Comparison

Sprout Valley vs Lumins

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

Head to head
About

Sprout Valley

Step back from busy life and grow your dream garden in this charming farming simulator. Play as a cute cat, find friends, and uncover secrets while gathering resources, crafting, and exploring new islands. Enjoy a captivating story and a hand-crafted experience.

Highlights
  • Grow crops and forage fruits
  • Gather resources from nature
  • Craft and furnish your island
  • Travel to other islands
  • Experience a cute story with dialogues
  • Procedurally generated levels
Features
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Sprout Valley is a charming farming simulator game where you can step back from the busy life and grow the garden of your dreams. Captivating story, hand-crafted experience. You play as the main character, cute cat Nico, who tries to find a peaceful place to live in. Nico will find friends along the way and discover interesting events. Help him to learn what secrets Ostara holds. The goal will be to gather resources and improve your island life. You can grow the plants and harvest the environment for additional resources. You can sell and buy resources you have gathered. Use your tools to accomplish your goal of living a peaceful life with harmony and nature. Levels are procedurally generated, so there are virtually endless combinations. Each level has a "seed" and in future can be shared with other players to recreate islands and share them across the player base. There is a dynamic weather system in place to bring some dynamics to the world environment. There will be some additional mechanics that are connected to the weather like the ground getting wet when it rains, etc. The game has many fantastic events that tie to weather or the daytime. Key Features — Turn your overgrown island into a lovely farm! Raise crops, forage fruits, gather resources from nature. — Craft and furnish your island. Make your island your own, personal hideout. — Travel to another islands. Sail to other unknown parts of the world. Who knows what adventures await you there! — Dialogues and cute story. Meet our cute characters and experience the story together. — Over 15 hours of story mode

About

Lumins

Discover and collect luminous sky creatures with unique traits. Breed them to discover rare combinations and raise them through various life stages. Explore an infinite sky world, collect rewards, and track your progress in this peaceful, unhurried game.

Highlights
  • Collect rare luminous creatures
  • Breed creatures for new traits
  • Raise creatures through life stages
  • Explore an infinite sky world
  • Track collection progress
  • No timers or energy bars
Features
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Somewhere beyond the clouds, creatures made of pure light drift through an endless sky. Welcome to Lumins. Lumins are luminous sky creatures — part jellyfish, part constellation, entirely mysterious. Each one glows with a unique combination of color, body pattern, tentacle shape, and aura. With 750 possible combinations, the rarest combinations are waiting to be found. Only the most dedicated collectors will find them all Collect & Raise Your Lumins live on floating Sky Islands. Watch them drift and glow as they grow through four stages — Spark, Glow, Shine, and their full adult Lumin form. Breed & Discover Pair two adult Lumins in the Breeding Lab and see what they produce. Traits are inherited from both parents, but the sky has its own ideas. Rare and epic traits can emerge from the most unexpected combinations. Drift Through the Endless Sky Take your favorite Lumin drifting through an infinite sky world. Collect coins, discover rare creatures, and open chests for rewards. Tap behind your Lumin to propel it — the closer you tap, the faster it flies. Track Your Collection The Lumindex tracks every unique combination you've discovered. How many of the 750 can you find? Lumins is a peaceful, beautiful game you can enjoy at your own pace. No timers. No energy bars. Just you and your glowing creatures.

Screenshots

Sprout Valley4 screens
Lumins4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lumins at 100% against Sprout Valley's 44%. Lumins also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). Sprout Valley's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Lumins sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Sprout Valley asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sprout Valley ships an update every 2 weeks, Lumins daily. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sprout Valley versus Lumins: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSprout ValleyLumins
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVadzim LiakhovichBehaviorBrite LLC

Customer experience

Sprout Valley

All ratings54 ratings
Positive53.7%
Neutral9.3%
Negative37.0%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive43.6%
Neutral13.7%
Negative42.7%

Lumins

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sprout Valley

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Lumins

One-time8
  • Handful of Stars$0.99
  • Drop of Celestial Dew$0.99
  • Vial of Celestial Dew$2.99
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  • Bag of Moonlight$3.99
  • Rare Sky Lumin$4.99
  • Treasury of the Sky$7.99
  • Epic Sky Lumin$9.99
  • Third Nursery$9.99

Questions

Is Sprout Valley free?
Sprout Valley is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lumins free?
Lumins is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sprout Valley or Lumins have ads?
Neither Sprout Valley nor Lumins shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sprout Valley or Lumins?
Sprout Valley ships an update every 2 weeks, and Lumins daily. Most recently, Sprout Valley was updated on November 7, 2026 and Lumins on November 5, 2026.

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