Comparison

Final Outpost vs Space Salvager

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

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About

Final Outpost

Lead the last survivors of the apocalypse in this survival strategy base-builder. Manage citizens, assign jobs, craft tools, and build a fortified settlement. Survive against zombie hordes and harsh environmental conditions.

Highlights
  • Base building and expansion
  • Citizen role assignment and skill upgrades
  • Resource management and crafting
  • Zombie defense and combat
  • Farming and food production
  • Simulated seasons and weather
Features
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===DEFINITIVE Edition of the 1M+ player Base-Builder=== Traders, Settle new regions, Difficulty modes, Modifiers, New artwork, Achievements, No IAPs and more. Build your Outpost • Manage your citizens • Survive the zombie apocalypse Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive? ===ASSIGN JOBS=== Choose from 10+ job roles for each of your citizens, and watch them get to work! ===BUILD YOUR OUTPOST=== Construct and upgrade 12+ building types and expand your sprawling settlement. Build vital resource storage, production buildings and housing for new survivors. ===KILL ZOMBIES=== Deck out your defences to keep 5+ zombie types away from your walls. Start out with a single knife and progress to mowing down hordes with machine guns, crossbows and snipers. ===FARM FOR FOOD=== Feed your hungry citizens as your Outpost expands. Begin farming wheat in your fields to overcome the dwindling deer population outside your walls. ===SIMULATED SEASONS + WEATHER=== Survive harsh droughts, cold winters, and unforgiving thunderstorms with simulated weather and seasons. ===UPGRADE YOUR CITIZENS=== Upgrade your citizens’ skills to gather, defend and repair more efficiently. -------------------- Send your feedback and bug reports to support@exabytegames.com Join the newsletter: https://cutt.ly/news-d

About

Space Salvager

Pilot a salvage tug to derelict ships, cutting free valuable parts while the structure crumbles around you. Race against rivals and manage your greed to get home with your haul, or risk losing everything.

Highlights
  • Push-your-luck gameplay
  • Salvage derelict ships
  • Rival salvager encounters
  • Multiple ship types
  • Collectible personal effects
  • Daily seeded wrecks
Features
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There's a fortune inside this derelict, and nobody left alive to stop you taking it. Every part you cut free makes the wreck likelier to come down on top of you. Nothing warns you when to leave. There's only what's already in your hold, and how much of it you're willing to bet on one more cut. Space Salvager is a push-your-luck game about greed and timing. You captain a beat-up tug on the edge of explored space: find the dead ships, strip them, and get out before the structure fails. Take too little and you can't afford the fuel home. Take too much and you lose the lot. THE CUT THAT COSTS YOU Every component has a price in stability. Below half, each removal can start a collapse - girders fail, fires start, arcs jump the hull, radiation floods a section. You can always ride it out for one more piece. People do. That's how ships get lost. SEVEN KINDS OF DEAD SHIP Freighters, mining rigs, research vessels, military frigates, colony transports, luxury liners - and occasionally a contact matching no hull design on record. Sealed compartments can be gambled open for a fortune or for slag. Some wrecks hold things that were never meant to be aboard. YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE OUT HERE Rival salvagers arrive mid-job and start cutting the far side. Pay them off, threaten them, or race them to the good parts before they get there. WHAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND Abandon a wreck and it doesn't reset. It stays out there in real time, decaying, getting picked over by someone else. Come back in three days and find out what's left of it. FIFTEEN HULLS, THREE BERTHS The Kestrel is out before the hull knows it was there. The Ox carries everything and leaves slowly - you will fill the hold, and you will regret it when the countdown starts. The Lamprey strips a wreck faster than anything in the registry and takes damage like wet paper. The Bastion is built to survive the collapse rather than avoid it. No hull is strictly better than another. The right one depends on the wreck. THE SHIP'S LOCKER Twenty personal effects, recovered from seven crews. The Long Haul. Cold Hypothesis. Promise of Rain. Seventeen Thousand Years. Sell them for credits, or keep them and eventually learn what happened aboard. Selling the last piece of a set costs you the ending. THE DAILY WRECK One seeded wreck a day, the same for every salvager, flown on a loaner rig. One attempt. Come back tomorrow. NO PAYWALL Free to play, with no in-app purchases. Ads are opt-in rewards only - you choose to watch one, at a moment you picked, for something specific. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that plays uninvited. Credits, fuel and repairs are never for sale. The risk is the game - we're not selling you a way around it. Find it. Strip it. Get out alive.

Screenshots

Final Outpost4 screens
Space Salvager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Space Salvager at Free against Final Outpost's $4.99. Space Salvager also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Final Outpost's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (40 vs 1). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Space Salvager is free to download; Final Outpost costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Space Salvager holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Final Outpost has 40 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Final Outpost versus Space Salvager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinal OutpostSpace Salvager
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (40 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#95 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size288 MB55 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperExabyte Games LtdMason Moran

Customer experience

Final Outpost

All ratings40 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive75.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative16.9%

Space Salvager

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Final Outpost

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Save crashes when loading
  • Game freezes at start
  • Game stuck at first tutorial tip

Requested features

2 requests
  • Update the game
  • Add more features

Space Salvager

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Final Outpost

No in-app purchases

None

Space Salvager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Final Outpost free?
Final Outpost costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Space Salvager free?
Space Salvager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Final Outpost or Space Salvager?
Space Salvager is rated higher. Final Outpost averages 4.4 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Space Salvager averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Final Outpost or Space Salvager have ads?
Space Salvager shows ads; Final Outpost does not.

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