Crayola Adventures vs MySims™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crayola Adventures
Create and color your own stories with open-ended gameplay. Design characters, customize scenes, and make choices that shape unique adventures across various worlds. It's a safe, fun space for families to explore imagination and build storytelling skills.
- Open-ended storytelling
- Adventure-style gameplay
- Character design
- Scene customization
- Interactive narrative choices
- Creative learning through play
- Family sharing features
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Step into the world of Crayola Adventures, where open-ended storytelling and adventure-style gameplay merge for ever-evolving experiences that bring your creativity and ideas to life. Your stories. Your rules. *Winner of the Apple Design Awards 2024 for Inclusivity and 2024 NYX Game Awards in Mobile Games* STORIES AS BIG AS YOUR IMAGINATION Start a rock band. Or a pop band. Not your jam? Then go explore the outer limits of space on a rocket ship you create instead. Or do all of it! Challenge an evil genie. No wait… become his friend. Or turn him into a majestic blue giraffe! Design your ultimate bedroom to hang out with friends, or turn it into an evil lair. Rescue a robot and make him the hero. Or should the purple dragon who eats your dad’s stinky socks be the hero? Or maybe it’s the ice-cream headed lizard! Only you get to decide! After all, YOU are the mastermind behind stories only you can dream up. Color, draw, paint, and craft your way through unique worlds: Real Life, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and more. Create your own one-of-a-kind characters, personalize their journey, customize the scenes with your art, and determine how the narrative unfolds. Build your dream treehouse, fill your bookshelf with stories you write, collect trophies from your adventures, and unlock new rooms and items to tell even more tales! DESIGN CHARACTERS & STORIES THAT ARE UNDENIABLY YOURS • You’re the author, the illustrator, and the hero! • Your creativity, art, and choices inspire the adventures you go on • Create books from a variety of genres, settings, and story arcs… or invent your own • Personalize your hero and their sidekicks to make them are as unique as you are – choose from thousands of combinations of hairstyles, skin color, accessories, and outfits SAFE, SECURE & FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY • Players of all ages can be free to explore, create, and play with no in-app purchases • Bond as a family imagining, creating, and reading stories together • Use Share Play to share your adventures with friends and family • Committed to ensuring children’s online privacy and safety, Crayola Adventures is COPPA and GDPR compliant • Recommended by parents, loved by their kids LEARN THROUGH GAMEPLAY • Practice problem-solving and creative expression while having fun • Build confidence in reading, writing and storytelling skills • Support cognitive and fine motor development (grown-ups love that kind of stuff!) • Dynamic voiceover brings players' inputs directly into the narration, empowering players of all reading levels EXPRESS YOURSELF WITH UNLIMITED CREATIVE CHOICE • Decide if your characters go to space, decorate their bedroom, fight dragons all day, or… The options are endless! • Your choices mean every session can have a different ending. The princess gets eaten by the giant… or… the magical clouds give you flying powers? • Design a world where your protagonist (whether it’s the alien or your best friend) feels at home in their cozy treehouse SHOWCASE YOUR IDEAS WITH BEST-IN-CLASS DIGITAL CREATIVE TOOLS • Craft extraordinary characters and illustrate customized worlds with an array of digital Crayola art tools • Design your logo for your electro pop band, start a new fashion trend with your t-shirt design, draw the wallpaper for your bedroom… It’s your world to create! CHECK OUT NEW CONTENT EACH MONTH • Continue the never-ending excitement – ever-evolving content updates keep your inspiration flowing and ensure there’s something for everyone! DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RED GAMES CO. • Red Games Co. is a boutique studio filled with a team of parents and educators who have a passion for providing players with the most polished, fun and engaging apps • Named #7 on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Gaming for 2024 Privacy Policy: https://www.redgames.co/crayola-adventures-privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://aut.crayocom.cloud.sitefinity.com/company/app-terms-of-use Support: https://crayolaadventures.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
MySims™
Transform a struggling town by building and customizing homes and businesses. Befriend locals, discover treasures, and design unique furniture and decorations to make the community thrive.
