Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 03:12 pm
Pocket Build – Entertainment Game Review
Pocket Build is a Entertainment/Simulation/Adventure game from MoonBear LTD, first launched in 1st November 2017.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 26,795+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pocket Build Stand Out
Have you ever wanted to make your own little fantasy world? A farm, some kind of castle, or just an epic fantasy city? Pocket Build is an open world game where you can build with no limitations or restrictions. Build whatever you like, whenever you like, however you like. The possibilities are endless!
- Featured as Game of the day.
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1 game in over 57 countries.
- "An open world sandbox building game with a great 3D graphics engine." – AppAdvice
Castles, people, animals, trees, fences, farms, bridges, towers, houses, rocks, land, it's all their for the building. The only limit is your imagination!
- Hundreds of items to build.
- Huge open world.
- Build instantly.
- Collect resources and build special items.
- Command your humans to do various tasks.
- Beautiful 3D graphics.
- New items added every update.
- Endless possibilities.
- Buildings, Trees, People, Animals, Fences, Pathways, Castles, Skulls, Barrels, Farms, Bridges, Towers, Houses, Rocks, and loads more!
- Build, rotate, and place items anywhere in the world.
- Control the camera view, rotate, zoom.
- 3D touch support.
- Haptic feedback.
The possibilities are endless! Build your own city, build your own world, build your own castle, be creative, craft your land, build a town, create your own adventure, build anywhere in an open world. Become a Pocket Builder today!
The game contains an optional subscription feature. It is not required to play and enjoy the game. If you choose to purchase the subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours. Subscription starts at $0.99/week. Prices are in US dollars and may vary in other countries. Auto-renewal can be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes store after purchase. The subscription can be cancelled at anytime. If you don't choose to purchase the subscription, the game can still be fully played without it. Terms & conditions can be found here https://moonbear.com/terms-and-conditions
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pocket Build is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th April 2024
Recent improvements include:
Fixed issue with the land not working correctly when built on water.
Download & Availability
Pocket Build is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
Work on: all the graphics are ok Should be able to stack everything with a button Need more houses that arent broken, and in first person you can enter Need more house decor that isnt broken Need better people Need to add a corgis Need to be faster in first person Need to be able to open and shut doors on houses in first person Need more relaxing music Perfect: Like the tool idea LOVED THE CATS Like the trees Like the flowers Like the free buildness Like the sound(also on work on) Summery: Not trying to be demeaning with the work on part, just trying to help improve game for better experience.. Trying to give confidence in the perfect part!!(to inspire the work on part) Anyway, LOVE THIS GAME.
This game is amazing and there are so many worlds and blocks to explore and Build with.
This is a great game and has a lot of potential. It would be really cool if there was trains in the game but also Im just a sucker for trains.
So we were walking around and thought hey there is not been many updates. Please make dragonsrideable and make new creatures.
We could not even say how much we love this game. Its only 99 cents which is amazing and they have also made a free version with barely any in game purchases. To everyone here, if you like creative Minecraft even the slightest bit this will be amazing for you. We dont even have suggestions for this game because it has a list of all the new things coming to the game which has everything you would ever need in a game like this. (we would put 6 stars if we could).
We support this game and indie developers, great game for creative minds.
Very relaxing to build what comes to mind has many varieties of building materials, definitely a must have.
This is an absolutely incredible game, it is fun relaxing and has tons of great tools to build. We have zero complaints and am excited to see what the future holds for this game!! Thank you so much developers.
We really enjoy this game, and its at a low price which is also a plus. However, we have a few things we would like to mention about it. As far as we can tell, there isnt a copy world feature, which we personally feel would be extremely beneficial. Also, the only creature you can have in a set position are the ones in the People section. Also there are only four possible types of worlds instead of them all being randomized or unique, which isnt that much of an issue, but we feel either a little more randomization or control of how a new world is loaded would be nice. Ive also noticed that 5 of the animals that spawn in when you load a new world are spawned under the ground (1 stag, 1 fox, and 3 bunnies). Other than that it is a really great game! Im glad it autosaves every minute and every time you switch out of the app. We also really enjoy the creativity the game allows the player. Ive only had it for about a month or two and we really enjoy it.
We love how the rocks look like penises. Nice little touch.
This is a fantastic game that we have enjoyed so many hours over so many, many days. However, we wanted to pay a tip. Every button was pushed and there was no way our tip was processed. How do you go about doing this.
This game is very interesting and beautiful.we like to play this game in the first person mode .we think If we can enter buildings and drive boats ,it will be more interesting.And for mobile phones , the texts are little small , could you make a button to set the size of the texts? We hope our suggestions are useful.
CANT WAIT FOR A NEW UPDATE!! Will change to 5 Star as soon as there is an update.
Its pretty good just a few little things but you should get this game.
