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Survivalcraft – Adventure Game Review
Survivalcraft is a Adventure/Action/Entertainment game from Igor Kalicinski, first launched in 26th April 2013.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 2,015+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Survivalcraft Stand Out
You are marooned on the shores of an infinite blocky world. Explore, mine resources, craft tools and weapons, make traps and grow plants. Tailor clothes and hunt animals for food and resources. Build a shelter to survive cold nights and share your worlds online. Ride horses, camels or donkeys and herd cattle to protect them from predators. Blast your way through the rock with explosives. Build complex electric devices. Possibilities are infinite in this long-running sandbox survival and construction game series.
This is the thirtieth release of Survivalcraft, and it adds a new armor and weapons tier – copper! You can now paint stairs, slab, fences and signs and place electric gates on the floor or ceiling. Wander in dense forests full of tall spruces and fallen logs. Explore bigger caves, but watch out for huge magma chambers underground (15x bigger than 1.28). There are new sound generator sounds for you to use, including hi-fi drums! Check out full list of 70 changes at game webpage.
Survivalcraft brings features you love in the PC version of the most famous blocky game to your mobile device: infinite worlds, caves, logic elements (electricity), weather, boats, ridable animals, explosions, clothes, armor and many more. It does so while maintaining its own realistic, survival-themed style.
Enjoy!
Brief update history so far:
- 1.0 (initial release, 16 Nov 2011)
- 1.1 (screenshots, torches, lamps, tools, controls sensitivity, recipaedia)
- 1.2 (sneaking, stairs, slabs, doors, ladders, snow, ice, christmas tree)
- 1.3 (basalt, limestone, marble, furnace)
- 1.4 (new world format, clay, bricks)
- 1.5 (birds, weapons, throwing, food, eating)
- 1.6 (emergency bugfix release)
- 1.7 (trapdoors, water animations, snowballs, traps, wildboars, game modes)
- 1.8 (buckets, water physics, magma, world properties, view angles)
- 1.9 (Dropbox, fences, upside-down stairs and slabs)
- 1.10 (optimizations, bulls, signs, sulphur, saltpeter, adventure mode)
- 1.11 (explosives, fire, matches, magma as fluid)
- 1.12 (wolves, cows, milk, diamonds, flat terrain, controls improvements)
- 1.13 (creature spawners, eggs, saplings, compass, thermometer, grass spreading)
- 1.14 (emergency bugfix release, hygrometer, sharper text)
- 1.15 (big performance improvements, bears, machetes, adventure restart, cacti)
- 1.16 (smoother framerate, polar bears, paint, falling blocks, environment modes)
- 1.17 (3rd person view, 3d tools, creature shadows, physics optimizations)
- 1.18 (rain, snow, thunderstorms, thawing/freezing, werewolves, pumpkins)
- 1.19 (electricity, new UI, new recipaedia, new help, germanium + lots more)
- 1.20 (community content, better caves, creative options, SD card)
- 1.21 (fish, horseriding, electricity improvements, camels, leather + lots more)
- 1.22 (survival, farming, boats, islands, more painting, pathfinding, rhinos and many other animals)
- 1.23 (content rating, larger visibility range, analog electrics, halloween special, donkeys, bass)
- 1.24 (bows and arrows, shooting target, reindeer, tigers, iron fences, ivy, feathers, string)
- 1.25 (custom skins, new explosions engine, bombs, crossbows, fire arrows, new UI, stone fences)
- 1.26 (clothes, armor, temperature effects, belugas, cassowarys, pumpkin and cotton farming)
- 1.27 (moose, campfires, larger inventory, lightning button, more clothes, AI improvements, new engine)
- 1.28 (firearms, dispensers, fireworks, digging cracks, left-handed controls)
- 1.29 (more paintable items, copper armor and weapons, tall spruces, horizontal logs, bigger caves)
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Survivalcraft is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th March 2022
Recent improvements include:
Updated for latest iOS
Download & Availability
Survivalcraft is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Survivalcraft on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Boy was this game fun. We used to play it all the time on the bus as a child. Highly recommend it.
Finally started making our own money to where now we can play the official version of it.
This game would be better with controller support.
This game deserves way more support and good ratings. Yes, it may be a Minecraft clone, but unlike any others, it branches off into its own game. And we play this game to do just that! Also thanks for making our childhood great.
This game is so cool that we even remember it! We remember downloading it because either we couldnt play or had to buy Minecraft so we got this game and its awesome! We recommend it and also you should add events, updates, and servers! Yes, we know that Survivalcraft 2 has multiplayer but that would be so cool! Check out the game we recommend it.
