# Toca Nature — Experience nature’s magic

> Create and explore a dynamic, interactive natural environment. (iPhone/iPad app by Toca Boca AB.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toca-nature/id893927401 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Toca Boca AB](https://appshunter.io/developer/419103351)
- Category: Education, Entertainment
- Price: $4.99
- Rating: 4.30/5 from 628 App Store ratings · 20 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 127 MB
- Languages: Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål and 8 more
- Released: 2014-11-13
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toca-nature/id893927401/reviews.md

## What is Toca Nature?

*App Store Best of 2014*

Nature is magic. Toca Nature delivers that magic to your fingertips.

Shape nature and watch it develop. Plant trees and grow a forest. Raise a mountain and enjoy the view. Collect berries, mushrooms or nuts, and feed the different animals. Learn who eats what and discover how much it takes to winkle a bear out. Walk through different landscapes and become friends with a fox. Capture the moment of woodpeckers zigzagging between trees, and watch the day turn into night.

Find new friends and challenges. Be mesmerized.

Discover the unexpected. End up somewhere far from where you started.

Let us show you the magic of nature!


***

ABOUT TOCA BOCA
At Toca Boca, we believe in the power of play to spark kids’ imaginations and help them learn about the world. We design our products from the kids' perspective to empower kids to be playful, to be creative and to be who they want to be. Our products include award-winning apps that have been downloaded more than 250 million times and offer fun, safe, open-ended play experiences. Learn more about Toca Boca and our products at tocaboca.com.

PRIVACY POLICY
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## Key features

- Shape landscapes
- Plant trees and grow forests
- Raise mountains
- Collect and feed animals
- Observe day/night cycles
- Discover new friends and challenges

## What do users think of Toca Nature?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🎨 Beautiful, unique blocky graphics and visual design
- 😌 Relaxing and calming gameplay experience
- 🌳 Creative world-building with terrain customization
- 🐾 Engaging animal observation and interaction mechanics
- 🎵 Soothing music and ambient sound design
- 💰 No in-app purchases or paywalls
- 🎮 Simple, intuitive gameplay suitable for all ages
- 🌍 Diverse environments (forests, mountains, water features)
- 🧩 Unique tree-to-animal spawning system

**Cons**

- 🎮 Awkward camera controls and limited view angles
- 💾 Progress doesn't save when closing the app
- 📦 Limited world space for building
- 🐛 Animal spawning rates decreased in recent updates
- ⏱️ Tedious food collection and individual animal feeding
- 🎯 Limited animal variety
- 💵 Price point ($5) may be high for simplicity level
- 🔍 Difficulty finding spawned animals (birds, owls)
- 🌐 Single world/environment at a time

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Game progress not saving after closing app
- Animal spawning rates significantly reduced in recent updates
- Spawned animals difficult to locate visually
- Camera unable to look upward or sideways easily

**Most requested features**

- Save multiple worlds/game slots
- Improved camera controls (look up, side-to-side, drag-based)
- More animals (lions, sharks, birds of prey, arctic foxes, frogs, bobcats, monkeys, jaguars, bats)
- Different environment types (jungle, desert, savanna, tropical, grassland, arctic)
- Avatar creation and customization system
- Baby animals and nesting mechanics
- Seasons and weather changes
- Expanded world/land space
- Carnivore-specific food (meat for wolves, foxes, bears)
- Animal hunting/predator mechanics
- Animal breeding system
- Stat tracking and animal information panels
- Adventure/story mode with pre-made worlds
- Villages and human NPCs (campers, explorers)
- Underwater version or aquatic environments
- Custom tree and animal creation
- Improved animal exploration behavior
- Multiple difficulty/world size options

## Recent user reviews (10 of 20)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toca-nature/id893927401/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Very good good game!

*2023-02-27*

I like this game very much but what I don’t really like about it is that I mean it’s cool that you can go down and look at the animals close up we have like deer foxes these little badgers but what you need to do what I don’t really like about it is that you can go down and you can like go throughout the forest and you can find food for the animals but it’s very hard to find it but you can put like trees for like the animals to live like there’s like a bird tree that kind of stuff and you can like put like hills and you can make them go down into like a lake and very good game I’m very obsessed with it!

