Survival Simulator vs Species evolution
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Survival Simulator
Immerse yourself in a hostile forest environment filled with dangerous animals and other players. Gather resources, craft tools and weapons, build a camp, and defend yourself to survive. Will you go it alone or form alliances to overcome the challenges?
- Multiplayer servers
- Realistic graphics
- Variety of tools and weapons
- Resource gathering
- Hunting animals
- Building and crafting
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Survival Simulator puts you in the forest full of weird animals and players - mostly hostile and ruthless. Exploit environment, place a camp, gather resources for crafting, defend yourself, improve your weapons and tools. Could you survive in the place where everybody wants you to die? High time to check it out! Key features: - Multiplayer. Create your own server or join another one. Make everything on your own or build a like-minded team. It is up to you to decide. Since the goal is to survive. Whatever the way. - Realistic graphics. Feel the pure survival game. Be ready to face many challenges. Plus the other players you will encounter will make it really difficult. - Variety of tools and weapons. - Gathering resources (logs, stone, ore) - Hunting animals - Building and crafting systems.
Species evolution
Develop and evolve your own creatures in a 3D life simulator. Choose between predator or herbivore paths, upgrade creature characteristics, and manage your species' survival and population growth in various game modes.
- Creature evolution and development
- Survival and sandbox modes
- Predator vs. Herbivore choices
- Upgrade creature characteristics
- Artificial intelligence for creature behavior
- Population management
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Species Evolution: Artificial Grow Life Simulator 3D is a game where you develop your creatures either in survival mode or in sandbox mode. Choose whose side you are on: Herbivores vs Predators If you want - make your kind a fast predator, let your creatures eat their rivals. Or make your creatures huge herbivores that will resist any predator. They will act without your help, they use their artificial intelligence. Species Evolution is in your hands. - Get Evolution Points! Earn EP and distribute evolution life points wisely. It is your main resource for adapting your species evolution to the circumstances of the world. - Upgrade the characteristics of creatures What will be more important at the moment? - Speed - Energy - Sensitivity - Size Improve the characteristics so that your species can successfully survive in a hostile environment. And they can only rely on their artificial intelligence. Even better — so that the number of creatures constantly increases. Like in real Grow Life Simulator 3D. - Survival mode In this mode you will fight for food, evolution life and a place in the sun with 2 more types of creatures. For each newborn creature, you will earn evolution life points and spend them on characteristics. And periodically you will be faced with a choice that will change the development of the whole species evolution — to become a predator or herbivore; have unique properties or stay with what we have now. Your choice will depend on how your enemies are developing. - Sandbox mode In this Grow Life Simulator 3D you have complete freedom of activity that rely on their artificial intelligence — at the end of each day, you can change the characteristics of your creatures and watch how this affects the population of the species. What could be more interesting? - Primer Research We all love the blogger Primer for his research on the effect of various characteristics on the survival of a species. Now you have the opportunity not only to watch his video, but also to stage experiments yourself in Grow Life Simulator. Create a supportive environment Become the master of your own evolution life. Take care of your charges. The fate of the whole species evolution is in your hands! Keep track of birth rate, control hunger, survive! Help a new life form conquer this planet
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Survival Simulator at 3.6 against Species evolution's 2.7. Survival Simulator also leads on ratings volume (2.1K vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Survival Simulator sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Species evolution sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Survival Simulator holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Survival Simulator has 2.1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Survival Simulator ships an update every 8 months, Species evolution every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Survival Simulator | Species evolution |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (2.1K ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| 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 | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 163 MB | 168 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HYPERHUG LTD | Maksim Kenin |
Customer experience
Survival Simulator
Species evolution
Bugs and requests
Survival Simulator
Reported bugs
5 issues- Items disappearing when leaving server
- Bases and progress not saving
- Glitches causing freezing and crashes
- Hackers and cheaters ruining gameplay
- Disappearing crafted items and resources
Requested features
10 requests- Add ability to save progress and bases
- Implement anti-cheat system
- Add more crafting options and items
- Introduce different worlds/maps to explore
- Add ability to split stacks of items
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- Implement sleeping to skip night
- Add more animals and resources
- Introduce vehicle and transportation options
- Add base upgrades and customization
- Implement lockable doors and chests
Species evolution
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Survival Simulator
- 10 coins$1.99
- 25 coins$3.99
- No Ads$4.99
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- 150 coins$20.99
- 525 coins$59.99
- 1200 coins$99.99
Species evolution
- Disable ads$1.99
- Unlock sandbox$1.99
Questions
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