Comparison

Hamster Life vs Turtle World.

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

Head to head
About

Hamster Life

A free simulation game where you can easily and happily raise your own virtual hamster. Interact with your pet by feeding, touching, and playing with it. Decorate its home and watch its cute behaviors.

Highlights
  • Feed and touch your hamster
  • Decorate hamster's house
  • Play mini-games for coins
  • Collect different hamster looks
  • Add new hamsters
  • Participate in events
Features
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10 million downloads!This is a super healing free app game 「Hamster Life」,you can raise your hamster easily and happily. 「Hamster Life」is a free game app which can play with hamster and through with healing life. You can give food to it, touch its cute face. If hamster is full of foods it even take food home, there ara many of cute behavior you can see. Not only touch or give food to it,even if put the hamster to the wheels. Thera are hundreds of way to take care your hamster. Let's take care it everyday and found many kinds of look about it. *Now Start the game by dragging the hamster to the wheel! *You can save coins if you let hamster to play the facilities. ■How to play・How to raise the hamster *The way to take care hamster ・You could give food to it or touch it cute face. ・Press the hamster longly and you could move the hamster.You also can change your furniture or decoration. ・Double click screen, hamster will come to you! *How to save the coins ・If you touch hamster or give it food many times,EXP could be accumulated. ・If Hamsters are full of food,they will take foods back to house! ・If Hamster come near to water feeder,will start to drink water cutely! ・Use coin to add the mount of hamster, also can accumulate EXP easily. ・Thera still have other way to save coins, let's find it out! *The way to get cheeses Just take care you hamster,there will give coins when you level up. And take the hamster to walk around, there also will give you coin when you level up. *How to add new hamster Please click the hamster which on the top of screen.Then you can exchage or add new hamster. If you want to promote the stage level, you also can exchange by cheese. *How to change the decoration of house ・You can save coins and exchange furniture by coins in shop. ・After you bought new furniture or decoration, you can decorate it directly. *About take a walk It is very easy to play, just array three blocks with the same color vertically or Horizonally. Then you could get coin or cheese or hamsters. *About event According to your level, official side prepares many kinds of event. *About start page After you finish tutorial, you can choose home or walk mode. You can pass you life with hamster and free to decorate the house .

About

Turtle World.

Nurture and grow virtual sea turtles in a relaxing simulation game. Follow simple care routines like feeding and cleaning to ensure your turtle thrives. Enjoy a peaceful experience at your own pace.

Highlights
  • Name and raise virtual turtles
  • Feed turtles every 3 days
  • Clean water diligently
  • Grow turtles through interaction
  • Relaxing BGM and gameplay
  • Paced, casual progression
Features
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Relax with healing a turtle and BGM! Your mission is to name and raise turtle. There are only two rules ・ Feed once every 3 days ・ Clean the water diligently when in contact with turtle. It is a loose fluffy game that you can proceed at your own pace even if you are busy. The longer you spend in contact with the whale, the faster the turtle will grow. Also, please note that the turtle will die if left unattended. Grow your favorite turtle!

Screenshots

Hamster Life4 screens
Turtle World.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hamster Life at 4.6 against Turtle World.'s 2.0. Hamster Life also leads on ratings volume (746 vs 1). Turtle World.'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Hamster Life sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Turtle World. asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hamster Life holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hamster Life has 746 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Hamster Life's written reviews are positive against 92% of Turtle World.'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hamster Life ships an update every 3 months, Turtle World. every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Hamster Life versus Turtle World.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHamster LifeTurtle World.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (746 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews92.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings746 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size212 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCross Field Inc.Basement Apps, Inc.

Customer experience

Hamster Life

All ratings747 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews503 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral7.6%
Negative13.3%

Turtle World.

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.7%

User reviews

Hamster Life

From 746 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🐹 Cute hamsters
  • 👍 Fun and engaging gameplay
  • 🎨 Adorable art style
  • 🕹️ Enjoyable mini-games
  • 🏠 Ability to decorate and customize hamster habitat

Room to improve

  • 🧀 Difficult to earn in-game currency (cheese)
  • 🕰️ Slow progression and long wait times
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 📝 Poor grammar and translation issues
  • 🔍 Limited content and things to do after progressing

Turtle World.

From 1 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🐢 Cute turtles
  • 😌 Relaxing gameplay
  • ✨ Soothing visuals and music
  • 👍 Simple and easy to play
  • 💖 Adorable animations

Room to improve

  • 🚫 Game not in English
  • 😵 Inappropriate ads shown
  • 🖱️ Cannot click 'receive x2' button
  • ⚖️ Water quality drops quickly
  • 🐢 Can be difficult to raise

Bugs and requests

Hamster Life

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Stages sometimes crash before completion
  • Hamsters not always responding to feeding/cleaning requests
  • Inconsistent performance and loading issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to have more than 5 hamsters at a time
  • Faster breeding and growth of baby hamsters
  • More mini-games and activities to interact with hamsters
  • Option to watch ads to earn cheese instead of only through gameplay
  • Ability to save and restore progress across devices

Turtle World.

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Cannot click 'receive x2' button
  • Inappropriate ads are displayed

Requested features

3 requests
  • Change game language to English
  • Remove disturbing ads
  • Fix button for receiving rewards

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Hamster Life

One-time9
  • Cheese +13$0.99
  • StarterPack$0.99
  • Limited sale cheese +17$0.99
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  • Cheese +5, extra login bonus$1.99
  • Cheese +55$3.99
  • Cheese +110$6.99
  • Cheese +350$22.99
  • Cheese +640$39.99
  • Cheese +1100$49.99
None

Turtle World.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hamster Life free?
Hamster Life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Turtle World. free?
Turtle World. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hamster Life or Turtle World.?
Hamster Life is rated higher. Hamster Life averages 4.6 out of 5 from 746 ratings, while Turtle World. averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Hamster Life or Turtle World. have ads?
Both Hamster Life and Turtle World. show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hamster Life or Turtle World.?
Hamster Life ships an update every 3 months, and Turtle World. every 4 weeks. Most recently, Hamster Life was updated on October 26, 2026 and Turtle World. on October 25, 2026.

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