Comparison

Bless or Blast vs Planet Cracker

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

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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.

Screenshots

Bless or Blast4 screens
Planet Cracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

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.

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. Planet Cracker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Bless or Blast asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bless or Blast ships an update weekly, Planet Cracker daily. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Bless or Blast versus Planet Cracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBless or BlastPlanet Cracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size325 MB109 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperIvan TrafimovichTimon Maass

In-app purchases

None

Bless or Blast

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Planet Cracker

One-time10
  • 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

Questions

Is Bless or Blast free?
Bless or Blast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Planet Cracker free?
Planet Cracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bless or Blast or Planet Cracker?
Bless or Blast and Planet Cracker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Bless or Blast or Planet Cracker have ads?
Both Bless or Blast and Planet Cracker show ads.
Which is updated more often, Bless or Blast or Planet Cracker?
Bless or Blast ships an update weekly, and Planet Cracker daily. Most recently, Bless or Blast was updated on November 10, 2026 and Planet Cracker on November 10, 2026.

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