Maneater vs Dandy Ace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maneater
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as a terrifying shark in this open-world action RPG. Grow from a pup to an apex predator, exploring diverse environments and evolving your abilities to exact revenge.
- Open-world action RPG
- Evolve and customize your shark
- Explore diverse environments
- Engage in compelling combat
- Experience a unique story campaign
- Day/night cycle
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Become a MANEATER Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a terrifying SHARK! Maneater is a single-player, open-world action RPG (ShaRkPG) where YOU are the shark. Starting as a small shark pup, you are tasked with surviving the harsh world while eating your way up the ecosystem. To do this, you will explore a large and varied open world, encountering diverse enemies - both human and wildlife. Find the right resources, and you can grow and evolve far beyond what nature intended, allowing the player to tailor the shark to their play style. This is fortunate, because to get revenge on the cruel fisherman who dismembered you will take evolving into a massive shark, an apex predator of legends. Eat. Explore. Evolve. Unique Story Play through a full narrative, story-based campaign narrated by Chris Parnell (Rick and Morty, Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock) and set against the backdrop of a reality TV show. Diverse, Compelling Combat Battle fierce wildlife, including other apex predators, or fight against various types of human hunters ranging from town drunks all the way up to the Coast Guard. Evolve Into a Legend Feed on humans and wildlife to grow your shark, and find shark loot to evolve your shark down multiple possible paths. Explore the Gulf 7 large regions, including bayous of the Gulf Coast, resort beaches, industrial docks, the open ocean, and more. Experience a living world with a full day/night cycle.
Dandy Ace
Embark on an over-the-top action adventure as a fabulous magician. Combine magical cards, battle enemies, and loot your way through challenges to defeat a wicked illusionist and escape a cursed mirror.
- Over-the-top action gameplay
- Magical card combination system
- Looting and combat mechanics
- Defeat the Green-Eyed Illusionist
- Escape a cursed mirror
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Dandy Ace is an over the top action game that follows this fabulous magician seeking to combine and use his magical cards, fighting and looting his way to defeat the Green-Eyed Illusionist and free himself from a cursed mirror.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dandy Ace at 100% against Maneater's 67%. Dandy Ace also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and price ($9.99 vs $10.99). Maneater's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 1) and chart position (#165 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Maneater costs $10.99 and Dandy Ace $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dandy Ace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maneater has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Maneater's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dandy Ace's.
| Parameter | Maneater | Dandy Ace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $10.99 | $9.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #165 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.7 GB | 1.6 GB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | THQ Nordic Mobile GmbH | Mad Mimic |
Customer experience
Maneater
Dandy Ace
In-app purchases
Maneater
No in-app purchases
Dandy Ace
No in-app purchases








