Comparison

Ant Farm Simulator vs HDD Drilling Simulator

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Realistic ant AI and life cycle
  • Colony management (feeding, hydration, cleaning)
  • Offline colony development
  • Variety of ant types
  • New formicarium designs
  • Regular updates
Features
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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.

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HDD Drilling Simulator

Features
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HDD Drilling Simulator puts you in the seat of a horizontal directional drill. Enter the ground at −18%, steer the bore under 12 levels of country, suburban, city and extreme terrain, and surface in the exit pit — without striking the utilities buried in your path. REAL DRILLING, ARCADE SIMPLE • Hold 12 to push up, 6 to push down — just like calling the shot over the radio • A TK-style locator shows depth and signal while your locator hand calls ROLL IT, DRILL IT or PUSH • Pitch is earned foot by foot: pushing only counts while the string is advancing GROUND THAT FIGHTS BACK • Sand, hard clay, cobble and sandstone each drill at their own pace — read the cuttings coming back • Rocks glance a pushing head and chew through when you drill them; bedrock at 60 feet ends careless bores 12 LEVELS, THREE STARS TO EARN • Country farms, suburbs, city streets and mountain extremes — shots from 150 to 485 feet • Earn up to 3 stars per bore, watch the replay of your actual bore, and keep the bore log Built by a working drill-crew supervisor, with real rig audio recorded on the job. No ads, no in-app purchases — just drilling.

Screenshots

Ant Farm Simulator4 screens
HDD Drilling Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ant Farm Simulator at Free against HDD Drilling Simulator's $1.99. HDD Drilling Simulator's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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

Ant Farm Simulator is free to download; HDD Drilling Simulator costs $1.99 up front. Ant Farm Simulator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. HDD Drilling Simulator asks for nothing beyond the download.

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Ant Farm Simulator versus HDD Drilling Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnt Farm SimulatorHDD Drilling Simulator
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.1 (59 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings59 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank—#64 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB61 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDzmitry SmirnouADRIAN MANFRED HINZ

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

HDD Drilling Simulator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Ant Farm Simulator

One-time2
  • Energy 5000$0.99
  • Permanently VIP PREMIUM status$1.99
None

HDD Drilling Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ant Farm Simulator free?
Ant Farm Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HDD Drilling Simulator free?
HDD Drilling Simulator costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ant Farm Simulator or HDD Drilling Simulator have ads?
Ant Farm Simulator shows ads; HDD Drilling Simulator does not.

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