Topia World Builder vs Earth Sandbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Topia World Builder
Shape a vibrant planet as a divine creator. Sculpt landscapes, grow forests, and populate your world with diverse animal life. Witness ecosystems evolve as you manage your creation.
- Create mountains, valleys, rivers, and oceans
- Spawn and manage large animal herds
- Observe animal interactions and ecosystems
- Save and edit worlds
- Customize land, water, and sky colors
- Supports landscape and portrait modes
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From the Award Winning Studio Crescent Moon Games and Glenn Corpes, one of the creators of the original Populous series of games, comes TOPIA WORLD BUILDER, a unique world building sim, tailored for iOS devices. Topia World Builder is a world creation simulation. You become god and shape the land as you choose, by the use of touch controls. Swipe your finger to create mountains, valleys, rivers, and oceans. Watch trees grow, spawn thousands of animals - and watch them live and die on the planet of your creation! Features: -Create Mountains -Create Valleys -Create Rivers -Create Oceans -Spawn various animal types -Build enormous herds of animals -Watch predators attack other animals -Save your worlds so you can edit them later -Change the color of land, water, sky -Play in both landscape and portrait modes
Earth Sandbox
Explore the dynamic evolution of a planet by altering its core systems like climate and gravity. Trigger natural events and observe real-time population and ecosystem trends. This experimental simulation game offers unique outcomes with every interaction.
- Earth-focused environmental simulation
- Interconnected climate and planetary systems
- Dynamic natural events
- Real-time population and ecosystem trends
- Interactive experimentation tools
- Clean visuals and intuitive controls
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Earth Sandbox is an experimental simulation game centered on Earth itself. Instead of following a fixed story or objective, the game invites you to explore how a planet reacts when its core systems are changed. Climate, gravity, oceans, and atmosphere interact dynamically, creating unique outcomes every time you experiment. You can adjust environmental conditions, trigger natural events, or push the planet into extreme states. Rising temperatures may reshape ecosystems, shifting gravity alters planetary balance, and sudden disasters can permanently change the world you observe. Natural events such as meteor impacts, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and global climate shifts are part of the simulation. Each event influences the planet differently depending on existing conditions, encouraging experimentation rather than repetition. The simulation is driven by interconnected systems inspired by scientific principles. Population trends, environmental stability, and planetary conditions evolve in real time, allowing you to observe long-term consequences of your actions. Features: • Earth-focused environmental simulation • Interconnected climate and planetary systems • Dynamic natural events and long-term world changes • Real-time population and ecosystem trends • Interactive tools designed for experimentation • Clean visuals with intuitive controls How will your choices shape the future of this Earth? Icon by orvipixel from www.flaticon.com Icon by Freepik from www.flaticon.com Icon by Solid Icon Co from www.flaticon.com Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay Sound Effect by Universfield from Pixabay Sound Effect by Kalvin C from Pixabay Sound Effect by Jeremay Jimenez from Pixabay Music by Grand_Project from Pixabay Music by Music Unlimited from Pixabay Sound Effect by Matthew Vakalyuk from Pixabay Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Earth Sandbox at Free against Topia World Builder's $1.99. Earth Sandbox also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). Topia World Builder's advantage is rating (3.6 vs 2.1) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment, 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
Earth Sandbox is free to download; Topia World Builder costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Topia World Builder holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Topia World Builder has 236 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Topia World Builder's written reviews are positive against 50% of Earth Sandbox's.
Topia World Builder ships an update every 6 weeks, Earth Sandbox weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Topia World Builder | Earth Sandbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (236 ratings) — better | 2.1 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 236 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #130 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 5.1.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 389 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Crescent Moon Games LLC | Heechang Kim |
Customer experience
Topia World Builder
Earth Sandbox
Bugs and requests
Topia World Builder
Reported bugs
3 issues- Birds getting stuck over the ocean
- Land animals drowning in water
- Inconsistent controls and UI
Requested features
5 requests- Add humans and civilization building
- Introduce natural disasters and weather effects
- Expand animal and plant diversity
- Improve ecosystem balance and predator-prey dynamics
- Implement saving and loading of created worlds
Earth Sandbox
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Topia World Builder
No in-app purchases
Earth Sandbox
No in-app purchases
Questions
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