Family Bash vs The Bear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Family Bash
Uncover family secrets and navigate intergenerational conflict at a 90th birthday celebration. Explore a small French town, make impactful choices, and interact with relatives to reveal hidden motives and a mysterious will. The game features a unique visual style and an original rap soundtrack.
- Explore family dynamics and secrets
- Make impactful narrative choices
- Uncover a mysterious will
- Unique visual style
- Original rap soundtrack
- Navigate intergenerational conflict
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Family Bash tells the timeless story of the Family – the one we love, cherish, insult and despise. You arrive in the village hall of a small French town out in the sticks in Normandy to celebrate your grandfather’s birthday: he’s 90 years old, still “all there” and is the living memory of your family. Just as the party is shaping up to be fun, you find yourself at the centre of an intergenerational conflict with unforeseeable consequences. You begin to uncover the dark secrets and ulterior motives of the various members of your family. In Family Bash, a seemingly insignificant choice can change the relationships between your family members forever. So explore your surroundings and make choices, talk to your cousins, confront your uncle and find out about that mysterious will – for better or for worse. • Explore some unusual themes in the video game: the family and comedy. • Find out about your grandfather’s last will and testament, uncover some unmentionable secrets and destroy your uncle’s car. • The extraordinary visual style of Geoffroy Monde • An original rap soundtrack Produced by Atomic Raccoon and Kilosaurus, edited and co-produced by ARTE FRANCE, European cultural TV and digital channel.
The Bear
Embark on a friendship adventure with a bear and a little one across a magical universe. This interactive bedtime experience features hand-drawn animations and original music, offering a calming story about togetherness and belonging.
- Interactive bedtime experience
- Friendship-forming adventure
- Hand-drawn animations
- Specially composed music
- Touching story
- Calming experience
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The Bear is an interactive bedtime experience for everyone. The game is free-to-try with no ads. You can play the first chapter for free and unlock the remaining 4 chapters with a single in-app purchase. Lead the bear and the little one through a friendship-forming adventure as they travel across the atmospheric universe of the World of Gra. Relax and stargaze with these weird little characters, as they tell you stories of togetherness, of letting go and of the longing to find a place you belong. The Bear has been lovingly crafted with hundreds of hand drawn animations, specially composed music and a touching story to create a uniquely calming experience, that feels like a bedtime story, read to you by a loved one.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Bear at 4.6 against Family Bash's 4.0. The Bear also leads on ratings volume (1.1K vs 26) and review sentiment (78% vs 64%). Family Bash's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Family Bash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and The Bear sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
The Bear holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Bear has 1.1K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Family Bash's written reviews are positive against 78% of The Bear's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Family Bash | The Bear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (26 ratings) | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.1% of reviews | 78.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 1.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 497 MB | 1.7 GB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ARTE France Apps | Mucks Games |
Customer experience
Family Bash
The Bear
Bugs and requests
Family Bash
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
The Bear
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game resets when leaving the screen
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Make the full game free
- Add a demo or trial version
In-app purchases
Family Bash
- Family Bash - the full game$4.99
The Bear
- Buy us a cookie!$0.99
- Unlock all chapters$2.99
- Buy us a coffee!$2.99
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- Buy us lunch!$3.99
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