Comparison

Terrapets vs Eternal Return

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

Head to head
About

Terrapets

Collect and battle over 120 unique creatures in a vibrant world. Build and customize your own wildlife reserve, train your pets, and fight to restore a damaged land. Engage in strategic battles and explore diverse biomes.

Highlights
  • Pet collection
  • Pet battling and leveling
  • Wildlife reserve customization
  • Over 120 unique pets
  • Strategic combat system
  • Environmental customization
Features
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Be a pet collector and catch pets in cards and battle with them! Battle your pets to the next level so you can customize their fighting moves! Build your own pet wildlife reserve and fully customize it with endless decorations! Features: - FREE addictive pet collection game! - Catch and tame over 120 different types of wondrous pets! - Unique and inventive pet capture system. - Battle with your own tamed pets and level them up with simple but engaging battle system. - Rid the lands of the destructive force that is ‘Rathroot’ by fighting possessed monsters. - Customize the environment to your hearts content! - See the world of Hakawa come into life with beautiful biomes and decorations. - Engage with our friendly Facebook community to shape the development of the game. Useful game tips: - You can catch different pets from different terrains. - To catch higher level pets, use more expensive baits on traps. - Put pets into healing huts when they get injured from battle. - Pets learn new moves as they level up from battles. - You can switch pet moves. - Weak pet moves do less damage in battle, but uses less stamina letting your pet fight longer. - Sell unwanted pets and items for extra gold coins. - Collect gold coins every 30 minutes, and free capture cards every 2 hours. - Fight your way through hives to cleanse them from corrupted monsters. - To collect all pets in the game, you must put traps near cleansed hives! Background Story: The once lush and beautiful world of Hakawa is now little more than a barren wasteland. You are in charge of a special wildlife reserve where you have the important task of revitalizing the land and building a vibrant habitat for Terrapets; mysterious creatures who are the embodiment of the environments that they inhabit. Terrapets from the swamplands are sneaky and vitriolic, while those from the woodlands are steadfast and strong. If the environment is harsh and unforgiving then so too are the Terrapets that live there. There was a time when Terrapets were numerous, but not anymore. You have the power within your hands to return the world to what it once was. You can revitalize Hakawa with a range of different terrain types and customize the environment as you see fit. From frozen tundra and volcanic mountains to thick forests and vast oceans, you have many different options for creating an enticing reservation for all the different Terrapets. Terrapets is developed and maintained by CerebralFix, LLC, an international game development studio bringing the cheeky Kiwi spirit from New Zealand into social mobile gaming. Find out more about us at CerebralFix.com. Like our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Terrapets

About

Eternal Return

Engage in turn-based strategic battles against monsters and yokai in an anime-style fantasy world. Improve your hero, weapons, and magical pets through card collection and leveling up to restore the eternal return cycle. Enjoy an offline RPG experience with optional in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Turn-based strategy battles
  • Hero and Kami (monster) leveling
  • Card-based weapon and magic upgrades
  • Fantasy anime-style story
  • Offline gameplay
  • Optional in-app purchases
Features
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The perpetual day has fallen upon the earth. Fight terrible monsters and yokai in the turn-based battles of Eternal Return, a turn-based strategy rpg. Use your hero's magic and your kami's (pokemon like monsters) magic to create the best strategy. Improve your weapons and magic thanks to card crawl. Eternal Return's battle system is similar to a board strategy rpg with turn-based battles. As you progress through dungeons, the monsters and bosses will become more and more powerful through almost infinite levels. Level up your hero, earn rewards and open chests to collect the game cards to improve your eternal sword and spells. This way you can choose between multiple types of weapons and attacks with the most diverse magic effects. Follow a fantasy story in a world of anime style, dystopian and with an atmosphere of japanese rpg. You’ll have to defeat the sun queen and the yokai hordes, so as to recover the eternal return cycle. Eternal Return takes the best things of other rpgs and great turn-based strategy games. You'll find multiple kami pets, magical monsters that fight for you. You can use them in turn-based battles, to defeat the most powerful monsters using their special magic. You can level up your Kami and teach them new attacks with very different effects that will allow you to define completely new fighting strategies. You can play Eternal Return as an offline casual game, as your inventory is saved offline only a couple of features require connection. All the content of the game is available and can be obtained for free, it depends on your expertise and strategy that you get to unlock all the secrets. There is no limit of stamina or energy. Purchases are optional and useful to complete your collections faster.

