Pixel Gun Tycoon vs Planet Cracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Gun Tycoon
Build a vast gun empire in this idle tycoon game where your weapons generate automatic income. Upgrade your arsenal and unlock new skins to maximize your earnings, even when you're offline. It's perfect for those who enjoy incremental progression and empire-building simulations.
- Automatic income generation
- Offline earnings
- Gun upgrades
- Unlockable skins
- Expand gun collection
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Turn a single pistol into a growing gun empire. Shoot safes, earn in-game cash, and unlock upgrades in Pixel Gun Tycoon, a pixel-art idle game. Your weapons fire automatically. You decide what to upgrade, when to unlock the next gun, and which skin to equip. UPGRADE AND EARN MORE • Income: Earn more cash with each hit. • Fire Rate: Shoot more often. • Bullet Speed: Hit the safes faster. • Spend your earnings on the next improvement and watch your income grow. UNLOCK NEW GUNS • Start with a Pistol, then unlock the Assault Rifle and Machine Gun. Get all three firing and build up your earnings. COLLECT RARE SKINS • Equip an Epic, Rare, or Legendary skin to give your weapon a new look and boost its income. EARN WHILE YOU'RE AWAY • Come back to collect offline earnings and put them toward your next upgrade. Make progress in a quick break or stay a little longer to reach your next unlock. Build your gun empire, one upgrade at a time.
Planet Cracker
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Drill down. Sell what you find. Build an Ark for humanity. Planet Cracker is a mining game where every dive takes you further into the planet, and everything you dig goes up to a city in orbit. You start with a rusty bit that struggles on plain rock, and end with a rig that tears through nine worlds and a starship ready to leave for another star. DRILL DEEPER Cut through distinct rock layers, each with its own ores, hazards and look. Chase glowing veins, crack open crates and fill your hold before the winch hauls you home. BUILD THE ARK Every ore you sell ships supplies to the Ark. Build hab pods and solar wings, then a fusion reactor, greenhouses, parks, a museum and two great spinning rings. Watch tens of thousands of people move in, every room cut open and lived in. RECRUIT YOUR CREW Eight specialists come aboard as the Ark grows. Take them along on your rig: a geologist who reads your sonar, a pilot who flies you twice as fast, a medic who keeps the drill cool, and more. UPGRADE VISIBLY Every drill bit, hose and tool changes how your rig looks and how fast it digs. Wide bores, tunnel boring and the planet cracker turn rock that took seconds per block into a slab that falls in one blow. DISCOVER Unearth relics in every layer and put them on show in the Ark's museum. Find a lost expedition's drill. Hunt down rocket parts buried deep in the rock. CRACK THE CORE At the bottom of every world a living core is waiting in its vault. Drain it to fuel your rocket, and set its Ember burning in the Ark's Heart Spine. REACH THE NEXT PLANET Build the rocket and fly on: the Moon, Mars, Europa, Io, a world made of diamond, a world of iron, a lava world, and finally the crust of a neutron star. Each one plays by its own rules. IGNITE THE STAR DRIVE Light all nine Hearts, finish the Star Drive and give the word. The Ark leaves for another star. EARN WHILE AWAY Your Miner Bots keep working while the game is closed, and the Ark keeps building. Come back to a welcome-back haul. Free to play with optional in-app purchases. Reward videos are always your choice: watch one for a boost, or don't.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Planet Cracker at daily against Pixel Gun Tycoon's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, 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. Pixel Gun Tycoon sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Planet Cracker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pixel Gun Tycoon ships an update every 3 weeks, Planet Cracker daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixel Gun Tycoon | Planet Cracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NAVY OYUN VE YAZILIM DANISMANLIK SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI | Timon Maass |
In-app purchases
Pixel Gun Tycoon
- Starter Cash$1.99
- Ad-Free Pack$2.99
- Income Boost$3.99
Planet Cracker
- Gold Rush x1$0.99
- Gold Rush x5$3.99
- Neon Circuit Set$4.99
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- Night Shift$4.99
- Solar Forge Set$5.99
- Remove Forced Ads$6.99
- Void Singularity Set$7.99
- Gold Rush x12$7.99
- Expedition Bundle$9.99
- Legendary Collection$14.99





