Ant Garden vs Ant Farm Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ant Garden
Raise and care for ants in this simulation game. Feed them to expand their nests and grow your colony. Aim to reach 100 ants by managing their daily needs.
- Feed ants
- Expand nests
- Grow ant colony
- Daily ant care
- Collect food
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It's a game to raise ants! First, feed the ants. When they're full, ants bring food back to their nests. Bringing back a lot of food will make the nest bigger. By making the nest bigger, you will be able to grow more ants. Take care of ants every day and aim for 100 ants!
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 in-app purchases: Ant Garden at none against Ant Farm Simulator's 2. Ant Garden also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Ant Farm Simulator's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Ant Farm Simulator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Ant Garden asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ant Garden holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 85 and 58 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Ant Garden'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.
Ant Garden ships an update every 4 months, Ant Farm Simulator every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ant Garden | Ant Farm Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (85 ratings) — better | 4.2 (58 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 58 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shinichiro Ihara | Dzmitry Smirnou |
Customer experience
Ant Garden
Ant Farm Simulator
Bugs and requests
Ant Garden
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
Ant Garden
No in-app purchases
Ant Farm Simulator
- Energy 5000$0.99
- Permanently VIP PREMIUM status$1.99
Questions
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