Survive Alone vs Connect Them
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Connect Them
A cozy word puzzle game where you find the single word that links two given words. Enjoy three distinct play modes and over 1,500 unique puzzles. Hints are earned by playing well, and the game is designed for accessibility.
- Find linking words
- Daily puzzle mode
- Timed Blitz mode
- Endless Cozy mode
- Over 1500 puzzles
- Earnable hints
- VoiceOver support
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SUN … FLOWER … POT One word sits in the middle and finishes them both. That's the whole game. Connect Them is a cosy word puzzle about the links hiding between everyday words. , no adverts. Just you, a warm cup of a puzzle, and a small owl called Otto who wears reading glasses and means well. THREE WAYS TO PLAY Daily — five links, once a day. Build a streak, then share the result without spoiling a single answer. Blitz — two minutes on the clock. How many can you link before it runs out? Cozy Endless — no clock at all. Keep going until three slip past you. OVER 1,500 PUZZLES Every link is a real compound word or a phrase people actually say, checked against real-world usage rather than pulled from a dusty dictionary. The Daily walks a fixed order, so nothing repeats until you've seen everything — more than a year of puzzles. EARN YOUR HINTS Hints cost corn, and corn is earned by playing well. Solve without help and you're paid more. String answers together and the bonuses grow. Come back tomorrow and there's more waiting. Stuck is always temporary. BUILT TO BE HEARD Connect Them was designed with VoiceOver in mind from the start, not bolted on afterwards. • Every puzzle, button and score reads clearly with VoiceOver • Results, hints and corn are announced as they happen • Focus moves to each new puzzle automatically • The answer submits itself on the last letter — no hunting for a button • Extra time in Blitz when a screen reader is running, so the clock is fair • Prefer to play with your eyes closed? Turn on Read Puzzles Aloud and the game narrates every clue in its own voice, at a speed you choose NO ADVERTS. NO IN-APP PURCHASES. NO ACCOUNT.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Survive Alone at Free against Connect Them's $1.99. Survive Alone also leads on ratings volume (156 vs 14). Connect Them's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Survive Alone is free to download; Connect Them costs $1.99 up front. Survive Alone sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Connect Them asks for nothing beyond the download.
Connect Them holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Survive Alone has 156 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Survive Alone's written reviews are positive against 100% of Connect Them's.
Survive Alone ships an update every 2 weeks, Connect Them every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Survive Alone | Connect Them |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (156 ratings) | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 156 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #4 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chimpanzee, LLC | adam rogan |
Customer experience
Survive Alone
Connect Them
In-app purchases
Survive Alone
- Castaway Scenario$3.99
- Crash Landed Scenario$3.99
- Will to Live Scenario$3.99
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- All Access$9.99
Connect Them
No in-app purchases
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