Ylands vs Omega Vanitas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ylands
Embark on an adventure in a vibrant world where you can gather resources, craft tools, and build anything imaginable. Explore diverse regions, sail the seas encountering unique creatures and challenges, and defend yourself from various enemies. Enjoy multiple game modes, including solo or multiplayer adventure and a creative mode for limitless building.
- Resource gathering
- Tool and item crafting
- Extensive building system
- Ship sailing and exploration
- Combat against wildlife and enemies
- Multiple game modes (Adventure, Creative)
- Multiplayer support
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Adventure awaits you in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, build anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more! Stunning low-poly visuals, relaxed atmosphere and oh-so-many things to experience! EXPLORE • Six unique regions with characteristic resources and wildlife in each. • Ocean biotopes populated by sharks, fish and other sea-life. • Sail between ylands to discover dozens of Random Encounters. • Use your Adventurers Handbook to explore the rich lore of the world. CRAFT & BUILD • Gather resources to craft tools, weapons, workstations, clothes, armor, decorations and more! • Build your own ship to travel around the vast world of Ylands. • Find a place you like, build your home and invite your friends over! FIGHT • Defend yourself from a variety of wildlife. • Encounter various enemies based on location and time of day. • Make sure you have the right equipment before exploring caves, they are well guarded! Game Modes • Adventure - The main game mode that you can enjoy with friends or on your own.The core game, where you can explore the world, gather resources to craft and build, sail between regions and more! • Creative Mode - Have all the resources available to you so that you can delve into the almost limitless possibilities of the visually stunning world of Ylands. • Community Games - Games built by our talented creators using the powerful Editor tool. Available on PC - Ylands is available on desktop devices as well. Made by Bohemia Interactive Ylands is made by Bohemia Interactive in the Unity 3D engine. Bohemia Interactive is a Czech gaming studio known for the Arma series, DayZ and Vigor.
Omega Vanitas
Explore a vast post-apocalyptic world in this free MMORPG. Scavenge, fight enemies, and team up with others to survive. Customize your character, craft items, and build factions in a retro, isometric pixel art setting.
- Vast post-apocalyptic open world
- Isometric pixel art graphics
- Scavenge for resources
- Fight enemies and monsters
- Character customization and skills
- Crafting and item trading
- Real-time PvP duels
- Faction system
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Omega Vanitas is a free post-apocalyptic open world online MMORPG game. Isometric pixel graphic brings back the old spirit of the classic top-view games. This old school 2D game with retro graphic and open world is inspired by some of the best role-playing games from the past decades. * Wander and scavenge the vast post apocalyptic world. * Fight against enemy gangs and mutated monsters. * Make new friends and work together on your survival. * Customize your character with many different skills. * Gain experience and levels, solve addictive quests and improve your character attributes to stay alive in that survival game. * Enhance your hero with hundreds of different items which you can find searching the massive world, crafting from garbage or trading with other players. * Get pet or hire companion to help you survive in world covered in radioactive fallout. * Challenge other players to real-time PvP duels. * Join or create a faction to dominate the others. * Build new structures to strengthen your faction’s domination. The game offers many hours of classic online RPG gameplay including exciting quests and tons of different maps, enemies, items and dungeons.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ylands at monthly against Omega Vanitas's every 2 months. Omega Vanitas's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Ylands sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Omega Vanitas sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ylands holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 240 and 90 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 39% of Ylands's written reviews are positive against 43% of Omega Vanitas's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ylands ships an update monthly, Omega Vanitas every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ylands | Omega Vanitas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (240 ratings) — better | 3.4 (90 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 38.6% of reviews | 42.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 240 — better | 90 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.5 GB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +12 |
| Developer | Bohemia Interactive a.s. | Mateusz Dworak |
Customer experience
Ylands
Omega Vanitas
Bugs and requests
Ylands
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezes on loading screen
- Unable to join servers
- Crashes when changing name
- Terrain editing not working
Requested features
5 requests- Add survival mode
- Allow terrain editing
- Improve loading times
- Implement controller support
- Enable cross-platform play
Omega Vanitas
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ylands
- Small pile of Coyns$4.99
- Pile of Coyns$9.99
- Large pile of Coyns$19.99
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- Explore with Coyns$19.99
- Even Larger pile of Coyns$39.99
- Even Largerer pile of Coyns$59.99
- Ginormous pile of Coyns$99.99
Omega Vanitas
- Pvp protection$0.99
- Lootbox$1.99
- Random firearm with ammunition$1.99
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- Reset character$1.99
- +25% XP$2.99
- Pet/follower$2.99
- Color item$2.99
- Extra backpack$3.99
- Extend bank storage$3.99
- Private House$41.99
Questions
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