Tiny Crawler vs Survive Alone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Crawler
Explore a grim, procedurally generated underworld in this pixel-art roguelite. Battle unique enemies, disarm traps, and make meaningful choices in tactical turn-based combat. Discover hidden treasures and powerful artifacts in a dark fantasy urban decay setting.
- Procedurally generated levels
- Tactical turn-based combat
- Unique enemies and traps
- Mysterious events and hidden treasures
- Character progression (DnD rules)
- Permadeath
- Crafting system
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Descend into a surreal, gritty underworld in Tiny Crawler, a pixel-art roguelite where every choice matters and danger lurks in every shadow. Battle bizarre enemies, disarm strange traps, and explore a city of secrets, blending dark fantasy with urban decay. Discover mysterious traders, uncover powerful artefacts, and test your luck at ancient altars. With procedurally generated encounters, moody pixel visuals, and an atmospheric soundtrack, Tiny Crawler offers a fresh challenge every time you play. Features: - Procedurally generated levels and encounters - Unique enemies and traps inspired by cult classic manga - Mysterious events and hidden treasures - Tactical turn-based combat and meaningful choices - Chunky pixel art and a dark, immersive atmosphere - Designed to be played in short stints in mobile (iOS only at the moment) - Character progression based on DnD rules - Permadeath - Procedurally generated encounters - Turn-based combat - 200 items - 32 enemies - 10 bosses - 10 events - 3 Biomes - Identifiable items - Crafting - Achievements - Spell casting Do you have what it takes to survive the crawl?
Survive Alone
Experience a challenging wilderness survival simulation where you must manage hunger, thirst, and body heat. Explore diverse environments and craft tools to stay alive through various narrative-driven scenarios. Every decision counts in this immersive solo adventure.
- Manage hunger, thirst, and body heat
- Craft tools and weapons
- Explore diverse wilderness environments
- Multiple story-driven scenarios
- Dynamic weather system
- Resource gathering and foraging
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You wake up in the woods. You don't know how long you've been walking. The trail behind you has faded. The light won't last. What's in your pack is what you have. Survive Alone is an immersive survival game about staying alive in the wilderness, one decision at a time. Manage your body heat, hunger and thirst as you fight to survive. You will get lost. You will run out of water. You will spend a night under thin cover in driving rain and feel it in your bones the next morning. You will learn, slowly, what the woods will and won't forgive. THREE STORIES. ONE WILDERNESS. Wrong Turn - A hike that didn't end where it should have. Find your way back to the trailhead before something stops you. Crash Landed - The plane came down in the alpine. There are no rescue teams looking yet. Survive until they come. The Will to Live - No destination. No rescue. Just the Pacific Northwest, the rain, and how long you can last. STAY WARM Build a fire when the weather lets you. Improve the shelter where you slept last. A rain-soaked night under thin cover costs you more than a hard day's walk. EAT & DRINK Spear a fish from the lakeshore. Set snares overnight. Forage for berries, mushrooms, edible roots, and learn the difference between what feeds you and what doesn't. Find a creek. Boil what's unsafe. Melt snow when nothing else is running. Carry empty bottles for the next leg. CRAFT Strip cedar bark and weave it into cordage. Lash hardwood and sinew into a bow, a spear, a fishing rod. Hammer salvaged scrap into something that holds water. Every tool starts somewhere in the world. HIKE Pick a direction. Every step costs hours and calories. A heavier pack costs more. The trail ahead is only a hint of brush, of stone, of running water. The world keeps going Day breaks. Rain falls. Snow drives sideways. A creek runs cold over stones. The deer leaves prints in soft soil. The weather decides what kind of day this is. The journal remembers what you did. It also remembers what you couldn't. It's just you, the woods, and whatever you do next.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tiny Crawler at 100% against Survive Alone's 62%. Survive Alone's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Tiny Crawler sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Survive Alone sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Survive Alone holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Survive Alone has 145 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Tiny Crawler's written reviews are positive against 62% of Survive Alone's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tiny Crawler ships an update every 2 months, Survive Alone every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Crawler | Survive Alone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (145 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 62.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 145 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #207 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | gabriel maldonado | Chimpanzee, LLC |
Customer experience
Tiny Crawler
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In-app purchases
Tiny Crawler
- Tiny Crawler - Full Version$5.99
Survive Alone
- Castaway Scenario$3.99
- Crash Landed Scenario$3.99
- Will to Live Scenario$3.99
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- All Access$9.99
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