Comparison

Planetary Quarantine vs Residual

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

Head to head
About

Planetary Quarantine

Step into the role of a quarantine agent tasked with regulating departures from Earth. Uncover a conspiracy involving a mysterious society and a threat to interstellar civilization. Explore a detailed world, build your life, and make critical decisions to save humanity.

Highlights
  • Interactive narrative
  • Mystery solving
  • World exploration
  • Character development
  • Multiple choices
  • Replayable content
Features
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You're a quarantine agent—an extrajudicial representative of the law who lets only approved people and products leave Earth—and in a few days your starship will be arriving as your new home world. A dead passenger, a mysterious society, and a potential threat to interstellar civilization all await you. Solve the case and save the world. Build your life while building society. Explore this richly intricate game where new surprises await you each time you play!

About

Residual

Explore procedurally generated alien planets, harvest resources, and craft sci-fi tools to survive and repair your ship. Uncover ancient secrets in a non-violent survival platformer with a unique nature engine.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated worlds
  • Resource harvesting and crafting
  • Sci-fi tool creation
  • Non-violent survival gameplay
  • Alien lore discovery
  • Customizable survival parameters
Features
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Residual… a new breed of survival platformer from OrangePixel. In a forgotten galaxy full of strange planets, a lone explorer crash-lands on one with an ancient alien secret. Venture forth from the shipwreck across a harsh, unpredictable, procedurally generated world. Harvest food and make campfires to stay alive. Craft science-fiction survival tools like teleporters and mining devices. Unearth alien technology capable of repairing the ship. Hunger, cosmic storms, hostile plant life and the mysterious ooze are among the many obstacles you’ll face. You won’t be alone! PDB (a snarky floating Personal Disaster Bot) will follow and assist you along the way. Sometimes. PDB also helps you discover the hidden lore, revealing the history of the planet as you explore deeper and deeper, assuming you can survive! OrangePixel’s uniquely designed Nature Engine generates 1000’s of planets from a vast set of environment-based rules, then drops explorers on a world brimming with potential. If a planet orbits close to the sun, intense heat, high winds, and sparse vegetation will pose a set of challenges wildly different from other worlds. Further from the sun, long nights make stamina easier to maintain, but reduced solar power turns every suit function—like scanning the planet—into a critical decision. Residual welcomes players to a non-violent survival experience with limitless possibilities and no traditional combat. Jump and descend through colorful, highly detailed pixel art evoking classic 2D platformers. Solve light puzzles to reveal secrets of a long-lost civilization. Select a male, female, or non-binary protagonist, customize survival parameters like how fast time advances, and race to repair the ship, dig up ancient secrets, or collect data entries on hundreds of undiscovered objects.

Screenshots

Planetary Quarantine4 screens
Residual4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Residual at none against Planetary Quarantine's shown. Residual also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 25 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 47%). Planetary Quarantine's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $5.99). On rating, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Planetary Quarantine costs $3.99 and Residual $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for Planetary Quarantine against 3.5 for Residual. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 14 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Planetary Quarantine's written reviews are positive against 67% of Residual's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planetary Quarantine ships an update every 25 months, Residual monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Planetary Quarantine versus Residual: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanetary QuarantineResidual
Price$3.99 — better$5.99
Rating3.4 (19 ratings)3.5 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB116 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCPascal Bestebroer

Customer experience

Planetary Quarantine

All ratings19 ratings
Positive47.4%
Neutral10.5%
Negative42.1%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive46.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative40.0%

Residual

All ratings14 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral28.6%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral22.2%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

None

Planetary Quarantine

No in-app purchases

None

Residual

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planetary Quarantine free?
Planetary Quarantine costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Residual free?
Residual costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planetary Quarantine or Residual?
Residual is rated higher. Planetary Quarantine averages 3.4 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Residual averages 3.5 from 14 ratings.
Do Planetary Quarantine or Residual have ads?
Planetary Quarantine shows ads; Residual does not.
Which is updated more often, Planetary Quarantine or Residual?
Planetary Quarantine ships an update every 25 months, and Residual monthly. Most recently, Planetary Quarantine was updated on October 23, 2026 and Residual on October 24, 2026.

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