Castle Busters vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Castle Busters

Voodoo
App Store
$116.4K/mo
~$1.40M/yr · 2.4M installs
VS

Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
$22.61M/mo
~$271.34M/yr · 121.3M installs
Revenue winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +19326% vs other
Installs winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +4871% vs other
MAU winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +1274% vs other
Rating winner Castle Busters wins +3% vs other

Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning

Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.

  1. Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 194× more per month than Castle Busters - $22.61M vs $116.4K.
  2. Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $9.99/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
  3. Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~121.3M lifetime installs vs Castle Busters's ~2.4M - 49.7× the funnel top.

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Side-by-side metrics

Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.

Castle Busters
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$116.4K
$22.61M
Annual revenue (est.)
$1.40M
$271.34M
Lifetime installs (est.)
2.4M
121.3M
Monthly active users (est.)?
486K
6.7M
App Store rating
4.63★
4.51★
Total ratings
20K
809K
US grossing rank
-
=
-
Cheapest monthly sub
$9.99
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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10 tiers

Castle Busters

Voodoo
App Store
Category
Games
Price
Free
Released
May 26, 2025
Last updated
Apr 22, 2026
File size
616.0 MB
Content rating
9+
Version
1.8.1
Languages
Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese +5 more
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Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
Category
Games
Price
USD6.99
Released
Nov 17, 2011
Last updated
May 5, 2026
File size
1.18 GB
Content rating
9+
Version
26.20
Languages
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +16 more
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FAQ

Which makes more money, Castle Busters or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.61M per month, while Castle Busters earns about $116.4K. That is a 194.3× revenue gap (~$22.50M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Castle Busters ≈ $1.40M/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $271.34M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Castle Busters or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 121.3M estimated downloads vs 2.4M for Castle Busters - a 49.7× gap. Castle Busters's App Store downloads are estimated from 20K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 809K ratings.
Are Castle Busters 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 Castle Busters and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Castle Busters: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Castle Busters runs a "Free game · IAP-driven (7 packs + 3 sub, ~$0.30/MAU)" 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, Castle Busters or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Castle Busters edges ahead with ★ 4.6 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.1 stars). Rating volume: Castle Busters 20K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 809K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Castle Busters vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $116.4K for Castle Busters and $22.61M 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 Castle Busters or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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