Bibots vs Nerd Survivors
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bibots
Embark on a top-down roguelite shooter adventure as a unique character who can transform into ancient mechanical beings. Explore procedurally generated worlds, battle monsters, unlock abilities, and customize your weapons and skills to save your planet from an evil mastermind.
- Top-down roguelite shooter gameplay
- Bullet hell action
- Character transformation into Bibots
- Procedurally generated regions
- Weapon and ability customization
- Character skill progression
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Bibots is a top-down shooter rogue like with an emphasis on bullet hell action. Explore and clear areas full of monsters, unlock abilities, customize your character and save the world! Play as Tayar, the crob explorer and the unexpected savior of his world, Takaful. Pick your guns, guts and go counter the plans of an evil mastermind. Tayar is not alone to accomplish this feat, chosen by a Bibot (actually luckily stumbled upon one) he gains the ability to transform into one of those ancient mechanical creatures. Each Bibot has his own strengths, try them all and pick your favourite according to your own playstyle. Venture through mysterious temples in a colourful world full of characters to discover but also inhabited by dangerous monsters. The world is divided into regions, each with its own atmosphere to discover. The regions are procedurally generated and contain hand crafted battle rooms, treasures, merchants and secrets changing each time you play. Protect your home from vile enemies corrupting the fauna and threatening Takaful. Choose the Bibot that will join Tayar in his epic journey, accumulate energy during your fights and use it to summon the devastating power of these mechanical beings. Each Bibot has its own playstyle and abilities, use them to fight your toughest enemies or save yourself from impossible situations. Learn to master them! The more you fight with the same Bibot, the more its synergy with Tayar will increase, unlocking new variants of its attacks to customize them before going into battle. Equip Tayar with a variety of weapons which you can customize with chips that you will find while exploring or encountering merchants. Experiment and combine their effects to customize your playstyle and create the weapons of your dream with countless possibilities and powerful synergie. Accumulate experience during your fights to improve Tayar's skills. Make it a survivalist, a soldier, a scientist or mix it all up. Each branch grants you access to permanent passives upgrading a wide range of skills and offering you new possibilities to enhance the synergy between Tayar and his Bibot. Die, try and repeat to break your records… Or well, to save the world!
Nerd Survivors
Embark on a chaotic fantasy adventure where friends are transported to a monster-filled realm. Wield wacky weapons, cast spells, and craft ultimate armaments to survive relentless hordes. Can you endure 20 minutes of madness and return to your gaming night?
- Bullet-heaven action
- Rogue-lite survivor adventure
- Wacky fantasy realm setting
- Pizza frag-grenades and magic spells
- Resource scavenging and crafting
- Weapon customization via Forge of Destiny
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The ordinary gaming night among four friends takes a chaotic turn when they find themselves transported to a preposterous fantasy realm teeming with thousands of wacky monsters! Equip yourself with pizza frag-grenades, enchanted fidget spinners, unleash preposterous magic spells, or even fling your very own friends into the fray to repel the relentless hordes of monsters determined to obliterate you. And if that's still not enough, scavenge resources and blueprints, then harness the 'Forge of Destiny' to customize your weapons or craft the ultimate armaments of your nerdy wet dreams! Can you endure for 20 minutes of non-stop madness and make your way back to your gaming night? Nerd Survivors is a bullet-heaven action rogue-lite survivor adventure, set in the Doom & Destiny Worlds universe. This version of 'Nerd Survivors' includes all the playable characters and weapon customization options from the Forge that are not available in the free 'Nerd Survivors Lite' version.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Nerd Survivors at 93% against Bibots's 48%. Nerd Survivors also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and price ($2.99 vs $5.99). Bibots's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). On ratings volume, 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
Bibots costs $5.99 and Nerd Survivors $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nerd Survivors holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 56 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Bibots's written reviews are positive against 93% of Nerd Survivors's.
Bibots ships an update every 6 days, Nerd Survivors fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bibots | Nerd Survivors |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (28 ratings) | 4.7 (56 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.6% of reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 206 MB | 510 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Plug In Digital | Francesco Ficarelli |
Customer experience
Bibots
Nerd Survivors
In-app purchases
Bibots
No in-app purchases
Nerd Survivors
No in-app purchases








