Comparison

Survive Alone vs Timber Survival

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

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About

Survive Alone

Experience a challenging wilderness survival simulation where you must manage hunger, thirst, and body heat. Explore diverse environments and craft tools to stay alive through various narrative-driven scenarios. Every decision counts in this immersive solo adventure.

Highlights
  • Manage hunger, thirst, and body heat
  • Craft tools and weapons
  • Explore diverse wilderness environments
  • Multiple story-driven scenarios
  • Dynamic weather system
  • Resource gathering and foraging
Features
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You wake up in the woods. You don't know how long you've been walking. The trail behind you has faded. The light won't last. What's in your pack is what you have. Survive Alone is an immersive survival game about staying alive in the wilderness, one decision at a time. Manage your body heat, hunger and thirst as you fight to survive. You will get lost. You will run out of water. You will spend a night under thin cover in driving rain and feel it in your bones the next morning. You will learn, slowly, what the woods will and won't forgive. THREE STORIES. ONE WILDERNESS. Wrong Turn - A hike that didn't end where it should have. Find your way back to the trailhead before something stops you. Crash Landed - The plane came down in the alpine. There are no rescue teams looking yet. Survive until they come. The Will to Live - No destination. No rescue. Just the Pacific Northwest, the rain, and how long you can last. STAY WARM Build a fire when the weather lets you. Improve the shelter where you slept last. A rain-soaked night under thin cover costs you more than a hard day's walk. EAT & DRINK Spear a fish from the lakeshore. Set snares overnight. Forage for berries, mushrooms, edible roots, and learn the difference between what feeds you and what doesn't. Find a creek. Boil what's unsafe. Melt snow when nothing else is running. Carry empty bottles for the next leg. CRAFT Strip cedar bark and weave it into cordage. Lash hardwood and sinew into a bow, a spear, a fishing rod. Hammer salvaged scrap into something that holds water. Every tool starts somewhere in the world. HIKE Pick a direction. Every step costs hours and calories. A heavier pack costs more. The trail ahead is only a hint of brush, of stone, of running water. The world keeps going Day breaks. Rain falls. Snow drives sideways. A creek runs cold over stones. The deer leaves prints in soft soil. The weather decides what kind of day this is. The journal remembers what you did. It also remembers what you couldn't. It's just you, the woods, and whatever you do next.

About

Timber Survival

Embark on an open-world 2D survival adventure. Chop trees for XP, level up, and unlock powerful upgrades. Explore diverse biomes, battle bosses, tame wolves, and compete on global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Open-world 2D survival gameplay
  • 7 unique biomes to explore
  • Powerful character upgrades
  • Epic boss battles
  • Tame and command wolf companions
  • Global leaderboards
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Timber Survival is an open-world 2D survival game where skill, strategy, and the right upgrades are the difference between life and death. Start in the Forest with nothing but a hatchet. Chop trees to earn XP, level up, and choose powerful upgrades that transform your playstyle. Fight through 7 unique biomes — from the icy Arctic to the scorching Volcanic lands — defeating enemies, hunting down bosses, and collecting rare weapons hidden in locked chests. FEATURES • 7 unique biomes — Forest, Mountain, Volcanic, Wetlands, Arctic, Tropical, Grasslands • Powerful upgrades — Axe Strength, Wide Swing, Attack Speed, Fire Axe, Vitality, Swiftness, and more • Epic boss battles — each biome has a unique boss that drops a key to unlock a special chest weapon • Tame wolves — feed wild wolves apples to build a loyal wolf pack that fights alongside you • Survival mode — defeat all 7 bosses then face endless enemy waves • World leaderboard — compete globally with All Time and This Month rankings • Mystic NPC — take a 50/50 gamble for powerful random rewards • Ad-free upgrade available HOW TO PLAY Chop trees to earn XP and level up. Every level-up offers upgrade choices that shape your build. Kill enemies and bosses to progress through biomes. Bosses drop keys that unlock chests with powerful weapons. Tame wolves with apples to build a pack that fights for you. Survive as long as possible! Can you defeat all 7 bosses and conquer the waves?

Screenshots

Survive Alone4 screens
Timber Survival4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timber Survival at none against Survive Alone's 4. Timber Survival also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Survive Alone's advantage is ratings volume (145 vs 1). 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. Survive Alone sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Timber Survival asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timber Survival holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Survive Alone has 145 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Survive Alone versus Timber Survival: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurvive AloneTimber Survival
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (145 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings145 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB55 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperChimpanzee, LLCDAVID MICHEAL CRONCE

Customer experience

Survive Alone

All ratings137 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive62.2%
Neutral8.1%
Negative29.7%

Timber Survival

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Survive Alone

One-time4
  • Castaway Scenario$3.99
  • Crash Landed Scenario$3.99
  • Will to Live Scenario$3.99
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  • All Access$9.99
None

Timber Survival

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Survive Alone free?
Survive Alone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timber Survival free?
Timber Survival is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Survive Alone or Timber Survival?
Timber Survival is rated higher. Survive Alone averages 4.7 out of 5 from 145 ratings, while Timber Survival averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Survive Alone or Timber Survival have ads?
Neither Survive Alone nor Timber Survival shows ads.

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