Kittens Game vs Despotism 3k
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kittens Game
Manage a growing village of kittens in this text-based simulation game. Gather resources, research technologies, and expand your settlement. This old-school experience is free of ads and micro-transactions.
- Village simulation
- Resource management
- Technology research
- Text-based gameplay
- Kitten management
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Kittens Game is a village simulation text game. You manage a village of kittens as they acquire resources and unlock new technologies. This is an old school game and a product of many years of love and hard labor. It does not have any ads or micro-transactions.
Despotism 3k
Manage enslaved humans to extract power and build your empire in this dark humor resource management sim. Features rogue-lite elements with unique playthroughs and a dramatic plot filled with pop culture references.
- Dark humor and satirical plot
- Intense resource management
- Rogue-lite gameplay with random events
- Procedurally generated maps
- Unique playthroughs with permadeath
- Expedition and raid mechanics
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Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire! You’ll have to keep track of them to make sure they don’t succumb to exhaustion and hunger… although the weakest ones can always be thrown to the Bioreactor. In other words, this is a resource management sim with rogue-lite elements, dramatic plot, and an abundance of pop culture references. Also, jokes. Slaughter has never been so fun! Key features: 1) Humor as dark as your ex’s heart. Immerse yourself in the life of a merciless tyrant!! 2) Resource management on steroids. Think fast, to the point, and abandon pity! 3) Rogue-lite (Almost roguelike) Every walkthrough is unique due to randomly generated events. And every failure is fatal — you’ll have to start over! 4) Easy to learn, hard to master. It only takes a couple minutes to figure out the game’s mechanics, but using them optimally is no small feat! Core gameplay consists of transporting puny humans between various facilities using mechanical claws. They rest in one of the facilities and work in all the others. Puny humans are to produce energy for us (which is leaking constantly), they also have to reproduce and feed themselves. You need to plan your strategy and tactics in advance and track all your humans so that they don't die of exhaustion. The foremost roguelike element is that you can't save the game - you have to start from scratch every time. Besides that, a random event happens after every five feedings in the form of a text quest. A correct choice may provide some bonus, an incorrect one - well, you'll see! Many of the modifiers that you get due to the random events change the game's look significantly. In the second campaign besides resource management you get a totally new "raid" mechanic. Send your humans on expeditions around a procedurally generated map and earn resources without any limits. Come on, you have to find the Time Machine lost in the wastelands of 3k-land!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Kittens Game at free against Despotism 3k's paid. Kittens Game also leads on ratings volume (324 vs 32) and chart position (#96 vs unranked). Despotism 3k's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Kittens Game costs $2.99 and Despotism 3k $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Kittens Game against 4.4 for Despotism 3k. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kittens Game has 324 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Kittens Game's written reviews are positive against 71% of Despotism 3k's.
Kittens Game ships an update every 4 months, Despotism 3k every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Kittens Game | Despotism 3k |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (324 ratings) — better | 4.4 (32 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.9% of reviews | 71.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 324 — better | 32 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #96 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 202 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dmitrii Popov | Nikolai Kuznetsov |
Customer experience
Kittens Game
Despotism 3k
Bugs and requests
Kittens Game
Reported bugs
4 issues- Disappearing buttons and UI elements
- Progress loss or reset when switching apps
- Broken or non-functional features (e.g. solar farms)
- Compatibility issues on iPhone X and newer devices
Requested features
5 requests- Bulk crafting/upgrading options
- Ability to disable pollution mechanics
- Better UI optimization for larger screens
- Vibration/notification support for events
- More detailed analytics and tracking
Despotism 3k
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kittens Game
No in-app purchases
Despotism 3k
No in-app purchases
Questions
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