Comparison

Builderment Idle vs Survivor Base

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

Head to head
About

Builderment Idle

Build and manage automated factories in this idle incremental game. Harvest resources, craft items, and upgrade your production lines to become a factory tycoon. Your factories continue to work even when you're offline, allowing you to collect profits and expand your empire.

Highlights
  • Automated resource harvesting
  • Factory upgrades for efficiency
  • Unlock new factories and resources
  • Offline progress and gold collection
  • Factory module bonuses
  • Prestige mechanics for permanent benefits
Features
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Harness the power of automation and become the ultimate factory tycoon in this thrilling idle incremental game. Get started harvesting logs and crafting them into wood planks to sell for gold. Use the gold to upgrade your factory to increase efficiency and production capabilities. Once you've earned enough gold and proven you can manage a Lumber Mill, purchase the Stone Quarry to advance your earnings even further! • Upgrade. Boost your factory efficiency and profit with upgrades to your Harvester, Workshop, and Marketplace. • Expand. Purchase new factories to unlock rare resources and craft valuable items. • Always working. Your factory is always harvesting and crafting items, even when you're busy with life. Come back anytime to collect the gold earned and keep playing! • Factory Modules. Collect and equip factory modules to grant unique bonuses and modifiers to your factory. • Prestige Mechanics. Restart your journey with permanent benefits, increasing your sell value and cementing your industrial legacy. Embark on a journey of industrial conquest, where every upgrade, every factory acquisition, and every prestige brings you closer to becoming the ultimate tycoon. Are you ready to automate your way to greatness? PS don't forget to tap/swipe the boat to collect its valuable cargo!

About

Survivor Base

Lead survivors in an apocalyptic world, managing resources to build and defend your camp. Explore ruins, gather materials, and train soldiers to fight off zombie hordes and establish a powerful, safe base.

Highlights
  • Automatic camp revenue generation
  • Exploration and adventure challenges
  • Flexible camp facility construction
  • Resource collection and processing
  • Zombie battles and defense
  • Sentry tower building and soldier training
  • Strategic decision-making
Features
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Survivor Base - Zombie Siege is a survival strategy game set in the background of apocalypse. As the leader of a small surviving camp, your responsibility is to manage and lead the survivors. You need collect and use the materials around to build various constructions and items for improving the defense power and the production capabilities of the camp. Besides, you also need send survivors to form teams to explore the ruins, find more resources and companions, and watch out zombies in the mean while. Your final goal is to make the camp stronger and safer until a powerful base is created for everybody. Features 1. Your camp will run automatically and make revenue, even if you are offline. 2. Many kinds of business challenges, exploration and adventures 3. Flexible and diverse construction of camp facilities 4. Rich materials and resource to be collected and processed 5. Thrilling and exciting zombie battles 6. Building sentry towers, training soldiers, and resisting zombies 7. Exquisite 3D graphics and cool animations 8. Creating important surviving strategies and making management decisions Lead your exclusive team to live and fight in the difficult and dangerous environments with your unique and extraordinary leadership skills!

Screenshots

Builderment Idle4 screens
Survivor Base4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Survivor Base at 4.6 against Builderment Idle's 3.1. Survivor Base also leads on ratings volume (660 vs 22). Builderment Idle's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Builderment Idle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Survivor Base sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Survivor Base holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Survivor Base has 660 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Builderment Idle's written reviews are positive against 37% of Survivor Base's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Builderment Idle ships an update every 4 days, Survivor Base every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Builderment Idle versus Survivor Base: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuilderment IdleSurvivor Base
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (22 ratings)4.6 (660 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews36.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22660 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB333 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuilderment LLCMOBIBRAIN TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.

Customer experience

Builderment Idle

All ratings22 ratings
Positive54.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative45.5%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral11.1%
Negative55.6%

Survivor Base

All ratings659 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.5%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive36.6%
Neutral14.9%
Negative48.5%

Bugs and requests

Builderment Idle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Survivor Base

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Progress resets after reaching level 200
  • Ads not working or loading
  • Inconsistent offline progress tracking

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to move all buildings at once
  • Offline resource collection improvements
  • Rebalance food production and consumption
  • Expand max level beyond 200

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Builderment Idle

One-time4
  • Pile of Gems$2.99
  • Harvest Gem Tree$5.99
  • Sack of Gems$7.99
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  • Chest of Gems$19.99
10 purchases

Survivor Base

One-time10
  • 80 diamonds$0.99
  • Material supply$0.99
  • 500 diamonds$4.99
Show 7 more
  • Ad-Free$9.99
  • Mechanical administrator$9.99
  • 1200 diamonds$9.99
  • Character gift pack2$12.99
  • 2500 diamonds$19.99
  • Character gift pack1$19.99
  • 15000 diamonds$99.99

Questions

Is Builderment Idle free?
Builderment Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Survivor Base free?
Survivor Base is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Builderment Idle or Survivor Base?
Survivor Base is rated higher. Builderment Idle averages 3.1 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while Survivor Base averages 4.6 from 660 ratings.
Do Builderment Idle or Survivor Base have ads?
Both Builderment Idle and Survivor Base show ads.
Which is updated more often, Builderment Idle or Survivor Base?
Builderment Idle ships an update every 4 days, and Survivor Base every 3 weeks. Most recently, Builderment Idle was updated on November 8, 2026 and Survivor Base on November 4, 2026.

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