Anthill Art Store 3D vs Ant Farm Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Anthill Art Store 3D
Craft unique metal art by pouring molten metal into ant colonies. Explore underground structures, unlock new materials, and sell your creations in your own store. Decorate and upgrade your shop to become a master artisan.
- Pour molten metal into ant colonies
- Unlock and use various metal materials
- Design and sell custom art structures
- Upgrade and decorate your art store
- Explore underground ant colony designs
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Are you a good craftsman? This is a highly satisfying craft game, give it a try to make your own art. An incredible metal structure is made by pouring molten metal into a fire ant colony. Explore the underground, find how ants build their home. You can use silver, gold, iron, Aluminum, or others……unlock more material to make a silvery, golden, colorful, or even a pure black structure, that is totally up to you. DIY your own ant colony art structure. Try to guess what it would look like and how much does it weighs. 1：Choose One Anthill 2：Pouring the melted metal liquid 3：Digging and remove the cast 4：Washing it 5：Measuring it and Finish! Furthermore, you can open your own anthill art store and sell it for profit. Make more money to decorate and upgrade your store. If you really like your art you can choose to make that a collection. All right, it's time. Let's make some art and fun!
Ant Farm Simulator
Experience the life cycle and behaviors of an ant colony with realistic AI. Manage your formicarium by feeding, hydrating, and cleaning to ensure your ants thrive. The colony develops even when you're offline, with ongoing updates adding new content.
- Realistic ant AI and life cycle
- Colony management (feeding, hydration, cleaning)
- Offline colony development
- Variety of ant types
- New formicarium designs
- Regular updates
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Ant farm (formicarium) with a colony of ants. Ants have artificial intelligence that mimics the full life cycle, behavior, nature and physics of real insects. You need to take care of your ant colony, feed it, keep it hydrated, and clean up the trash. The colony continues to develop even when the game is not running. The game-simulator is constantly updated, adding different types of ants, new ant care modes, other types of food, new forms of formicaria and much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ant Farm Simulator at 83% against Anthill Art Store 3D's 0%. Anthill Art Store 3D's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Ant Farm Simulator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Anthill Art Store 3D asks for nothing beyond the download.
Anthill Art Store 3D holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 59 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Anthill Art Store 3D's written reviews are positive against 83% of Ant Farm Simulator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Anthill Art Store 3D ships an update weekly, Ant Farm Simulator every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Anthill Art Store 3D | Ant Farm Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (61 ratings) — better | 4.1 (59 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 59 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 311 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Li-Ho Tseng | Dzmitry Smirnou |
Customer experience
Anthill Art Store 3D
Ant Farm Simulator
Bugs and requests
Anthill Art Store 3D
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ant Farm Simulator
Reported bugs
4 issues- Forced ads when clicking energy button
- Game stopped working
- Most ants don't do anything
- Game continues to run when app is closed
Requested features
47 requests- More content (designs, bugs, maps)
- Combine colonies into a "super colony"
- Add species names
- Add aphids and ladybugs
- Add honeypot ants
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- Map with underground digging
- Add other insects (spiders, scorpions)
- Add blue ants
- Faster ant growth
- Pause button for offline activity
- Limits for waste piles and litter
- Recycle dead ants as food
- Clean up dead ants to prevent mold
- Add green ants
- Add bullet ants
- More food options (super worms, berries, larger food items)
- Ants move garbage to waste pile
- More food variety and unlocked system
- Option to raise two colonies and make them face each other
- Bigger food items requiring multiple ants
- Sugar food option
- More ants attacking spawned creatures
- Option to start with a smaller colony
- Multiple species of ants with different behaviors
- Queen walks around
- Add males and alates with wings
- More realistic AI for idle workers
- Workers check on brood/queen, clean themselves
- Outworld ants forage more
- More spots for eggs in nests
- Different stages for egg development in chambers
- Different types of waste (food, bathroom)
- Observe trophylaxis between ants and queen
- More diverse farm and food color schemes
- Alates and up to 2-3 queens (rare)
- Ants run on their own
- More live food options that attack back
- Different species and farms
- Workers that sit in the nest get up and work
- Queen walks around more
- Different ant species
- More realistic mechanics (soldier roles, food qualities)
- Clearer mechanics for ant roles and food properties
- Start with 5-10 workers
- Egg laying rate scales with colony population
- Food and water demand scales with colony population
- More chambers for eggs
In-app purchases
Anthill Art Store 3D
No in-app purchases
Ant Farm Simulator
- Energy 5000$0.99
- Permanently VIP PREMIUM status$1.99
Questions
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