Comparison

Survivalcraft vs Radiation Island

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

Head to head
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
Read full description

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)

About

Radiation Island

Embark on a survival adventure in a vast open world, stranded in an alternate reality. Explore, craft, and fight to uncover secrets and find your way back home. Survive harsh environments, dangerous creatures, and the undead.

Highlights
  • Open-world exploration
  • Crafting and resource gathering
  • Combat against wildlife and zombies
  • Day-night cycle and weather effects
  • Underwater exploration
  • Multiplayer arena mode
Features
Read full description

Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises. Use everything you find to survive it and solve its puzzle to get back to the real world. Follow your own path in an environment of breathtaking beauty and gigantic scope. Explore huge forests inhabited by dangerous wolves, bears and mountain lions. Investigate abandoned villages and old military compounds where zombies guard vital tools, weapons and clues to the secrets of this world. You can even swim and dive, if you can avoid the hungry crocodiles. Hunt wild animals, fish or gather fruits to overcome hunger. Mine for resources and craft weapons, tools and basic vehicles. Find hidden treasures, equipment and fire arms to prevail in a world full of perils: radiation, anomalies, harsh weather and enraged zombies. Experience the full day-night cycle and face the dangers of darkness and cold. Survive and beat the game to unlock multiplayer mode: fight other real players online in a closed arena for valuable resources. AMAZING QUALITY, AND IT’S ONLY ON iOS! Optimized for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and the new A8 processors with greater environmental detail, spectacular visual effects and unparalleled performance! Takes advantage of Metal on A7 and A8 devices to provide cutting edge graphics. GAME CENTER, AirPlay and iCloud iCloud support is integrated so players can save and share progress across devices. AirPlay lets you play the game on larger displays via Apple TV. Climb the Game Center leaderboards, challenge friends and unlock dozens of achievements. Supports iOS MFi Game Controllers. Important: iPhone 4 and older devices are not supported.

Screenshots

Survivalcraft4 screens
Radiation Island4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Radiation Island at every 3 weeks against Survivalcraft's every 3 months. Radiation Island also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.1). Survivalcraft's advantage is ratings volume (2K vs 650) and price ($3.99 vs $4.99). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Survivalcraft costs $3.99 and Radiation Island $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Radiation Island holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2K and 650 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Survivalcraft's written reviews are positive against 74% of Radiation Island's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Survivalcraft ships an update every 3 months, Radiation Island every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Survivalcraft versus Radiation Island: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurvivalcraftRadiation Island
Price$3.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.1 (2K ratings)4.3 (650 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews — better73.9% of reviews
Number of ratings2K — better650
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#146 — better#173
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB2.3 GB
Age rating+912+
DeveloperIgor KalicinskiAtypical Games

Customer experience

Survivalcraft

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

Radiation Island

All ratings649 ratings
Positive82.1%
Neutral5.4%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews1,173 reviews
Positive73.9%
Neutral8.0%
Negative18.1%

User reviews

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

Radiation Island

From 650 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 PLEASE KEEP UPDATING
  • 👍 Enjoyable for years
  • 👍 Immersive environment
  • 👍 Tense atmosphere
  • 👍 Open world with variety

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and resets progress
  • 🐛 Glitches with building
  • 🐛 Laggy performance in certain areas
  • 🔋 Battery draining
  • 🐛 Disappearing items and chests

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)
Show 3 more
  • Furniture and home customization
  • Searchable community content
  • Biome and weather variety

Radiation Island

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes causing loss of progress
  • Glitches with building and structures
  • Disappearing items and chests
  • Laggy performance in certain areas
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

8 requests
  • Creative mode with unlimited resources
  • Multiplayer co-op
  • More vehicles (cars, boats, etc.)
  • Expanded crafting and building options
  • More enemy variety and difficulty
Show 3 more
  • Additional weapons (grenades, flamethrowers, etc.)
  • Weather effects (rain, storms, etc.)
  • Ability to tame animals as companions

In-app purchases

None

Survivalcraft

No in-app purchases

None

Radiation Island

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Survivalcraft free?
Survivalcraft costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Radiation Island free?
Radiation Island costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Survivalcraft or Radiation Island?
Radiation Island is rated higher. Survivalcraft averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while Radiation Island averages 4.3 from 650 ratings.
Do Survivalcraft or Radiation Island have ads?
Neither Survivalcraft nor Radiation Island shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Survivalcraft or Radiation Island?
Survivalcraft ships an update every 3 months, and Radiation Island every 3 weeks. Most recently, Survivalcraft was updated on November 10, 2026 and Radiation Island on November 11, 2026.
Which is more popular, Survivalcraft or Radiation Island?
Survivalcraft currently peaks at #146 in the App Store charts, and Radiation Island at #173. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

Other comparisons