Craft The World-Pocket Edition

Simulation

Ratings

Age

9+

Simulation

Languages

English

Latest Version 1.7

Thu Aug 07 2025

Bug fixes.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game that combines elements of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria, and Dwarf Fortress. As a divine being, you control a tribe of dwarves, giving them commands to dig, build, and fight. Explore randomly generated islands populated by dangerous creatures while gathering resources to craft weapons, armor, and furniture. This Pocket Edition features all four worlds from the original Steam version. Build a secure haven with strong walls and firing towers to survive waves of night creatures and portal-dwelling monsters. Use your magical spells to aid your dwarves and unlock the secrets of the underground!

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

93/100

Craft The World: Pocket Edition is an incredible achievement in the sandbox strategy genre. It successfully blends the base-building of Dungeon Keeper with the exploration of Terraria and the management depth of Dwarf Fortress. Managing your tribe of dwarves feels intuitive, and the randomly generated worlds ensure that every playthrough feels like a fresh adventure.

The crafting system is remarkably deep but remains user-friendly, which is key for a 'Pocket Edition.' The tower defense elements—where you have to defend your fortress from waves of monsters emerging from portals—add a layer of urgency and tension that keeps you constantly planning your next fortification. It’s a huge game with tons of content, and it feels right at home on mobile.

Dinsun reviewed on: Mon Feb 24 2025

Features

Deep sandbox strategy with God-sim and RTS elements

Hundreds of crafting recipes for items, weapons, and armor

Randomly generated worlds with unique layers and biomes

Intense tower defense mechanics with waves of monsters

Includes all 4 worlds from the original Steam version

Tips & Walkthrough

Surviving the First Night

At the start, focus on gathering basic resources like wood and stone to craft simple tools. Build a small house with beds and a table to keep your dwarves happy and fed. Once secure, start digging deeper to find rare minerals, but be sure to reinforce your entrance before nightfall when monsters emerge.

Gameplays

Crafting and Magic

The game features an expansive recipe system. As you gain experience, you'll unlock more dwarves and better technology. Use your mana to cast spells like Fireballs to protect your tribe or Portals to speed up resource extraction. Mastering the balance between digging for treasure and building defenses is the key to conquering all four worlds.

Screenshot

Q&A

The worlds are filled with fantasy creatures like zombies, skeletons, goblins, beholders, and giant spiders.

You start with one dwarf and gain additional tribe members as your experience level increases through building and exploring.

Ratings & Reviews

A Little Unbalanced

Mon Oct 09 2017 Curt on

So this game is really fun but be warned it can be more tower defense than building and digging, which is what I thought it was since the title has the word crafting in it. I wish there was a way to turn off the portals because I quite enjoy the crafting aspect, and fighting creatures in the ground, etc. With the portals though I seem to be able to just barely survive enough to build up to a point where I can barely survive the next portal wave. Fall behind at all and g,bye crafting and gathering aspect, hello to getting ur but kicked every hour! Reading online, people tend to build underground but that takes away the creativity.

Great, Please i beg of you please keep going

Sun Nov 26 2017 Granspace

I love this game. Epic battle, large forts, challenging enemies. However, i still think that It could be worked on. First off, the lack of population is just sad. We need to. After level 12, get two dwarves per level, because a million xp is a worthy achievement any day. Second, we need more expansive world. Like a global map. A map of a continent, and on it are several spots where you select where you want to start a colony. Also, you should be able to have several, have trade, a religion, war, not raids, war, like 30 dwarves against 100 full grown orcs. Third, there must be a new type of level, called SIEGE, when your dwarves go and burn orc cities, and burn goblin coves. I also would like a form of religion and procreation, allowing bloodlines and possibly a way to crown someone king or governor of a colony. Now, this could take years, but I would suggest a series of installments over several years. Pick and choose if you will do this, but please, as a fan, please do this, then you can raise your price to 7 or 10 bucks, and if advertised, you could have tv adds and a lot of money. Yours truly, a fan Ps thanks for the Halloween stuff it really made my day

Sad, sad dwarf world...

Fri Oct 04 2019 CiriJaskolka

First of all, I find this game fascinating. Very few games have kept my interest as long as this one. I keep coming back, and replaying the campaign, and enjoying it still. Yeah, it would merit more than three stars. But...! The bugs are still there. The worst one probably the problem with the biomes. If i enter a biome, then for some reason jump out of the game because I don’t have a couple of hours to finish the biome goal, and the game happens to start up from the title screen, i lose all the biome progress. Sometimes this way i lose hours and get super frustrated. If there is something i can do about this, please let me know, because I cannot find a fix. Another bug - sometimes if my dwarves are in a middle of a fight, slowly dying, they try to escape but nowhere near sincerely enough. I even open up a few portals for them to get out and they just stand there looking scared and slowly die off. Also frustrating. It would be nice to see some fixes here and there. That’s why three stars. Potential for update and increase of the stars if a fix happens.

Huge, deep, and super fun

Tue Dec 17 2019 Is0chronous

I love this game. Not only is it one of the rare mobile games that doesn’t nickel-and-dime you for every little thing, it’s also one of the largest mobile games in scope I’ve ever played. Tons of tech levels, from basic weapons, traps, and decorations, to elaborate pillars and automated turret defense. Exploration, combat, mining, crafting, building, decorating... there’s just so much to do! If I had any complaints it’s that I wish there were a mode without the monster portals, and there needs to be more variety in the music. I’m really getting sick of hearing the same “night is coming” music every six and a half minutes. Also, rail needs to come earlier, because my tunnel system was HUGE by the time I got rails, and telling dwarves to do anything far away takes FOREVER unless you spam the portal spell.

Amazing, Can’t Play Campaign Though

Sat Aug 02 2025 Calypso 4VR

Have been playing this game for 11 years overall, and the mobile version since launch, and it’s an amazing time! I got all the DLCs since the updated version launched not too long ago and was anticipating playing with it all in the campaign, but not only is the Heroes DLC unavailable for purchase, but I can’t even access World 1: Land of New Hope, and thus can’t start my campaign. Other than that, playing custom games and the worlds on there shows the game itself works fine, just access to first Campaign level and the Heroes content. Please fix this as soon as possible! :,(

One of the best games I've played but you should add more

Sat Aug 05 2017 Vaportrail917

This game is really fun even better with the add ons but I think you should make a world that has every biome combined and have it be so you could choose what mode and you should add multiplayer and make like a giant world with different places you spawn but you can't use other people's stockpiles and stuff also I can't get a strong base the monsters tear though it mostly one time the catapult ore broke lots of my base it keeps saying the shelters borders been violated for some reason

A True Gem

Thu May 09 2019 Geldonyetich

Craft The World is probably about as close Dwarf Fortress will ever get to being accessible to the masses. Played on a two layer side view reminiscent of a terrarium, the game oozes a certain swarthy Scandinavian dwarven charm. It takes a little adaptation to understand the logic of the dwarves as they dutifully attempt to follow the commands of your every tap on the pane of this virtual ant farm. However, the overall experience is very well refined, bolstered by years of updates on a true labor of love. The game now languishes an unappreciated artifact of yesteryear but, if you like colony management games, prepare to be charmed.

Please add sandbox

Tue Dec 17 2019 Redhawk07

Not like the crafting one one where you have infinite dwarves which you can summon anytime anyplace with all the items in the game in your inventory and be able to place blocks by yourself otherwise the game is almost perfect and please make sure that the campaign portals don’t spawn near houses because one did and I lost all my stuff they broke through the walls and killed all my dwarves so I had to restart and also please make them less frequent because I have hardly any time to prepare for the next one