Ancient Hunter vs Merge Sharks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ancient Hunter
Engage in strategic battles by combining ancient creatures and warriors to defeat waves of enemies. Evolve your units quickly to overcome increasingly powerful monsters and advance through challenging levels. This synthesis game offers a blend of quick thinking and tactical gameplay.
- Combine dinosaurs or warriors
- Evolve units to higher levels
- Strategic battlefield placement
- Defeat waves of ancient creatures
- Fast-paced reaction gameplay
- Stress relief and brain training
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Are you ready! Up to 100 levels of battle! Battle with tons of ancient creatures! This is a fun and challenging synthesis game 1 Use your strategy to combine dinosaurs or warriors on the battlefield and fight against enemies! You have to quickly evolve your dinosaurs to higher levels! The main goal of the game is to defeat all enemies by combining your warriors or dinosaurs, so it's not easy. Quick reaction and thinking. Use your strategy and tactics to win battles and advance to the next level. At every step of this challenge, there will be a monster of increasing power waiting for you. What should you do next? Remember, if you don't merge them fast enough, your enemies will beat you in the final round of combat. are you ready? How to play? ~ Merge your troops to increase your power. ~ Evolve into a huge and fearsome warrior. ~ Planned adjustment of warrior positions. ~ Evolve quickly and fight against all enemies. Relieve stress or train your brain with relaxing, satisfying yet challenging gameplay anytime, anywhere! Invite your friends to see who is the real master of evolution!
Merge Sharks
Combine your fish and projectile units to create unique creatures. Expand your aquatic army and conquer the vast ocean.
- Merge fish and projectile units
- Create unique creatures
- Grow your army
- Conquer the open ocean
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Merge your fish and projectile units into creatures no one has seen before. Grow your army and take over the open ocean!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Merge Sharks at 4.7 against Ancient Hunter's 1.0. Merge Sharks also leads on ratings volume (5K vs 1). Ancient Hunter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Merge Sharks sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Ancient Hunter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Merge Sharks holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merge Sharks has 5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ancient Hunter ships an update fortnightly, Merge Sharks every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ancient Hunter | Merge Sharks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 44.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 252 MB | 266 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 哲敏 曲 | Thomas Cooper |
Bugs and requests
Ancient Hunter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Merge Sharks
Reported bugs
2 issues- Progress and characters randomly disappearing
- Inability to move or control game elements
Requested features
2 requests- More levels and content
- Improved stability and bug fixes
In-app purchases
Ancient Hunter
No in-app purchases
Merge Sharks
- 100 Gems$0.99
- 50 Gems$0.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
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- 200 Gems$2.99
- 700 Gems$9.99
- 1500 Gems$19.99
- 10000 Gems$99.99
Questions
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