Comparison

Cardara! vs Anthaul

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

Head to head
About

Cardara!

Embark on a roguelite card adventure where your swipes dictate your fate. Explore a dynamic forest, battle foes, and collect over 300 unique cards. Level up your castle and unlock new abilities in this offline-playable experience.

Highlights
  • Swiping card adventure gameplay
  • 300+ unique cards to collect
  • Offline play supported
  • Castle leveling and buffs
  • Dynamic chaos level system
  • Strategic compass guidance
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Get ready for a swiping roguelite cardventure packed with 300+ cards! Navigate through foes, surprises and mysteries, where your swipes determine the fate of the forest. Every swipe in Cardara — left, right, up, down — unfolds more choices and sets off a chain of unique and unpredictable combinations.  Each journey is a unique experience! Slay enemies and collect gems to level up your very own Castle. Gameplay Features: Offline play: There is no need for an internet connection, wow! Nevertheless, your progress is always backed up, we got you covered. Forestpass: Unlock 25 unique cards and earn enormous amount of gems by completing brand new Season 2 of our Forestpass (completely free, by the way)! Castle: Level up your Castle by completing assignments! Purchase useful buffs for your upcoming journeys for gems (enjoy no pesky in-app purchases). Collection: Explore a vast collection of 300+ cards, all just a swipe away. Unlock them all before we add some more! Chaos Level: Beware of the rising chaos level in Cardara forest. With each move you make, the forest grows more dangerous. The more you play, the higher the stakes, adding an exciting twist to your adventure. Compass: Use The Compass to guide your choices. It helps you pick the best direction for your next swipe, adding a layer of strategy to your journey. With enemies to defeat and allies to find, each swipe is crucial. Can you outsmart the foes and save the forest? It's time to find out! Level up your very own Castle and become a hero of Cardara! Start your adventure now!

About

Anthaul

Build and manage an ant colony deckbuilder. Strategically tap ants into trails to forage for food, clear targets, and upgrade your colony. Unlock new queens, mutations, and face challenging bosses across five unique colonies.

Highlights
  • Ant colony deckbuilding gameplay
  • Strategic ant placement and foraging
  • Unlock and crown powerful queens
  • Mutate ants for unique abilities
  • Five distinct colonies with difficulty levels
  • Daily runs and endless mode
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Your deck is an ant colony. Tap up to five ants into a trail and send it out to forage. Every ant adds its carry, patterns multiply it with pheromone, and the food pours into the round's target. Clear the target within four trails, spend your pay in the Nest, and keep your colony fed through a season of eight rounds. EVERY ANT IS A CARD Workers carry the most. Scouts add pheromone. Nurses recount the ant tapped just before them. Soldiers keep the Anteater, the Rival Colony and Pesticide at bay. Winged ants are wild. Line them up into Pairs, Squads, Convoys, Columns and three more patterns, then choose: FORAGE with the trail you have, or SWAP ants back for new ones. The COLONY screen shows exactly what's left to draw, so every swap is an informed choice. CROWN QUEENS, BREAK THE MATH The Nest is your shop between rounds. Crown up to four queens from the 21 who turn up on its shelf: some boost a caste, some grow stronger every round, and the good ones feed each other. After round two the Royal Cell opens, offering one of seven red queens at a time, and red queens multiply instead of add, in crown order. Line up the right ones and a single trail can haul ten times the target. That's an OVERHAUL! SHAPE YOUR COLONY Stamp Marks to level up a pattern. Send the Colony Doctor to retire the ants you don't need or clone the ones you do. Tear open an egg sac and pick a hatchling, hire Workers, or mutate a Worker at random: Gold ants bring food every time they haul, Armored ants can't be eaten, Glass ants carry double until they shatter, and Pheromone-soaked ants add pheromone every play. FIVE COLONIES, SIX DIFFICULTIES Garden, Leafcutter, Fire, Army and Honeypot each want a different trail, from Fire's Soldier-heavy ranks to Army's sixty ants. Start with Garden or Fire and open the rest as you clear rounds and win. Win with a colony to open its next difficulty, from Fair Weather to Long Winter, each one adding a new hardship. BOSSES The Anteater eats your highest-carry ant. Rain shrinks your hand. The Rival Colony halves your pheromone. Pesticide grounds your Winged and quiets your Scouts. The Flood raises the final target. A DAILY RUN Every day brings a new daily run: the same colony and the same opening hand for everyone who plays it. Come back tomorrow for another. KEEP HAULING Win the season and play on. Targets climb faster every round, a boss comes every third round, and the first miss ends it. How big can your biggest haul get? FEATURES - A roguelike deckbuilder where your deck is a living colony: 5 castes, 7 patterns, 4 mutations - 28 queens to crown, including 7 red queens that multiply - 5 colonies, each with 6 difficulty levels - 5 season bosses, plus the Mudslide in Keep Hauling - A new daily run every day, the same opening hand for everyone - Endless Keep Hauling after a won season - Cute chibi ants on cel-shaded foil trading cards - Every trail's math on screen, and a log of the run - Sound on every pick, pattern and total, and haptics on iPhone - Normal, Fast or Instant scoring; tap to skip - Saves after every move: quit anytime and continue later - Plays fully offline, in portrait, on iPhone and iPad - No account, no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking

Screenshots

Cardara!4 screens
Anthaul4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Anthaul at 5.0 against Cardara!'s 3.6. Cardara!'s advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 1) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). 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

Cardara! costs $2.99 and Anthaul $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Anthaul holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cardara! has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cardara! versus Anthaul: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCardara!Anthaul
Price$2.99$2.99
Rating3.6 (22 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews51.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size391 MB74 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperDaniil VershininAnthony Craig

In-app purchases

None

Cardara!

No in-app purchases

None

Anthaul

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cardara! free?
Cardara! costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anthaul free?
Anthaul costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cardara! or Anthaul?
Anthaul is rated higher. Cardara! averages 3.6 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while Anthaul averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cardara! or Anthaul have ads?
Neither Cardara! nor Anthaul shows ads.

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