Seashine vs Creature Crafter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Seashine
Explore a mysterious, dangerous underworld as a fragile jellyfish. Absorb light to survive longer and evade bizarre creatures lurking in the darkness. Experience an endless, unique survival quest with intuitive touch controls and a dynamic soundtrack.
- Endless underworld exploration
- Unique, unlimited gameplay
- Intuitive touch controls
- Dynamic reactive soundtrack
- Survival against bizarre creatures
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How long will you survive in the abyss? Dive now into the abyss, in an endless quest for survival. You are born as a fragile jellyfish, struggling to maintain a fading light in the darkness of the deep ocean caves. Explore this mysterious underworld and absorb all the light you find on your way to live a few more seconds. But be aware... As poetic as this place seems to be, bizarre creatures and plants lurk in the obscurity, waiting to take a bite of you! Survival of the fittest inside nature's most well kept secret, the depths of the ocean. - Explore a gorgeous and endless underworld full of unknown dangers and strange creatures. - An unlimited experience where each game is unique. You'll never face the same challenge twice. - Intuitive controls specially made for touch devices. - A beautiful dynamic soundtrack reacting to the environment.
Creature Crafter
Design unique creatures with extensive customization tools, then bring them to life to explore vibrant online worlds with friends. Collect new parts to enhance abilities, complete quests, battle foes, and engage in minigames or roleplaying.
- Creature building and customization
- Online multiplayer exploration
- Collect and upgrade creature parts
- Quest completion and battles
- Minigames and roleplaying
- Procedural animation for environments
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Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit! The core gameplay loop involves constructing creatures to explore hand-crafted worlds and collecting body parts and patterns to further upgrade your creature. You can then use your newly acquired abilities to complete quests to earn cash and re-invest into your creature. If you’re just interested in creating creatures, however, then simply switch over to creative mode and everything will already be unlocked! The creation tool consists of three different modes: ● BUILD: Customize the shape of your creature by manipulating its spine and attaching transformable body parts. Altering your creature then changes its statistics (e.g., weight, speed, health etc.) and attaching certain body parts gives it special abilities (e.g., flying, swimming, biting etc.). ● PAINT: Change the color of your creature’s body and attached body parts, as well as the pattern and texture of your creature’s skin. ● PLAY: When you’re finished designing your creature, you can bring it to life! Traverse lush forests, swim in the ocean or fly high above the clouds — your creature will procedurally animate to adapt to its environment. Please note that this project is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected to EA, or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Seashine at none against Creature Crafter's shown. Seashine also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 72%). Creature Crafter's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Seashine sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Creature Crafter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Seashine against 4.8 for Creature Crafter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.7K and 11K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Seashine's written reviews are positive against 72% of Creature Crafter's.
Seashine ships an update monthly, Creature Crafter weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seashine | Creature Crafter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.7K ratings) | 4.8 (11K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.5% of reviews — better | 71.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.7K | 11K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 217 MB | 492 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Patrick Ellis | Daniel Lochner |
Customer experience
Seashine
Creature Crafter
User reviews
Seashine
From 4.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌟 Beautiful graphics and atmosphere
- 🎶 Calming and immersive soundtrack
- 🕹️ Unique and challenging gameplay
- 🔍 Interesting creature discoveries
- 📚 Detailed creature encyclopedia
Room to improve
- 🕹️ Difficult controls
- ⏱️ Light meter drains too quickly
- 🐲 Aggressive enemy encounters
- 🔁 Repetitive gameplay after discovery
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
Creature Crafter
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great game
- 👍 Soothing sounds
- 👍 Easy to play
- 👍 Accurate representation
- 👍 No ads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Screen gets stuck in servers
- 🐛 Glitches with body parts and mouths
- 🐛 Difficulty with resizing and positioning body parts
- 🐛 Black screen issues
- 🐛 Camera control problems
Bugs and requests
Seashine
Reported bugs
3 issues- Occasional crashes or freezes
- Disappearing collectibles or progress loss
- Inconsistent enemy spawn patterns
Requested features
5 requests- Peaceful exploration mode without enemies
- More diverse environments and creatures
- Ability to play as other sea creatures
- Multiplayer or co-op gameplay
- Improved tutorial and onboarding
Creature Crafter
Reported bugs
7 issues- Screen going black and freezing
- Inability to move the camera
- Creatures turning into recent creations when saved
- Difficulty with resizing and positioning body parts
- Issues with the creature workshop and unlocking parts
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- Creatures walking backwards
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
10 requests- Add more body parts, accessories, and customization options
- Implement a map maker for mobile
- Add more maps and environments to explore
- Introduce a cell stage, tribal stage, and civilization stage
- Implement a spawn tool to summon created creatures
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- Add more range attack options like lasers and poison
- Improve animation and smoothness of creature movements
- Implement a chat filter and moderation system
- Add the ability to build structures and nests
- Introduce a leveling system with attributes and skills
In-app purchases
Seashine
- 40 Stars$0.49
- 100 Stars$0.99
- 200 Stars$1.89
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- 400 Stars$2.99
- Star Doubler$3.99
- 800 Stars$4.99
Creature Crafter
- Pets$2.99
- Premium$5.99
- Supporter$9.99








