Comparison

Sandblox vs Miner Hero!

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Block world exploration
  • Resource mining
  • Item crafting
  • Spaceship repair
  • Inter-world travel
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Explore caves and mines
  • Dig with a pickaxe
  • Upgrade weapons and gear
  • Fight dungeon creatures
  • Discover new maps
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Sandblox4 screens
Miner Hero!4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sandblox versus Miner Hero!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSandbloxMiner Hero!
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better2.8 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews—20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.011.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB380 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRistretto StudiosUgur Gulser

Customer experience

Sandblox

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Miner Hero!

All ratings8 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sandblox

No in-app purchases

None

Miner Hero!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sandblox free?
Sandblox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Miner Hero! free?
Miner Hero! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sandblox or Miner Hero!?
Sandblox is rated higher. Sandblox averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Miner Hero! averages 2.8 from 9 ratings.
Do Sandblox or Miner Hero! have ads?
Miner Hero! shows ads; Sandblox does not.

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