Comparison

On Raft vs POPLORIA

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

Head to head
About

On Raft

Embark on a survival adventure in the Bermuda Triangle. Explore mysterious islands, gather resources, craft weapons, and upgrade your raft to uncover a hidden secret and find your way home.

Highlights
  • Island exploration
  • Resource gathering
  • Tool and weapon crafting
  • Raft building and upgrading
  • Enemy combat
  • Uncover ancient secrets
Features
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Survive the Bermuda Triangle, explore mysterious islands, gather resources, and uncover a secret that should have remained hidden! Riley Ashford and her brother Jake are treasure hunters who are looking for an adventure deep within the Bermuda Triangle. Along with their pilot, Marcus Reed, they venture into the unknown — but a powerful magnetic storm suddenly strikes their helicopter. Jake disappears during the crash. Riley and Marcus are separated, and Riley wakes up alone on a strange island with no way back. Now she must survive. Explore mysterious islands, break objects, gather valuable resources, and use everything you find to stay alive. Upgrade Riley’s tools to destroy tougher obstacles and unlock new resources, then craft and improve powerful weapons to face the dangerous enemies lurking across the islands. But survival is only the beginning. Build and upgrade your raft to travel between islands and search for a way out of the Triangle. The journey won’t be easy — hostile rafts patrol the waters, and enemy crews will attack when you try to reach new islands. Defeat them in combat and keep moving forward to discover what lies beyond the next horizon. As Riley’s adventure starts, she encounters traces of an ancient tribe, a mysterious Long Fire, and a secret that has kept these islands isolated from the outside world for generations. Gather resources. Upgrade your tools. Craft powerful weapons. Defeat enemies. Explore this adventure game! Can Riley survive the Bermuda Triangle and find a way home?

About

POPLORIA

Features
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POPLORIA is a next-generation bubble shooter that respects your time, your device and your wallet. Every level is hand-crafted and pre-verified by a solver bot, so you'll never hit a pay-to-win wall. Play offline, anytime. SIX GAME MODES • Campaign — 25 solver-verified launch levels in the Meadow world • Infinity — endless descent, survive as long as you can • Blitz — 90-second score attack with combo multipliers • Puzzle — chess-puzzle-like brain teasers with a fixed shot budget • Daily Challenge — one level per day, same seed for every player worldwide • Zen — no fails, no timers, no ads, no pressure UNIQUE MECHANICS • Prism bubbles refract into three beams of light, popping matching colors on their path • Catalyst bubbles blend two neighbours into a new color — create the combo you need • Gravity zones bend your trajectory with wind and magnetic fields • Transparent seeded RNG with a visible "next up" queue — no hidden manipulation PLAYER-FIRST DESIGN • 100% offline first — all rewards, dailies and achievements work without internet • No lives system, no energy timers — retry as many times as you want • Strict ad caps — at most 1 interstitial per 4 levels, 90-second minimum gap • Zen mode is fully ad-free, always • "Remove ads" purchase keeps rewarded ads as an opt-in • Autosave after every shot — pick up where you left off ACCESSIBILITY • Colorblind mode adds distinct shapes per color • Reduce motion option • Large text option • Mono audio option • 8 languages at launch Built on Flutter + Flame for locked 60 FPS gameplay on mid-range devices. Under 250 MB peak RAM, under 8% battery drain per hour. We think you deserve better than energy timers and loot boxes. Let us know what you think. Website: https://metachainlabs.net Privacy: https://metachainlabs.net/en/privacypolicy Support: https://metachainlabs.net/support

Screenshots

On Raft4 screens
POPLORIA3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: POPLORIA at none against On Raft's 10. POPLORIA also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On Raft's advantage is chart position (#67 vs unranked). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. On Raft sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. POPLORIA asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
On Raft versus POPLORIA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOn RaftPOPLORIA
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (356 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings356 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#67 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size413 MB26 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developer24 HIT Riga SIAFurkan Damar

In-app purchases

10 purchases

On Raft

One-time10
  • Gem Pack 1$0.99
  • Gem Pack 2$4.99
  • Gem Pack 3$9.99
Show 7 more
  • No Ads Pack$9.99
  • Tool Damage Forever$11.99
  • Gem Pack 4$19.99
  • No Ads Vip Pack$22.99
  • No Ads Vip Continue$22.99
  • Gem Pack 5$49.99
  • No Ads Vip Forever$49.99
None

POPLORIA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is On Raft free?
On Raft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is POPLORIA free?
POPLORIA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do On Raft or POPLORIA have ads?
Both On Raft and POPLORIA show ads.

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