Screenshots

Terrapets4 screens
Eternal Return4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Eternal Return at 4.7 against Terrapets's 4.2. Terrapets's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Terrapets sells 18 one-off in-app purchases and Eternal Return sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eternal Return holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 32 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Terrapets's written reviews are positive against 50% of Eternal Return's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Terrapets ships an update every 2 weeks, Eternal Return every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Terrapets versus Eternal Return: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTerrapetsEternal Return
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (29 ratings)4.7 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.1% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2932 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB230 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCerebralFixNestor Dominguez Varela

Customer experience

Terrapets

All ratings29 ratings
Positive75.9%
Neutral10.3%
Negative13.8%
Written reviews121 reviews
Positive42.1%
Neutral10.7%
Negative47.1%

Eternal Return

All ratings32 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral3.1%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Terrapets

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Game crashes on startup or during gameplay
  • Battles freeze and disconnect mid-combat
  • Save data completely erased after updates
  • Progress not saving between sessions
  • Build menu won't open
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  • Hive functionality broken (tapping does nothing)
  • Cannot catch monsters or spin mechanic stuck
  • Specific move (Stomp) causes crashes
  • Quest items disappear after placement
  • In-app purchases not delivering items
  • Game won't load past intro screen
  • Black screen crashes
  • Inventory and shop access broken
  • Unresponsive UI buttons and menus
  • Lag during battles causing pet damage loss
  • Wrong bait item being used automatically
  • Opponents not appearing in encounters

Requested features

16 requests
  • Pet evolution system at certain levels
  • Ability to nickname terrapets
  • Multiplayer features (battle and trade with friends)
  • Visit other players' lands
  • More biome areas and locations
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  • Different colored catch cards with varying success rates
  • Ability to sell unwanted traps
  • Drag and drop functionality for pets in den
  • Reset pet names to original automatically
  • Creative/sandbox mode for free testing
  • More terrapets and creatures
  • Upgrade coin-producing buildings
  • Easier legendary pet capture rates
  • Ability to replay levels
  • Improved tutorial system
  • Better quest tracking interface

Eternal Return

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Terrapets

One-time18
  • 100 Star Rubies$0.99
  • Card Pack$0.99
  • 500 Gold Coins$0.99
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  • 1,100 Gold Coins$1.99
  • Epic Pet: Paku!$2.99
  • 420 Star Rubies$3.99
  • 2,500 Gold Coins$3.99
  • Booster: Hat Hunter$4.99
  • Bronze Chest$6.99
  • 5,500 Gold Coins$7.99
  • 1,100 Star Rubies$9.99
  • Gold Chest$14.99
  • 15,000 Gold Coins$14.99
  • 2,300 Star Rubies$19.99
  • Rare Hat Chest$19.99
  • Epic Swamp Chest$29.99
  • 35,000 Gold Coins$29.99
  • 6,000 Star Rubies$49.99
9 purchases

Eternal Return

One-time9
  • Fistful of crystals$1.09
  • Push Up Pack$1.99
  • Pouch of crystals$4.99
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  • Starter Pack$4.99
  • Sack of crystals$7.99
  • Sack of crystals$9.99
  • Barrel of crystals$17.99
  • Wagon of crystals$35.99
  • Mountain of crystals$54.99

Questions

Is Terrapets free?
Terrapets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eternal Return free?
Eternal Return is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Terrapets or Eternal Return?
Eternal Return is rated higher. Terrapets averages 4.2 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Eternal Return averages 4.7 from 32 ratings.
Do Terrapets or Eternal Return have ads?
Eternal Return shows ads; Terrapets does not.
Which is updated more often, Terrapets or Eternal Return?
Terrapets ships an update every 2 weeks, and Eternal Return every 2 months. Most recently, Terrapets was updated on October 15, 2026 and Eternal Return on October 4, 2026.

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