Comparison

Slime Evolutionary Path vs Wasteland Orchard

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

Head to head
About

Slime Evolutionary Path

Evolve your slime through multiple paths, collecting coins and experience even when offline. Engage in automatic battles, enhance your slime with equipment enchantments and extra skills to defeat powerful enemies in this casual idle game.

Highlights
  • Multiple slime evolution paths
  • Offline coin and XP generation
  • Automatic battles
  • Equipment enchantments
  • Extra skills for slime enhancement
  • Ten evolution stages
Features
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An indie game created by only 1 person. This is an idle game which is relaxed and casual. As a Slime, you have the ability to evolve and you can choose different evolutionary paths. Also , there are different enchantments of equipment, use them to defeat powerful enemies! 1. Slime can evolve ten times, there are 4 to the tenth power of evolution possibilities 2. It will still produce coins and Exp when you leave the game 3. Automatic battle, easy to level up 4. A variety of equipment enchants 5. Extra skills, slime will be greatly enhanced

About

Wasteland Orchard

Cultivate resilient trees and harvest valuable fruit in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Manage your orchard, scavenge resources, and research abilities to survive storms and radiation. Your trees grow even when you're offline, offering daily rewards and permanent upgrades.

Highlights
  • Grow resilient trees
  • Harvest valuable fruit
  • Explore and scavenge
  • Craft items and build
  • Research abilities
  • Permanent upgrades
  • Idle progression
Features
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Survive a wasteland ravaged by storms and radiation by growing the strongest, most resilient trees with the most valuable fruit! Select fruit with the ideal properties to plant more trees and expand your orchard! Explore the map each run, scavenge for resources, craft items, build structures, trade with and receive gifts from townsfolk, research powerful abilities, and use rare golden seeds for permanent upgrades! Your trees in Wasteland Orchard continue growing while you're away so check back daily to harvest, purchase upgrades, and expand your orchard!

Screenshots

Slime Evolutionary Path4 screens
Wasteland Orchard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Wasteland Orchard at none against Slime Evolutionary Path's shown. Wasteland Orchard also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Slime Evolutionary Path's advantage is ratings volume (765 vs 152) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Slime Evolutionary Path sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Wasteland Orchard sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wasteland Orchard holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slime Evolutionary Path has 765 ratings behind it against 152, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Slime Evolutionary Path's written reviews are positive against 91% of Wasteland Orchard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Slime Evolutionary Path ships an update every 3 weeks, Wasteland Orchard every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Slime Evolutionary Path versus Wasteland Orchard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlime Evolutionary PathWasteland Orchard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (765 ratings)4.7 (152 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.5% of reviews90.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings765 — better152
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB237 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperKE HSI LINDustin Auxier

Customer experience

Slime Evolutionary Path

All ratings765 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral7.3%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews406 reviews
Positive84.5%
Neutral12.8%
Negative2.7%

Wasteland Orchard

All ratings152 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%

User reviews

Slime Evolutionary Path

From 765 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Solid game
  • 👍 Fun casual game
  • 👍 Relaxing game
  • 👍 Great for passing time
  • 👍 Enjoyable gameplay

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Confusing UI
  • 🐛 Grammatical errors in text
  • 💡 Lack of ways to spend gold
  • 💡 Need more depth and content
  • 💡 Slow progression

Wasteland Orchard

From 152 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Unique and creative gameplay
  • 💡 Deep and complex mechanics
  • ✨ Great idle time burner
  • 😊 No forced ads
  • 🎶 Amazing soundtrack

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Seeds disappear
  • 🐛 Disappointing nerfs
  • 🐛 Monotonous gameplay loop
  • 🐛 Save bug
  • 🐛 Poor balance

Bugs and requests

Slime Evolutionary Path

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Difficulty progressing past certain levels
  • Inconsistent performance or crashes

Requested features

6 requests
  • More evolution options and upgrades
  • Ability to combine or upgrade arm stones
  • More ways to earn gems
  • Clearer tutorial and explanations
  • Additional game modes or challenges
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  • Ability to change from a slime form

Wasteland Orchard

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Seeds disappear
  • Disappointing Nerfs
  • Monotonous gameplay loop
  • Save bug
  • Game not launching after update
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  • Game not opening
  • Glitch where trying to claim tree treasure rewards makes it inaccessible after a storm kills trees and makes a giant text box until you close the game
  • Seeds disappear after a storm

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add search/filter radar function to tutorial
  • Journal or easily find specific trees by stats
  • More missions
  • More content
  • Make game able to save progress
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  • Quickly switch between all trees
  • More frequent time potion in shop
  • Balance storm requirements
  • No shortcuts/features to reseed the entire map
  • No shortcuts to add auto harvest/mulch/tree stakes/lightning wall/concrete wall to all trees
  • No shortcut/features to see dead trees
  • Not possible to make Chests keys
  • Time warp Potions should be easier to come by at the beginning
  • Balance some storms

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Slime Evolutionary Path

One-time5
  • 1000 gems$1.29
  • 5000 gems$5.99
  • 10,000 gems$10.49
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  • 50,000 gems$49.90
  • 100,000 gems$95.99
9 purchases

Wasteland Orchard

One-time9
  • Wasteland Starter Pack$1.99
  • Peaceful Harvests PhillipAddOn$1.99
  • Peaceful Harvests BountifulAdd$2.99
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  • Great Listener$3.99
  • Bountiful Orchard$4.99
  • Nature's Bounty$5.99
  • Peaceful Harvests$6.99
  • Shard Shaman$12.99
  • Time Lord$19.99

Questions

Is Slime Evolutionary Path free?
Slime Evolutionary Path is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wasteland Orchard free?
Wasteland Orchard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Slime Evolutionary Path or Wasteland Orchard?
Wasteland Orchard is rated higher. Slime Evolutionary Path averages 4.4 out of 5 from 765 ratings, while Wasteland Orchard averages 4.7 from 152 ratings.
Do Slime Evolutionary Path or Wasteland Orchard have ads?
Slime Evolutionary Path shows ads; Wasteland Orchard does not.
Which is updated more often, Slime Evolutionary Path or Wasteland Orchard?
Slime Evolutionary Path ships an update every 3 weeks, and Wasteland Orchard every 9 days. Most recently, Slime Evolutionary Path was updated on October 20, 2026 and Wasteland Orchard on October 23, 2026.

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