Comparison

Eden vs Survivalcraft

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

Head to head
About

Eden

Create and explore infinite worlds with a powerful block-based sandbox game. Unleash your creativity by building anything imaginable, from simple structures to complex contraptions, and share your creations with a vibrant community.

Highlights
  • Explore, build, and destroy huge worlds
  • Wide variety of building materials
  • Interactive elements like fire and explosives
  • Creative tools like fireworks and portals
  • Lovable and aggressive creatures
  • Share and explore user-created worlds
Features
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Explore a world of limitless possibility. Build your own personal Eden. Unleash your creative and adventurous spirit! Eden is a game that lets you do awesome things with blocks. The game engine enables crazy sandbox fun. Build, destroy and explore your way through endless worlds. What will you make? Nostalgic classic fun for all ages. Features: * Huge worlds to explore, build, and destroy * All kinds of materials to build with * Colors * Fire and explosives * Fireworks, portals, paint bombs, lights, doors and treasure cubes * Lovable creatures, including new aggressive ones * Community: share your builds with friends and explore new worlds * Millions of user created worlds

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

Eden4 screens
Survivalcraft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Eden at every 2 days against Survivalcraft's every 3 months. Eden also leads on price ($1.99 vs $3.99). Survivalcraft's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

Eden 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

Eden holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.1K and 2K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Eden's written reviews are positive against 79% of Survivalcraft's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eden ships an update every 2 days, Survivalcraft every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Eden versus Survivalcraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEdenSurvivalcraft
Price$1.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.2 (2.1K ratings) — better4.1 (2K ratings)
Positive reviews76.1% of reviews79.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.1K — better2K
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#85 — better#137
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.68.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size187 MB63 MB
Age rating9++9
DeveloperKingly Software IncIgor Kalicinski

Customer experience

Eden

All ratings2,086 ratings
Positive81.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews565 reviews
Positive76.1%
Neutral8.8%
Negative15.0%

Survivalcraft

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

User reviews

Eden

From 2.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💎 Nostalgic and memorable game
  • 🌟 Unique and creative sandbox experience
  • 🎨 Customizable blocks and colors
  • 🌐 Ability to share and download worlds

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🕹️ Outdated and clunky controls
  • 🌇 Limited block and feature set compared to competitors
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding and downloading user-created worlds

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

Eden

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Worlds not saving properly
  • Inconsistent performance on newer devices
  • Shared world search not functioning correctly
  • Lighting and texture issues after updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Multiplayer functionality
  • More block types and customization options
  • Improved world sharing and discovery
  • Flying/camera controls for easier building
  • Survival mode with day/night cycles and enemies

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

Eden

No in-app purchases

None

Survivalcraft

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Eden free?
Eden costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Survivalcraft free?
Survivalcraft costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Eden or Survivalcraft?
Eden is rated higher. Eden averages 4.2 out of 5 from 2.1K ratings, while Survivalcraft averages 4.1 from 2K ratings.
Do Eden or Survivalcraft have ads?
Neither Eden nor Survivalcraft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eden or Survivalcraft?
Eden ships an update every 2 days, and Survivalcraft every 3 months. Most recently, Eden was updated on November 10, 2026 and Survivalcraft on November 10, 2026.
Which is more popular, Eden or Survivalcraft?
Eden currently peaks at #85 in the App Store charts, and Survivalcraft at #137. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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