Pocket Frontier vs Duskroot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Frontier
Embark on a survival crafting adventure on a mysterious island. Explore diverse biomes, mine resources, build a base, and battle creatures. Master a deep skill tree and play solo or with friends.
- Vast multi-level world exploration
- Resource gathering and farming
- Base building and crafting
- Combat against diverse creatures
- Deep skill tree progression
- Co-op multiplayer
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*NOTICE* Try free for 30 minutes. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks the full game. No ads. Pocket Frontier is a survival crafting game set on a mysterious island full of resources, creatures, and secrets. Build your base, farm the land, explore dangerous biomes above and below ground, and forge your path to the stars. * Explore a Vast Multi-Level World * Venture across diverse surface biomes — prairies, forests, deserts, swamps, and more. Then dig deep underground through multiple levels of caverns, each with unique environments, tougher enemies, and rarer resources. Something ancient lurks at the very bottom. * Mine, Farm, and Gather * Harvest wood from towering trees, mine ores from deep veins, till soil and grow crops, and hunt wildlife for food. Improve your gear, unlocking tougher materials and deeper layers of the world. * Craft and Build Your Base * Turn raw materials into everything you need to survive. Cook meals at campfires, smelt ingots in furnaces, forge weapons at the toolsmith, automate your resource gathering. * Fight Dangerous Creatures * Battle a wide variety of enemies: from slimes and zombies to vampires, golems, and worse. Wield swords with elemental powers: flame swords ignite foes, ice swords freeze them solid. Build defensive towers to defend your territory while you're away. * Master a Deep Skill Tree * Unlock dozens of skills across gathering, farming, combat, crafting, and survival. Choose your specialization and shape your playstyle. * Play Solo or With Friends * Invite friends to join your world in co-op multiplayer. Share resources, divide tasks, build side by side, and face the dangers of the frontier as a team. Every world supports cooperative play, but solo adventurers can thrive too. Start your adventure — the frontier awaits!
Duskroot
Cultivate crops, manage a shop, and explore dangerous mines in this cozy farming adventure. Develop your character through a unique skill tree and make strategic decisions in both commerce and combat.
- Farming and crop cultivation
- Shop management and haggling
- Mine exploration with combat
- Branching skill tree progression
- Optional rewarded ads
- Cosmetic in-app purchases
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Your grandmother Wren left you her farm. She left the shop too, and the hole in the ground under the field, and not much of an explanation. Water both, she said. Duskroot is a cosy farming game with a mine underneath it. FARM BY DAY Clear the ground, till it, plant it, water it, and bring it in. What you grow is what you have to sell. RUN YOUR OWN SHOP Put a thing on a shelf and put a price on it. Villagers come in, look at what you are asking, and decide. Too dear and they wince. Too cheap and you have fed them for nothing. Nobody ever tells you what anything is worth. You work it out by selling. DELVE BY DUSK Take a pick and a sword down and see how far you get. A sword combo, a bow you hold to draw, slimes, skeletons and a couple of things that are worse. Fall down there, or stay past midnight, and half of what you are carrying stays behind. ONE TREE, TWO LIVES Farming, fighting, mining, fishing and haggling all feed one pool of stars, and one branching tree spends them. There is no class to pick at the start. What you spend it on is who you turn into. FREE, AND IT STAYS FREE There is no paywall anywhere in Duskroot. Two moments offer you a short advert in exchange for a favour: a hint at the shop, and a hand up when you fall in the mine. Both are optional, both are capped, and skipping them costs you nothing. If you would rather never see an advert, the Rootkeeper's Pact takes the adverts away and leaves the favours. There is also a pet to follow you around and a night bloom for the tree, if you want to say thanks. Both are just for looks. Grow it. Sell it. Go down and get more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Frontier at 4.3 against Duskroot's 2.0. Pocket Frontier also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Duskroot's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, review sentiment, 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. Pocket Frontier sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Duskroot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pocket Frontier holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 25% and 25% positive.
Pocket Frontier ships an update weekly, Duskroot daily. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Frontier | Duskroot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | 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 | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 204 MB | 332 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Roofdog Games | Midknight Entertainment LTD. |
Customer experience
Pocket Frontier
Duskroot
In-app purchases
Pocket Frontier
- Unlock full game$4.99
Duskroot
- Rootkeeper's Pact$3.99
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