Auto Pirates vs Cellular Beast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Auto Pirates
Assemble a pirate crew, equip your ship, and engage in strategic auto-battles against other players. Earn plunder and trophies based on your global rank, and customize your pirate hideout. Combine diverse pirates, relics, and ships for unique combat strategies.
- Player vs world strategy
- Crew and ship customization
- Plunder and trophy collection
- Pirate hideout creation
- Fantasy faction pirates
- Magical relics and ships
- Competitive ranking system
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Auto Pirates is a competitive player vs world strategy game where you choose your crew, equip your ship and battle, earning plunder based on your global rank. Earn plunder and collect trophies for your exploits on the seas and create the perfect pirate hideout for your crew. Combine pirates from four fantasy factions with magical relics and a multitude of ships to optimize your strategy or create crazy hijinks. You can shoot, board, blast, burn, sink or push your opponents to get the upper hand and go for the top 1% prize.
Cellular Beast
Engage in a unique tower defense experience set within the human body. Battle viruses with beneficial cells to heal patients and restore health from a microscopic viewpoint.
- Microscopic combat gameplay
- Treating various illnesses
- Cell vs. virus battles
- Restoring patient health
- Casual tower defense mechanics
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Cellular Beast is a casual game packaged around beneficial cells and viruses in the human body. It advances the game by treating patients with different illnesses, observing the confrontation between cells and viruses from a microscopic perspective, and ultimately healing and restoring the patient.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cellular Beast at 5.0 against Auto Pirates's 4.4. Cellular Beast also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Auto Pirates's advantage is ratings volume (163 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Auto Pirates sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Cellular Beast sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cellular Beast holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Auto Pirates has 163 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Auto Pirates ships an update every 3 weeks, Cellular Beast every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Auto Pirates | Cellular Beast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (163 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 163 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 246 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Featherweight Games Pty Limited | LITTLELIGHTS HONG KONG LIMITED |
Customer experience
Auto Pirates
Cellular Beast
Bugs and requests
Auto Pirates
Reported bugs
2 issues- Losing progress on account across devices
- Certain UI elements being unresponsive
Requested features
3 requests- Add Chinese language option
- Implement a progression system with upgrades and long-term goals
- Introduce a player-vs-player ship battle mode
Cellular Beast
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Auto Pirates
- 1 Captain's Bounty$12.99
- 2 Captain's Bounties$19.99
- 3 Captain's Bounties$24.99
Cellular Beast
- 60 antibiotics$0.99
- 330 antibiotics$4.99
- 720 antibiotics$9.99
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- 1480 antibiotics$19.99
- 3780 antibiotics$49.99
- 7580 antibiotics$99.99
