Comparison

Ultimate Lion Simulator vs Cougar Simulator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ultimate Lion Simulator

Experience life as a ferocious lion in a dangerous new world. Recruit, raise, and customize your pride, hunt for survival, and battle fierce enemies. Manage your lion's health, hunger, and energy while developing their skills and stats to become the ultimate predator.

Highlights
  • Realistic survival mechanics (health, hunger, thirst, energy)
  • Engaging combat with special attacks and pride commands
  • Build and manage a lion pride, including raising cubs
  • Extensive lion customization (name, gender, fur, color)
  • Level up lions to improve stats and unlock skills
  • Dynamic weather and day/night cycle
  • Massive 3D environment with diverse hunting grounds
Features
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Jump into a brand new adventure as a ferocious Lion! Brave a dangerous new world to claim your place at the top of the food chain! Recruit, raise, and customize your lions, hunt down prey to feed your pride, and battle for your life against fierce bosses like the deadly trio of Hyenas! Download the Ultimate Lion Simulator today while it's 50% OFF for a very limited time! Brand New Features REALISTIC SIMULATOR You'll need to maintain your health, hunger, thirst, and energy if you're going to survive in the wilderness! EPIC FIGHTS Wield razor sharp claws and a spine-tingling roar to strike fear into the heart of your foes! Deliver the killing blow by leaping through the air, hitting critical touch-based targets, and pouncing on your enemy! New touch-based commands let you order your pride to surround and attack enemies! Hunt at night with the new Night Vision! BUILD YOUR LION PRIDE Dominate other lions and recruit them to your pride! Play as any lion in your pride and create a powerful family of predators! Every lion now has health, stats, and rankings providing significantly more immersive gameplay! RAISE LION CUBS Breed baby lion cubs that will grow into powerful members of your pride! Carry them around in your mouth and even play as them to hunt tiny critters! CUSTOMIZE YOUR LIONS Choose your lion's name, gender, fur pattern, and even tint them any color of the rainbow to make the pride of your dreams! Reach Alpha status to unlock the heroic furs that show off your prowess as a lion! LEVEL UP YOUR LIONS Gain experience by defeating dangerous enemies, scavenging carcasses, and completing missions! Level up your lions to increase their health and attack damage, earn points to upgrade your lion’s statistics, and increase the size of your pride! EARN STAT POINTS Stat Points can be used to provide bonus’s to traits like Health, Critical Attack Chance, Run Speed, and much more! UPGRADEABLE BUFFS Buff Points can be used to upgrade your Roar and Growl Buffs, which create temporary Stat Boosting auras around your lion when active! UNLOCKABLE SKILLS Skill Points unlock and upgrade special abilities for your lions. Upgrade “Enhanced Senses” to go into a rage mode that doubles run and attack speed! RAGDOLL PHYSICS Your prey now realistically dangles from your mouth as you carry them! Clamp your jaws around the carcass of larger prey and drag them into a secluded area to chow down! DYNAMIC WEATHER AND DAY/NIGHT CYCLE Procedural weather system with unique storms, clouds, sunrise, sunset and celestial movement! MASSIVE REALISTIC 3D ENVIRONMENT Rule over an environment so big we had to create three unique dens for your lions to live in! Track your prey down in the vast grassy plains of the Golden Savannah, brave the dangerous Elephant Boneyard, or explore the rocky hills of the Stone Oasis! 25 UNIQUE SPECIES Hunt down animals like hyena, gazelle, impala, elephant, rhinoceros, snake, fish, flamingo, stork, mice, rat, crocodile, african dog, rabbit, water buffalo, wildebeest, giraffe, cheetah and of course lion! HD NEXT-GEN GRAPHICS From the thick mane and piercing eyes of your lion to the decaying bones of the Elephant Boneyard, everything looks so real you will forget you’re playing a game! OPTIONAL BLOOD EFFECTS If you are of age or have your parents permission, turn on the BRAND NEW blood effects for added combat ferocity! GLUTEN-FREE PROMISE With all of our games you will always get the full game with no ads or additional purchases! Download the Ultimate Lion Simulator to experience the exciting life of the most dominant predator in the Animal Kingdom, the fierce Lion! If you liked living as a Lion then you'll love our other animal simulators! Download our Ultimate Wolf Simulator and live a wild life in the forest, check out the Stray Cat Simulator and raise kittens in a crowded city! Give us a shout and let us know what you want to play next! facebook.com/glutenfreegames twitter.com/glutenfreegames

About

Cougar Simulator

Experience life as a big cat in this simulator. Hunt animals, customize your cougar's appearance, and build a family. Explore a vast open world, complete quests, and improve your cougar's skills to become stronger.

