Comparison

Morphy! vs The Pack

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

Head to head
About

Morphy!

Embark on an adventure to find a lost alien crew on a strange planet. Discover creatures with helpful external traits to aid survival and repair a spaceship. This life science game teaches about animal structures and their functions for survival and behavior.

Highlights
  • Locate missing alien crew members
  • Discover creatures with survival traits
  • Learn about animal external structures
  • Three saved game profiles
  • Robot sidekick for tips
  • Printable/savable images
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Morphy and his fellow alien crew have crash-landed on a foreign planet! His crewmembers evacuated at different times and are now missing. Help Morphy locate the crewmembers so that they can repair their spaceship. Beware! Morphy can’t survive this planet on his own. Along the way, Morphy will meet creatures with external traits that will help him survive this strange new world. Guide Morphy throughout this journey to save the missing crew! Download Morphy today! From the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Morphy! is a life science game that teaches players that animals have external structures that function to support survival and behavior. FEATURES - Up to three saved game profiles can be stored on one device - Learn about how different animals use their features for survival - Definitions that can be accessed anytime - A robot sidekick provides tips throughout gameplay - Designed for exploration and experimentation - Customizable images to print out or save to your device - For use in the classroom or at home - Aligned to national science standards for fourth grade but great for students of any age - Audio and text interplay

About

The Pack

Embark on an open-world puzzle and survival adventure to restore a barren future world. Gather a "Pack" of creatures with unique skills to solve environmental challenges, replenish water sources, and find seeds. Master algorithmic sequences to bring balance back to the land.

Highlights
  • Open-world exploration
  • Puzzle-solving challenges
  • Survival mechanics
  • Creature collection and management
  • Algorithmic sequencing
  • Ecological restoration theme
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Help restore the world to an ecologically balanced state in this open-world puzzle and survival game – while learning some computational thinking along the way! The Pack is set in Algos, a future world where healthy ecosystems have faltered, water and food are scarce, and it’s up to you and your Pack to help fix the environment.   You find yourself waking up in a barren land where the only way to bring balanced life back is to replenish water sources and find varied seeds that are scattered all over the world! You can’t do it alone, and can’t stray too far from water, so you and a “Pack” of helpful creatures set out on an adventure across Algos.   Throughout the game, you must find food sources to attract your own Pack made of local Algos creatures with special skills that will help you in your new environment. These creatures have functions like digging, moving, holding, grabbing and bumping, skills that will help you collect seeds and bring water to dry areas. When your Pack has more than one type of creature, you can combine them in a sequence (also known as an algorithm) to perform complex tasks and overcome challenges. Learning and mastering how to use these algorithms is the key to finding all of the seeds and restoring harmony to Algos!   This project was supported by the JPB Foundation. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1543144. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.   The Pack is a science and math-based game created by the New York Hall of Science. The game encourages problem-solving and computational thinking as well as enforces basic coding principles. Educational guidelines are available to download free from our website.

Screenshots

The Pack4 screens

Verdict

The call

Morphy! and The Pack both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 90% of Morphy!'s written reviews are positive against 66% of The Pack's. Morphy! also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.0). The Pack's advantage is ratings volume (77 vs 12) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Morphy! holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Pack has 77 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Morphy!'s written reviews are positive against 66% of The Pack's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Morphy! ships an update every 2 months, The Pack every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Morphy! versus The Pack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMorphy!The Pack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (12 ratings) — better4.2 (77 ratings)
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews — better65.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1277 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size491 MB316 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSmithsonian InstitutionNew York Hall of Science

Customer experience

Morphy!

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

The Pack

All ratings77 ratings
Positive75.3%
Neutral11.7%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive65.6%
Neutral15.6%
Negative18.8%

In-app purchases

None

Morphy!

No in-app purchases

None

The Pack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Morphy! free?
Morphy! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Pack free?
The Pack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Morphy! or The Pack?
Morphy! is rated higher. Morphy! averages 4.3 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while The Pack averages 4.2 from 77 ratings.
Do Morphy! or The Pack have ads?
Neither Morphy! nor The Pack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Morphy! or The Pack?
Morphy! ships an update every 2 months, and The Pack every 6 months. Most recently, Morphy! was updated on October 24, 2026 and The Pack on October 29, 2026.

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