Hyper Light Drifter vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Hyper Light Drifter

Abylight S.L.
App Store
$28.4K/mo
~$340.9K/yr · 535K installs
VS

Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
$22.87M/mo
~$274.43M/yr · 122.7M installs
Revenue winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +80408% vs other
Installs winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +22820% vs other
MAU winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +9523% vs other
Rating winner Hyper Light Drifter wins +8% vs other

Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning

Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.

  1. Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 805× more per month than Hyper Light Drifter - $22.87M vs $28.4K.
  2. Subscription model. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs a $3.99/mo subscription that compounds; Hyper Light Drifter relies on one-shot IAP or ads.
  3. Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~122.7M lifetime installs vs Hyper Light Drifter's ~535K - 229.2× the funnel top.
  4. 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

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

Hyper Light Drifter
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$28.4K
▶
$22.87M
Annual revenue (est.)
$340.9K
▶
$274.43M
Lifetime installs (est.)
535K
▶
122.7M
Monthly active users (est.)?
70K
▶
6.7M
App Store rating
4.87★
◀
4.51★
Total ratings
7K
▶
818K
US grossing rank
-
=
-
Cheapest monthly sub
No sub
▶
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
0 tiers
▶
10 tiers

Hyper Light Drifter

Abylight S.L.
App Store
Category
Games
Price
USD1.99
Released
Jul 25, 2019
Last updated
Oct 30, 2021
File size
812.6 MB
Content rating
12+
Version
1.1.7
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean +6 more
View full Hyper Light Drifter report →

Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
Category
Games
Price
USD6.99
Released
Nov 17, 2011
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
File size
1.32 GB
Content rating
9+
Version
26.32
Languages
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +16 more
View full Minecraft: Play with Friends! report →

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Related app pages

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FAQ

Which makes more money, Hyper Light Drifter or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.87M per month, while Hyper Light Drifter earns about $28.4K. That is a 805.1× revenue gap (~$22.84M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Hyper Light Drifter ≈ $340.9K/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $274.43M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Hyper Light Drifter or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 122.7M estimated downloads vs 535K for Hyper Light Drifter - a 229.2× gap. Hyper Light Drifter's App Store downloads are estimated from 7K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 818K ratings.
Are Hyper Light Drifter 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 Hyper Light Drifter and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Hyper Light Drifter: no IAP detected on the public listing. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Hyper Light Drifter 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, Hyper Light Drifter or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Hyper Light Drifter edges ahead with ★ 4.9 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.4 stars). Rating volume: Hyper Light Drifter 7K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 818K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Hyper Light Drifter vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $28.4K for Hyper Light Drifter and $22.87M 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 Hyper Light Drifter or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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