Bless or Blast vs Planet Cracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bless or Blast
Engage in a turn-based strategy game where you choose between developing your own village or attacking your rival's. Manage resources like population, food, and gold across three distinct historical eras and four challenging game modes.
- Turn-based village strategy
- Build and upgrade five building types
- Attack rival village buildings
- Manage population, food, and gold economy
- Progress through three historical eras
- Four distinct challenge modes
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Two villages face each other across the river. Only one will thrive. Bless or Blast is a turn-based village strategy game built on a single tough choice. Every turn you get two cards. Will you bless your own town — upgrading, repairing or healing it — or pay gold to blast one of your rival's buildings to ruins? BUILD AND BLESS Grow your village with five kinds of buildings: houses for your people, fields for food, wells for health, markets for trade and workshops for gold. Upgrade them, rebuild ruins and keep your villagers fed and healthy. BLAST YOUR RIVAL Across the river, Set is building a village too — and he isn't afraid to strike. A blast costs gold, so every attack competes with feeding your people. Hit at the right moment and your rival's economy falls apart. MANAGE YOUR ECONOMY Population, gold, food and health are all connected. Hunger and sickness cost lives, overcrowding drives people away, and a strong economy brings new villagers. Warning signs light up before trouble hits, so you can plan ahead. THREE ERAS, 24 LEVELS Travel from Ancient Egypt through a Medieval Kingdom to the Modern World. Each era brings new buildings, new villagers and a smarter rival. FOUR KINDS OF CHALLENGE • Battle — end with more villagers than your rival • Defend — hold out until the last turn • Grow — reach your target population • Restore — rebuild ruined buildings and bring your village back Easy to learn, hard to master. Bless wisely — blast boldly.
Planet Cracker
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Drill down. Sell what you find. Build an Ark for humanity. Planet Cracker is a mining game where every dive takes you further into the planet, and everything you dig goes up to a city in orbit. You start with a rusty bit that struggles on plain rock, and end with a rig that tears through nine worlds and a starship ready to leave for another star. DRILL DEEPER Cut through distinct rock layers, each with its own ores, hazards and look. Chase glowing veins, crack open crates and fill your hold before the winch hauls you home. BUILD THE ARK Every ore you sell ships supplies to the Ark. Build hab pods and solar wings, then a fusion reactor, greenhouses, parks, a museum and two great spinning rings. Watch tens of thousands of people move in, every room cut open and lived in. RECRUIT YOUR CREW Eight specialists come aboard as the Ark grows. Take them along on your rig: a geologist who reads your sonar, a pilot who flies you twice as fast, a medic who keeps the drill cool, and more. UPGRADE VISIBLY Every drill bit, hose and tool changes how your rig looks and how fast it digs. Wide bores, tunnel boring and the planet cracker turn rock that took seconds per block into a slab that falls in one blow. DISCOVER Unearth relics in every layer and put them on show in the Ark's museum. Find a lost expedition's drill. Hunt down rocket parts buried deep in the rock. CRACK THE CORE At the bottom of every world a living core is waiting in its vault. Drain it to fuel your rocket, and set its Ember burning in the Ark's Heart Spine. REACH THE NEXT PLANET Build the rocket and fly on: the Moon, Mars, Europa, Io, a world made of diamond, a world of iron, a lava world, and finally the crust of a neutron star. Each one plays by its own rules. IGNITE THE STAR DRIVE Light all nine Hearts, finish the Star Drive and give the word. The Ark leaves for another star. EARN WHILE AWAY Your Miner Bots keep working while the game is closed, and the Ark keeps building. Come back to a welcome-back haul. Free to play with optional in-app purchases. Reward videos are always your choice: watch one for a boost, or don't.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bless or Blast at none against Planet Cracker's 10. Planet Cracker's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Planet Cracker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Bless or Blast asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bless or Blast against 5.0 for Planet Cracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Bless or Blast ships an update weekly, Planet Cracker daily. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Bless or Blast | Planet Cracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 325 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Trafimovich | Timon Maass |
In-app purchases
Bless or Blast
No in-app purchases
Planet Cracker
- Gold Rush x1$0.99
- Gold Rush x5$3.99
- Neon Circuit Set$4.99
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- Night Shift$4.99
- Solar Forge Set$5.99
- Remove Forced Ads$6.99
- Void Singularity Set$7.99
- Gold Rush x12$7.99
- Expedition Bundle$9.99
- Legendary Collection$14.99
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