Last updated on January 14th, 2026 at 11:15 pm
Craft The World-Pocket Edition – Roleplaying Game Review
Craft The World-Pocket Edition is a Roleplaying/Simulation game from Dekovir, Inc., first launched in 12th December 2014.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 627+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Craft The World-Pocket Edition Stand Out
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Pocket Edition contains all 4 worlds of the Steam version:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/248390
GOD-SIMULATION
You control a tribe of dwarves by giving them commands to dig in certain places, attack enemy creatures, and build houses and other structures. You'll need to provide your dwarves food and clothing, as well as help them with magic when fighting against other inhabitants of the world. You start the game with one dwarf and gain additional dwarves as your experience level increases.
SANDBOX GAME
Each game level has many layers of earth to explore, from the sky down to boiling subterranean lava. The level is randomly generated as an island, restricted by natural boundaries: oceans on the edges, lava beneath it, and the sky above. Other features include day and night and changing weather conditions. The worlds differ in size, humidity, temperature, terrain, and flora and fauna. Abandoned halls and rooms with treasure are hidden somewhere deep within the islands.
CRAFTING
One feature of the game is a user-friendly system of recipes for crafting. The recipes are organized and easily accessible. You can craft dozens of different items: building blocks for houses, furniture, decorations, weapons, armor, ammunition, and food for your dwarves.
RTS
At the outset you find the recipes for basic tools and items, and build a small house with places to sleep and eat. Then, the size of the tribe increases and catches the attention of other inhabitants of the world. Most of them are night creatures and dwell underground. The worlds are full of fantasy creatures like zombies, skeletons, goblins, beholders, ghosts, giant spiders, and others. Some of them pay little attention to the dwarves, as long as the dwarves do not come into their field of vision. Others gather into quite large groups and try to break into the dwarves’ residence.
TOWER DEFENSE
Especially dangerous are the waves of monsters that appear from time to time from portals. So, do not neglect to build a safe haven with strong walls and numerous trapdoors, cells, firing towers, and secret passageways.
MAGIC
As a divine being, you possess various spells. You can speed up the movement of the dwarves, open small portals, illuminate dark caves to scare away monsters, evoke natural magic in the form of rain or tree growth, hurl fireballs at the monsters’ heads, and find useful resources and hidden rooms underground, thereby helping to speed up resource extraction, exploration of the world, and the population growth of your assistants.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Craft The World-Pocket Edition is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 7th August 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Craft The World-Pocket Edition is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Craft The World-Pocket Edition 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:
If you like crafting this is probably the best game on iPad. Remind us of rimworld in that you have workers.
IPad Air 6 working well bought DLC to support this massive update that came out of knowheres, we prefer dlc that works in every world so grabbed Grottos & Mines please bring over the Magic mirror dlc from pc id buy that to give more support! Thank you for update.
Have been playing this game for 11 years overall, and the mobile version since launch, and its an amazing time! We got all the DLCs since the updated version launched not too long ago and was anticipating playing with it all in the campaign, but not only is the Heroes DLC unavailable for purchase, but we cant even access World 1: Land of New Hope, and thus cant start our campaign. Other than that, playing custom games and the worlds on there shows the game itself works fine, just access to first Campaign level and the Heroes content. Please fix this as soon as possible! :,(.
We love this game so much, it is just the hats. Only the simple hat and armor hats can be crafted. Can you please update the game to make everyone able to craft all the hats in the game? It would be a big help! Also another few things. 1. Can you make it where people can sell unwanted items they get from mining, crafting, and chopping trees? 2. The only tool not able to be crafted is the knife, also can you make it where the fiber shirt, snow boots if in a snow world and all other items that you cant see? 3. This is our final suggestion. Can you make it where you can see that the spells are easy to find the crafting scroll (we forgot the shorter name) so you are ready for the crafting of that spell? Username: Moonjangsam. PS: when we unlock the fabricator, we get a tech tree related task in sandbox mode, and its stopping us from crafting very useful items like tool upgrades. Can you look into this and fix it please? Itll make us (and other sandbox players) very happy.
