Sandblox vs Miner Hero!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sandblox
Explore a blocky world, mine resources, and craft items to repair your spaceship. Embark on an adventure to discover new worlds with your pickaxe.
- Block world exploration
- Resource mining
- Item crafting
- Spaceship repair
- Inter-world travel
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You arrive into a block land only equiped with your dear pickaxe. Collect all kinds of material, repear many building and explore the new world. Use your hardly collected resources to craft all the one you need to repear your spaceship and go to a new world!
Miner Hero!
Embark on an adventure through dungeons and mines. Upgrade your pickaxe, weapons, and gear to battle creatures and explore new maps. Discover new caves and expand your mining expeditions.
- Explore caves and mines
- Dig with a pickaxe
- Upgrade weapons and gear
- Fight dungeon creatures
- Discover new maps
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Explore caves and dig mines with your pickaxe! Upgrade your weapon and fight with dungeon creatures. Upgrade your pickaxe, ring and guns! Explore new caves and new maps!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sandblox at 5.0 against Miner Hero!'s 2.8. Sandblox also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Miner Hero!'s advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sandblox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Miner Hero! has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Sandblox | Miner Hero! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 380 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ristretto Studios | Ugur Gulser |
Customer experience
Sandblox
Miner Hero!
In-app purchases
Sandblox
No in-app purchases
Miner Hero!
No in-app purchases