Highlights
  • Character customization
  • Family building and management
  • Character skill improvement
  • Hunting various animals
  • Open world exploration
  • Quest system
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Cougar goes hunting! In this simulator you will play for a big cat. You have to hunt animals and take care of your own family. Create your own cougar and go in search of adventure. A large location with forest, rivers, fields and farms is available for research. Hunt for animals, make a family, improve your cougar and your family members. Do different tasks and become stronger. Find out what it means to be a cougar in the new Cougar Simulator. CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION Customize the appearance of the cougar as you like. There are several skins to choose from. If desired, your pet may look like a panther, a jaguar, a cheetah, a leopard or another bright and beautiful big cat. You can adjust the magical glow of a cougar or add spots like a leopard to make the animal look even more impressive. For a more accurate setting, you can change: tail, eyes, ears, belly, neck, legs and back. Let your animal look the way you like. BIG CAT FAMILY You can create a family if you find another cougar. When you create a family and become an experienced cougar, you will be able to make babies. Your family can help you in combat and hunting. There is an opportunity to improve the characters of the family. To do this, it is necessary to hunt and collect food in order to feed the children and the wife (the husband, for the female character) in the future. IMPROVE CHARACTERS The game has the ability to improve the individual characteristics of family members and characteristics that affect all cougars in the family at once. Do not forget to improve the characters! Get experience doing tasks and hunting. After receiving a level, the character can spend it on points of attack, energy or life. There are also special skills that allow you to increase speed, collect more food, get more resources for actions in the game, etc. VARIOUS ANIMALS In your journey, you will meet many different creatures. For example, on the farm you can meet chicken, rooster, chicken, cow, goat, ram, sheep, cat, dog, pig, horse and, of course, people. In the forest, in addition to the peace-loving deer, wild boar, goat and sheep, you can meet dangerous predators - wolves, snakes and even a huge spider! But do not worry, brave cougar will cope with it! OPEN WORLD In this large open world, you can travel with your family along forests, farms, rivers and fields. QUESTS Take part in various tasks! All over the world you can find other big cats that need your help. You can perform various tasks in order to gain experience and coins for improvements. You have to hunt other animals, help to find, collect, plant, deliver, destroy different objects. In addition, some characters hold competitions of big cats! Do you want to know who is faster: a puma or a panther? Or to compete with cheetah, leopard, panther? Then you should try playing Cougar Simulator. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CyberGoldfinch Have fun in the Cougar Simulator: Big Cat Family Game!

Screenshots

Ultimate Lion Simulator4 screens
Cougar Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cougar Simulator at Free against Ultimate Lion Simulator's $0.99. Cougar Simulator also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 99 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.4). Ultimate Lion Simulator's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#60 vs unranked). On in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Cougar Simulator is free to download; Ultimate Lion Simulator costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cougar Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 364 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Ultimate Lion Simulator's written reviews are positive against 96% of Cougar Simulator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ultimate Lion Simulator ships an update every 99 months, Cougar Simulator every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Ultimate Lion Simulator versus Cougar Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate Lion SimulatorCougar Simulator
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (1.3K ratings)4.6 (364 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.2% of reviews96.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K — better364
Update frequencyEvery 99 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#60 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB197 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperGluten Free GamesSergei Zykov

Customer experience

Ultimate Lion Simulator

All ratings1,278 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral5.8%
Negative10.4%
Written reviews324 reviews
Positive85.2%
Neutral6.5%
Negative8.3%

Cougar Simulator

All ratings332 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral4.2%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.8%

User reviews

Ultimate Lion Simulator

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🦁 Realistic lion gameplay
  • 🐾 Ability to play as male or female lions
  • 🔍 Detailed graphics and environment
  • 🔑 No ads or in-app purchases
  • 🕹️ Fun pouncing and hunting mechanics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
  • 🤯 Laggy performance on some devices
  • 🔍 Limited customization options for lions
  • 🔒 Difficulty in bonding with and adding new lions to the pride
  • 🌍 Lack of dynamic weather and environmental effects

Cougar Simulator

From 364 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great game overall
  • 🤩 Fun and engaging gameplay
  • ❤️ Love the animal simulation
  • ✨ Realistic graphics
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family creation feature

Room to improve

  • 😠 Too many ads
  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🕹️ Uncomfortable controls
  • ⚠️ Random crashes
  • 🚶‍♂️ Difficulty turning

Bugs and requests

Ultimate Lion Simulator

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Screen turning black when entering the den
  • Prey and animals glitching through terrain
  • Difficulty in controlling the lion during sprinting
  • Inconsistent behavior of pride members

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to have multiple cubs and raise a family
  • More boss fights and challenging encounters
  • Multiplayer mode to interact with other players' prides
  • Wider variety of prey and animals to hunt
  • Improved den system with more functionality
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  • Warrior Cat or other animal-themed simulator games

Cougar Simulator

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Falling through the world
  • Getting stuck in the farm
  • Puma not running faster than jogging
  • Attacking the wrong animal
  • Customizations resetting
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  • Random crashing
  • Eyes changing size automatically
  • Game crashes when accepting missions
  • Game freezing when fighting

Requested features

27 requests
  • Change family skin/customization
  • Add more kittens
  • Show cougar pregnant/giving birth
  • Simulators for other animals (lions, eagles, crocodiles, snakes, parrots, panthers, penguins)
  • Grow cubs
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  • Add territories and enemy cougars
  • Change eye color
  • Take cubs with you
  • Add magic glow/spots for customization
  • Add multiplayer option
  • Add leaderboards
  • Add homes
  • Add family tree
  • Play as cubs
  • Climb mountains like a real cougar
  • See all camera views (front, side, back)
  • Zoom out/in
  • Make pregnant state more realistic (fatter)
  • Show birth process
  • Have more than one kitten at a time or choose kitten amount
  • Add more dangerous animals
  • Make cubs appear with spots
  • Make animals move faster (cougar speed)
  • Add magical abilities (ice, fire control)
  • Allow leaving babies anywhere
  • Make game more realistic
  • Add online/offline penguin simulator

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Lion Simulator

No in-app purchases

None

Cougar Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ultimate Lion Simulator free?
Ultimate Lion Simulator costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cougar Simulator free?
Cougar Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ultimate Lion Simulator or Cougar Simulator?
Cougar Simulator is rated higher. Ultimate Lion Simulator averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Cougar Simulator averages 4.6 from 364 ratings.
Do Ultimate Lion Simulator or Cougar Simulator have ads?
Cougar Simulator shows ads; Ultimate Lion Simulator does not.
Which is updated more often, Ultimate Lion Simulator or Cougar Simulator?
Ultimate Lion Simulator ships an update every 99 months, and Cougar Simulator every 5 months. Most recently, Ultimate Lion Simulator was updated on November 11, 2026 and Cougar Simulator on November 11, 2026.

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