Comparison

Tiny Derby vs Hero Cat War

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Derby

Race adorable critters in frantic challenges. Strategically place hazards and boosts to help the good guys win and hinder the bad guys across 120 levels and diverse environments.

Highlights
  • 120 levels
  • 4 environments
  • 7 unique bad guys
  • 5 hazard types
  • Strategic placement of boosts and hazards
Features
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"Everything is allowed to make them win!" Little critters compete in short and frantic races, and your role is to put hazards and boosts on the race track to hinder the bad guys and help out the good guys (the cute yellow ones). Good luck! FEATURES: • 120 levels spread over 4 different environments. • 7 special bad guys, each one featuring a unique game mechanic. • 5 types of hazards you can put on the race track.

About

Hero Cat War

Engage in intense battles against monsters and bosses as a powerful cat. Collect gold to upgrade your cat's abilities, choose from various power-ups, and strengthen skills by collecting orbs. Reset levels to experiment with different builds in this action RPG.

Highlights
  • Defeat monsters and bosses
  • Collect gold for upgrades
  • Choose power-ups when leveling up
  • Orb system to strengthen skills
  • Action RPG gameplay
  • Rogue-like upgrade merchant
Features
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A cat is fighting stronge monsters and bosses. Your goal is to defeat them and pass all levels. The cat can get many upgrades by collecting gold coins. When leveling up, you can choose a power from three candidates. This will help grow into a powerful cat. It's important to build your cat, with each upgrade will giveing you Attack, Crit Chance, Ammo, Retreat Distance or Max HP. Upgrading will also giveing you an orb. Collecting 3 identical orbs can greatly improves a skill, such as upgrading weapon, upgrading damage, upgrading critical damage. This action RPG game features intense battles, a Rogue-like upgrade merchant, an excellent orb strengthening system, and upgradable weapons. Every 5 levels passed, the monsters will become stronger and the level becomes more challenging to pass. Addictionally, you can reset the levels to make a cat of different builds. #How to control L/R button to move. Or use the joystick to move. Jump button to jump. Fire button to fires bullets. It's relaxing and addictive to fighting in this world, you will find a lot of challengings in the game. Have a fun!

Screenshots

Tiny Derby3 screens
Hero Cat War4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tiny Derby at 89% against Hero Cat War's 50%. Tiny Derby also leads on ads (none vs shown). Hero Cat War's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tiny Derby sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Hero Cat War asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Derby ships an update every 5 months, Hero Cat War every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tiny Derby versus Hero Cat War: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny DerbyHero Cat War
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.3 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.5% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size428 MB38 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTriple Boris inc.境 饶

Customer experience

Tiny Derby

Written reviews19 reviews
Positive89.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.5%

Hero Cat War

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tiny Derby

One-time2
  • Episode 2$1.99
  • Episode 4$1.99
None

Hero Cat War

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tiny Derby free?
Tiny Derby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hero Cat War free?
Hero Cat War is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tiny Derby or Hero Cat War have ads?
Hero Cat War shows ads; Tiny Derby does not.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Derby or Hero Cat War?
Tiny Derby ships an update every 5 months, and Hero Cat War every 7 months. Most recently, Tiny Derby was updated on October 9, 2026 and Hero Cat War on September 24, 2026.

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