Comparison

Doodle Jump vs Survivalcraft

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

Head to head
About

Doodle Jump

Guide a character upwards on a graph paper world using tilt controls. Collect power-ups like jet packs and avoid obstacles such as black holes and monsters. Compete with friends and other players on global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Tilt controls for movement
  • Collect jet packs and power-ups
  • Avoid black holes and monsters
  • Jump on monsters Mario-style
  • Global leaderboards and achievements
  • Race against friends
Features
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BE WARNED: Insanely addictive! "possibly the best iPhone game ever created" - Touch Arcade From prime-time sitcoms (BIG BANG THEORY) to late night TV (JIMMY FALLON) to a fashion accessory for pop stars (LADY GAGA), Doodle Jump is EVERYWHERE! It's a cultural craze, a hot new trend! iTunes reviews (US) ************* "I just got dumped cuz I wouldn't put this game down! And I just kept playing while she walked away... ITS THAT GOOD!" "Somehow it's better than sleep for me. I am sick, sleep deprived, and achy, and yet I cannot put it down" "Coming from someone who owns a PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360, I play this game more!! This game is amazing!!" Media reviews: ******* "Doodle Jump is a perfect micro-game, insanely addictive, and deliciously replayable. Go get it." - MacWorld.com "the most addicting iPhone game yet?" -GIZMODO "...the king of casual games on the App Store ...tons of updates and lots and lots of gameplay in a super simple and accessible package." - TUAW So, what is it? **** In Doodle Jump, you guide Doodle the Doodler—using some of the most subtle and accurate tilt controls in existence—on a springy journey up, up, up a sheet of graph paper, picking up jet packs, avoiding black holes, and blasting baddies with nose balls along the way. Laugh with delight as Doodle™ blows past other players' actual score markers scribbled in the margins. And be warned: this game is insanely addictive. FEATURES: - 11 incredible worlds + 3 SECRET easter eggs - broken, moving, disappearing, moveable, and EXPLODING platforms - JET PACKs, PROPELLER HATS, ROCKETS, and springs that fly you higher - UFOs, black holes, monsters, bear traps! - jump on monsters to bring them down MARIO-style - share your scores - race agains friends! - global leaderboards, achievements! How to play: Tilt to move left or right, tap the screen to shoot. -------------------------------------------------- *Please don't Doodle Jump and drive, and BE WARNED: Doodle Jump is Insanely Addictive!

About

Survivalcraft

Explore an infinite blocky world, mine resources, and craft tools to survive. Build shelters, hunt animals, and even create complex electrical devices in this open-ended sandbox survival game.

Highlights
  • Infinite blocky world exploration
  • Resource mining and crafting
  • Building and shelter construction
  • Hunting and farming
  • Ridable animals and herding
  • Complex electrical device creation
  • Painting and customization
Features
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You are marooned on the shores of an infinite blocky world. Explore, mine resources, craft tools and weapons, make traps and grow plants. Tailor clothes and hunt animals for food and resources. Build a shelter to survive cold nights and share your worlds online. Ride horses, camels or donkeys and herd cattle to protect them from predators. Blast your way through the rock with explosives. Build complex electric devices. Possibilities are infinite in this long-running sandbox survival and construction game series. This is the thirtieth release of Survivalcraft, and it adds a new armor and weapons tier - copper! You can now paint stairs, slab, fences and signs and place electric gates on the floor or ceiling. Wander in dense forests full of tall spruces and fallen logs. Explore bigger caves, but watch out for huge magma chambers underground (15x bigger than 1.28). There are new sound generator sounds for you to use, including hi-fi drums! Check out full list of 70 changes at game webpage. Survivalcraft brings features you love in the PC version of the most famous blocky game to your mobile device: infinite worlds, caves, logic elements (electricity), weather, boats, ridable animals, explosions, clothes, armor and many more. It does so while maintaining its own realistic, survival-themed style. Enjoy! Brief update history so far: - 1.0 (initial release, 16 Nov 2011) - 1.1 (screenshots, torches, lamps, tools, controls sensitivity, recipaedia) - 1.2 (sneaking, stairs, slabs, doors, ladders, snow, ice, christmas tree) - 1.3 (basalt, limestone, marble, furnace) - 1.4 (new world format, clay, bricks) - 1.5 (birds, weapons, throwing, food, eating) - 1.6 (emergency bugfix release) - 1.7 (trapdoors, water animations, snowballs, traps, wildboars, game modes) - 1.8 (buckets, water physics, magma, world properties, view angles) - 1.9 (Dropbox, fences, upside-down stairs and slabs) - 1.10 (optimizations, bulls, signs, sulphur, saltpeter, adventure mode) - 1.11 (explosives, fire, matches, magma as fluid) - 1.12 (wolves, cows, milk, diamonds, flat terrain, controls improvements) - 1.13 (creature spawners, eggs, saplings, compass, thermometer, grass spreading) - 1.14 (emergency bugfix release, hygrometer, sharper text) - 1.15 (big performance improvements, bears, machetes, adventure restart, cacti) - 1.16 (smoother framerate, polar bears, paint, falling blocks, environment modes) - 1.17 (3rd person view, 3d tools, creature shadows, physics optimizations) - 1.18 (rain, snow, thunderstorms, thawing/freezing, werewolves, pumpkins) - 1.19 (electricity, new UI, new recipaedia, new help, germanium + lots more) - 1.20 (community content, better caves, creative options, SD card) - 1.21 (fish, horseriding, electricity improvements, camels, leather + lots more) - 1.22 (survival, farming, boats, islands, more painting, pathfinding, rhinos and many other animals) - 1.23 (content rating, larger visibility range, analog electrics, halloween special, donkeys, bass) - 1.24 (bows and arrows, shooting target, reindeer, tigers, iron fences, ivy, feathers, string) - 1.25 (custom skins, new explosions engine, bombs, crossbows, fire arrows, new UI, stone fences) - 1.26 (clothes, armor, temperature effects, belugas, cassowarys, pumpkin and cotton farming) - 1.27 (moose, campfires, larger inventory, lightning button, more clothes, AI improvements, new engine) - 1.28 (firearms, dispensers, fireworks, digging cracks, left-handed controls) - 1.29 (more paintable items, copper armor and weapons, tall spruces, horizontal logs, bigger caves)

