Comparison

Maker Valley vs Tap The Dead

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

Head to head
About

Maker Valley

Design and build a charming village filled with unique animal villagers. Customize your avatar, craft decorations, and complete tasks to expand your community. Engage in fun mini-games and collect a variety of items.

Highlights
  • Village customization and expansion
  • Avatar and villager outfit customization
  • Crafting decorations and items
  • Fulfilling villager requests
  • Collecting celestial animals and fish
  • Match-3 puzzle mini-games
  • Cooperative play with friends
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Are you the one we’ve been waiting for? Betty & Li Na have been hoping that a Star Child will show up to restore their village. Maker Valley is a beautiful waterfront area with plenty of room to expand, all it needs is for someone like you to fix it up and turn it into a thriving community for celestial animal villagers! Maker Valley is free to download, and includes random mechanics. Maker Valley can be played offline, however a network connection is required for some features. ► GET CREATIVE AND CUSTOMIZE YOUR VILLAGE, YOUR AVATAR, AND YOUR VILLAGERS! ◆ Expand your village, place decorations, and create your perfect layout ◆ Craft decorations in the workshop & earn special decorations as gifts from villagers ◆ Customize your avatar with different outfits & accessories ◆ Unlock celestial animals then choose which ones you want to join your village ◆ Pick your villager outfits to add an extra touch of personalization ◆ Craft House skins to make your village match your aesthetic ◆ Discover limited-time items at the Moon Mart and Mushroom merchant ► COMPLETE SATISFYING TASKS THAT HELP YOUR LITTLE SOCIETY THRIVE! ◆ Fulfill villager requests at the Moonhub ◆ Farm produce in your garden to get the ingredients you need ◆ Fish in the Lake, Rivers, and Ponds ◆ Create treats at the Snackery to keep your key producers happily working ◆ Complete boat orders for materials to upgrade your house and its storage capacity ◆ Increase your villager happiness to earn unique gifts ◆ Forage for resources around the village to craft decorations at the workshop ◆ Forage for Mushrooms to buy special items at the Mushroom Merchant ◆ Play mini-games for bonus resources ► LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR CELESTIAL ANIMAL VILLAGERS! ◆ Each villager has a story and unique personality ◆ Talk to your villagers to learn more about their personalities and earn friendship titles ◆ Send out Friendship Bracelets to add more animals to your village’s waitlist ◆ Pick which animals join your village & rotate them as much or as little as you like ◆ Watch them interact with your village’s decorations ► COMPLETE ALL YOUR COLLECTIONS! ◆ Earn or craft hundreds of decorations with different themes ◆ Collect all the celestial animals and pick which ones live in your village! ◆ Fish in the lake, rivers, and ponds to collect all the Fish types! ◆ Discover every Friendship Flower by growing them with help from other players or your villagers! ► HELP OTHER PLAYERS! ◆ Grow Friendship Flowers to place around your village ◆ Help other players by watering their Friendship Flowers ◆ Grow your friend list and work together! ► PERFECT YOUR STRATEGY! ◆ Find the most effective way to expand your village ◆ Create a system that keeps your production buildings working ◆ Stay on top of all the different products ◆ Max out your village and keep all the residents happy ► SOLVE CUTE MATCH-3 PUZZLES! ◆ Complete match-3 levels for bonus rewards like power-ups and extra resources ◆ Enjoy thousands of match-3 levels at your own pace ◆ Test your ability to solve increasingly challenging puzzles If you read this far you should really just give the game a shot! We have worked very hard to create a cozy game that everyone can enjoy! Terms Terms of Service: https://firstflamestudio.com/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://firstflamestudio.com/privacy-policy

About

Tap The Dead

Test your reflexes in this fast-paced arcade game. Tap incoming undead before they reach you, navigate environmental hazards, and chain combos to climb the leaderboards. Unlock new worlds, battle bosses, and customize your ghost hunter.