The days back when you couldnt afford minecraft as a child, so this is what you played. Do you remember the times? Do you feel the moments fleeting? Youre getting older and the world is changing. It will never be the same.
This was not a minecraft rip off back in the day this was a minecraft on steroids with way cooler things to do and we had lots of fun get it you will not regret it. Also if you go in creative and follow the ship it does not despawn.
So we enjoy the game Ill play game we love the animals and the blocks we like the mechanics we love everything about it but whenever we wanted to make a certain build we would always want these things like a always on the search bar so we could search up any skin because sometimes we want a certain skin but we cant find it we always did want skirts in the game to and we really hope that survival craft Sees this.
2 words sums this perfect game up: childhood game. We loved this game to play before buying minecraft.
Has more content than modern Minecraft. 10/10.
This game got us thru some dark periods of our childhood we used to love playing it sm especially since we couldnt buy the real minecraft. Whoever made this game thank you. Its almost been ten years since we started playing which is crazy!! Us & our cousins would bond over our love for this game & play it on the kindle fire. Okay thats all for our review byee.
Are used to play this game when we were little and we figured out the name of it and now Im playing it again.
For everyone saying this is a copy of Minecraft ITS NOT its a great game anyways, its free, and gives a whole different experience. In our opinion its is much more realistic of course, and makes you want to survive much more than Minecraft. It is all of this and still encompasses the creativity that you can have in Minecraft.
Please add multiplayer to the game as well as the ability to change your skin :).
Love this game. Ive been playing since 2010 and theres been some amazing changes along the way. However, theres definitely some things that we personally think is missing we think EVERY animal you kill in the game, should give you a pelt, AND some meat. No matter WHAT it is. The meat can all be the same. It can look all the same and just say meat or pelt. Im not asking for anything fancy like two different designs of giraffe meat and lion meat or giraffe pelt lion pelt we really dont think it matters. As long as the pelts can be made into clothes, and the meat is edible after cooked. To make it even easier, just use the leather you use for wolves, or fur from bears and just use the meat you get from boars/cows. Same designs same everything. The only thing added, is just the animals that drop them after being killed. Im not a survivalist, but Id imagine if you were stranded, you would eat every kill you got, and clothe yourself with every kill you got. Let us sum up a little summery of what a game mostly looks like You start the game, youre stranded. You get wood, materials, etc. You build a little house for the night so you dont wake up being beat to death by animals. The next morning you wake up and you hunt some cows. You almost die but you win and kill the cows and get meat. No more cows nearby. You ours material and the sun goes down. You kill 20 wolves and 2 lions on the way home. You get to safety and sleep. You wake up and go outside. No cows, but LOTS of wolves and TONS of lions. You hunt and kill some boars for food, while killing tons of wolves that attack and try to kill you along the way. You kill 3 boars and 10 more wolves. You kill 3 lions surrounding your home to try and keep it safe. You go to sleep and wake up the next morning and no cows, no boars.. But now theres suddenly 30 wolves, and 10 lions. You kill 30 wolves and all 10 lions and hunt some birds… Because your food source is running out. You go to bed again. Wake up, step outside. No birds, no cows, no boars and now, there are 20 lions and 20 wolves. Okay, you see the problem? One problem, no food. Which yes, in the description of the game it basically says, that if you hunt to much food in one spot, youll have to look further to get food. However… Why isnt it the same for the predators? They never go away… Not to mention.. All those lions we end up killing and dying over, we get NOTHING from. They kill you in 3 hits and we get NOTHING??? Itd be nice to get meat and a pelt for hours and weapons spent on them. Not to mention the amount of kills the lions get on us. We think its fair to get food from everything. Just like real life (unless poisonous which there are no poisonous animals in the game, so that doesnt apply) More plant food sources would be cool. Like berries? The shrubs could be normal leaves from trees with poka-dots on them. Some can even be poisonous and make you more hungry, or puke or something.
Superior to the second game pretty fun although sometimes frustrating and glitchy.
