Comparison

My Planet Simulation vs The Final Earth 2

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

Head to head
About

My Planet Simulation

Control a planet and nurture a thriving population by managing sunlight and rain. This real-time simulation game requires daily check-ins to maintain optimal conditions for vegetation and prevent your people from starving or suffering from extreme weather. Can you reach a population of over one million?

Highlights
  • Virtual planet simulation
  • Population growth management
  • Sunlight and rain manipulation
  • Real-time gameplay
  • Vegetation level monitoring
  • Resource optimization
Features
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My Planet is a virtual simulation game where you take control of a planet and try to grow a healthy and thriving population! It is like a virtual pet or Tamagotchi game on a planetary level. Play God by manipulating the sunlight and the rain in order to grow as large a population as possible. My Planet runs in real time, even when the the game is closed. Therefore, you must keep checking back throughout the day to make sure your planet is running at optimal levels. The controls are simple to use, by mastery can take weeks. Can you achieve the ultimate goal of growing your planet to over 1,000,000 people? Or will your planet burn under the sun while your people anguish? The choice is yours! The ultimate goal of My Planet is to grow a happy and thriving population. Your population will continue to grow as long as you have a healthy level of Vegetation on your planet (represented by the green bar). The more vegetation you have, the faster your population will grow. Likewise, if your vegetation levels get too low, your people will starve to death and population will begin to decline. Vegetation grows when it has the proper amount of sunlight and water. For optimal vegetation and thus population growth, you must try to keep your Sun and Water levels in the sweet spot, indicated by your Sun and Water meters being 50% full. If you have too much sunlight, vegetation will dry up and your people will die. If you have too little sunlight, vegetation cannot grow and your people will starve. Same concept with water. If you have too much, vegetation will flood out and die. To little, and drought will set in. Check your planet every day to make sure you have the optimal amount of sun and water! I am always looking to improve my apps, so if you have any ideas on how to make My Planet better, please let me know. I will continue to update and improve the game, so let me know what you would like to see added in the future! This app is for you guys!

About

The Final Earth 2

Build a thriving space colony on a new world after Earth's destruction. Manage resources, research technology, and design your city from a small settlement to a sprawling metropolis. Explore different game modes and uncover secrets.

Highlights
  • Vertical city building in space
  • Resource gathering and research
  • Thousands of simulated inhabitants
  • Over fifty unique buildings
  • Scenario, Free Play, and Sandbox modes
  • Worker assignment and production graphs
  • Citizen tracking and observation
Features
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Build a great city in this vertical city builder in space! Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build? The earth has been destroyed, and it's up to your space colony on a tiny world to save humanity! Can you feed, house and entertain everyone and then build the city of your dreams? - Features • Build a huge city with thousands of inhabitants, all fully simulated! • Over fifty different buildings to discover! • Great, fully original music by Stijn Cappetijn! • Discover the story in scenarios, or go wild in Free Play or Sandbox mode. • There might even be a secret society... - Build What You Want! With many different buildings, you can design the city you want. Will it be a green hippie paradise full of gardens, a huge party, or one big factory? Will your colony be a single, enormous building or will you spread it out over hundreds of worlds? Does your transport consist of efficient teleporters or a chaotic mess of landing pads? It's all your choice! There's plenty to discover in The Final Earth 2, including hackers, hippies and even a secret society. There are way over fifty buildings to find and more coming in the future, including some truly sci-fi (science fiction) inventions! - Manage Your Colony! With useful features like worker assignment, production graphs, boosting building upgrades and building modes, you can manage your space colony to make it as optimal as you want and make your citizens happy! Organize festivals for a huge additional boost! - Sit Back and Enjoy Your City! After you've built a huge city, sit back and see it in action for a while. It's like watching an ant colony! You can also follow any citizen to make this even more fun. Find the person with the craziest commute, or discover hidden details like a stargazer. - Story It's 2142, and earth is a wasteland. You built a space ship, but now your food is running out. Fortunately, you see a world just in time. It is a bit small, but certainly better than nothing. You build some farms and houses, and fulfill the basic needs of your citizens. Then, it's time to build the true city of the future! Research advanced technology and make your city grow to a huge metropolis. When your tiny world gets too small, fly to other worlds with space ships, or even build teleporters. - Updates are coming! I'm still working on The Final Earth 2, so you can be sure this colony builder / city builder will become even better in the future! - No intrusive ads! The amount of ads is very limited and they're only placed at natural break points. You can also remove all ads or get the premium version with extra features as an one-time purchase! - A proper city builder While this can definitively be seen as an incremental game as there are many things to discover, this is not just an idle city builder with days-long timers and microtransactions all the time. You can't lose, but active play is definitively rewarded. The web version of The Final Earth 2 has been played by millions of people, won the Kongregate June 2019 contest and was described by MakeUseOf as one of the best browser-based city building games available at the current time; I hope you'll enjoy the game on your iPhone or iPad as well! Have fun and I'm happy to hear what you think!

