Comparison

MoonDust vs The Fallow

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

Head to head
About

MoonDust

Embark on an epic voyage through distant galaxies, exploring new planets and uncovering ancient secrets. Traverse breathtaking sci-fi environments, collect resources, and solve puzzles in a transformative journey filled with emotion and excitement.

Highlights
  • Galactic exploration
  • Planet discovery
  • Resource collection
  • Puzzle solving
  • Sci-fi environments
  • Uncover secrets
Features
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In MoonDust: Cosmic Journey, you set out on a voyage through distant galaxies, exploring strange new planets and uncovering long-hidden secrets. Weaving through discovery and adventure, you traverse breathtaking sci-fi environments, collecting resources and solving puzzles. With each level, you’ll explore breathtaking worlds, and encounter the unknown. It's a truly transformative journey full of emotion, excitement, and exploration. Licensed Application End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

The Fallow

Engage in a top-down survival experience focused on farming, crafting, and exploration in a calm yet perilous open world. Build your base, manage resources, and discover new areas at your own pace. This early access game offers continuous updates and improvements.

Highlights
  • Open world survival
  • Farming and animal care
  • Extensive crafting system
  • Base building and land protection
  • Resource management
  • Exploration with horses
  • NPC interaction and trading
Features
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Survive, build, and explore in a calm but dangerous open world. The Fallow is a top-down survival game focused on farming, crafting, exploration, and long-term progression. Play in vertical or landscape mode. This is an early access game with frequent updates, new features, and ongoing improvements. Core Features • Open world survival gameplay • Farming, animals, and resource management • Crafting system with weapons, tools, and gear • Base building and land protection • Hunger, thirst, health, and survival systems • Ride horses and explore new areas • NPCs, merchants, and trading • Day and night cycle with dynamic atmosphere and music • Light enemies including zombies, skeletons, and creatures Gameplay Experience a relaxing survival game with a calm tone and moments of danger. Build your land, grow food, care for animals, and explore at your own pace while managing your survival needs. Early Access The Fallow is actively being developed. • Regular updates • New systems and content coming • Continuous improvements based on feedback Start early, build your world, and grow with the game as it expands.

Screenshots

MoonDust4 screens
The Fallow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: The Fallow at daily against MoonDust's every 12 months. The Fallow also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

MoonDust costs $2.99 and The Fallow $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MoonDust against 5.0 for The Fallow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of MoonDust's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Fallow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MoonDust ships an update every 12 months, The Fallow daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MoonDust versus The Fallow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoonDustThe Fallow
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size307 MB566 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTwo* States* Away*Luis Dalmasy

Customer experience

MoonDust

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

The Fallow

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

MoonDust

No in-app purchases

None

The Fallow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MoonDust free?
MoonDust costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Fallow free?
The Fallow costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MoonDust or The Fallow?
MoonDust and The Fallow are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do MoonDust or The Fallow have ads?
Neither MoonDust nor The Fallow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MoonDust or The Fallow?
MoonDust ships an update every 12 months, and The Fallow daily. Most recently, MoonDust was updated on November 5, 2026 and The Fallow on October 31, 2026.

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