Love this game. Ive been playing since 2010 and theres been some amazing changes along the way. However, theres definitely some things that we personally think is missing we think EVERY animal you kill in the game, should give you a pelt, AND some meat. No matter WHAT it is. The meat can all be the same. It can look all the same and just say meat or pelt. Im not asking for anything fancy like two different designs of giraffe meat and lion meat or giraffe pelt lion pelt we really dont think it matters. As long as the pelts can be made into clothes, and the meat is edible after cooked. To make it even easier, just use the leather you use for wolves, or fur from bears and just use the meat you get from boars/cows. Same designs same everything. The only thing added, is just the animals that drop them after being killed. Im not a survivalist, but Id imagine if you were stranded, you would eat every kill you got, and clothe yourself with every kill you got. Let us sum up a little summery of what a game mostly looks like You start the game, youre stranded. You get wood, materials, etc. You build a little house for the night so you dont wake up being beat to death by animals. The next morning you wake up and you hunt some cows. You almost die but you win and kill the cows and get meat. No more cows nearby. You ours material and the sun goes down. You kill 20 wolves and 2 lions on the way home. You get to safety and sleep. You wake up and go outside. No cows, but LOTS of wolves and TONS of lions. You hunt and kill some boars for food, while killing tons of wolves that attack and try to kill you along the way. You kill 3 boars and 10 more wolves. You kill 3 lions surrounding your home to try and keep it safe. You go to sleep and wake up the next morning and no cows, no boars.. But now theres suddenly 30 wolves, and 10 lions. You kill 20 wolves and all 10 lions and hunt some birds… Because your food source is running out. You go to bed again. Wake up, step outside. No birds, no cows, no boars and now, there are 20 lions and 20 wolves. Okay, you see the problem? One problem, no food. Which yes, in the description of the game it basically says, that if you hunt to much food in one spot, youll have to look further to get food. However… Why isnt it the same for things that kill you? They never go away… Not to mention.. All those lions we end up killing and dying over, we get NOTHING from. They kill you in 3 hits and we get NOTHING??? Itd be nice to get meat and a pelt for hours and weapons spent on them. Not to mention the amount of kills the lions get on us. We think its fair to get food from everything. Just like real life (unless poisonous which there are no poisonous animals in the game, so that doesnt apply) More plant food sources would be cool. Like berries? The shrubs could be normal leaves from trees with poka-dots on them.
Low stars only for outdated GUI, the bottom navigation bar doesnt close in this game leading misoperation. Also the Dynamic Island in iphone14 hide the crafting button. The three stars is only for it brings us good memories of our childhood(almost 12y ago). Hope devs can fix it sooner or later and Ill update the review.
You have to get furniture in survival craft 2. WHAT THE HECK.
Ok. We just want to say this is nothing like Minecraft. Its fun and entertaining but there are just so many things that really annoy us. The first one is why do fish have like 1000 health thats right A FISH. In Minecraft all you have to do is punch a fish like 2 times but in Survival Craft we think we punched it like 30 times before it died. Second thing that annoys us is that you only have 4 slots to craft things so unless Im missing something (we probably am) we dont know how youre supposed to craft things like swords and pickaxes. And the last things that annoys us is when you go up mountains and all that you get cold. We know thats kinda realistic but it really annoys us. Although its not Minecraft its a fun experience even though there are some annoying differences. But the one thing we do like is that you dont have to make a bed. You just open the inventory and push go to sleep. We do like that idea feature. But if you had to ask us we do think Minecraft is wayyyy better than this game.
Im not sure whether or not its supposed to be like this but the crafting spaces arent enough, like Im trying to make a wooden pick axe but it requires 3 wood and 2 sticks but there arent enough blocks for it . And also, yall dont need to be so aggressive when suggesting things to the devs. Like its hella embarrassing reading these reviews when theyre literally talking in all caps like stop.
This Game is Really Old, but it Was Came From 12 Year Ago that is Older than us, So we Need a Better Survivalcraft Game, Survivalcraft 2 in the Future.
Its a good game but it is like impossible to even get your things at night with the stupid dogs and lions attacking you, and if they get into your house they dont leave. It is very annoying.
This is rip off minecraft! Hey, still a good game.
We like this game our sisters play it we do too can you guys pls add dogs?Also pls add more food and pls add pigs and chickens and cows and monkeys and dolphins and pls add snow tiger spawned eggs Pls and thank you.
This game has more stuff than Minecraft and a story of how you got there. There is more animals (Sharks, lions, tigers, etc) more items (Guns, crossbows, ect) and basically gives you a reason how you got there (From a ship) instead of spawning a full grown person. The game is very good and also Survivalcraft 2 is better as well. Minecraft does have more things like skyblocks and other stuff like that but we think Survivalcraft 2 is still better. It has way more things in Minecraft and in our opinion its a great game to play alone unless you want/get Survivalcraft 2 where you do have multiplayer. 5/5 stars and we would recommend to our friends but they like Minecraft better . We recommend Survivalcraft and Survivalcraft 2 for everyone.