Screenshots

My Planet Simulation4 screens
The Final Earth 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Final Earth 2 at 4.9 against My Planet Simulation's 3.7. The Final Earth 2 also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 60%) and ratings volume (2.2K vs 220). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. My Planet Simulation sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and The Final Earth 2 sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Final Earth 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Final Earth 2 has 2.2K ratings behind it against 220, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of My Planet Simulation's written reviews are positive against 93% of The Final Earth 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Planet Simulation ships an update every 3 months, The Final Earth 2 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
My Planet Simulation versus The Final Earth 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Planet SimulationThe Final Earth 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (220 ratings)4.9 (2.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.3% of reviews93.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2202.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB46 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperBrandon SteckleinFlorian van Strien

Customer experience

My Planet Simulation

All ratings220 ratings
Positive62.7%
Neutral10.5%
Negative26.8%
Written reviews209 reviews
Positive60.3%
Neutral9.1%
Negative30.6%

The Final Earth 2

All ratings2,165 ratings
Positive98.8%
Neutral0.7%
Negative0.5%
Written reviews163 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral1.2%
Negative5.5%

User reviews

My Planet Simulation

From 220 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast loading
  • 👍 Cute and charming
  • 🚀 Addictive gameplay
  • 👍 Unique concept

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🔋 Planet dies when not playing
  • 🕰️ Slow progression
  • 🙄 Repetitive gameplay

The Final Earth 2

From 2.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Relaxing and fun gameplay
  • 🔍 Interesting mechanics and depth
  • 🎨 Charming art style and music
  • 🌐 Offline playability
  • 🔧 Customizable buildings and city

Room to improve

  • 💰 Premium content locked behind paywall
  • 🔊 Ads disrupt gameplay and audio
  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and performance issues
  • 🔁 Repetitive gameplay after a while
  • 🌍 Lack of new content or challenges

Bugs and requests

My Planet Simulation

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes on launch
  • Planet disappears or turns into a square
  • Supplies not reaching moon colony
  • Inconsistent sun/water levels

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more planets and solar system
  • Introduce more god-like powers
  • Implement a pause/save feature
  • Improve graphics and animations
  • Add more content and complexity

The Final Earth 2

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Freezing/crashing issues
  • Glitches with building upgrades
  • Citizens getting stuck or not moving
  • Compatibility problems on older devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add military/defense mechanics
  • Introduce alien invasions and natural disasters
  • Implement a crime/law enforcement system
  • Allow deleting/resetting worlds
  • Provide more building/service variety
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  • Add more story and progression elements

In-app purchases

2 purchases

My Planet Simulation

One-time2
  • 100 Ape Coins$0.99
  • Advertising Removal$2.99
3 purchases

The Final Earth 2

One-time3
  • Premium Upgrade$2.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Premium$8.99

Questions

Is My Planet Simulation free?
My Planet Simulation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Final Earth 2 free?
The Final Earth 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, My Planet Simulation or The Final Earth 2?
The Final Earth 2 is rated higher. My Planet Simulation averages 3.7 out of 5 from 220 ratings, while The Final Earth 2 averages 4.9 from 2.2K ratings.
Do My Planet Simulation or The Final Earth 2 have ads?
Both My Planet Simulation and The Final Earth 2 show ads.
Which is updated more often, My Planet Simulation or The Final Earth 2?
My Planet Simulation ships an update every 3 months, and The Final Earth 2 every 2 months. Most recently, My Planet Simulation was updated on November 5, 2026 and The Final Earth 2 on November 7, 2026.

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