It has been 3 years! Where are the updates? Is there a different app you have been updating. It still is a good game. We would like it to also have an invasion feature where you can try to protect something like a monument and be able to build defenses. Again a good game! U.
First off Im very happy that an open sandbox builder like this exists at all, we desperately want a builder like this to make 3D maps of our homebrew dnd world. There are a few things missing that keep us from really enjoying it tho 1-Ability to move on vertical and horizontal axis. This seems like a very basic and fundamental building feature thats missing and Im not sure why when theres been tons of time spent instead on adding so many assets. The assets are awesome but when something is clipping or would fit perfectly if we could just move it up/down a bit its really frustrating. The rotate feature works great, please please prioritize adding up/down/left/right for more precise placement. 2-Cant easily change terrain color. When theres a paintbrush icon that usually indicates you can select and recolor things and thats what we expected when choosing a different land color but a lot of the time it just wants to stack a new colored piece instead and also deletes 4×4 areas seemingly randomly which could just be a bug that needs to be worked out. As far as we can tell theres no actual select tool to just easily recolor existing tiles , you just choose the new one from the menu and hope for the best. 3-Easy deleting. Ive messed around with all of the delete settings and honestly Id just love if there was a simple toggle on/off button and also a select areas to delete feature. 4-More of a bug we think but its been really easy to select land tiles when Im trying to place assets and then we have two pop up bars and end up moving/deleting a land tile instead. You should have to click the checkmark first before anything else can be selected (unless using a multi-select tool which should then group all the selected pieces and move/delete all of them at the same time) we hope this feedback helps for future updates, we know a lot of hard work has gone into this builder already.
We really love the game! We just wish it came to the switch so itd be easier for our fat fingers.
The game is really fun everything is perfect and beautiful but we wish we could be able to go in building maybe some and not all of the houses and cabins etc like at least some building. But other than that the game is great.
We dont have anything bad to say. Theres no ads. Only one in-app purchase and the stuff it unlocks is completely free to unlock every hour, permanently.. Can save/load multiple worlds quickly with no lag or waiting time.. The creativity is almost endless, literally. Really easy controls. The 1st person camera (controlling a character) is really cool! But the controls for that is a little tight we think the joystick should be accessed anywhere on the left side of the screen rather than precisely on the joystick but no big deal, we dont really use 1st person that much. Only for perspective but we will say this, Im alittle disappointed the devs focus for the last two updates was butterflies and cats Im sure some will like it but we personally want the war update. We dont plan on playing multiplayer on the next update but Im sure it will a nice feature especially if we can get our wife to play haha. But other than that Id like to see some improvement for placing water. Its really hard for us, to line up the water and land. Might just be a skill issue but we just cant. The default water, is fine but it doesnt look like water at all. But Im talking about the placeable water. Maybe a flow or minor waves to give it a little more detail and to cover the edges of the land rather than it showing a blocky texture.. We hope that makes since. Sorry for the book.. Would also like to link items/buildings together as one for ex. We made a really tiny dock by accident and would like to just link it all together and make it all bigger at the same time ANYWAY! We highly recommend this game. No real issues. Plays pretty smooth and created by one guy. Now 3 people working on it. This games potential is as endless as the games creativity.!! Amazing game and we cant wait for future updates!! SPECIFICALLY THE WAR UPDATE.
We got this game recently, and it is an amazing way to use you creativity, or your time. No ads (as expected with paid game) although some items need time to be unlocked. We had been looking for a game like this forever, where you could just build a castle. However, the camera will not let you pass an angle, and it is difficult to find specific blocks without a search bar (one of the boats is in a non-boats tab). Great game though.
Hello we just got pocket build a while ago and its super fun we just hate those in app purchases sandbox sandbox mode is our favorite it is a little finicky just a few adjustments and it would be perfect we gave it four stars we love that you can basically build anything.
We cant login into our old account on our new device, we really wish that you can use the same email for new accounts:(. We dont have enough emails to keep making new accounts.Besides that this game is awesome, we hope Yall keep updating real soon.
We appreciate all the little details and items available to customize and build your world with but there are so many things that it is hard to get ideas of where to start. We wish there was a bigger online community of people sharing ideas. You can tell a lot of care went into the item catalog because there are so many types of rock edges, for example, that all do the same thing but exist so you can make it look just right. Cute game.
We miss The Ville and Farmville. Both were far easier to play and more fun buying and placing items and buildings.
Overall, this game is great we just dont think its a great game for us. When this first came out we were watching development closely as we thought(with the resource management) the game was eventually going to have rts/management mechanics that are more extensive. That never happened and thats fine but the current open world build it all style gameplay just doesnt appeal to us much. We figured eventually wed be managing a kingdom, having wars, etc. This game is overall more of a Lego simulator than even really a game. Again, thats fine. Im sure many if not most people adore it for that. But for us its just sort of boring as Im not as interested in decoration. Apologies to devs for submitting a 3 star review we know anything under 5 stars these days is considered a bad game. But we still cant help but feel overall disappointed in how this turned out.
