Ant Farm Simulator vs Idle Spider Web
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ant Farm Simulator
Experience the life cycle and behaviors of an ant colony with realistic AI. Manage your formicarium by feeding, hydrating, and cleaning to ensure your ants thrive. The colony develops even when you're offline, with ongoing updates adding new content.
- Realistic ant AI and life cycle
- Colony management (feeding, hydration, cleaning)
- Offline colony development
- Variety of ant types
- New formicarium designs
- Regular updates
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Ant farm (formicarium) with a colony of ants. Ants have artificial intelligence that mimics the full life cycle, behavior, nature and physics of real insects. You need to take care of your ant colony, feed it, keep it hydrated, and clean up the trash. The colony continues to develop even when the game is not running. The game-simulator is constantly updated, adding different types of ants, new ant care modes, other types of food, new forms of formicaria and much more.
Idle Spider Web
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- Easy Control! - Satisfying Idle Game! - Catch all the Bugs!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Idle Spider Web at 12.0 against Ant Farm Simulator's 16.0. 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
Both are free to download. Ant Farm Simulator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Idle Spider Web sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Ant Farm Simulator | Idle Spider Web |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (56 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dzmitry Smirnou | Minidragon |
Bugs and requests
Ant Farm Simulator
Reported bugs
4 issues- Forced ads when clicking energy button
- Game stopped working
- Most ants don't do anything
- Game continues to run when app is closed
Requested features
47 requests- More content (designs, bugs, maps)
- Combine colonies into a "super colony"
- Add species names
- Add aphids and ladybugs
- Add honeypot ants
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- Map with underground digging
- Add other insects (spiders, scorpions)
- Add blue ants
- Faster ant growth
- Pause button for offline activity
- Limits for waste piles and litter
- Recycle dead ants as food
- Clean up dead ants to prevent mold
- Add green ants
- Add bullet ants
- More food options (super worms, berries, larger food items)
- Ants move garbage to waste pile
- More food variety and unlocked system
- Option to raise two colonies and make them face each other
- Bigger food items requiring multiple ants
- Sugar food option
- More ants attacking spawned creatures
- Option to start with a smaller colony
- Multiple species of ants with different behaviors
- Queen walks around
- Add males and alates with wings
- More realistic AI for idle workers
- Workers check on brood/queen, clean themselves
- Outworld ants forage more
- More spots for eggs in nests
- Different stages for egg development in chambers
- Different types of waste (food, bathroom)
- Observe trophylaxis between ants and queen
- More diverse farm and food color schemes
- Alates and up to 2-3 queens (rare)
- Ants run on their own
- More live food options that attack back
- Different species and farms
- Workers that sit in the nest get up and work
- Queen walks around more
- Different ant species
- More realistic mechanics (soldier roles, food qualities)
- Clearer mechanics for ant roles and food properties
- Start with 5-10 workers
- Egg laying rate scales with colony population
- Food and water demand scales with colony population
- More chambers for eggs
Idle Spider Web
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ant Farm Simulator
- Energy 5000$0.99
- Permanently VIP PREMIUM status$1.99
Idle Spider Web
- 20 Webs$0.99
- 130 Webs$5.99
- 240 Webs$9.99
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- 650 Webs$24.99
- 1700 Webs$59.99
- 3000 Webs$99.99
Questions
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