Hi! We really love the game and have already purchased several DLCs in the mobile version. We noticed that the Heroes expansion appears in the list, but theres no option to purchase it. Do you plan to make it available soon for the Pocket Edition? Id love to play it too. Thank you for your great work.
This game sucked us in until we finished today. Super fun to level up our dwarves and discover all the hidden things in the deep. Sad that its crashing when we finished our world and try to leave for the next.
Loved it before, really love it now thank you.
7 years since the last update. This game has been failing on iOS for about that same length of time. It is SO very nice to get an update and get this game back up and running on our iPad. It looks great again. Thank You So Much.
Thank you for updating this game. Was afraid after the last iOS update this game wasnt gonna get updated.
Se cierra el juego cuando quiero cambiar de mundo a travs del portal.
No sound at all in game, iPad Pro M1 12.9.
We had all purchases up to but not including Alien Invasion. Now with the update we have to rebuy a bunch of old ones? Can't find a way to restore purchases either.
Is this game ever gonna get fixed. Its one of our favorite mobile games, but its been glitchy for over a year and Im just hoping it gets bug fixes at some point cause Id love to play it again.
Please fix the bugs and update the game.
The graphics are corrupted and now it cant really be played, we dont want to see the end of craft the world mobile, please please please please please please please fix.
Muy bueno el juego la verdad pero ojal sirviera para co-op.
We have this on Steam, its a great game. Good to mess around with when youre looking to beat some time.
It's a wonderful and very entertaining game.
We really like this game but its way better on steam on computer so we recommend doing that if you want to start a base.
This game would be much better for replays if you didnt have to manually place items in the grid the first time. We like to replay this game and often on self imposed hardcore house rules so we recreate a lot and manual placement is tedious. Still 5/5 one of our favorite games ever made. We hope the developer sees this and takes pity on a devoted veteran of CTW.
To have more mana and create it faster. They are for pc.
We love this game. We wish they would update it with the newest stuff like on the computer. Other than that this game is amazing and its worth playing.
Challenging game with a lot of trial and error. Endless playability for those reasons. 10/10 would recommend.
Add new features update or at least a new dlc this is one of our favorite games of all time please do not kill it… Unless you plan on a sequel or something.
This is an amazing game! Cant get enough of it. Not enough games on the store like this that has such a different pace of gameplay and a nice change of pace at that.
We use to play this game when we were 6 and it was the best. Im over the moon that we found it after a year.
We bought this on PC and loved it enough that we had to buy it on mobile also. The dwarves are charming, the graphics are fun and the game is addicting. We are happy to pay a few dollars to not have to deal with timers. We hate micro transactions and refuse to buy them so we love this game that you can just play. There is DLC but you can enjoy the game without it.
Our absolute favorite game from when we were a pc gamer with steam!! So happy to see it on the phones now.
We wish there were more games like this in the App Store. Too many games are pay to win. This game is well worth the upfront cost. Hundreds of hours of game play. Tons of fun.
First we have to say we really love this game.But a lot of things are quite broken especially the pathfinding. With our big base in the world one the dwarfs get stuck a lot on the walls and they try to get stuff that is impossible to get.Second we think the game could really benefit from multiplayer you could but make it optional.( plz update this masterpiece).
Love the gameplay especially the dlc please keep adding the dlc from the computer game to mobile. Could we possibly get some more variation on dwarven skin color as well? You guys did great with this one.
Love this game. We love the total setup of this game. We dont have a gaming computer but if we did Id but this on steam since they dont update the app anymore. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE revisit updating app you have a following of ppl that want updates.
We like this game can you guy keep updates pls.
Great game! Just finished full play through very much enjoyed this game! Took us 40+ hrs.
Not like the crafting one one where you have infinite dwarves which you can summon anytime anyplace with all the items in the game in your inventory and be able to place blocks by yourself otherwise the game is almost perfect and please make sure that the campaign portals dont spawn near houses because one did and we lost all our stuff they broke through the walls and killed all our dwarves so we had to restart and also please make them less frequent because we have hardly any time to prepare for the next one.
