Survivalcraft vs Pocket Build
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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)
Pocket Build
Create your own fantasy worlds without limits. Build anything from farms and castles to epic cities with a vast array of items. Command characters, collect resources, and unleash your imagination in this open-world sandbox.
- Open world sandbox
- Build with no limitations
- Hundreds of buildable items
- Collect resources
- Command humans
- Beautiful 3D graphics
- Build instantly
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Have you ever wanted to make your own little fantasy world? A farm, some kind of castle, or just an epic fantasy city? Pocket Build is an open world game where you can build with no limitations or restrictions. Build whatever you like, whenever you like, however you like. The possibilities are endless! - Featured as Game of the day. - #1 game in over 57 countries. - "An open world sandbox building game with a great 3D graphics engine." - AppAdvice Castles, people, animals, trees, fences, farms, bridges, towers, houses, rocks, land, it's all their for the building. The only limit is your imagination! - Hundreds of items to build. - Huge open world. - Build instantly. - Collect resources and build special items. - Command your humans to do various tasks. - Beautiful 3D graphics. - New items added every update. - Endless possibilities. - Buildings, Trees, People, Animals, Fences, Pathways, Castles, Skulls, Barrels, Farms, Bridges, Towers, Houses, Rocks, and loads more! - Build, rotate, and place items anywhere in the world. - Control the camera view, rotate, zoom. - 3D touch support. - Haptic feedback. The possibilities are endless! Build your own city, build your own world, build your own castle, be creative, craft your land, build a town, create your own adventure, build anywhere in an open world. Become a Pocket Builder today! ----------------------------------------- The game contains an optional subscription feature. It is not required to play and enjoy the game. If you choose to purchase the subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours. Subscription starts at $0.99/week. Prices are in US dollars and may vary in other countries. Auto-renewal can be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes store after purchase. The subscription can be cancelled at anytime. If you don't choose to purchase the subscription, the game can still be fully played without it. Terms & conditions can be found here https://moonbear.com/terms-and-conditions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Build at 4.6 against Survivalcraft's 4.1. Pocket Build also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (27K vs 2K). Survivalcraft's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On review sentiment, ads 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
Survivalcraft costs $3.99 and Pocket Build $0.99 up front. Pocket Build sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Survivalcraft asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket Build holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Build has 27K ratings behind it against 2K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Survivalcraft's written reviews are positive against 77% of Pocket Build's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Survivalcraft ships an update every 3 months, Pocket Build fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Survivalcraft | Pocket Build |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (2K ratings) | 4.6 (27K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.3% of reviews — better | 76.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2K | 27K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #125 | #27 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 615 MB |
| Age rating | +9 | 9+ |
| Developer | Igor Kalicinski | MoonBear LTD |
Customer experience
Survivalcraft
Pocket Build
User reviews
Survivalcraft
From 2K App Store ratingsWhat 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
Pocket Build
From 27K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game
- 🚀 Surprisingly addictive
- 💡 Lots of customization options
- 🚀 Smooth performance
- 👍 Amazing graphics
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy at times
- 🔒 Limited character interactions
- 💡 Lack of purpose or objectives
- 🔒 Repetitive gameplay
- 🔒 Difficult terrain editing
Bugs and requests
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
Pocket Build
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when building large worlds
- Issues with path and terrain connectivity
- Inability to delete or move placed items
Requested features
8 requests- More animals and creatures
- Ability to control characters and have them interact
- Warfare and battle mechanics
- Progression system and goals
- Random world generation
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- Multiplayer functionality
- More building styles and themes
- Ability to edit and customize characters
In-app purchases
Survivalcraft
No in-app purchases
Pocket Build
- Power Builder (weekly)3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Power Builder (monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Power Builder (monthly)7 Days trial$11.491 Month
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- Power Builder (yearly)7 Days trial$25.491 Year
- Micro Tip$0.99
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$1.99
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- Super Tip$4.99
- Mega Tip$5.99
- Super Mega Tip$9.99









