Magic School Story vs AlienFarms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magic School Story
Design and manage your own magical academy. Expand facilities, upgrade classes, and enroll students. Engage in quests, adventures, and mini-games to gather resources and progress.
- Build and customize a magic school
- Upgrade various classes and facilities
- Enroll and graduate students
- Play match-3 for materials
- Go on quests and adventures
- Cast magic for coins
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Ever wanted to build and manage a magic school? Expand your school and upgrade classes. Enrol new students and watch them graduate. Do quests, fight dragons in adventures, go mining, and play match-3 to gather materials! Play with friends to help each other out! FEATURES - Build and customise your own dream magical school from the ground up! - Lots of classes, facilities and decos at your fingertips! Elements, Potions, Broom Flying, Totems, Kage Bunshin, take your pick! Upgrade them to change their looks, stats and effects! - Enrol new special students and watch them progress from new freshies into powerful professors after graduation! - Play match-3 to gather materials and upgrade your classes! - Cast magic on your school and earn loads of coins! - Go on quests and adventures to earn more resources! Contact us at ashley@happylabsfree.com if you need help! OTHER GREAT STUFF - Deco your magic school at your own pace offline - Backup your game using iCloud so that you won't lose it when you change devices - Available in English, Bahasa Indonesia, 中文, 日本語, ไทย, 한국어. - Remember to write a review to support us! This game is free to play but might include In-App Purchase. Please turn this off in device settings if you do not wish to use this feature. EULA : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy : https://jeffreychee.github.io/happylabs/PrivacyPolicySubscriptionOnly.html
AlienFarms
A relaxed farming simulation game focused on planting and breeding. Automate tasks with various tools and experience dynamic weather and day/night cycles. Enjoy intuitive controls for movement and camera.
- Automated farming tools
- Planting and breeding mechanics
- Dynamic weather and day/night cycles
- Intuitive joystick controls
- Adjustable camera perspective
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The game features a variety of flora and fauna; you can restore stamina by harvesting them, or by picking up apples. If you prefer not to farm manually, you can automate cultivation using seeders, sprinklers, harvesters, and transporters. Features day and night cycles, sunny and rainy weather, as well as snowy winters. Flora and fauna only grow while the game is running. The game autosaves every 1 minute. You can save manually at the door of the house. The screen is evenly divided into four buttons: 1. Top-left corner: Toggle sound button (On/Off). 2. Bottom-left corner: Joystick for character movement. 3. Top-right corner: Joystick for camera perspective control. 4. Bottom-right corner: Action button.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AlienFarms at 100% against Magic School Story's 54%. AlienFarms also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Magic School Story's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 25 months). On ads and device support 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
Magic School Story is free to download; AlienFarms costs $4.99 up front. Magic School Story sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. AlienFarms asks for nothing beyond the download.
AlienFarms holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic School Story has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Magic School Story's written reviews are positive against 100% of AlienFarms's.
Magic School Story ships an update monthly, AlienFarms every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Magic School Story | AlienFarms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Happy Labs Pte Ltd | 钊恒 郑 |
Customer experience
Magic School Story
AlienFarms
In-app purchases
Magic School Story
- VIP$0.991 Month
AlienFarms
No in-app purchases
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