Tortoise Pet vs Playing with Puffer fish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tortoise Pet
Simulate the growth of a virtual tortoise. Easily care for your pet by feeding it every four days and cleaning its habitat weekly. Watch your small tortoise grow larger over time in this engaging simulation.
- Grow a virtual tortoise
- Real-time growth tracking
- Easy operation
- Simple feeding schedule
- Weekly habitat cleaning
- Watch tortoise grow daily
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This is the best tortoise app. - You can grow a tortoise. - You can know growth of tortoise in real time. - Operation is very easy! Care is very easy. You should feed tortoise once every four days, and clean up only once a week. Tortoise is very small at first, but it will grow bigger little by little every day. Enjoy the growth of tortoise in your daily life!
Playing with Puffer fish
Interact with adorable pufferfish by touching them on screen. Improve their mood by playing and feeding them. Earn points to unlock new backgrounds and watch your pufferfish grow over time.
- Interactive pufferfish gameplay
- Mood management system
- Feeding mechanics
- Unlockable background images
- Pufferfish growth over time
- Ad-supported gameplay
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An app that can be raised to be able to touch cute Puffer fish. Let's heal with a cute Puffer fish. ■ By sliding the screen you can play with Puffer fish in the sense that you put your finger in the water. When playing with Puffer fish "Mood" goes up. When the "mood" is low, it swells and bulges. ■ When "mood" is bad, Puffer fish does not eat food. Let's give food after touching and improving "mood". Feeding can be given with a sense that actually feeds food with tweezers. Drag tweezers and you want Puffer fish to feed I will rush but I will give you a point You can get at high speed. Sometimes I threw a rush, Let's feed with Puffer fish while playing points. ■ You can get the background image at the point you did. Puffer fish will grow day by day even when you exit the application so let's enjoy it while enjoying it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tortoise Pet at 4.5 against Playing with Puffer fish's 4.2. Tortoise Pet also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 63%) and ratings volume (145 vs 18). Playing with Puffer fish's advantage is update cadence (every 15 months vs every 63 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tortoise Pet holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tortoise Pet has 145 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Tortoise Pet's written reviews are positive against 63% of Playing with Puffer fish's.
Tortoise Pet ships an update every 63 months, Playing with Puffer fish every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tortoise Pet | Playing with Puffer fish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (145 ratings) — better | 4.2 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.5% of reviews — better | 63.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 145 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 63 months | Every 15 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hiroki Yamada | Yamabus |
Customer experience
Tortoise Pet
Playing with Puffer fish
In-app purchases
Tortoise Pet
No in-app purchases
Playing with Puffer fish
No in-app purchases
Questions
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