Food Evolution vs Penguin Merge Evolution
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Food Evolution
Combine foods to mutate them into bizarre forms and earn coins. This incremental clicker game features offline profits, tons of upgrades, and four distinct areas to explore. Discover new worlds and capture the planet by creating increasingly evolved foods.
- Combine foods to mutate
- Discover bizarre food forms
- Incremental clicker gameplay
- Offline coin generation
- Multiple areas to explore
- Numerous upgrades
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Combine foods to mutate them, discover their bizarre and exotic forms, and become rich! HIGHLIGHTS ◉ No pop up ads! We hate them as much as you do ◉ The ultimate incremental clicker game ◉ Tons of upgrades to get more foods faster ◉ Earn coins from your foods while offline ◉ Four different areas to discover ◉ Tons of crazy evolutions THE STORY Create tons of amazing foods in this cute evolution game. As you create more foods, you will discover new worlds and eventually capture the entire planet! OFFLINE PROFITS Your foods will generate coins while you are away, that you can use to evolve even more foods! You can even feed them cats! HOW TO PLAY Drag similar foods together to combine them and create new mysterious creatures Foods automatically earn coins but you can tap them to earn coins faster Use food coins to buy new foods and make even more money A VICIOUS CYCLE As you create more and more evolutions and mutations, your foods will generate even more coins for you! NO POP UP ADS What are you waiting for? Unlike many other evolution games, Food Evolution has no pop up ads! Download this game now and witness the best evolution ever!
Penguin Merge Evolution
Combine adorable penguins to evolve them into bizarre and exotic new forms. Tap to earn coins, buy more creatures, and discover different endings in this unique merge and clicker game.
- Combine similar penguins
- Evolve to discover new forms
- Earn penguin poop coins
- Buy new creatures
- Tap to make coins
- Discover different endings
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You may have heard that winter was coming. So brace yourselves! No continent shall remain immune to the Evolution virus. The last frontier has finally been breached: Penguin Evolution is here! After starring in several children movies and even learning how to tap dance, penguins finally found their place in the evolutionary chain. Combine penguins to evolve them and discover their most curious, exotic and bizarre forms! And they are so cute you could die! No, seriously. They are, like, 4 feet tall sometimes. And have very sharp beaks. So… I don’t know… I... I wouldn’t get too close to one if I were you. HOW TO PLAY • Drag and drop similar penguins to create new mysterious creatures • Use penguin poop coins to buy new creatures and make even more money • Alternatively, fiercely tap a penguin to make coins pop when penguins poop HIGHLIGHTS • Different stages and many penguin species to discover • A mind-blowing story yet untold • The unexpected mix of alpaca-like evolution, 2048 and incremental clicker games • Doodle-like illustrations • Various possible endings: find your destiny • No penguins were harmed in the making of this game, only developers This game is cooler than a popsicle! Come play it. Disclaimer: While this App is completely free to play, some additional content can be purchased for real money in-game. If you do not want to use this feature, please turn off in-app purchases in your device's settings. Like our page on Facebook and be the first to know about our upcoming games and updates! http://fb.com/tappshq
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Food Evolution at none against Penguin Merge Evolution's shown. Food Evolution also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Food Evolution sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Penguin Merge Evolution sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Food Evolution against 4.8 for Penguin Merge Evolution. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5.9K and 3.7K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Food Evolution's written reviews are positive against 93% of Penguin Merge Evolution's.
Food Evolution ships an update fortnightly, Penguin Merge Evolution every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Food Evolution | Penguin Merge Evolution |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5.9K ratings) | 4.8 (3.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.9% of reviews — better | 92.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.9K — better | 3.7K |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | +9 |
| Developer | Diced Pixel, LLC | TPG TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA |
Customer experience
Food Evolution
Penguin Merge Evolution
User reviews
Food Evolution
From 5.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Addictive and fun
- 👍 Cute and creative food designs
- 👍 Engaging food dialogues and stories
- 🚀 No ads or in-app purchases
Room to improve
- 🐛 Limited food dialogues and stories
- 🐛 Repetitive gameplay after completing all levels
- 🐛 Boxes getting stuck behind menu bar
Penguin Merge Evolution
From 3.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🐧 Cute and fun penguins
- 👍 Simple and addictive gameplay
- 💎 Ability to customize penguins
- 🎨 Variety of penguin types and evolutions
Room to improve
- 🔍 Repetitive gameplay
- 💰 Too many ads
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches (disappearing items, loading issues)
Bugs and requests
Food Evolution
Reported bugs
2 issues- Boxes getting stuck behind menu bar
- Inability to view previous food dialogues
Requested features
6 requests- More food dialogues and stories
- Ability to keep progress and money after reincarnating
- More mini-games and interactive features
- Ability to delete excess food
- More food types and evolution paths
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- Persistent animal/pet companion
Penguin Merge Evolution
Reported bugs
3 issues- Penguins losing customized items
- Frequent crashes and loading problems
- In-app purchases not working
Requested features
3 requests- More evolution games (e.g. bear, unicorn)
- Cloud save/sync functionality
- Reduce frequency of ads
In-app purchases
Food Evolution
- Coin Bag$0.99
Penguin Merge Evolution
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Hard Currency Pack 1$1.99
- pack with diamonds$1.99
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- Pack of Rubies$1.99
- Shop Bundle 1$2.99
- Hard Currency Pack 2$4.99
- big pack of rubies$5.99
- Shop Bundle 2$5.99
- Trinket$6.99
- Starter Bundle$9.99
Questions
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