### 3/5 — Okay, so…

*2022-11-14*

It’s a great app alright, and when I was 4 using my moms shared kindle I would’ve given this a 5 star review. But it has updated and changed for the worst since then. A update I found when I bought it for a little nostalgic kick was it doesn’t save your progress anymore when you close it out. Another is when I was younger 3-4 trees you’d get 2-3 animals example birds. Now lets say updated after years you put 3-4 trees and theres no birds. So you put 5 and then 6 and hear a tweet and its the only animal so you go looking but, only 1 bird? Now you have to spawn 6 more trees that take up alot of space from limited space to grow, here what I’m saying? Point is if there was updates to fix and reverse I would reinstall it. But it is probably not worth your money unless you have a toddler who couldn’t care less.

### 5/5 — Played it, forgot it, found it again, love it.

*2022-04-20*

Okay. I used to play this game literally all the time even though I am way above the age range set. I remember I used to make the whole world either a mountain or make a big giant forest. I completely forgot about it until I remembered it a few years ago. I didn’t remember the name of the app, or that it was a Toca app. Then, I was casually scrolling through the app store and I saw Toca blocks, which just so happens to be one of my favorite games. I decided to go through more Toca apps and I saw a bundle I had purchased a while ago. I looked at the apps and all of them had been deleted from my phone because I didn’t use them for a while. But I could re download them using my  iCloud account. Then I saw this app. I didn’t remember what it was so I looked at it. One glance at that video gave me bursts of nostalgia. This is probably one of my favorite games even though it is pretty old, and I think you should either keep developing it or make a new nature app like you have with the Toca life series and the hair salon series. This is a crazy idea my brain had because I love this app, but I think, seeing all the good reviews on this app, it might not be to crazy.

### 5/5 — LOVE GAME

*2021-10-07*

Some suggestions, I’ve been playing for years and I love the game but, it’s too kiddish. I’m a teen, and I still love playing Toca Licensed games. 
#1: It would be kinda fun if you expand the landscape. Reason why is bc its a pain when your trying to look or take a pic of something. #2: it would be really fun if you make your own avatar (like Toca World) Then, you could chop down trees and make your own cabin in your woods and still watch animals.
#3: Make it kinda like Animal Crossing/Minecraft. Now, that would be fun. 
Just things that I would love to see thanks for listening 🌟🙂🌟

### 4/5 — AMAZING*                             *(Apart from a couple things)

*2021-05-25, version 1.0.6*

Ok so I have been playing this game for YEARS and I am obsessed with it. I love how you can get close and personal on animals and create their homes in whichever way you want; you can make islands for the animals to live on, you can put them on mountains, or you can do mix, something like an enormous forest with a beautiful lake and a small mountain near it. But I think it’s a pain to get all the food for the animals and feed it to them individually, so I think it would be awesome if the foxes and wolves could hunt other prey animals. And also, I think it would be cool if you could add more animals like lions and sharks and birds of prey and like for lions you could add a savanna environment, and birds of prey could live in super high trees, and I was thinking maybe there could be a jungle option with monkeys or jaguars. These are all just my suggestions, so do what you devs want! I’ll be a fan either way. 
And maybe the animals could be more willing to explore beyond their own territory. And (I bet others have been asking you guys for this too) lots more land space. And maybe you could have save files so that people could have multiple environments at the same time and not have to remake it every time they leave the game. And maybe there could be weather changes along with the night and day thing that’s already been done. Alright, probably the time for me to zip it 🤐! Heh, sorry for keeping you.

### 5/5 — I enjoy this game a lot! Few suggestions though!

*2021-04-14*

This is a great toca boca app, and it's fun to play! I have a few suggestions though! Maybe adding stats (like your animals when you click on them have their level maybe, or if the need food or water our stuff like that, and maybe the higher the level the more bigger it is, which you kinda have, because when you feed the animals they grow bigger and show when their hungry with a little thought bubble, but maybe a stats bar where you can see all of that info and more) 
Also, 
Maybe adding the option to save worlds and have a variety of worlds you built earlier to play and change. Because right now you can only build one world at a time. 
That's pretty much it, as far as suggestions. 
This is app is very fun. My favorite thing about it is getting to watch the animals explore their environment and that you can make that environment. I also love that you can make different versions of an animal (like how you can make a polar bear by growing its type of tree on a mountain or along with the regular bear) and how you get to build different habitats such as rivers, ponds, forests, mountains, and more! 
This is a great app, recommend for all!

