Deep Rock Galactic vs ClankUp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deep Rock Galactic
Engage in a single-player survivor-like auto-shooter, battling alien hordes and mining for riches. Upgrade your gear and arsenal to survive the procedurally generated caves of Planet Hoxxes. Experience the Deep Rock Galactic universe from a new top-down perspective.
- Survivor-like auto-shooter gameplay
- Procedurally generated caves
- Mining for riches
- Unlockable upgrades and weapons
- Top-down perspective
- Single-player experience
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Welcome, Survivor! DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes! REVERSE BULLET HELL, WITH MINING Kill bugs, upgrade your gear, and delve ever deeper into the lethal caves of Hoxxes. Collect and assemble a devastating array of guns, unleash hell upon wave after wave of alien monsters in fast and frenetic combat, and tunnel your way to collect precious riches from deep within the cave walls. With the auto-shooter gameplay, you don’t worry about aiming and firing – just run and mine for your life, as you automatically blast away. Each mission is entirely unique with its own procedural cave generation and enemy waves, just as you've come to know from Deep Rock Galactic. COMPLETE MISSION OBJECTIVES TO BECOME STRONGER Dig deep, Miner! Once the Drop Pod releases you into the oppressive darkness, you’re on your own. Complete the mission objectives set forth by the Company, and make it back to the Drop Pod in time to try your luck at even more deadly and lucrative encounters. Progress deeper and deeper into the planet while you grow ever stronger, survive all the way to the very end of your assignment, and finally get extracted alongside your hefty sack of loot. DEEP ROCK, FROM A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE Now you can explore the Deep Rock Galactic universe in a whole new single-player-focused experience! Play each mission from a top-down perspective, navigating the caves of Hoxxes as you've never seen them before, soaking it up through nonstop auto-shooter action. Greybeard Deep Rock veterans will recognize much from Deep Rock Galactic, and if you are a recently joined Greenbeard: Welcome all the same! We are thrilled to have you on board. You will like it here. Management requires it. ROCK AND STONE! Discord: https://discord.gg/drgs Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@fundaygames X: https://x.com/FundayGamesdk
ClankUp
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One asteroid. One finger. And a mining empire that grows with you. ClankUp is a space mining tap game: hit the asteroid, pull out ore, invest in your ship, and little by little stop doing the work yourself. At the start every tap counts. By the end you have a fleet that mines on its own while you are away. MINE AND UPGRADE You start with amethyst and a hand cannon. What you pull out goes into the ship's upgrade tree: more ore per tap, a semi-automatic cannon, fire rate, charge, magnets, a refinery. Every node changes how the game plays, not just the number. YOUR FLEET NEVER SLEEPS Buy mining ships and they keep working with the app closed. Come back and the fleet report is waiting with everything they pulled out. A real idle game: progress does not stop when you do. SEVEN MINERALS, ONE JOURNEY From amethyst to diamond. Every asteroid you reach is a new mineral, worth more and harder to break, and your logbook writes the journey down: the real mineralogy of the ones you have visited, and guesses about the ones you have not. Few make it to the end of the belt. CHESTS AND STYLE Open chests with keys for ore, gems and cosmetic pieces. Dress your astronaut in helmets, suits, packs and trails, and show it off on your profile. Every chest's odds are published inside the game, in plain sight before you open anything. COMPETE Worldwide leaderboards for ore mined and for tap rate. Open any player's profile to see their astronaut and their numbers, or challenge them to a star duel and wager ore on it. THE STATION When the fleet grows you leave the ship: the refinery smelts capsules, the reactor multiplies what you produce, and prestige restarts the run with a permanent head start so the next one goes further. FREE, PROPERLY The whole game is playable without paying. One free key a day, more keys if you feel like watching an ad, and optional purchases only to go faster. Play as a guest with no account, and make one whenever you want to show up on the leaderboard. Helmet on. The asteroid belt is not going to mine itself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Deep Rock Galactic at none against ClankUp's shown. ClankUp's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Deep Rock Galactic sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and ClankUp sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Deep Rock Galactic ships an update every 6 days, ClankUp every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deep Rock Galactic | ClankUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 922 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ghost Ship Publishing | PABLO LAPARRA VAL |
Bugs and requests
Deep Rock Galactic
Reported bugs
2 issues- Pause screen not working properly
- Targeting issues with enemies
Requested features
3 requests- Horizontal orientation option
- Cross-progression from other platforms
- More weapon/content variety
ClankUp
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Deep Rock Galactic
- Supporter Pack$4.99
- After Hours Pack$4.99
- Heavy Duty Expansion - Sale$9.99
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- Heavy Duty Expansion$9.99
- Unlock Full Game - Sale$12.99
- Full Game$12.99
- Deluxe Edition$14.99
- Deluxe Edition - Sale$14.99
- Complete Edition - Sale$22.99
- Complete Edition$22.99
ClankUp
- Gem$0.99
- Keyring$0.99
- Bunch of keys$3.99
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- Handful of gems$6.99
- Box of keys$7.99
- Cabinet of keys$14.99
- Box of gems$24.99
- Vault of gems$49.99
Questions
Is Deep Rock Galactic free?
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Do Deep Rock Galactic or ClankUp have ads?
Which is updated more often, Deep Rock Galactic or ClankUp?
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