Four Tribes vs Bitlings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Four Tribes
Lead your people to victory as a god, flattening land for settlements and unleashing disasters on rival tribes. Guide your peasants to build and harness their power to dominate the competition.
- Lead your tribe as a god
- Flatten land for settlements
- Build settlements
- Unleash disasters on enemies
- Compete against rival tribes
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As the God of your tribe you must protect and lead your people to victory over the other three competing tribes. Flatten the land so your peasants can find space to build settlements, and with the power that they give to you rain down disasters on your enemies' heads. For the latest news on all of my games follow @SeansGames on Twitter!
Bitlings
Adopt and nurture unique digital creatures that learn, work, and grow with you. These creatures are essential for a thriving digital market, offering companionship and utility.
- Adopt digital creatures
- Creatures learn and grow
- Creatures work and earn
- Unique digital companions
- Support a virtual market
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Bitlings are living digital creatures born from fragments of lost data. Small, unpredictable, and full of potential, each Bitling can learn, work, and grow alongside you. But Bitlings aren’t just companions they’re workers, and the market depends on them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bitlings at 5.0 against Four Tribes's 3.6. Bitlings also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). Four Tribes's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Four Tribes costs $1.99 and Bitlings $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bitlings holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Four Tribes has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Four Tribes ships an update every 7 months, Bitlings fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and July 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Four Tribes | Bitlings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 469 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sean O'Connor | Kareem Butler |
Customer experience
Four Tribes
Bitlings
Bugs and requests
Four Tribes
Reported bugs
32 issues- Regularly crashes
- Action takes place offscreen or is blocked
- Game runs slow when a lot is happening
- Recently started crashing
- Needs landscape mode for iPad
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- Cannot keep up with fast chip
- Lack of raising land on land
- Playing with just thumb is rubbish
- CPU is unforgiving
- Struggling to win level one on very easy
- Huge random element
- Not playable on Plus
- Cannot launch games on 6S
- Momentum scrolling is terrible
- Broken on iOS8
- Unplayable
- Cannot scroll beyond level boundaries
- Accidental volcanoes when flattening edge
- Save your money until new version
- Game crashes on title screen
- Does not open
- Refusing to load since OS4 update
- Choppy/slow performance
- Waste of time and money, does not load
- Restored phone and iPod touch because of it
- Won't even open
- Crashes at the very beginning
- Won't start up
- Level 13 crashes every time
- Game crashes on title screen
- Laggy on old devices
- Crashing issues
Requested features
32 requests- Landscape mode for iPad
- More introduction/tutorial
- Gentle pace for starting
- Build and flatten land
- Smarter AI for harder levels
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- Add sink holes or landslides
- Modern militaristic version (nukes, missiles)
- Drag to add land
- Add Demi gods
- Create own levels and share
- More levels
- Animated landscape changes
- LAN or GameCenter multiplayer
- Custom maps/user created levels
- Time speed up/slow down
- Better AI for troops and AI
- More textures (swamps, deserts)
- Reset game or more levels
- Freeplay mode
- Achievements
- Multiplayer
- Infinite mode
- Ability to control Knights
- Build water
- Raise mountains
- Add tornadoes
- Raise sea level
- Choice of enemy count
- Music/background sound
- Wizard character
- Different building types
- More attacks
Bitlings
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Four Tribes
No in-app purchases
Bitlings
No in-app purchases
