Comparison

City Craft vs Elementex

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

Head to head
About

City Craft

Design and manage your dream metropolis, from planning zones and buildings to handling events and disasters. Earn everything through in-game rewards, with no microtransactions or long waits. Transform a small village into a thriving city and watch it come alive.

Highlights
  • Customize zones and special buildings
  • Experience thrilling events and disasters
  • Earn in-game currency and unlock perks
  • Expand city to new lands
  • Sandbox Mode for unlimited creativity
  • Optimize tax revenue and city growth
  • Manage cash flow, traffic, and happiness
  • Play offline
Features
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Welcome, Mayor! Step into the world of City Craft: Building Simand design your dream metropolis. Build a thriving city from the ground up, full of bustling streets, vibrant zones, iconic landmarks, and special buildings that make your city stand out. Become the hero of your own city as you plan, develop, and manage every detail. From hosting exciting events to overcoming natural disasters and fighting crime, the future of the city is in your hands! No microtransactions, no long waits—everything is earned through in-game rewards! Now available in multiple languages! Key Features of City Craft: Building Sim: 1. Create and customize zones and special buildings to craft your unique cityscape. 2. Experience thrilling events like street races or handle unexpected disasters such as tornadoes. 3. Complete challenges to earn experience points and in-game currency. 4. Use research points to unlock powerful perks and enhancements. 5. Expand your city to new lands, each with different terrain types. 6. Let your imagination run wild in Sandbox Mode, where creativity knows no bounds. 7. Strategically place buildings to optimize tax revenue and overall city growth. 8. Manage key factors like cash flow, traffic, and citizen happiness to ensure success. 9. Watch your city come alive with animated citizens, vehicles, animals, and vibrant buildings. 10. Easily save and share your city by uploading it to the cloud, or transfer it to another device. 11. Simple, intuitive touch controls for seamless city building. 12. Enjoy the freedom to play offline whenever you want. You’re not just building a city—you’re creating a living, breathing world! Start with a small, struggling village, and transform it into a sprawling, prosperous metropolis.City Craft: Building Simis waiting for you, Mayor—let the journey begin!

About

Elementex

A tactical tower-defense game focused on strategic placement and elemental combat. Build your defenses, bend enemy paths, and tap towers for skills to climb the global leaderboard. Every decision counts in this endless challenge.

Highlights
  • Hex-grid tower defense
  • Maze-builder pathing
  • Four elemental rock-paper-scissors matchups
  • Tap-to-cast active skills
  • Boss chests with transparent pricing
  • Global leaderboard
  • Endless mode
Features
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Elementex is a tactical tower-defense run. No worlds to grind. No campaign to crawl. One hex arena, one shot at the leaderboard, and every decision counts. Build between waves. Place towers on hex tiles. Bend the path with free walls. Tap a tower mid-wave to fire its skill. Lives reach zero, the run ends, and your best wave is the only number that matters. Fire beats Frost. Frost beats Nature. Nature beats Lightning. Lightning beats Fire. Hit a weakness for 1.5x damage. Hit a resistance for 0.7x. Read the wave, pick the counter, or pay for it. Every upgrade is bought with in-run gold. One tower per element — push its damage, its fire rate, or its range, each on a rising cost curve. No blueprints. No permanent unlocks to grind. Your build is what you can pay for, this run, right now. Every fifth wave is a boss. The boss drops a chest of three runes. You see every drop, every stat, every price, before you spend a single gem. Whatever you do not keep goes into the Recall Pool for seven days at +25 percent. Nothing disappears. Nothing is hidden. Runes you keep persist across runs. Combine two of the same rarity to climb to the next. Five rarities: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic. Mythic is boss-chest only and carries a unique passive skill. An element-matched rune on its tower hits 20 percent harder. There is no end state. There is only the next wave, the global leaderboard, and how far you can hold the line. • Hex-grid tower defense with maze-builder pathing • Four elements, one rock-paper-scissors wheel (1.5x / 0.7x matchups) • One tower per element, upgraded along +DMG / +RATE / +RANGE with in-run gold • A defining passive and a tap-to-cast active skill on every element • Boss chests every five waves, transparent gem pricing, seven-day Recall Pool • A global leaderboard, one endless mode, three- to seven-minute runs • No loot boxes. No energy. No timers. No paid randomness.

Screenshots

City Craft4 screens
Elementex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Elementex at Free against City Craft's $0.99. Elementex also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). City Craft's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment 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

Elementex is free to download; City Craft costs $0.99 up front. Elementex sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. City Craft asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Elementex holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
City Craft versus Elementex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCity CraftElementex
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHefei XingYou Information Technology co., Ltd.Tassilo Posegga

Customer experience

City Craft

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Elementex

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

In-app purchases

None

City Craft

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Elementex

One-time5
  • 100 Gems$0.99
  • 550 Gems$3.99
  • 1,200 Gems$8.99
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  • 2,500 Gems$17.99
  • 6,500 Gems$44.99

Questions

Is City Craft free?
City Craft costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elementex free?
Elementex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, City Craft or Elementex?
Elementex is rated higher. City Craft averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Elementex averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do City Craft or Elementex have ads?
Elementex shows ads; City Craft does not.

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