Comparison

African Animals vs Ultimate Lion Simulator

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

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About

African Animals

Explore African wildlife with realistic animal sounds and high-quality images. Engage in three fun mini-games to learn about the diverse fauna of the continent. Discover the fascinating evolutionary history of African animals.

Highlights
  • Realistic animal sounds
  • High-quality animal images
  • Three mini-games
  • Educational content on fauna evolution
  • Interactive learning experience
Features
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Meet the animals of Africa and hear their real voices: the baboon, wild boar, buffalo, camel, cheetah, crocodile, elephant, giraffe, hyena, lion, snake and zebra. • Listen – tap an animal to hear its voice and see a big photo. Every animal has three photos and three different sounds. • Guess the sound – listen to a sound and find the animal that makes it. • Find the pairs – turn over the cards and match the animals. • Where is it? – hear an animal's name and find it. Every animal's name and a short description are read aloud and shown in your language. Made for young children: big pictures, no reading needed and simple controls. The background music and the narrator's voice can be switched off, and links to our other apps are protected by a parental check. Everything is inside the app, so you can play without an internet connection. No ads and no in-app purchases.

About

Ultimate Lion Simulator

Experience life as a ferocious lion in a dangerous new world. Recruit, raise, and customize your pride, hunt for survival, and battle fierce enemies. Manage your lion's health, hunger, and energy while developing their skills and stats to become the ultimate predator.

Highlights
  • Realistic survival mechanics (health, hunger, thirst, energy)
  • Engaging combat with special attacks and pride commands
  • Build and manage a lion pride, including raising cubs
  • Extensive lion customization (name, gender, fur, color)
  • Level up lions to improve stats and unlock skills
  • Dynamic weather and day/night cycle
  • Massive 3D environment with diverse hunting grounds
Features
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Jump into a brand new adventure as a ferocious Lion! Brave a dangerous new world to claim your place at the top of the food chain! Recruit, raise, and customize your lions, hunt down prey to feed your pride, and battle for your life against fierce bosses like the deadly trio of Hyenas! Download the Ultimate Lion Simulator today while it's 50% OFF for a very limited time! Brand New Features REALISTIC SIMULATOR You'll need to maintain your health, hunger, thirst, and energy if you're going to survive in the wilderness! EPIC FIGHTS Wield razor sharp claws and a spine-tingling roar to strike fear into the heart of your foes! Deliver the killing blow by leaping through the air, hitting critical touch-based targets, and pouncing on your enemy! New touch-based commands let you order your pride to surround and attack enemies! Hunt at night with the new Night Vision! BUILD YOUR LION PRIDE Dominate other lions and recruit them to your pride! Play as any lion in your pride and create a powerful family of predators! Every lion now has health, stats, and rankings providing significantly more immersive gameplay! RAISE LION CUBS Breed baby lion cubs that will grow into powerful members of your pride! Carry them around in your mouth and even play as them to hunt tiny critters! CUSTOMIZE YOUR LIONS Choose your lion's name, gender, fur pattern, and even tint them any color of the rainbow to make the pride of your dreams! Reach Alpha status to unlock the heroic furs that show off your prowess as a lion! LEVEL UP YOUR LIONS Gain experience by defeating dangerous enemies, scavenging carcasses, and completing missions! Level up your lions to increase their health and attack damage, earn points to upgrade your lion’s statistics, and increase the size of your pride! EARN STAT POINTS Stat Points can be used to provide bonus’s to traits like Health, Critical Attack Chance, Run Speed, and much more! UPGRADEABLE BUFFS Buff Points can be used to upgrade your Roar and Growl Buffs, which create temporary Stat Boosting auras around your lion when active! UNLOCKABLE SKILLS Skill Points unlock and upgrade special abilities for your lions. Upgrade “Enhanced Senses” to go into a rage mode that doubles run and attack speed! RAGDOLL PHYSICS Your prey now realistically dangles from your mouth as you carry them! Clamp your jaws around the carcass of larger prey and drag them into a secluded area to chow down! DYNAMIC WEATHER AND DAY/NIGHT CYCLE Procedural weather system with unique storms, clouds, sunrise, sunset and celestial movement! MASSIVE REALISTIC 3D ENVIRONMENT Rule over an environment so big we had to create three unique dens for your lions to live in! Track your prey down in the vast grassy plains of the Golden Savannah, brave the dangerous Elephant Boneyard, or explore the rocky hills of the Stone Oasis! 25 UNIQUE SPECIES Hunt down animals like hyena, gazelle, impala, elephant, rhinoceros, snake, fish, flamingo, stork, mice, rat, crocodile, african dog, rabbit, water buffalo, wildebeest, giraffe, cheetah and of course lion! HD NEXT-GEN GRAPHICS From the thick mane and piercing eyes of your lion to the decaying bones of the Elephant Boneyard, everything looks so real you will forget you’re playing a game! OPTIONAL BLOOD EFFECTS If you are of age or have your parents permission, turn on the BRAND NEW blood effects for added combat ferocity! GLUTEN-FREE PROMISE With all of our games you will always get the full game with no ads or additional purchases! Download the Ultimate Lion Simulator to experience the exciting life of the most dominant predator in the Animal Kingdom, the fierce Lion! If you liked living as a Lion then you'll love our other animal simulators! Download our Ultimate Wolf Simulator and live a wild life in the forest, check out the Stray Cat Simulator and raise kittens in a crowded city! Give us a shout and let us know what you want to play next! facebook.com/glutenfreegames twitter.com/glutenfreegames

Screenshots

African Animals4 screens
Ultimate Lion Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: African Animals at 5.0 against Ultimate Lion Simulator's 4.4. African Animals also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 99 months). Ultimate Lion Simulator's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 2). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

African Animals costs $0.99 and Ultimate Lion Simulator $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

African Animals holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Lion Simulator has 1.3K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

African Animals ships an update every 2 months, Ultimate Lion Simulator every 99 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
African Animals versus Ultimate Lion Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAfrican AnimalsUltimate Lion Simulator
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.4 (1.3K ratings)
Positive reviews—85.2% of reviews
Number of ratings21.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 99 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank—#162 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TViPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB155 MB
Age rating+412+
DeveloperAleksei NeronovGluten Free Games

Customer experience

African Animals

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ultimate Lion Simulator

All ratings1,278 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral5.8%
Negative10.4%
Written reviews324 reviews
Positive85.2%
Neutral6.5%
Negative8.3%

Bugs and requests

African Animals

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Ultimate Lion Simulator

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Screen turning black when entering the den
  • Prey and animals glitching through terrain
  • Difficulty in controlling the lion during sprinting
  • Inconsistent behavior of pride members

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to have multiple cubs and raise a family
  • More boss fights and challenging encounters
  • Multiplayer mode to interact with other players' prides
  • Wider variety of prey and animals to hunt
  • Improved den system with more functionality
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  • Warrior Cat or other animal-themed simulator games

In-app purchases

None

African Animals

No in-app purchases

None

Ultimate Lion Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is African Animals free?
African Animals costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ultimate Lion Simulator free?
Ultimate Lion Simulator costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, African Animals or Ultimate Lion Simulator?
African Animals is rated higher. African Animals averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Ultimate Lion Simulator averages 4.4 from 1.3K ratings.
Do African Animals or Ultimate Lion Simulator have ads?
Neither African Animals nor Ultimate Lion Simulator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, African Animals or Ultimate Lion Simulator?
African Animals ships an update every 2 months, and Ultimate Lion Simulator every 99 months. Most recently, African Animals was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ultimate Lion Simulator on November 1, 2026.

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