Cookie Clickers vs Rugged Rovers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cookie Clickers
Tap on a giant cookie to bake as many as possible. Use your baked cookies to buy upgrades that increase your baking speed. Compete with friends and aim to bake a quadrillion cookies in this endlessly fun clicker game.
- Tap to bake cookies
- Purchase upgrades
- Collect golden cookies
- Endless gameplay
- Facebook and Game Center integration
- Leaderboards
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The most exciting cookie game is now on your iPhone, iPod and iPad. Download it now for free! Be prepared for endless hours of fun and entertainment! The game is very simple: - Bake as many cookies as you can by tapping on the giant cookie. The faster you tap, the more you bake! - As soon as you have enough cookies, head over to the shop and use them to buy upgrades to bake even faster! - Keep an eye out for the golden cookie rain! Don't miss it! Cookie Clickers' endless game play will allow you to play for an indefinite amount of time-- or at least until you bake such an extraordinary amount of cookies your device won't be able to count them anymore! Become the Cookie Clickers God by baking 1 QUADRILLION cookies! Log-in to Facebook to play with your friends and compare your Cookie score in the leaderboards! The Game Center is also enabled! Don't waste time... start now! Every second counts when it comes to baking cookies! Last but not least, we want to give a big THANK YOU to all for playing Cookie Clickers!
Rugged Rovers
Design and test your own all-terrain space rover. Race against friends and rivals across challenging Martian landscapes, using jet boosts and speed to overcome obstacles. Compete for high scores and achievements in this engaging engineering game.
- Design custom space rovers
- Race against friends and rivals
- Test rovers on Mars-like terrain
- High scores and achievements
- Easy rover drawing tools
- Jet hover and speed boost
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Design and test your own all-terrain space rover! Race against rivals (including friends!) as you jump gaping canyons and cross treacherous boulder fields. Go as far as you can and try to be the top rover! Rugged Rovers, from the Science Museum in London, UK, features: - Now you can RACE AGAINST FRIENDS in your network! - New HIGH SCORES and ACHIEVEMENTS! - Easy rover drawing tools, including movable motor and resizable wheels - Dramatic Mars-inspired spacescape to test your rovers to the max - Jet hover and speed boost to help your rover overcome terrain obstacles - Top tips about how to solve common rover challenges Your rover will be up against weird and wonderful designs some by your friends and some by real-life Mars rover engineer Abbie Hutty. Can your designs beat the professionals at their own game? Mars rover engineer Abbie says: ‘Create, test and develop your very own Mars rover designs with this cool game – see if you’ve got the design skills to be a future space engineer like me!’ Play Rugged Rovers anywhere on your mobile or come to the Science Museum’s cutting-edge exhibition Engineer Your Future to play against your friends on our BIG screen. Find out more about becoming an engineer: sciencemuseum.org.uk/engineeryourfuture
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rugged Rovers at none against Cookie Clickers's 16. Rugged Rovers also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.0). Cookie Clickers's advantage is ratings volume (5.1K vs 30) and chart position (#68 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Cookie Clickers sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Rugged Rovers asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Cookie Clickers against 4.1 for Rugged Rovers. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cookie Clickers has 5.1K ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Cookie Clickers's written reviews are positive against 73% of Rugged Rovers's.
Cookie Clickers ships an update fortnightly, Rugged Rovers every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cookie Clickers | Rugged Rovers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (5.1K ratings) | 4.1 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.9% of reviews | 72.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #68 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 181 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tiny Games | Science Museum |
Customer experience
Cookie Clickers
Rugged Rovers
Bugs and requests
Cookie Clickers
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inconsistent golden cookie spawns
- Upgrade purchase issues
- Saving and loading problems
- Compatibility issues on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More power-up and upgrade options
- Ability to reset progress or prestige
- Leaderboard improvements and challenges
- Offline progress tracking enhancements
Rugged Rovers
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cookie Clickers
- 100 Golden Cookies$0.99
- 1 Time Warp$1.99
- 3 Magic Keys$1.99
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- Starter Pack Bundle$2.99
- 9 Magic Keys$4.99
- 3 Time Warps$4.99
- 1000 Golden Cookies$4.99
- No Ads Bundle$4.99
- Ultimate Pack$5.99
- Christmas Bundle$6.99
- Special Pack 7$6.99
- Special Pack 10$9.99
- 7 Time Warps$9.99
- 15 Time Warps$19.99
- 45 Time Warps$49.99
Rugged Rovers
No in-app purchases
Questions
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