My Cat vs Squirrel City
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Cat
Explore a vibrant forest environment as a cat, completing quests and surviving challenges. Find food, water, and a mate while defeating opponents in this exciting simulation game.
- Forest exploration
- Quests and challenges
- Survival mechanics
- Animal interaction
- Cute animations
- Exciting levels
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A game full of fun, quests and excitement. In a beautiful environment you are invited to explore the nature and meet with all the animals of the forest. Lots of interesting levels are designed for the players to fill up their heart with joy. With cute animations and cat activities you will feel the real charm of living with the cat in a forest. In this game as the land is new to you, you have to find to work by yourself to find food, water and your mate. Your biggest challenge is to survive in the dangerous environment and defeat your opponents. In this game you will experience: -Exciting Levels and lots of fun -Beautiful landscapes -Easy controls for better user experience
Squirrel City
Build a charming treetop town for a community of squirrels. Manage their unique personalities, jobs, and relationships while navigating seasonal changes and gentle politics. Visit friends' towns and leave gifts.
- Build treetop structures
- Manage squirrel personalities and relationships
- Engage in seasonal activities and festivals
- Participate in gentle town politics and elections
- Visit and gift friends' towns
- Experience dynamic weather and day/night cycles
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A cozy game about a small town in the trees and the squirrels who live there. Build a treetop town. Place burrows, leaf tents, lanterns, benches, twig bridges, and a growing list of community structures — apothecaries, hot springs, meeting trees, trading posts, watchtowers, storm cellars, acorn libraries, memorial groves. Three structures bring your first squirrel. After that, more arrive when there is room. Meet the squirrels. Each one has a unique personality drawn from eighteen traits — Romantic, Industrious, Forgetful, Brave, Loud, Anxious, Loyal, Storyteller, Hoarder, Generous, Lookout, and more. They form friendships, develop rivalries, fall for each other, and sometimes cannot stand each other. They want things from you. They have jobs that matter. The journal keeps you posted on the small dramas: "Hazel and Pip have started exploring together most days." "Mochi and Sorrel sit near each other quietly. Neither of them has to say much." "Pip wants more storage. They've outgrown their burrow." Gather. Take walks to meadows, creeks, the old oak. Try the Acorn Toss for rhythm catches. Run a Bird Heist for premium materials. Each style favors different traits — Athletic squirrels excel at the Toss, Brave squirrels at the Heist, Sleepy ones still love a long walk. Weather. Storms roll in occasionally. You have a minute to reinforce, then the storm hits. Buildings can be damaged. The city repairs them. Late summer brings a drought. Winter brings stillness. The light changes through the day — dawn warm, midday bright, dusk amber, night cool. Politics, gently. As your city grows, squirrels with shared traits coalesce into Coalitions: Pip's Saving Society, Hazel's Open Hand, Bramble's Wandering Order. They form positions, deliver respectful petitions, and have quiet words at the Meeting Tree. Every fourteen days, an election. Squirrels declare. Coalitions endorse. You vote alongside the city. The winning Mayor proposes decrees — rationing, repair days, festivals, night watches. You accept or veto. The city remembers both ways. Visiting strangers pass through. Welcome them. Help them along with a small donation. Or let them quietly move on. Festivals. Bloom in late spring. The Long Day in midsummer, when the sun never quite sets. Harvest in autumn — the gathering games yield more, and the city celebrates. The Lantern Vigil in winter, when the memorials glow and the city remembers each squirrel who came before, by name. Visit your friends. Trade your invite code with a real friend. Visit their city in 3D. Leave a bench, a lantern, or a small note as a gift. They get notified. Your contributions live in their world. Your name stays attached. Remember. Squirrels age. When one passes, a small wooden marker stays where they were last seen, glowing softly in the city forever. On the anniversary of their passing, the Memorial Grove glows. The journal honors who they were. If they were Mayor, the city invokes their decrees specifically. Their causes can outlive them — when a Coalition's anchor passes, sometimes a successor emerges and the cause continues, just quieter now. The tone, always. Earnest, never cynical. Personal, never abstract. Tender, never aggressive. Squirrels disagree; they don't fight. They have "words." They go home sad or lighter or thoughtful. Even rivalries are loving — they care enough to disagree. Squirrel City is free. No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. No data sold. Designed for daily check-ins, not all-day playing. Your city syncs across your devices. Made by one person who cares about cozy games.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Squirrel City at none against My Cat's shown. Squirrel City also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). My Cat's advantage is ratings volume (580 vs 1) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
My Cat holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Cat has 580 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
My Cat ships an update every 6 weeks, Squirrel City weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Cat | Squirrel City |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (580 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 580 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Muhammad Shahbaz | Kevin Stewart |
Bugs and requests
My Cat
Reported bugs
3 issues- Internet connectivity issues affecting gameplay
- Texture rendering problems (fur textures disappearing)
- Game automatically restarts after completing all levels
Requested features
7 requests- Add more levels (8+ levels requested)
- Implement adventure mode for post-game content
- Add water exploration and fish mechanics
- Introduce breeding/kids system
- Expand explorable areas and locations
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- Reduce ad frequency
- Add endgame content to prevent boredom
Squirrel City
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My Cat
No in-app purchases
Squirrel City
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is My Cat free?
Is Squirrel City free?
Which has better reviews, My Cat or Squirrel City?
Do My Cat or Squirrel City have ads?
Which is updated more often, My Cat or Squirrel City?
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