Highlights
  • Skill-based reflex gameplay
  • Five unique haunted worlds
  • Time-trial hunt challenges
  • Live global leaderboards
  • Boss fights with unique patterns
  • Unlockable ghost skins
  • Offline play
Features
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TAP THE DEAD — GHOST HUNTER Tap fast. Stay alive. Climb the haunted ranks. A pure-skill reflex arcade game set across five haunted worlds. The undead drift up from the screen edge — tap them before they reach you, dodge environmental hazards, and chain combos to send your score (and your rank) climbing. Easy to learn, brutally hard to master. FIVE HAUNTED WORLDS • Dark Forest — moonlit purple mist. Beware the Skull King. • Graveyard — gravestones fall from above. Shadow ghosts split when tapped. • Haunted Castle — swinging chandeliers, fire ghosts, the Vampire King. • Haunted Ship — lightning strikes, ice ghosts, the Drowned Captain. • Space Cemetery — meteor showers, void ghosts, the Cosmic Reaper. HUNTS — TIME-TRIAL CHALLENGES Race the clock across six hunt types: Color Hunt, Bird Hunt, Survival, Block Breaker, Pumpkin Pop, Streak Run. Each clears a level to unlock the next, with a dedicated Hunts leaderboard so you can chase the global #1. LIVE LEADERBOARDS • Global all-time top scores • Weekly leaderboard that resets every Monday • Hunts leaderboard for time-trial bests • Your unique tag (e.g. GhostHunter#A1B2) follows you across devices BOSS FIGHTS Every world ends in a boss with its own attack pattern and reward: Skull King, Zombie Lord, Vampire King, Drowned Captain, Cosmic Reaper. Beat them for bigger payouts and bragging rights. UNLOCK MORE • Earn coins as you play, spend them on ghost skins • Daily login bonus and streak rewards • Inferno and Blizzard VIP-only skins • VIP badge that shows on the leaderboard VIP LIFETIME — ONE-TIME UNLOCK Get every world, every VIP skin, the leaderboard badge, no ads forever, and 2× daily login coins — all for one lifetime payment. No subscription. Cheaper than buying the worlds individually. BUILT FOR MOBILE • Plays smoothly on phones and tablets • Portrait, one-handed gameplay • Sign in with Apple or Google to sync progress across devices • Plays offline; scores and purchases sync when you're back online PRIVACY & SUPPORT We're a small indie team. Your data is yours — read the full policy at tapthedead.com/privacy-policy.html or delete your account anytime from inside the app. Questions? Email us — a real person reads every message. Free to play. No subscriptions. No pay-to-win. Stay alive. Tap the dead.

Screenshots

Maker Valley4 screens
Tap The Dead4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tap The Dead at 100% against Maker Valley's 63%. Tap The Dead also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Maker Valley's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (2.1K vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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. Tap The Dead sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Maker Valley asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tap The Dead holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maker Valley has 2.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Maker Valley's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tap The Dead's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Maker Valley versus Tap The Dead: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaker ValleyTap The Dead
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.1K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.1K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size881 MB26 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFirst Flame Studio OyPooja Devraye

Customer experience

Maker Valley

All ratings2,051 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews188 reviews
Positive62.8%
Neutral15.4%
Negative21.8%

Tap The Dead

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Maker Valley

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezing at crafting station
  • Unable to progress past level 5
  • Loss of progress and save data after crashes

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more villagers and animal characters
  • Increase level cap beyond 15
  • Allow moving of buildings for more customization
  • Implement controller support

Tap The Dead

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Maker Valley

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Tap The Dead

One-time6
  • Unlock Space World$0.99
  • Unlock Castle World$0.99
  • Unlock Haunted Ship World$0.99
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  • Unlock Graveyard World$0.99
  • Remove All Ads$0.99
  • Lifetime VIP Pass$1.99

Questions

Is Maker Valley free?
Maker Valley is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tap The Dead free?
Tap The Dead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Maker Valley or Tap The Dead?
Tap The Dead is rated higher. Maker Valley averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.1K ratings, while Tap The Dead averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Maker Valley or Tap The Dead have ads?
Both Maker Valley and Tap The Dead show ads.

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