### 3/5 — Fun but...

*2021-03-01*

This game is super relaxing and pretty. The concept is awesome. It’s just lacking in some areas. First, the controls are hard and it can get annoying. You can’t look up, and you can’t look side to side easily. I think it would be much more fun if the controls were more simple. For example, dragging your finger up would make you look up, dragging your finger down would make you look down, and to look side to side, drag your finger from side to side. To go forward you would just have to press and hold. Second, it would be awesome if there was more than just one world or plot of land for you to shape. You could make like three different ones that came with different animals, plants, and foods. For example, one could be forest, one could be tropical, and one could be grassland or mountain. I hope you consider making some of these changes. I think they would make the game much more fun, calming, and engaging.

### 5/5 — Great app! But I have some suggestions.

*2020-10-13*

So I have been a long life Toca fan, and this is my personal favorite. I love making landscapes and I even made a signature area that I call "Snow City" The only annoying thing is that I have to remake it every single time, it can get tedious and repetitive. So I was wondering if you could save files so if you really like the certain area that you made you wouldn’t have to keep on remaking it over and over again. Another suggestion that I would absolutely love to see is arctic foxes, polar bears exist when you put the trees on a snowy area and I’ve done the same with the foxes and they’re still normal. I was really disappointed because arctic foxes are one my favorite animals and I would love to see them in this game. Another suggestion, I would love to see caves and bats come to this game, bats are one of my favorite animals as well and it would add to the landscape. Thank you for reading my review. I would love to see these things added to the game it was really improve the experience for me, see you later!

Edit: I would hate to see avatars because it would ruin the rich forests, and mountains for me. It would be terrible but I would like to see you be able to create your own kind of tree and animal, colors, and all of that.

Edit: The no arctic fox thing was just a bug. So never mind about that. Please consider adding other things though, thanks!

-A Toca Lover

### 5/5 — So relaxing!

*2020-07-04*

I love toca life games, so I went looking for other types of toca boca games. I found toca nature and I downloaded it immediately. It’s so soothing and the music is beautiful. It’s the kind of game that makes you wanna go camping, hike up a mountain, learn about the wilderness. Maybe just a bigger world, more animals, and more food to work with. No complaints though. Oh another suggestion: maybe you could get slots to save your world because every time you go offline for about an hour, your world deletes and you have to start over. I hear owls and crickets at night, but where are they? But besides that nothing needs to be said about this game except the fact that it’s a great work of art and you worked very hard on it!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

### 5/5 — Great game but some other ideas

*2019-12-08*

I already love this game the way it is, it’s such a relaxing and peaceful game. But I think you should add more types of animals, and adding baby animals and baby birds in nests could be really cute. I also think that it could be interesting to have seasons, but still always snowy on the mountains of course. But most of all I think we should be able to give pieces of meat to the more carnivorous animals like wolves and foxes, and maybe bears. Wolves wouldn’t really eat fish in the mountains, so I think it would make a lot more sense to be able to give them pieces of meat instead. I’d really appreciate if you’d at least consider these ideas a little bit. Thank you! (Also I do not like the idea of having an avatar, I think it’s much better as it is without including humans in it. It’s so much more about the wildlife and nature that way. I think it would ruin the game to add an avatar.)

## Frequently asked questions about Toca Nature

### What does Toca Nature do?

Toca Nature allows users to shape and grow their own natural world. You can plant trees to create forests, raise mountains, and observe the environment as it develops. The app focuses on interactive exploration and discovery within a magical natural setting.

### What are the key features of Toca Nature?

Key features include shaping landscapes, planting trees to grow forests, raising mountains, collecting food like berries and nuts, feeding various animals, and observing the transition from day to night. Users can also discover new friends and unexpected challenges within the game.

### How much does Toca Nature cost?

Based on the provided information, Toca Nature is a paid application. There are no mentions of in-app purchases or advertisements, indicating a one-time purchase model.

### What kind of devices is Toca Nature compatible with?

While specific device compatibility isn't detailed, Toca Boca apps are generally designed for mobile devices. Users can typically find it on the App Store for iOS devices and the Google Play Store for Android devices.

### What are some common use cases for Toca Nature?

Toca Nature is ideal for children and families looking for a creative and educational play experience. It's used for imaginative world-building, learning about animal habitats and diets in a fun way, and simply enjoying a peaceful, interactive nature simulation.

## Version history (last 1 release)

### 2.1 — 2022-03-11

Bug fixes :)

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