MoonDust vs The Fallow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Galactic exploration
- Planet discovery
- Resource collection
- Puzzle solving
- Sci-fi environments
- Uncover secrets
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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/
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.
- Open world survival
- Farming and animal care
- Extensive crafting system
- Base building and land protection
- Resource management
- Exploration with horses
- NPC interaction and trading
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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.
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Verdict
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
MoonDust costs $2.99 and The Fallow $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
MoonDust ships an update every 12 months, The Fallow daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MoonDust | The Fallow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 307 MB | 566 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Two* States* Away* | Luis Dalmasy |
Customer experience
MoonDust
The Fallow
In-app purchases
MoonDust
No in-app purchases
The Fallow
No in-app purchases