We really enjoy playing this game with all the cool maps people make and you devs rlly trys to make this game different from Minecraft.
We have been playing this game for so long its just really fun to make things with.
Idk why but we loved this game when we were younger <3.
Screw you, people can ask for what ever they like we mean they have werewolves so a dragon is logical and you didnt get to the creator either so matea go on with your logical things and shove them down your throat.
Almost just like Minecraft but not as blocky five stars.
Game developers please add more furniture please. We love this game but with furniture this game will improve more and if you want lower the price or make it free. Also there may be a chance that kids want this game but the kids parents dont want to waste money. But the thing we care the most is the furniture, not the money the game costs. The review was mostly about the furniture. So please add some furniture. And add fishing rods because we love fishing in real life so please add some fishing rods.
We love LOVE the game its fun and entertaining! Please add multiplayer it would be 100xs better.
So look this game is apart of our nostalgia memories this game does hold a special place in our heart but dat multiplayer though like our sister and we wanna play but we cant so please add multiplayer please.
So we got this app thinking, Hey, this is just a rip-off of Minecraft, and wanted to see what it was. Then, after playing a little bit, we realized this was NOT a bad game, that in fact, we love it so much maybe even more than Minecraft.
We really love this game even tho its kinda a Minecraft rip off its got a few more weapons and animals. Its a bit more challenging but we like a challenge. The only thing is really the only bad guys are the werewolves and other animals if ya mess w em. But yea it needs more threatening creatures or something.
Why is it called Survivalcraft when creative is in there.
We love this game because we were enjoying blowing up trees and other stuff so 5 stars for u.
This is the best survival game we have ever played!! We do have a few suggestions though…. We think there should be a female avatar choice, carts, & maybe breeding animals for baby animals Anyways, this game is awesome! And could be even better with some baby animals.
This eventualy gets boring and not cool without multiplayer!!!even Minecraft has muliplayer. Also we traid to make a Zoo and it sed to many anamels also to many magnets. We mid anamels come on people we want to build wat ever we want. Minecraft is better also sr the villagers in Minecraft.
This game is better than minecraft in a lot of ways, but we always go back to minecraft since it has multiplayer. This game doesnt. What Survivalcraft 2 is calling multiplayer is literally sharing corners of a device, thats unusable. Please put online and local multiplayer on either Survivalcraft 1, 2, or both. Id drop minecraft for this in a heartbeat. It doesnt need more gimmicks, though those are cool. What it really, truly and desperately needs is local wifi and online multiplayer.
We have played survival craft 1&2 they are so fun, but please let us be able to breed horses, maybe add dogs too? But overall great game.
We remember playing this game a long time ago. It was a lot of fun, and the original assets make it a much better experience. It loses a star because it rips off its superior, Minecraft, but it is overall an enjoyable game. We would recommend this if you dont mind how many similarities it shares with minecraft.
Hey so plz plz plz plz add pyramids and they could have mummy chambers and a maze and treasure chest P.S plz add multiplayer we know theres multi in survival craft 2 but plz add one here also and last thing pistons plz but you have everything else any other game has or could have.
We used to play this game so much but we havent played for a long time now because we ran out of things to do, this game needs co op, please listen to us and all of the other reviews and ADD MULTIPLAYER.
Can you guys add more useful items like backpacks?? You should have a small assecory button in the player tab (where you feed the guy) and have a backpack slot under the sleep button!!! It would be handy for traveling distances and stuff. We love playing the game but there hasnt have any changes to it at all. Please add more items, itll make the game 10x more fun.
So Creative Living Is pretty the Other Modes are not so good.
There is a key problem with us any time we play the game. Im always surrounded by wolves, lions, hyenas, and other aggressive mobs. We can play challenging difficulty without being trapped in our own house because Im surrounded by 3 or more packs of animals. It makes it extremely difficult to get anything done when we cant even walk outside without getting swarmed by wolves and lions. If you ever update the game, please fix animal spawning near the player.
Ive been playing this game for years and recently every time it rains our house burns down, there needs to be a way to turn it off plz, it gets very frustrating. Other than that its good.
Im playing on iPhone XR and we wish you can fix the resolution and theres something weird about sounds .. Im wearing earbuds and Left sound is on the Right sound .. Vice versa. Please consider this and thank you :).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.29.25.0
- Size: 62.90 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages:
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: [Igor Kalicinski]()
Last updated: 14th March 2022 | Genre: Adventure, Action | Developer: Igor Kalicinski