Comparison

Emergent vs Earth Corps

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

Head to head
About

Emergent

Shape barren worlds with hyper-realistic fluid and particle simulations. Terraform landscapes, create ecosystems, and mine resources to power your connection to other players' realities. Balance creation and destruction to keep planetary hearts beating.

Highlights
  • Hyper-realistic fluid and particle simulation
  • Terraform mountains and carve rivers
  • Paint life onto barren worlds
  • Remote viewing of other players' realities
  • Send and receive gold with other players
  • Mine resources to maintain connection
  • 10 unique explorable worlds
Features
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Your planet is your canvas. Sculpt a living world like clay. Raise mountains with a finger, flood the seas, and let rivers dig gold out of the rock. Where the water goes, life follows — and evolves to fit the world you made. Other players' planets orbit alongside yours. Visit them. Chat with whoever's home. Send gold in an envelope that isn't anyone's until it's opened. WHAT YOU DO • Sculpt terrain in real time — one finger raises land, two fingers fly • Seed life and watch it spread, species by species • Mine gold. Every gram costs the world something. • Fly satellites — 107 of them — that steer weather, growth, and fortune • Gamble at the Cosmic Arcade: slots, blackjack, carts, snow tubes • Top the leaderboard by wealth, or by how much life your world holds Your world keeps living while you're away. Rivers flow, ore returns, and eleven planets wait in the dark. One account, every screen. Start on your phone, continue in any browser at emergent-d.com. Same world, same wallet, same friends.

About

Earth Corps

Engage in an alien invasion using a customizable Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The game generates battlefields from real-world map data, allowing you to defend your own city. Upgrade your vehicle, study enemy types, and compete on global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Real-world map battlefields
  • Customizable IFV loadouts
  • Diverse alien enemy roster
  • Global leaderboards and rankings
  • Multiple HUD themes and IFV customization
  • Adjustable difficulty settings
Features
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They've watched us for years. Now they've decided we've grown too smart — and the invasion has begun. EARTH CORPS: HOMEFRONT puts you behind the controls of an IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle), fighting off an alien invasion in your own city. Not a made-up city — yours. Type in any supported zip code and the battlefield is built from real streets, real buildings, and real waterways pulled straight from actual map data. Your neighborhood becomes the front line. TRAIN · DEFEND · DEPLOY • TRAIN — Practice as you fight. Master your IFV, weapons and tactics before battle. • DEFEND — The war has come to you. Defend the streets and landmarks around your current location, anywhere in the world. • DEPLOY — Answer the call. Join a campaign, deploy to new battlegrounds, and help take back Earth, one city at a time. REAL CITIES, REAL BATTLEFIELDS • 60 major U.S. cities built right into the app — no download required • 480+ more real cities available across five Deployment Zone packs, including the 2026 FBS College Pack (138 real college towns) and the Pacific Coast Pack • Every battlefield uses actual streets, buildings, and rivers — buildings provide real cover, water and terrain shape how you fight YOUR IFV, FULLY LOADED Command your IFV into battle armed with a 25mm cannon and guided VIPER missiles. Head to HQ before deploying to requisition airstrikes and shields for your loadout, spending in-game Credits or going premium — your call. KNOW YOUR ENEMY The invasion isn't just one kind of alien. Study the enemy roster — from fast-moving Drones to heavy Guardians that hold the line at range — so you know exactly what's coming for your city. CLIMB THE RANKS Every victory earns MERIT on a live global leaderboard and in Game Center. Track your rank, cities secured, alien kills, and JTAC certification as you build a real combat record against other commanders. MAKE IT YOURS Pick from multiple tactical HUD themes — IR Sensor, Night Vision, Tactical Map, and more — and customize your IFV's colors. Adjust difficulty per mission, or TRAIN to sharpen your skills before deploying to a real city. The invasion is here. Defend your home.

Screenshots

Emergent4 screens
Earth Corps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Emergent at none against Earth Corps's shown. Emergent also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Earth Corps's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Emergent sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Earth Corps sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Emergent against 5.0 for Earth Corps. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Emergent ships an update every 3 days, Earth Corps daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Emergent versus Earth Corps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmergentEarth Corps
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB180 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJoseph SmithArd Labs LLC

Customer experience

Emergent

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Earth Corps

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Emergent

One-time1
  • 10,000 Gold$0.99
10 purchases

Earth Corps

One-time10
  • US Colleges I Campaign$1.99
  • US Colleges II Campaign$1.99
  • Second Wave Campaign$1.99
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  • Third Wave Campaign$1.99
  • 10 Shields$2.99
  • Pacific Coast I Campaign$2.99
  • Atlantic Coast I Campaign$2.99
  • Central USA Campaign$2.99
  • 25 Shields$4.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Emergent free?
Emergent is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Earth Corps free?
Earth Corps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Emergent or Earth Corps?
Emergent and Earth Corps are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Emergent or Earth Corps have ads?
Earth Corps shows ads; Emergent does not.
Which is updated more often, Emergent or Earth Corps?
Emergent ships an update every 3 days, and Earth Corps daily. Most recently, Emergent was updated on October 31, 2026 and Earth Corps on November 6, 2026.

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