Comparison

Ants vs Robots vs Sail Sim

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

Head to head
About

Ants vs Robots

Engage in strategic colony management with two distinct factions: ants and robots. Choose between real-time strategy battles against other colonies or tower defense against waves of bugs. Explore a sandbox mode with a map editor or progress through a story mode.

Highlights
  • Colony management simulator
  • RTS battles
  • Tower defense mode
  • Playable ant and robot factions
  • Sandbox mode with map editor
  • Story mode
Features
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Ants vs Robots is a colony simulator game with simple and intuitive controls. The game has two modes: 1) RTS where you fight other colony, 2) Tower Defence where you fight waves of bugs. There are two playable factions — ants and robots. The game features sandbox mode with a map editor and story mode where you complete level after level.

About

Sail Sim

Features
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You wake on the beach of a small island with a 36-foot sloop at anchor offshore. The island is real. It is somewhere on Earth. Nothing aboard tells you where. SAIL is a single-handed ocean passage played in real time. One second in the game is one second in the world. Set a course, choose your canvas, put the phone down, and return when the weather, the boat, or the sky needs you. NAVIGATE BY THE REAL SKY There is no chart plotter and no satellite fix. Measure the sun, moon, Polaris, and navigational stars with a sextant. Guard the chronometer. Check the compass. Carry your position forward by dead reckoning, knowing that unseen current and instrument error are quietly pulling it away from the truth. SAIL A PHYSICAL BOAT Trim six sail plans to a changing wind. The boat heels from the force on the canvas, makes leeway, drifts with ocean currents, and suffers when you carry too much sail. The live polar diagram shows where she can go and how fast. A sailing coach explains what an experienced hand would notice—and why it matters. CROSS A LIVING OCEAN Weather grows from a simulated pressure field instead of a list of scripted conditions. Trade winds, westerlies, doldrums, squalls, swell, haze, and falling pressure all belong to the same world. The coast you raise over the horizon is drawn from the same real-Earth data the hull can strike. SURVIVE THE PASSAGE Water is finite. Food runs down. Rest, health, fresh provisions, fishing gear, medicine, sailcloth, repair stores, hull condition, and the bilge all matter. Rain can save you. A gale can dismast you. An island can feed you—if you find it. LEARN AS YOU GO No sailing knowledge is assumed. The in-game handbook uses animated diagrams to explain sail forces, points of sail, reefing, weather, latitude, longitude, dead reckoning, wayfinding, and survival. The coach teaches in the moment, then gets out of the way. MAKE THE VOYAGE YOURS Begin as a castaway on one of thousands of real islands, or take on a historic passage: a trade-wind Atlantic crossing, Bligh's open-boat journey, the James Caird in the Southern Ocean, or Slocum's long Pacific leg. Your log records the course, weather, miles, sights, decisions, and consequences hour by hour, then turns the voyage into a chart worth keeping. The ocean will keep moving when you close the app. Sail when a decision matters.

Screenshots

Ants vs Robots4 screens
Sail Sim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sail Sim at none against Ants vs Robots's 1. Sail Sim also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months). Ants vs Robots's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Ants vs Robots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sail Sim asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ants vs Robots ships an update every 3 months, Sail Sim every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ants vs Robots versus Sail Sim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnts vs RobotsSail Sim
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (52 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings52 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB18 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperIvan KhokhlenkovYang Liu

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ants vs Robots

One-time1
  • No ads and fast speed$3.99
None

Sail Sim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ants vs Robots free?
Ants vs Robots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sail Sim free?
Sail Sim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ants vs Robots or Sail Sim have ads?
Neither Ants vs Robots nor Sail Sim shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ants vs Robots or Sail Sim?
Ants vs Robots ships an update every 3 months, and Sail Sim every 10 days. Most recently, Ants vs Robots was updated on October 13, 2026 and Sail Sim on October 15, 2026.

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