Comparison

hellamental vs Grow!

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

Head to head
About

hellamental

Explore dream worlds, collect and battle with over 350 unique creatures. Craft items, trade with players globally, and survive challenging game modes. Progress permanently in the Lucid World and gain temporary power-ups in your Dreams.

Highlights
  • Collect over 350 unique creatures (Visions)
  • Craft items and materials
  • Trade with players worldwide
  • Survive Horde Runs, Extraction Lairs, and Invasion Zones
  • Customize loadouts for challenges
  • Permanent progression in Lucid World
  • Temporary boons in Dream World
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Survive, Collect, Craft, Trade with Players, and Perfect your Dream Build. Delve into dream worlds to face your past Visions from lingering nightmares stuck to the back of your brain. Collect over 350 Visions and possess them as your own friends to help you become more powerful as you jump from the Lucid World to the Dream World. Earn experience, loot, materials, and other unlocks that will stay with you permanently in the Lucid World. In your Dreams, gain new and powerful boons to temporarily help you erase any Visions in your way. In the Lucid World, craft new items and materials for use in your Dreams, or trade them with other players worldwide in the Bazaar. Create custom loadouts to tackle the variety of challenges that can be encountered in three activity modes with a range of difficulties. In Horde Runs, survive waves of Visions as they close in on your position. In Extraction Lairs, you will explore randomly generated dungeons filled with a healthy amount of plunder. To escape with all you've collected, you will need to find the exit and defeat the Final Vision. In Invasion Zones, a never-ending supply of Visions will rain down upon you relentlessly as you try to catch falling loot and duck danger. The Visions you encounter can be turned into your own personal pets called Casters, fighting besides you with their own stats, perks, and utility. If you cannot get the perfect god roll, craft your own with materials or browse the Bazaar for other players' listings. hellamental is free-to-play, has no ads, no Wi-Fi required, and no restrictions on the the amount of time you can play.

About

Grow!

Embark on a cosmic journey from the atomic scale to the astronomical. Absorb matter, level up, and evolve into an unstoppable force. This survivor-like action game features deep progression and a unique art style.

Highlights
  • Progress through 20 tiers of reality
  • Deep meta-progression with permanent abilities
  • Loot gear and craft builds
  • Asynchronous multiplayer leaderboards
  • Striking minimalist art style
  • Unravel mysterious lore
Features
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You are the Entity. You don't know what you are. You don't know why you're here. All you know is one thing : GROW! Grow! is an incremental survivors-like with idle progression: every run makes you permanently stronger. Start at the atomic scale. Tear through particles, nucleons, and molecules. Absorb their matter. Level up. Get stronger. Then do it again, bigger. Molecules. Bacteria. Cells. A tardigrade. Tadpoles. Insects. Animals. Humans. Buildings. Satellites. Moons. Planets. Stars. Nothing is beyond your reach. Every run pushes you further up the cosmic ladder, from the subatomic to the astronomical. Grow! is a survivor-like action game where scale IS the progression. Fight through waves of enemies that grow as you grow, loot gear, unlock abilities, and build your Entity into an unstoppable force, across runs that span the entire known universe. CORE FEATURES ◈ SCALE BEYOND IMAGINATION Progress through 20 tiers of reality : from particle physics to astrophysics. Each tier brings new enemies, new challenges, and a mind-bending sense of scale. ◈ DEEP META-PROGRESSION Every run matters : Unlock permanent abilities, upgrade your Entity, and push further than ever before. The meta-progression is massive: there's always something new to chase. ◈ LOOT & EQUIP Enemies drop gear. Spend Matter, the universal currency, during or between runs. Craft your build, find synergies, dominate. ◈ COMPETE GLOBALLY Asynchronous multiplayer leaderboards : How far can you grow? Compare your highest tier reached against players worldwide. ◈ STRIKING MINIMALIST ART Black, white, grey, and yellow : Clean vector visuals with a bold, distinctive identity. No visual clutter: just you, the swarm, and the ever-expanding universe. ◈ MYSTERIOUS LORE What is the Entity? Why does it grow? Every death delivers the same cryptic message: GR0W. Piece together the mystery as you ascend through layers of reality. Free to play. No ads.

Screenshots

hellamental4 screens
Grow!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grow! at 94% against hellamental's 51%. Grow! also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. hellamental sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Grow! sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grow! holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 142 and 132 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of hellamental's written reviews are positive against 94% of Grow!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

hellamental ships an update every 4 days, Grow! weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
hellamental versus Grow!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterhellamentalGrow!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (142 ratings)4.9 (132 ratings) — better
Positive reviews51.2% of reviews93.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings142 — better132
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB117 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperCoast Media House LLCThibault Brouardelle

Customer experience

hellamental

All ratings134 ratings
Positive79.1%
Neutral4.5%
Negative16.4%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive51.2%
Neutral9.8%
Negative39.0%

Grow!

All ratings129 ratings
Positive99.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive93.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.0%

Bugs and requests

hellamental

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • No Monsters Spawning
  • Loadout Menu Closes Automatically
  • Enemies Staying in Place and Not Attacking
  • Implant Replacement Bug
  • Totem Not Proccing

Requested features

3 requests
  • Better Explanation of Crafting System
  • More Communication with Other Players (Discord, etc.)
  • Monthly Updates

Grow!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

hellamental

One-time5
  • 200 Memories$0.99
  • 500 Memories$1.99
  • 1,000 Memories$2.99
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  • Stimulant$3.99
  • 2,500 Memories$5.99
8 purchases

Grow!

One-time8
  • 100% of Endergy Page Cost$2.99
  • +1 Attack Slot$4.99
  • +1 Element Slot$4.99
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  • Endergy Boost x2$8.99
  • Full Bundle$8.99
  • 500% of Endergy Page Cost$8.99
  • Absolute Boost ×2$14.99
  • 5000% of Endergy Page Cost$44.99

Questions

Is hellamental free?
hellamental is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grow! free?
Grow! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, hellamental or Grow!?
Grow! is rated higher. hellamental averages 4.2 out of 5 from 142 ratings, while Grow! averages 4.9 from 132 ratings.
Do hellamental or Grow! have ads?
Neither hellamental nor Grow! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, hellamental or Grow!?
hellamental ships an update every 4 days, and Grow! weekly. Most recently, hellamental was updated on October 24, 2026 and Grow! on October 25, 2026.

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