- Build and customize entire towns
- Shape the community by choosing residents
- Explore a world and uncover treasures
- Create and personalize your Sim
- Design custom furniture and accessories
- Discover special decorations and patterns
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Explore a new world with MySims™—it's your world to transform in this retro re-release with updated graphics! Move to a town that has been struggling lately. With a little creativity and some help from the locals, you can make this place thrive. Improve the town to attract characters, from Chef Gino Delicioso and DJ Candy Supergroove to arcade owner, Vic Vector and Cap'n Ginny, the town pirate. Discover what the residents want and need, so that you can help them enjoy life in your Sim's new town. Design a hot tub or jukebox from scratch, build homes and businesses from the roof to the front door. Uncover special decorations and patterns as you explore the growing town. From the furniture and objects to the buildings to the town as a whole – each of your creations is unique. In MySims™, what you make... makes all the difference! Build and customize an entire town — Your town is your own unique creation, from the design of the flower shop to the layout of a Mad Scientist’s laboratory, and beyond. Shape the community —It's your call who lives there and who moves out! Who will you befriend? Who will you ignore? A whole world to explore — Socialize with the locals and uncover all sorts of useful and surprising treasures hidden throughout the town. Create your own Sim —Personalize your Sims appearance from head to toe. Unlock cool clothing as you befriend the neighbors. Design your own stuff– Decorate with your very own furniture and accessories, then customize your creations with things you can grow, harvest, or discover around town. ROW: Requires acceptance of EA’s Privacy & Cookie Policy and User Agreement. EU: Requires acceptance of EA’s User Agreement. EA’s Privacy & Cookie Policy applies. You consent to any personal data collected through your use of EA’s services being transferred to the United States, as further explained in the Privacy & Cookie Policy. See here for information about which territories fall into ROW and EU. Notice at Collection https://www.ea.com/legal/privacy-and-cookie-policy#information-for-california-residents Your Privacy Choices https://www.ea.com/legal/privacy-portal?modal-id=targetedAdvertisingProvidedByThirdParties Requires an Internet connection (network fees may apply).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crayola Adventures at 4.7 against MySims™'s 4.1. Crayola Adventures also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (11K vs 88). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Crayola Adventures holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crayola Adventures has 11K ratings behind it against 88, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Crayola Adventures's written reviews are positive against 54% of MySims™'s.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crayola Adventures | MySims™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (11K ratings) — better | 4.1 (88 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.6% of reviews — better | 54.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 88 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.7 GB | 1.6 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | RED GAMES CO, LLC | Electronic Arts |
Customer experience
Crayola Adventures
MySims™
User reviews
Crayola Adventures
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🩷 Creative and imaginative
- 👍 No ads
- 🎨 Allows for artistic expression
- 🤩 Fun and engaging
- 📚 Encourages storytelling
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs
- 🤖 Robotic-sounding narration
- 🤔 Repetitive stories
- 💤 Can get boring over time
MySims™
From 88 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Nostalgic and fun game
- 🚀 Comprehensive building features
- 💡 Kid-friendly game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🔨 Frustrating building controls
- 🤔 Lack of story and NPC interaction
- 🤷♀️ Confusing essence requirements
Bugs and requests
Crayola Adventures
Reported bugs
4 issues- Progress not saving properly
- Buttons/controls not functioning as expected
- Freezing/crashing issues
- Inconsistent performance across devices
Requested features
5 requests- More story options and genres
- Ability to create custom stories from scratch
- Text-to-speech for user-generated content
- Improved character customization options
- Ability to save and revisit created stories
MySims™
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to turn podium and apples
- Disappearing gift screen
- Inconsistent building placement
Requested features
4 requests- Add more story and NPC interaction
- Improve building controls and camera
- Implement autosave feature
- Add support for Game Center features
In-app purchases
Crayola Adventures
No in-app purchases
MySims™
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Crayola Adventures free?
Is MySims™ free?
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