Screenshots

Doodle Jump4 screens
Survivalcraft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Survivalcraft at none against Doodle Jump's 11. Survivalcraft also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Doodle Jump's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Doodle Jump costs $1.99 and Survivalcraft $3.99 up front. Doodle Jump sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Survivalcraft asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Doodle Jump against 4.0 for Survivalcraft. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 831 and 2K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Doodle Jump's written reviews are positive against 79% of Survivalcraft's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doodle Jump ships an update every 2 months, Survivalcraft every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Doodle Jump versus Survivalcraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle JumpSurvivalcraft
Price$1.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.2 (831 ratings) — better4.0 (2K ratings)
Positive reviews71.0% of reviews79.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8312K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#94#80 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.68.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB63 MB
Age rating4++9
DeveloperLima SkyIgor Kalicinski

Customer experience

Doodle Jump

All ratings828 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral7.5%
Negative14.4%
Written reviews473 reviews
Positive71.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative20.7%

Survivalcraft

All ratings2,027 ratings
Positive75.9%
Neutral8.6%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews1,046 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral10.6%
Negative10.0%

User reviews

Doodle Jump

From 831 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ⭐ Favorite game
  • 🎮 Great classic
  • 👍 Fun and addictive
  • 🕹️ Amazing game
  • 🎨 Cute characters and themes

Room to improve

  • 🙄 Too many ads
  • 🤔 Confusing controls
  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 💰 Paid version still has ads
  • 🔁 Repetitive gameplay

Survivalcraft

From 2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🌟 Awesome game
  • 🎮 Great alternative to Minecraft
  • 🐴 Variety of animals
  • 🔋 Realistic survival mechanics
  • 🎨 Customizable skins and textures

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
  • 🕹️ Difficult controls
  • 🔒 Lack of multiplayer
  • 🌄 Outdated graphics
  • 🏞️ Limited world generation

Bugs and requests

Doodle Jump

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Missions progress not saving properly
  • Crashes on certain devices
  • Multiplayer connection issues
  • Incorrect theme/character unlocking

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more themes and characters
  • Improve multiplayer functionality
  • Add difficulty settings
  • Provide an option to turn off sound effects
  • Optimize for newer devices

Survivalcraft

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when downloading community content
  • Inability to access certain worlds due to version mismatch
  • Graphical glitches and visual bugs
  • Inconsistent performance across devices

Requested features

8 requests
  • Multiplayer mode
  • More animal varieties (e.g. dogs, cats, dinosaurs)
  • Ability to tame and breed animals
  • Improved crafting system
  • Vehicles (e.g. carts, boats, planes)
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  • Furniture and home customization
  • Searchable community content
  • Biome and weather variety

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Doodle Jump

One-time11
  • 1000 coins$0.99
  • 1000 candies$0.99
  • 500 eggs$0.99
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  • 10,000 gold$0.99
  • 10,000 coins$1.99
  • 5000 eggs$1.99
  • 100,000 gold$1.99
  • 30,000 coins$2.99
  • 10000 candies$2.99
  • 15000 eggs$2.99
  • 100,000 coins$3.99
None

Survivalcraft

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Doodle Jump free?
Doodle Jump costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Survivalcraft free?
Survivalcraft costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Doodle Jump or Survivalcraft?
Doodle Jump is rated higher. Doodle Jump averages 4.2 out of 5 from 831 ratings, while Survivalcraft averages 4.0 from 2K ratings.
Do Doodle Jump or Survivalcraft have ads?
Neither Doodle Jump nor Survivalcraft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Doodle Jump or Survivalcraft?
Doodle Jump ships an update every 2 months, and Survivalcraft every 3 months. Most recently, Doodle Jump was updated on October 29, 2026 and Survivalcraft on October 29, 2026.
Which is more popular, Doodle Jump or Survivalcraft?
Doodle Jump currently peaks at #94 in the App Store charts, and Survivalcraft at #80. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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