Merchant vs Cat Wars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Merchant
Embark on a fantasy adventure where you manage a guild, send heroes on quests, and craft valuable items. Trade with customers, gather resources, and collaborate with friends in this unique RPG experience.
- Guild management
- Hero quests
- Item crafting
- Customer sales
- Resource gathering
- Online multiplayer
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Blending together traditional RPG systems, management mechanics, and a fantasy overworld, Merchant Guilds aims to reimagine the traditional mobile RPG. Play with your friends in a Guild as you send heroes on quests, craft equipment from your winnings, sell items to customers, and send workers out to gather more materials. Including online multiplayer functionality and developed by a team that is focused on this game for the foreseeable future
Cat Wars
Engage in a charming defense game where adorable cats evolve into powerful warriors. Collect artifacts, combine unique skills, and research advanced techniques to conquer dungeons and defeat enemies. Build your own cat civilization and lead them to victory.
- Cat evolution and upgrades
- Rare artifact collection
- Unique skill combinations
- Growth lab for research
- Dungeon conquest challenges
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Let's start a fiery war of the world's most trivial cats! We invite you to the most thrilling adventure in this world! "Cat Wars" is a charming defense game featuring adorable cats as the protagonists. Join the "Cat Wars" cats, each endowed with unique abilities! ▶ The Exhilarating Pleasure of Cat Evolution! Upgrade and evolve your cats into powerful warriors. Prepare to conquer the world with your very own civilization of cats! ▶ Become Stronger with Rare Artifact Collection! Collect various artifacts with unique abilities, and experience the joy of collecting and watching your feline friends grow stronger! ▶ Your Personal Skill Combination for Victory! Create a winning strategy by combining innovative skills to overwhelm your enemies. Unique skills will transform ordinary cats into legendary warriors! ▶ A Unique Growth Lab! Research your powerful techniques and maximize the potential of your cat warriors! Continuous research allows you to experience an ever-advancing civilization. ▶ Exciting Dungeon Conquests! Defeat monsters escaped from the lab and demons from hell to conquer dungeons and discover new treasures!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Merchant at 4.4 against Cat Wars's 3.3. Merchant also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (52 vs 3). Cat Wars's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (65% vs 50%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Merchant sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Cat Wars sells 17 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Merchant holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merchant has 52 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Merchant's written reviews are positive against 65% of Cat Wars's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Merchant ships an update every 2 weeks, Cat Wars every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Merchant | Cat Wars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (52 ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 64.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 410 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tyler Coleman | LAYERLAB |
Customer experience
Merchant
Cat Wars
In-app purchases
Merchant
- Extra Daily Challenge$0.99
- Extra Daily Challenge Upg #2$0.99
- Hero Slots Unlock$1.99
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- Additional Inventory Slots$1.99
- Second Inventory Upgrade$1.99
- Extra Crafting Slot$3.99
- Extra Hero Loadouts$9.99
- Ad Free Mode$9.99
- Unlock All Upgrades$29.99
- Unlock All Upgrades$34.99
Cat Wars
- Adventurer Package$0.99
- Newbie Welcome Package$0.99
- Pile Of Rubies$1.99
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- 2x Gold Booster$2.99
- Mastery Master Package$2.99
- Epic Artifact Package$3.99
- Dungeon Conquest Package$3.99
- Ruby Wallet$3.99
- Rare Artifact Package$3.99
- Era Pass 3$5.99
- Era Pass 2$5.99
- 2x Orb Booster$6.99
- Ad Removal Package$7.99
- Ruby Trophy$8.99
- 3x Gold Booster$9.99
- Ruby Bag$19.99
- Ruby Safe$36.99









