A Dark Room vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!
A Dark Room
Amirali Rajan
App Store
$11.2K/mo
~$134.5K/yr · 211K installs
VS
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.86M/mo
~$274.34M/yr · 122.7M installs
Revenue winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+203807% vs other
Installs winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+57951% vs other
MAU winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+24460% vs other
Rating winner
A Dark Room wins
+6% vs other
Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning
Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 2039× more per month than A Dark Room - $22.86M vs $11.2K.
- Subscription model. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs a $3.99/mo subscription that compounds; A Dark Room relies on one-shot IAP or ads.
- Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~122.7M lifetime installs vs A Dark Room's ~211K - 580.5× the funnel top.
- More monetization surfaces. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs 10 IAP tiers vs 0 - more chances to convert users at the right price.
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Side-by-side metrics
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A Dark Room
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$11.2K
▶
$22.86M
Annual revenue (est.)
$134.5K
▶
$274.34M
Lifetime installs (est.)
211K
▶
122.7M
Monthly active users (est.)?
27K
▶
6.7M
App Store rating
4.77★
◀
4.51★
Total ratings
3K
▶
818K
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
No sub
▶
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
0 tiers
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10 tiers
- Category
- Games
- Price
- USD1.99
- Released
- Nov 8, 2013
- Last updated
- Jun 27, 2024
- File size
- 100.2 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 18.2
- Languages
- English
- Category
- Games
- Price
- USD6.99
- Released
- Nov 17, 2011
- Last updated
- Jun 19, 2026
- File size
- 1.32 GB
- Content rating
- 9+
- Version
- 26.31
- Languages
- Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +16 more
A Dark Room trajectory
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, A Dark Room or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.86M per month, while A Dark Room earns about $11.2K. That is a 2039.1× revenue gap (~$22.85M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: A Dark Room ≈ $134.5K/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $274.34M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, A Dark Room or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 122.7M estimated downloads vs 211K for A Dark Room - a 580.5× gap. A Dark Room's App Store downloads are estimated from 3K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 818K ratings.
Are A Dark Room and Minecraft: Play with Friends! in the same App Store category and competing for the same money? v
Yes - both apps sit in the Games category, which means they compete directly for the same paying users and category-level wallet share. Direct competitors, head-to-head.
What in-app purchases and subscription pricing do A Dark Room and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
A Dark Room: no IAP detected on the public listing. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. A Dark Room runs a "Paid app ($1.99)" monetization model; Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs "Paid app ($6.99)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, A Dark Room or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
A Dark Room edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.3 stars). Rating volume: A Dark Room 3K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 818K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these A Dark Room vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $11.2K for A Dark Room and $22.86M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! are derived from App Store grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (Games) - net of the 15-30% Apple/Google store cut. Real revenue depends on country mix, retention, refunds and ad fill rate, none of which Apple or Google publish.
How do I compare A Dark Room or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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