StardewValley! vs Emergent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StardewValley!
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Experience the charm of classic farming games with Stardew Valley Mini! Grow crops, raise your farm, explore mines, and build friendships in a cozy retro world. Upgrade your tools, unlock new features, and complete daily quests for rewards. Perfect for quick, relaxing play—every session brings new surprises. Pixel art, simple controls, and lots of secrets to discover. How big can your farm become?
Emergent
Shape barren worlds with hyper-realistic fluid and particle simulations. Terraform landscapes, create ecosystems, and mine resources to power your connection to other players' realities. Balance creation and destruction to keep planetary hearts beating.
- Hyper-realistic fluid and particle simulation
- Terraform mountains and carve rivers
- Paint life onto barren worlds
- Remote viewing of other players' realities
- Send and receive gold with other players
- Mine resources to maintain connection
- 10 unique explorable worlds
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Your planet is your canvas. Sculpt a living world like clay. Raise mountains with a finger, flood the seas, and let rivers dig gold out of the rock. Where the water goes, life follows — and evolves to fit the world you made. Other players' planets orbit alongside yours. Visit them. Chat with whoever's home. Send gold in an envelope that isn't anyone's until it's opened. WHAT YOU DO • Sculpt terrain in real time — one finger raises land, two fingers fly • Seed life and watch it spread, species by species • Mine gold. Every gram costs the world something. • Fly satellites — 107 of them — that steer weather, growth, and fortune • Gamble at the Cosmic Arcade: slots, blackjack, carts, snow tubes • Top the leaderboard by wealth, or by how much life your world holds Your world keeps living while you're away. Rivers flow, ore returns, and eleven planets wait in the dark. One account, every screen. Start on your phone, continue in any browser at emergent-d.com. Same world, same wallet, same friends.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StardewValley! at none against Emergent's 1. Emergent's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.5). 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
Both are free to download. Emergent sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. StardewValley! asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | StardewValley! | Emergent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TAKURO INOUE | Joseph Smith |
In-app purchases
StardewValley!
No in-app purchases
Emergent
- 10,000 Gold$0.99
Questions
Is StardewValley! free?
Is Emergent free?
Do StardewValley! or Emergent have ads?
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