Comparison

Skate Fish vs Bored Snake

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

Head to head
About

Skate Fish

Impress fish with your skateboarding skills to catch them and populate an aquarium. Customize your character and gear while exploring seven unique environments with rad obstacles and different fish species. Master two-finger touch controls to perform tricks and become a skate-fishing legend.

Highlights
  • Two-finger touch skateboarding controls
  • Seven unique environments
  • Character and gear customization
  • Catch various fish species
  • Populate a local aquarium
  • Socialize with other fishers
Features
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From the makers of BOMBFEST, welcome to a world where the only way to catch dope fish is to impress them! Customize your character, board, and fishing rod, and ride your way through seven chill environments, each with its own species to angle and rad obstacles to skate. Use two-finger touch controls to flip your board, grind ledges, and perform aerials and sick tricks as you become a skate-fishing legend by catching dozens of captious carp, bass, trout and other fish to help populate the local aquarium. Key Features of SkateFish include: -Nostalgic finger-deck skateboarding emulated through two-finger touch controls that allow you to flip, grind, and slide your way to fishdom fame -Seven unique locations, each with its own discerning marine creatures to impress -Customize your deck, tracks, tape and fishing gear and look fly as you cast your fly -Meet up with fellow fishers and get to know them to get the 411 on the hottest fishing tips

About

Bored Snake

Features
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Watch. Don't play. BoredSnake is an idle visualizer where an AI-controlled snake plays the classic game for you. Your role? Just watch — or intervene like a god. Each snake is born with a soul. Four intuitive choices during the Soul Incubation ritual shape its MBTI personality. Some snakes are cautious. Some are reckless. All of them are unique. When your snake dies, a new generation hatches — inheriting traits from its ancestors. Watch bloodlines evolve across hundreds of generations. FEATURES • AI Pathfinding — The snake navigates, survives, and eats on its own • God Interventions — Tap to place apples, hold to speed up • Talk to Your Snake — Chat with it. It remembers. • Whisper Diary — Your snake journals its life: first meals, close calls, final words • Soul Incubation — Shape personality before birth • 7 Visual Themes — Paper Sketch, Macaron, Punk, Cosmic, Pixel, Brick, Tetris • Home & Lock Screen Widgets — Live status on your screen • Game Center Leaderboards — Compare generations worldwide Zen in the Chaos. Life, death, rebirth — on loop.

Screenshots

Skate Fish4 screens
Bored Snake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bored Snake at none against Skate Fish's 10. Skate Fish's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). 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. Skate Fish sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Bored Snake asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skate Fish ships an update every 6 days, Bored Snake fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Skate Fish versus Bored Snake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkate FishBored Snake
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size457 MB18 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperWhitethorn Digital LLCARCOBY, LLC

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Skate Fish

One-time10
  • Galaxy Deck$0.99
  • Lime Deck$0.99
  • Lemon Deck$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Orange Deck$0.99
  • Void Deck$0.99
  • Starry Deck$0.99
  • Lemonade Deck$0.99
  • Watermelon Deck$0.99
  • BOMBFEST Deck$1.99
  • Ad Buyout$7.99
None

Bored Snake

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skate Fish free?
Skate Fish is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bored Snake free?
Bored Snake is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Skate Fish or Bored Snake have ads?
Neither Skate Fish nor Bored Snake shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skate Fish or Bored Snake?
Skate Fish ships an update every 6 days, and Bored Snake fortnightly. Most recently, Skate Fish was updated on November 3, 2026 and Bored Snake on November 9, 2026.

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