Crab Castles vs Crab Panic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crab Castles
Build sandcastles with crab helpers on a tropical island, overcoming obstacles like gulls and earthquakes. Earn in-game currency to upgrade your crabs and explore beaches while learning marine life facts. A portion of in-app purchases supports ocean conservation.
- Sandcastle building with crab helpers
- Obstacle challenges (gulls, earthquakes)
- In-game currency for upgrades
- Marine conservation education
- Creative sandbox mode
- Trash cleanup missions
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Welcome to Fiddler Island, a tropical paradise where you can play and support Marine Conservation, and a day at the beach becomes a full-on sandcastle building challenge! With feisty crabs as your helpers, build your blocks to the goal lines before time runs out; but beware, "pirate" gulls & baby sea turtles will try to stop you. You will also need to deal with earthquakes, giant beach balls and strong winds! Use logic and skill to win doubloons and pearls used in the store for upgrades, colorful crab body art and more. Challenge Levels and awards also await our top competitors. As part of your marine mission, you’ll have to explore Tropical Beach and clean up trash while collecting doubloons, taking cover behind trees from attacking gulls and searching for pearl targets. While you take a breath between building, enjoy marine life fun facts. And, a portion of in app purchases revenue goes to help our oceans and support marine conservation programs. So, Congratulations- just by playing this game you are a Player in Making a Better World! True sandcastle artists will love Sandbox Beach, which is a creative space. Here you can build to your heart’s content without interruptions or time constraints using many different block shapes, flags, seashells, sea stars, doors and shutters. When your own unique masterpiece is completed, save a picture, or share an image of it with friends on Facebook, Instagram and other social media...or destroy it with a bang and start again! Our original soundtrack, the Crab Castles Surf Shop, captivating 3-D graphics and original ocean characters make your escape to Fiddler Island marine magic! Go to CrabCastles.com and look for Game Tips! Crab Castles takes a different approach to the classic block building puzzle genre. The goal of this game is not only to reach and maintain a certain height in a specified amount of time, but also to use action strategies. Build Levels have four goal lines and a Challenge level. If the block tower is built and is standing at or above the first green goal line when the timer goes to zero, you can move on to the next level. When all four goal lines in a level are achieved, the challenge level for that level will open. Special Levels introduce new game play: here you must control your crab’s speed and direction while it runs around Tropical Beach. Your primary goal is to pick up the trash items before the time runs out. That wins the level. Along the way pickup doubloons (win points) and win pearls by hitting pearl targets by tapping on the screen. Once you collect all the pearl targets in level 30, the doubloons on the beach turn to Platinum and are worth double points. If you can collect all the trash and all the platinum doubloons in one gameplay, you will reset the pearl targets! The platinum doubloons will turn back to gold. Under our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, you must be at least 13 years of age to download Crab Castles.
Crab Panic
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The Player can move along platforms and climb the ladders between them. The goal is to dig holes in the platforms and lure crabs into it. When a crab has fallen into a hole, fill it up before the crab creeps out of it. In later levels, two or more holes must be lined up vertically in order to dispose of green and white crabs. Green and white crabs do not die unless it is dropped by more than 2~3 floors. - Red Crab : Killed by dropped more than 1 floor - Green Crab : Killed by dropped more than 2 floors - White Crab : Killed by dropped more than 3 floors You can click the help button on home screen, it shows all the methods to kill different crabs. The Player can move quickly down to a lower floor through the hole he has dug. When the Player has been hit by a crab or when all oxygen has been reduced to zero, one life is lost. When all lives are lost, the game is over. The Player gain one extra life every 10,000 scores. Hope you enjoy it. Dig holes and wait for a crab to fall into it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crab Panic at none against Crab Castles's 10. Crab Castles's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.0). On price and device support 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. Crab Castles sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Crab Panic asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Crab Castles | Crab Panic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ArtsTechLab | ZIROTEK Corp. |
In-app purchases
Crab Castles
- RemoveAds_U1M changed$0.99
- GuidedSandDollar_PU1M Changed$0.99
- StopGulls.PU2M Changed$0.99
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- StopTurtles_PU3M changed$0.99
- Guided Sand Dollar Pack Of Ten$0.99
- Stop Gulls Pack Of Ten$0.99
- Stop Turtles Pack Of Ten$0.99
- Guided Sand Dollar Consumable$0.99
- Stop Gulls Consumable$0.99
- Stop Turtles Consumable$0.99
Crab Panic
No in-app purchases









