Comparison

Building Colonies vs Timber Survival

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

Head to head
About

Building Colonies

Engage in a unique strategy game focused on land colonization. Explore unknown territories, establish and defend your settlements, manage resources, and interact with local tribes. Develop your colonies and expand your empire.

Highlights
  • Land colonization
  • Map exploration
  • Colony development
  • Resource management
  • Colony defense and attack
  • Tribal interaction
Features
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Building Colonies is a cool, simple and unique strategy with land colonization. Founding a colony on unknown islands and continents, protecting colonies and extracting resources and much more awaits you in this strategy. How to play? Press start, select a type of terrain such as forests, deserts and winter lands. You must buy a ship to send to unknown lands to build colonies. Bring the ship closer to the ground and build a colony, but be careful, local tribes may live on the lands and will try to destroy your weak colony. Having enough resources, you can sell them in the capital and get money for them, for which you can improve the colony to protect against local tribes, and you can also gather an army in the colony and send it to destroy the settlement of the natives. Game Features: - Simple strategy - Three levels of forest, desert and snowy lands - Map exploration - Colony development - Resource sales - Hostile tribes - Colony defense and attack - Statistics

About

Timber Survival

Embark on an open-world 2D survival adventure. Chop trees for XP, level up, and unlock powerful upgrades. Explore diverse biomes, battle bosses, tame wolves, and compete on global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Open-world 2D survival gameplay
  • 7 unique biomes to explore
  • Powerful character upgrades
  • Epic boss battles
  • Tame and command wolf companions
  • Global leaderboards
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Timber Survival is an open-world 2D survival game where skill, strategy, and the right upgrades are the difference between life and death. Start in the Forest with nothing but a hatchet. Chop trees to earn XP, level up, and choose powerful upgrades that transform your playstyle. Fight through 7 unique biomes — from the icy Arctic to the scorching Volcanic lands — defeating enemies, hunting down bosses, and collecting rare weapons hidden in locked chests. FEATURES • 7 unique biomes — Forest, Mountain, Volcanic, Wetlands, Arctic, Tropical, Grasslands • Powerful upgrades — Axe Strength, Wide Swing, Attack Speed, Fire Axe, Vitality, Swiftness, and more • Epic boss battles — each biome has a unique boss that drops a key to unlock a special chest weapon • Tame wolves — feed wild wolves apples to build a loyal wolf pack that fights alongside you • Survival mode — defeat all 7 bosses then face endless enemy waves • World leaderboard — compete globally with All Time and This Month rankings • Mystic NPC — take a 50/50 gamble for powerful random rewards • Ad-free upgrade available HOW TO PLAY Chop trees to earn XP and level up. Every level-up offers upgrade choices that shape your build. Kill enemies and bosses to progress through biomes. Bosses drop keys that unlock chests with powerful weapons. Tame wolves with apples to build a pack that fights for you. Survive as long as possible! Can you defeat all 7 bosses and conquer the waves?

Screenshots

Building Colonies4 screens
Timber Survival4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Timber Survival at 5.0 against Building Colonies's 1.0. Timber Survival also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timber Survival holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Building Colonies versus Timber Survival: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuilding ColoniesTimber Survival
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB55 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperMaxim RudyiDAVID MICHEAL CRONCE

Customer experience

Building Colonies

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Timber Survival

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

In-app purchases

None

Building Colonies

No in-app purchases

None

Timber Survival

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Building Colonies free?
Building Colonies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timber Survival free?
Timber Survival is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Building Colonies or Timber Survival?
Timber Survival is rated higher. Building Colonies averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Timber Survival averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Building Colonies or Timber Survival have ads?
Building Colonies shows ads; Timber Survival does not.

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