Stranded Without A Phone! vs Scavenging
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stranded Without A Phone!
Experience a challenging desert island survival simulation on a distant planet. Utilize your wits to build shelter, find sustenance, and craft essential items. Collect wreckage to construct a space radio and signal for rescue to win.
- Build shelter and find food/drink
- Craft items from salvaged wreckage
- Build a space radio for rescue
- RPG-style inventory system
- Over 80 craftable items
- Randomly generated maps
- Day/night cycle and survival mechanics
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"Stranded Without A Phone" is a desert island survival game, on a distant planet similar to Earth. WARNING! This is a challenging game that requires thinking. It is not an action/arcade game. You must use your survival skills to stay healthy and get rescued. Build shelter, find food and drink, and collect salvageable parts from the wreckage that wash ashore. Use the parts to build a space radio and call for a rescue team to win the game. Search for natural resources, then use them to create other items using various combinations. Features include the ability to play as different characters, find and craft several items, and multiple save slots. Features: - Familiar RPG-style inventory system. - Over 80 different items. - Randomly generated map with each new game. - Day/night cycle. - Fishing. - Boar hunting & trapping. - Befriend a wild dog as your companion. *** Hints *** -Search dirt areas for small boulders to build a fire pit. -Use coconuts as an immediate source of nutrition and hydration, but also find fish in shallow water. -Boar meat provides the best nutrition and health. -Search beaches often for useful items from the shipwreck.
Scavenging
Explore a vast game world, looting stores and buildings to gather resources. Trade goods, craft items, build a shelter, and engage in combat with other players to survive. Be mindful of critical radiation levels and escape before it's too late.
- Loot stores and buildings
- Trade goods with others
- Craft items
- Build your shelter
- Fight other scavengers
- Survive in a large game world
- Escape critical radiation
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Search the city, loot stores buildings and houses, trade goods, build your shelter, fight other scavengers, craft items, and try to survive in the huge game world. Remember to leave before radiation levels get critical!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Scavenging at 100% against Stranded Without A Phone!'s 46%. Scavenging also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 12). Stranded Without A Phone!'s advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.7) and ads (none vs shown). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Stranded Without A Phone! sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Scavenging asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stranded Without A Phone! holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stranded Without A Phone! has 218 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Stranded Without A Phone!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Scavenging's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Stranded Without A Phone! ships an update every 2 months, Scavenging every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stranded Without A Phone! | Scavenging |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (218 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 45.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 218 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 153 MB | 240 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gilligames | Henrique Silva |
Customer experience
Stranded Without A Phone!
Scavenging
Bugs and requests
Stranded Without A Phone!
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and app failures
- Saved game data loss
- Screen alignment issues on tablets
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- More islands and story content
- Expanded crafting and building options
- Multiplayer and co-op modes
- Endless/survival mode
- Improved graphics and visuals
Scavenging
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stranded Without A Phone!
- Save Slot 1$0.99
- Meg$0.99
- Jessica$0.99
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- 3 Bandages$0.99
- 3 Energy Bars$0.99
- Hööd$0.99
- 10 Bandages$1.99
- Rain Tiki$1.99
- Time Tiki$1.99
- 10 Energy Bars$1.99
- Hut$1.99
- Wilson$1.99
Scavenging
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Stranded Without A Phone! free?
Is Scavenging free?
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Do Stranded Without A Phone! or Scavenging have ads?
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