Craft the World vs Tiny Tower
Craft the World
Craft the World is the game to play if you enjoy the survival, mining, and crafting aspects of Minecraft. The game's quite similar to Minecraft in many ways. You can plant and harvest crops. You can and will actually need to dig to find rare minerals as well. You can also craft a variety of tools, furniture, and, in general, items that will help your dwarves survive the periodic invasions of goblins, the undead, and other otherworldly monsters or will at least make your dwarves content.That said, there are a few very important differences between Craft the World and Minecraft that made the former so unique. Instead of playing a character, you get to become the omnipotent "god" of small dwarves who you can order to do your bidding or you could even control them individually if needed.
The crafting system is quite different too. Don't get me wrong - you still need to combine raw materials to create the stuff you need like in Minecraft, but similar to the crafting system in a standard MMORPG, there's a progression system in place that will allow you to unlock new "technologies" simply by crafting lower-tech items repeatedly...even if you don't really need that many of them. What can you do with the surplus of items then? Well, you can just sell them. There's a shop that sells resources that you may need in exchange for game cash. You can randomly earn game cash by battling creatures and monsters and you could also sell off your extra items for cash.
Craft the World may not be everyone's cup of tea due to the rather repetitive and slightly clumsy crafting system, but the game is still pretty fun and it does offer a challenge for fans of the survival genre.
Tiny Tower
Tiny Tower is a community-building game where you get to literally set up a community of cute little bitizens in a tiny tower that can be constantly expanded by adding new floors and decorating them. There are many different types of floors you can add, some of which will help improve the living conditions for your current residing bitizens while others many attract new bitizens to move to your tower.You can also cater to the needs of your inhabitants by peeking into their minds and see what they are thinking through the game's amusing virtual social network, BitBook. To make things more interesting, there will be special VIP visitors from time to time along with special missions to complete. You can even trade bitizens with your friends now.
In some way, the game does feel a lot like a city-building game despite the fact that you'll be simply building a pretty much self-sustaining tower, but it interestingly plays out like Fallout Shelter though, by being a tower, you'll be building upwards rather than downwards. If you love this sort of simulation, be sure to download the game on your mobile devices - it's free - and try it out!