Comparison

Doodle Army 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 Army

Engage in an endless shooting adventure against waves of enemies. Utilize a vast arsenal of over 40 weapons and play as more than 40 unlockable characters across multiple battle zones. The game features a tutorial and auto-saving to guide your progress.

Highlights
  • Endless shooting gameplay
  • Over 40 weapons
  • Over 40 unlockable characters
  • Multiple battle zones
  • In-game tutorial
  • Checkpoint auto-saving
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The Doodle Army™ wants you! Enlist today and cut down wave after wave of enemies in this endless shooting adventure! Hear the sweet screams of your victims as you strafe them with submachine gun fire or explode them with grenades and roast their remains with the flamethrower. The in game tutorial and Drill Sergeant will guide you through the basics in Boot Camp. Soon you will be on your way to creating your very own heaping piles of bloodied baddies. See how far you can go before the enemy overwhelms you! -Employ over 40 different weapons including: pistols, submachine guns, sniper rifles, shotguns, grenade launchers,assault rifles, chainsaws, lasers, grenades, and the dreaded flamethrower -Play as one of over 40 unlock-able characters in one of over six battle zones. -Two control styles available. -Continue your progress with checkpoint auto saving. THANK YOU: Thank you to the users for your support and feedback.

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 Army4 screens
Survivalcraft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Doodle Army at 4.5 against Survivalcraft's 4.1. Doodle Army also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). Survivalcraft's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 Army costs $1.99 and Survivalcraft $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Doodle Army holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.5K and 2K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Doodle Army's written reviews are positive against 79% of Survivalcraft's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doodle Army ships an update monthly, Survivalcraft every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Doodle Army versus Survivalcraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle ArmySurvivalcraft
Price$1.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.5 (1.5K ratings) — better4.1 (2K ratings)
Positive reviews84.0% of reviews — better79.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1.5K2K — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#64#55 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size227 MB63 MB
Age rating12++9
DeveloperChad TownsIgor Kalicinski

Customer experience

Doodle Army

All ratings1,526 ratings
Positive85.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews376 reviews
Positive84.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative9.0%

Survivalcraft

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

User reviews

Doodle Army

From 1.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎮 Nostalgic and fun gameplay
  • 💥 Exciting boss battles
  • 🎨 Great retro graphics
  • 🕹️ Simple and addictive controls
  • 🕰️ Brings back childhood memories

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches (sound issues, score not recording, etc.)
  • 🔌 Compatibility issues with newer devices
  • 🕹️ Repetitive gameplay
  • 🔊 Annoying sound effects

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 Army

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Sound not working in missions
  • Boss battle scores not recording
  • Game Center integration not functioning
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

6 requests
  • Update for iOS 11 and newer devices
  • Add more levels and maps
  • Implement multiplayer mode
  • Add character customization options
  • Improve vehicle controls
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  • Introduce new gameplay modes (e.g., zombie survival)

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

None

Doodle Army

No in-app purchases

None

Survivalcraft

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Doodle Army free?
Doodle Army costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Survivalcraft free?
Survivalcraft costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Doodle Army or Survivalcraft?
Doodle Army is rated higher. Doodle Army averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while Survivalcraft averages 4.1 from 2K ratings.
Do Doodle Army or Survivalcraft have ads?
Neither Doodle Army nor Survivalcraft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Doodle Army or Survivalcraft?
Doodle Army ships an update monthly, and Survivalcraft every 3 months. Most recently, Doodle Army was updated on November 6, 2026 and Survivalcraft on November 6, 2026.
Which is more popular, Doodle Army or Survivalcraft?
Doodle Army currently peaks at #64 in the App Store charts, and Survivalcraft at #55. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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