings to help construct them. Each building has its own specific stone needs, so it's up to you to fulfill those requirements to start construction. Once all the requirements have been met, you can either sell the building and receive a lump sum or rent it out and collect income over time. To make your job easier, you can upgrade your truck's drill power, speed, and capacity, and even customize it with a fresh coat of paint. You can also hire up to three workers to help you grind stones and deliver materials to the factory. But be careful not to overload your truck, but you can always upgrade your truck’s capacity! In addition, you'll need to build bridges to access new areas and historical landmarks, but the important question is, can you build them all?
Road Builder Idle
Become a road construction tycoon in this idle simulator. Drill old asphalt, recycle it into new materials, and paint road markings to fix the city's infrastructure and earn money. Can you build all the roads?
- Drill old asphalt
- Recycle asphalt
- Paint road markings
- Idle gameplay
- Road fixing simulation
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The city has a big problem! Roads are terrible, and traffic is unbearable. The city has contracted you to build and fix all the roads! Use this opportunity to gain a lot of money! The simplest road-building simulator is here! - Drill the old asphalt! - Recycle the old asphalt into new ones! - Paint all the roads with suitable marks! Can you build all the roads?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Building Crafter at 4.2 against Road Builder Idle's 3.3. Building Crafter also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). Road Builder Idle's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 20%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Building Crafter holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Building Crafter has 61 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Building Crafter's written reviews are positive against 33% of Road Builder Idle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Building Crafter ships an update weekly, Road Builder Idle every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Building Crafter | Road Builder Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (61 ratings) — better | 3.3 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | 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 | 221 MB | 413 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ela Game | SEKGAMES Oyun Yazilim Teknoloji ve Pazarlama Anonim Sirketi |
Customer experience
Building Crafter
Road Builder Idle
In-app purchases
Building Crafter
No in-app purchases
Road Builder Idle
No in-app purchases
Questions
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