We love this game. Not only is it one of the rare mobile games that doesnt nickel-and-dime you for every little thing, its also one of the largest mobile games in scope Ive ever played. Tons of tech levels, from basic weapons, traps, and decorations, to elaborate pillars and automated turret defense. Exploration, combat, mining, crafting, building, decorating… Theres just so much to do! If we had any complaints its that we wish there were a mode without the monster portals, and there needs to be more variety in the music. Im really getting sick of hearing the same night is coming music every six and a half minutes. Also, rail needs to come earlier, because our tunnel system was HUGE by the time we got rails, and telling dwarves to do anything far away takes FOREVER unless you spam the portal spell.
We love this game so much but we have some suggestions. 1.please weaken the guardian or whatever it is we forgot its name but the massive zombie with powers needs to be weaker because its like impossible to beat so just make it a little weaker. 2.we have hardly seen any gargoyles so we want to see a few more 3.AAHHH!!!TOO MANY ANTS!!! Please decrease the amount of ants in their environments we beg you to. 4.you only gain dwarves by 1 so once you get to level 12 you should get 2 dwarves. 5.Coins are so rare so we think you should make them more common. 6.you should add storms in which it rains heavily and theres lightning and blizzards where it snows heavily and floods with snow and floods where water rises and your dwarves have to get as high as possible which is insane! 7.we keep getting rats multiple times daily so make them more rare. 8.We need to be able to sell unwanted items for coins. 9.You should be able to use quartz to make laser guns that do 50 damage. Maybe one day you will be a very very rich game may win some sort of game awards,you might get tons of people playing your game,your a true gem,May you become the greatest and most popular game in history With love, your greatest fan.
We love the game its so fun and hard!its free.
And make the game a bit easier please.
We lost all of our progress because we forgot to take the SIM card out of our old iPad. We lost the 128 gigs and cellular data. But, anyway the game was really good before we lost it. We technically beat the game so it got a little boring but still loved it. Have a nice day everyone.
This really could be an awesome game. It needs updated or a second version. With the right kind of continual attention this could be Terraria level.
Is so fun and is good beacuse we can do all we want with them thanks for do this game we love it.
This is perfectly improved graphic game but there is one problem its been 2 or 3 years we havent seen any updates! Please bring updates as soon as possible.
We love this game so much, it is just the hats. Only the simple hat and armor hats can be crafted. Can you please update the game to make everyone able to craft all the hats in the game? It would be a big help! Also another few things. 1. Can you make it where people can sell unwanted items they get from mining, crafting, and chopping trees? 2. The only tool not able to be crafted is the knife, also can you make it where the fiber shirt, snow boots if in a snow world and all other items that you cant see? 3. This is our final suggestion. Can you make it where you can see that the spells are easy to find the crafting scroll (we forgot the shorter name) so you are ready for the crafting of that spell? Username: moonjangsam, real name Samuel Justus Rose (thank you).
Love this game and we hope the developers come out with more DLC for it.
This game is so fun we played it for 431 hours!Can you please make more stuff for us to craft?Anyway this game is awesome !we have it on our iPhone,computer,iPad and second iPad.Please answer this review.we REALLY WANT TO KNOW!. Ps we are a kid so dont use dry words okay.we are 8(In a half).
Craft The World is probably about as close Dwarf Fortress will ever get to being accessible to the masses. Played on a two layer side view reminiscent of a terrarium, the game oozes a certain swarthy Scandinavian dwarven charm. It takes a little adaptation to understand the logic of the dwarves as they dutifully attempt to follow the commands of your every tap on the pane of this virtual ant farm. However, the overall experience is very well refined, bolstered by years of updates on a true labor of love. The game now languishes an unappreciated artifact of yesteryear but, if you like colony management games, prepare to be charmed.
Just make updates please! We need updates.
This games is one of the best survival games ive played on phone we used to play before the game had add ones and even before we loved it when we seen it on our new phone we bought everything it had to offer really great game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7
- Size: 847.23 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages:
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: [Dekovir, Inc.]()
Last updated: 7th August 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Simulation | Developer: Dekovir, Inc.