Winter Burrow vs Trash Goblin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Winter Burrow
A cozy woodland survival game where you play as a mouse restoring their ruined home. Explore, gather resources, craft items, and befriend locals to uncover a mystery. Play at your own pace and customize your experience.
- Cozy woodland survival gameplay
- Resource gathering and crafting
- Home restoration and decoration
- Character customization
- Story-driven mystery
- Play at your own pace
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Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game. Explore, gather resources, craft tools, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals! In Winter Burrow, you play a mouse who returns from the big city to find their childhood home in ruins. To make matters worse, your Aunt (who was supposed to be looking after it) has gone missing. Restore your broken-down childhood burrow to its former glory so you can relax in front of the fireplace. Brave the elements and journey out into the frozen wilderness to collect vital resources for both yourself and your new home. Beware of the insect wildlife and remember that nobody survives on their own; find new friends, expand your survival handbook and solve the mystery of what happened to your Aunt. Winter Burrow is a survival game you play at your own pace. Customize your character, decorate your burrow and choose a path that fits your play style. This story is yours to tell.
Trash Goblin
A cozy shopkeeping game where you discover, clean, and upcycle trinkets for eccentric customers. Customize your shop and tools with no pressure or fail states, focusing on good vibes and creative play.
- Discover and clean trinkets
- Upcycle items into new forms
- Serve eccentric customers
- Upgrade and customize your shop
- Relaxed gameplay with no pressure
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[TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!] Trash Goblin is a wholesome and cosy shopkeeping game where you uncover and clean trinkets for sale! Customise them by upcycling and more to meet the eccentric requests of your endless colourful customers. Spend your savings to upgrade your shop, buy new and better tools, and customise your space! There is no pressure, no risk, no right way to play - it is not a simulator, it's just good vibes and nice customers to serve. DISCOVER PECULIAR TRINKETS Unearth knick-knacks of all kinds by chipping away at the dirt and cruft they're embedded inside, wrestling with different types of dirt that yield in different ways. RESTORE FORGOTTEN CURIOS TO GLORY Scrub all these strange items up nice and clean with your sponge to get them ready for sale! UPCYCLE INTO IMAGINATIVE NEW FORMS! Customise these curios by combining Trinkets together, turning them into strange and wonderful new items! SELL TO A PARADE OF COLOURFUL CUSTOMERS A wide range of intriguing, odd and charming customers will frequent your store, some with interesting stories to tell, others after a particular object, some just browsing... UPGRADE YOUR WORKSHOP Spend your savings to expand your tool set, and unlock more space to work in. Buy a display mat to tempt customers with specific wares, or a soak tub to clean up overnight, an honesty box for getting rid of unwanted trinkets, and more! TREAT YOURSELF Customise your space, decorate your shelves however you like, get some nice plants, change up the wallpaper and bedclothes; make it your own! MAXIMUM CHILL, ZERO PRESSURE There's a gentle limit to how much you can do in a given day but customers will return, you can potter as much as you like, and there are no fail states.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Trash Goblin at free against Winter Burrow's free with in-app purchases. Winter Burrow's advantage is review sentiment (69% vs 45%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Winter Burrow sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Trash Goblin sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Winter Burrow against 4.5 for Trash Goblin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 480 and 185 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Winter Burrow's written reviews are positive against 45% of Trash Goblin's.
Winter Burrow ships an update every 8 days, Trash Goblin every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Winter Burrow | Trash Goblin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (480 ratings) — better | 4.5 (185 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.0% of reviews — better | 44.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 480 — better | 185 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #107 | #92 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 385 MB | 770 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noodlecake | Doghowl Games Ltd. |
Customer experience
Winter Burrow
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In-app purchases
Winter Burrow
- Unlock Full Game$5.99
- Unlock Full Game$9.99
Trash Goblin
- Base Product Sale$8.99
- Base Offer$10.49
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