Splice Dinos vs Ethos Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Splice Dinos
An idle clicker merge game where you splice and collect dinosaurs. Relax as your dino empire grows on its own, earning coins and discovering new creatures. Complete your collection and uncover rare shiny dinosaurs.
- Idle clicker gameplay
- Dino splicing and merging
- Coin and DNA collection
- Dino collection and discovery
- Offline earnings
- Pixel art illustrations
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"Rawr rawr rawr rawr raw-".... Let me translate for you: Step into the Dino world with this idle clicker merge game where you tinker with the dino genome! Perfect for casual play, where the fun keeps going without lifting a finger. The game allows players to relax while their dino empire thrives on its own. HOW TO PLAY - Drag and drop similar dinos to create new mysterious creatures - Use the dinos and eggs to earn dino coins, buy new dinos and earn even more dino coins! - Tap your dinos to make them drop their dino coins and even some of their DNA! HIGHLIGHTS - Various environment stages and many dinos to discover - Complete your dinodex and discover the elusive shiny dinos! - The unexpected mix of creature splicing dynamics and incremental clicker games - Pixel art illustrations - Offline earnings
Ethos Idle
Guide humanity's progress from its earliest discoveries to the distant future. Manage your tribe's choices, develop over 200 unique ideas, and explore the world. Advance your civilization, unlock bonuses, and enjoy a single-player, offline experience with optional ads.
- Develop over 200 historic ideas
- Explore and exploit the world
- Manage tribe choices
- Unlock exploration bonuses and synergies
- Prestige mechanic upgrades
- Customizable challenge scenarios
- Offline single-player experience
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Chart the progess of Humanity through the ages, and guide their every discovery from the moment they kindle the first fire to the far future. Develop over 200 unique ideas across three different flavours of thought. Help your people to conquer or make peace with their enemies, explore and exploit the world, and develop projects to meet their needs. Manage your tribe's choices to squeeze out more strength, or sit back and idle as your clan develop on their own. Advance as far as you can take your people, and then collect bonuses to improve future runs. Select varied challenges that change the way the game plays, and combine these challenges to create your own unique scenarios with big rewards. Features: - Over 200 historic ideas to develop, across 3 flavours of thought - Dozens of exploration bonuses and synergies to unlock and exploit - Permanently power up your civilisation with prestige mechanic upgrades - Combine varied challenge conditions to create your own scenarios with powerful rewards - Optional, out-of-the-way ads won't interrupt your experience - A completely offline, single player experience - All game content is accessible for free
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Ethos Idle at 241 against Splice Dinos's 6. Splice Dinos's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Splice Dinos sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Ethos Idle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Splice Dinos holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ethos Idle has 241 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Splice Dinos's written reviews are positive against 84% of Ethos Idle's.
Splice Dinos ships an update every 4 weeks, Ethos Idle every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Splice Dinos | Ethos Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.8 (241 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 84.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 241 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Admurin Arts | Graham Goldstein |
Customer experience
Splice Dinos
Ethos Idle
Bugs and requests
Splice Dinos
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ethos Idle
Reported bugs
2 issues- RNG for challenges is unfair and unfun
- Unlocking buffs for inaccessible technologies
Requested features
2 requests- Option to remove ads entirely
- Clarification on prestige warp gain multipliers
In-app purchases
Splice Dinos
- 350 DNA$0.99
- Double Coins$2.99
- Dino Business$2.99
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- No Ads Bundle$2.99
Ethos Idle
- x2 Speed$6.99
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