Gun Gear vs Craft Drill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gun Gear
Merge gears to unlock and upgrade a variety of weapons. Earn in-game currency to increase your damage and unlock new firearms. Strategic upgrades and multipliers help you progress and achieve higher scores.
- Merge gears to unlock weapons
- Unlock new firearms
- Earn in-game money
- Use multipliers
- Special upgrade offers
- Increase damage
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Earn more money and unlock new weapons. Use multipliers and enjoy special upgrade offers to do more damage.
Craft Drill
Mine valuable resources like coal, iron, gold, and diamonds with an upgradable drill. Switch between various attachments to optimize your extraction and build a prosperous mining empire. Enjoy casual gameplay and complete challenging levels to become the ultimate mining tycoon.
- Drill upgrades
- Resource extraction (coal, iron, gold, diamonds)
- Attachment switching
- Economic strategy
- Casual gameplay
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Uncover hidden riches as you wield a powerful drill, extracting coal, iron, gold, and diamonds. Upgrade your drill and switch between attachments like wooden shovels, stone shovels, iron pickaxes, and diamond pickaxes for optimized resource extraction. GAME FEATURES: - Drill Upgrades: Evolve your drilling capabilities, from basic to unstoppable. - Resource Extraction: Mine coal, iron, gold, and diamonds for wealth and opulence. - Economic Strategy: Manage resources to build and expand your mining empire. - Casual Gaming: Enjoy simple controls and engaging gameplay. Complete challenging levels, improve your drill, and become the ultimate mining tycoon. Tackle intricate challenges as you delve deeper into the earth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Craft Drill at 29% against Gun Gear's 5%. Craft Drill also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.3). Gun Gear's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 207). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Gun Gear sells 17 one-off in-app purchases and Craft Drill sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Craft Drill holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gun Gear has 1.4K ratings behind it against 207, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 5% of Gun Gear's written reviews are positive against 29% of Craft Drill's.
Gun Gear ships an update every 9 days, Craft Drill every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gun Gear | Craft Drill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (1.4K ratings) | 4.5 (207 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 5.4% of reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 207 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 223 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Upperpik Oyun Yazilim ve Pazarlama Ticaret Anonim Sirketi | Yso Corp |
Customer experience
Gun Gear
Craft Drill
User reviews
Gun Gear
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Decent game despite issues
- 👍 Enjoyable gameplay
Room to improve
- 🚫 Completely different from ads
- 💰 Aggressive monetization with ads
- 🔨 Purchased features not working as expected
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
Craft Drill
From 207 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun concept
- 👍 Enjoyable gameplay initially
- 👍 Awesome game
- 👍 Very good game
- 👍 Cool game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game won't load past level select
- 🐛 Game freezes
- 🐛 Purchase not restored
- 🐛 Ads still present after purchase
- 🐛 Game crashes
Bugs and requests
Gun Gear
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes and crashes
- Purchased benefits not working
- Ads still shown despite paid ad removal
Requested features
3 requests- Remove ads completely for paid users
- Improve ad-free experience
- Ensure purchased features work as advertised
Craft Drill
Reported bugs
19 issues- Game won't load past level select menu after first level
- Game freezes when trying to play
- Purchased ad-free access not restored after reinstalling
- Game crashes and purchase is lost
- App won't load, ads don't load
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- Game bugs out after fully closing the app, requires reinstalling
- Game shows title screen and won't load
- Cannot get past the first level
- Game stays on title screen
- Game glitches out and won't load
- Restore purchases doesn't work
- Game crashes after paying for no ads
- Game won't open after paying for no ads
- Bug where game can't be played after reaching 50% on level 1
- Stopped letting me play after reaching 50% on level 1, only shows title screen
- App has a bug on level 1, won't start after finishing and exiting app
- Game progress reset after update
- Paid for no ads, still getting them
- Review box shuts down mid-review
Requested features
9 requests- Fix the game
- Add new ores, upgrades, and buildings
- Add more content
- Add color to levels
- Fix ads after purchase
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- Fix purchase restoration
- Fix game loading issues
- Fix game freezing issues
- Fix game crashing issues
In-app purchases
Gun Gear
- Drone$1.99
- 10 Tickets$1.99
- Captain$2.99
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- Sergeant$2.99
- Flamethrower!$2.99
- Grenade$2.99
- 20 Tickets$2.99
- 30 Tickets$2.99
- NoAds$3.99
- Spy$3.99
- Airstrike$3.99
- President$4.99
- Ammo pack$4.99
- Big Deal Pack!$4.99
- 50 Tickets$4.99
- 30 Tickets and No Ads$5.99
- Treasury Trove Pack$5.99
Craft Drill
- Remove Ads$2.99
- 25k Money & Remove Ads$3.99
- 50k Money$4.99
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- 100k Money$7.49
- 250k Money & Remove Ads$9.99
Questions
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