The game is great to relax and build a little city town or whatever you may desire but the email that the app says it will send us never comes through. We have re-entered our email at least five times and resent the code at least five times but never got it.
No major updates in years. Is it abandoned.
This game hasnt had any major updates or progress in a few years dont know where new features are to continue interest and dive more into the gameplay. Wish there was so much more to look forward to.
We want a refund.. And this is a real review unlike the others.. This game is not worth 1 dollar.
We downloaded the game, bought a worker, and then waited for the resources to build up to build more things. And we waited. And waited. And waited. We got bored and closed the game. Came back and the workers hadn't gathered anything while the game wasn't running, so we had to sit there and stare at the screen until we finally got enough resources to build a few houses. We got another worker, but he glitched and would only use up one food node before giving up and wandering aimlessly. We locked him in a pen with lots of cabbages and he gave up after every single one. The game wasn't really a game as much as a waiting simulator, and that glitch made resource gathering obnoxious. 2 stars because even though the gameplay consists entirely of waiting for incredibly slow workers who glitch, at least the music was good. Edit: no? Why would we think to do that.
The game is amazing but has no updates. We have been playing for some time and no updates show up. We have been waiting for the weather update and ever since we have played the game what feels like 2 years ago now to still not have a single update. Please hire some more people or work a little faster.
We guess this game is pretty much dead.
We love sandbox games, this was exactly what we were looking for. Though we think it would be better if you could create an ecosystem? Like give humans a specific job, or make wolves hunt respawning deer, etc. We also dislike that not all of the bridges have a corresponding stair or ramp. Its hard to try and make everything fit together when it doesnt match. And maybe a switch to move items higher or lower. We wanted to make a stacked hay bale and we couldnt because it wouldnt stack on top. Otherwise its an amazing game (especially for the price) and we love the style.
Although we spent many hours building designing, and then preparing for the new updates, we long since have stopped but always returning (waiting for train update)!! Not sure we will ever get to see this MUCH needed update! We honestly feel that The Train update would spark inspiration in many players! Well heres to the future.
We played this game in 2019, and completely forgot what it was called, but we remember LOVING IT!!! So when we finally found it again we were super happy! And its just as good as we remembered.
Very impressed. This game is leisurely, cute, and diverse. You can choose first person view and live in your town or you can choose god view and run your town. However, there are 2 issues: 1. Same item stacking, when you build road on top of road you get over lapping roads instead of having the new build replacing the old. It opens up creativity but also we can see it creating tons of loading issues in the future 2. This seems like a bug, when you build and need to move around, you can't actually pan the camera without selecting and building or adjusting another item. For example, if we're trying to build a house, and we have to move the screen, when we touch the screen it would show both the ground and the house are selected but changes are applied to the ground. This is especially irritating when you want to build environment but everything you touch instantly build without you having to confirm build. So the second you select any sort of floor, expect it to both delete and build where-ever you touch the screen if you try to pan or zoom the camera.
Absolutely love the game but there needs to be a bulldoze mode to quickly erase large patches of land.
We like this game but we wish they would add more monsters.
We are BEGGING you, PLEASE make it easier to mass place trees. We make a lot of forest type areas and it takes a while to place a ton of different trees at different angles of different styles to make it look natural.
Jus saw the + version just got an engine upgrade. Can we expect this soon as well? What is the difference between + and non+.
This is a fun and very addictive game, however it is also very limited. You said that in the future you would add accessibility to buildings and working vehicles, which would make the game so much better. Also please work on improving the first person feature so you can do more.
This game is overall a good game but its true you do need patience one thing we would change is mass delete.
Like the title we click on the game it plays the music and everything and everything looks normal but it will not load it says its loading but Ive been waiting for 30 minutes and it was still will not load into a world or even the menu.
It was so good! We even played it.
Really fun game – but when is the major update that was promised over 7 months ago releasing.
If you love building this is your game. You can build to your heart's content.
Actually limitless possibilities, would recommend. They consistently update the game with new content, and it never gets boring. Very unique, and the ability to fully rotate objects expands the possibilities further. We dont know of any other building games that give you this level of customization and freedom.
The game not only has top quality, but excellent performance. Although buggy at times, definitely worth it. 10/10.
This is our 2nd box of suggestions and if you havent already looked at our 1st box of suggestions please look at it we want the creator to see all of our suggestions so he can try to add them. First Id like to take damage in first person and the goblins to attack you in first person. Next Id like the game to add guns so you can have guns in first person. Last Id like the people to be able to sleep when it gets dark.
Its a great game and how do you make roads.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.11
- Size: 615.26 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [MoonBear LTD]()
Last updated: 11th April 2024 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: MoonBear LTD