Comparison

Algae Bloom Dynamics vs Egg Farm Tycoon

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

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About

Algae Bloom Dynamics

Experience algae blooms in augmented reality, learning about their causes and solutions in lakes and waterways. Explore animated 3D models of aquatic life and understand environmental threats from human activities and invasive species.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality environmental simulation
  • Learn about algae bloom causes
  • Explore aquatic life 3D models
  • Understand environmental threats
  • Global waterway focus
  • Educational game
Features
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Algae Bloom Dynamics (ABD) is an augmented reality art, science, and game simulation for experiencing how algae blooms occur, and where to find and fix their sources in lakes and waterways globally. Educate and inform people in an engaging augmented reality that is experienced in your own environment. Experience a clear-water lake that begins to have imbalances in phosphorus and nitrogen from human activities and threats from invasive species. Local, regional, and global threats are presented from: - agriculture - household waste - stormwater runoff - wastewater systems - road salt - invasive species - fossil fuels The project includes animated 3D models of: - Fish: Yellow Perch, Rainbow Smelt, and Bass - Zooplankton: Daphnia and Spiny Water Flea - Phytoplankton: Microcystis and Aphanocapsa - Mollusks: Zebra Mussels - Macroalgae: Nitella ABD is a project created by the Eco Resilience Global Games Research Group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The project is funded in part by the Jefferson Project. For more information, please see our website. Algae Bloom Dynamic AR: https://sites.google.com/view/algae-bloom-dynamics/algae-bloom-dynamics Eco Resilience Games: https://sites.google.com/view/eco-resilience/home Eco Resilience Games is creating virtual worlds that inspire us to preserve our actual ones. Whether we are enabling people to experientially see, hear and touch plankton in new ways in order to understand their vital importance to freshwater ecology, or making it possible to become a water droplet traveling through an entire watershed, we are using advanced game technology creatively to introduce people to new worlds, new perspectives, and new systems to help understand emerging environmental knowledge and the vital need to work together globally for a sustainable, eco resilient future.

About

Egg Farm Tycoon

Build and manage your own egg farm. Buy chickens, collect and sell eggs, and upgrade your facilities to increase profits. Hire workers and expand your operation to become a tycoon.

Highlights
  • Buy and manage chickens
  • Collect and sell eggs
  • Upgrade chicken quality
  • Hire farm workers
  • Expand your farm
Features
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You have a small egg farm. You need to buy chickens, let them go down, then carry out the egg to the truck, sell them to get income. You can continue to upgrade the quality of the chicken and make the eggs they produce more valuable. When you have accumulated enough money, you can buy new chickens to produce non-necessarily eggs. You can also hire workers to help you handle these things.

Screenshots

Algae Bloom Dynamics4 screens
Egg Farm Tycoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Algae Bloom Dynamics at 100% against Egg Farm Tycoon's 28%. Algae Bloom Dynamics also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Egg Farm Tycoon's advantage is ratings volume (968 vs 4). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Egg Farm Tycoon sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Algae Bloom Dynamics asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Algae Bloom Dynamics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Egg Farm Tycoon has 968 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Algae Bloom Dynamics's written reviews are positive against 28% of Egg Farm Tycoon's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Algae Bloom Dynamics versus Egg Farm Tycoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlgae Bloom DynamicsEgg Farm Tycoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.7 (968 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better27.8% of reviews
Number of ratings4968 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 months
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size470 MB177 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKathleen RuizSolid Games

Customer experience

Algae Bloom Dynamics

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Egg Farm Tycoon

All ratings968 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral3.9%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive27.8%
Neutral5.6%
Negative66.7%

Bugs and requests

Algae Bloom Dynamics

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Egg Farm Tycoon

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Ads prevent gameplay
  • Incorrect money display

Requested features

3 requests
  • More farms/levels
  • Reduce ads
  • Improve optimization

In-app purchases

None

Algae Bloom Dynamics

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Egg Farm Tycoon

One-time2
  • No Ads Lite$4.99
  • No Ads Plus$9.99

Questions

Is Algae Bloom Dynamics free?
Algae Bloom Dynamics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Egg Farm Tycoon free?
Egg Farm Tycoon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Algae Bloom Dynamics or Egg Farm Tycoon?
Algae Bloom Dynamics is rated higher. Algae Bloom Dynamics averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Egg Farm Tycoon averages 4.7 from 968 ratings.

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