Tiny Alien vs Picnic Penguin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Alien
Embark on a fast-paced arcade adventure through space. Jump, shoot, and defeat an evil empire to reclaim sacred gems. Enjoy retro pixel graphics, power-ups, and challenging boss battles.
- Fast-paced arcade platforming
- Pixel graphics
- Power-ups
- Boss battles
- Unlockable characters
- Game Center leaderboards
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Jump and shoot your way through space! Can you defeat the evil empire and bring back the sacred gems? You are our only hope T I N Y A L I E N ! * Fast paced arcade platforming action! * Sweet pixel graphics! * Music by Boy vs Bacteria! * Power-ups! * Bosses! * Unlock different characters! * Haptic Feedback on supported devices! * Game Center Leaderboards & Achievements! Good Luck!
Picnic Penguin
Guide a penguin to push food items onto a picnic blanket by strategically moving blocks. Solve increasingly complex puzzles across multiple worlds, collect coins to unlock cosmetic skins, and enjoy a charming pixel art and low poly visual style with arcade-inspired music.
- Push multiple blocks simultaneously
- Rearrange blocks to clear paths
- Unlockable worlds and puzzles
- Coin collection for cosmetic skins
- Pixel art and 3D low poly graphics
- Arcade-inspired music
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It's picnic time! Help the penguin to push tasty treats onto the picnic blanket. In Picnic Penguin you can push multiple blocks at a time and rearrange them to open the path and complete the levels. Picnic Penguin is a real treat to enjoy in your spare time! Picnic Penguin features several worlds to unlock with a huge variation of puzzles to solve while finding coins to collect all the skins on the gashapon machine. Features: • Simple and addicting gameplay • Neat puzzles to solve • Multiple skins to unlock • Pixel art and 3D low poly graphics • Arcade inspired music!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tiny Alien at none against Picnic Penguin's shown. Tiny Alien also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). 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. Tiny Alien sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Picnic Penguin sells 4 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 — 4.2 for Tiny Alien against 4.4 for Picnic Penguin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 50 and 34 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Tiny Alien's written reviews are positive against 74% of Picnic Penguin's.
Tiny Alien ships an update fortnightly, Picnic Penguin every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Alien | Picnic Penguin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (50 ratings) | 4.4 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews — better | 74.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 months |
| 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 | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A Small Game AB | Gionathan Pesaresi |
Customer experience
Tiny Alien
Picnic Penguin
Bugs and requests
Tiny Alien
Reported bugs
7 issues- Glitch where aliens can't be stopped
- Cannot re-enable story mode
- Black screen after dying/restarting
- Bounce pads don't work sometimes
- Glitchy issues on iPad Air
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- First boss is too hard/impossible to dodge
- Green alien can't jump high enough for certain platforms
Requested features
9 requests- More levels/bosses
- Multiplayer mode
- Randomized boss encounters in endless mode
- Ability to re-enable story mode after beating
- More alien skins/characters to buy
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- Sensitivity change option
- More buttons/control options
- Bosses with scrollable screens
- Add power-ups for aliens
Picnic Penguin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tiny Alien
- Remove Ads!$0.99
Picnic Penguin
- Ice Pop Ticket$0.99
- Cheesecake Ticket$1.99
- Premium$2.99
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- Chicken Ticket$2.99
