Maneater vs Mine Cat Digger
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.
Mine Cat Digger
Dig for treasures and collect adorable cats in this fun arcade game. Avoid obstacles, manage your time, and use your earnings to unlock new feline friends, hats, and tools. Master the digging mechanics to achieve the highest score.
- Digging gameplay
- Treasure collection
- Cat collection
- Unlockable customizations
- Time-based challenges
- High score chasing
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Mine Cat Digger is the game for those who love to dig for treasures, cats and have fun! The game is simple to get it, use the controls to dig, avoid the harzadous spikes and collect treasure, but can you master? The deeper you dig, the faster you need to be to not run out of time! Master it and conquer the best score! Use your coins to unlock new cats, fancy hats and cool pickaxes, collect them all!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mine Cat Digger at Free against Maneater's $10.99. Mine Cat Digger also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Maneater's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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
Mine Cat Digger is free to download; Maneater costs $10.99 up front. Mine Cat Digger sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Maneater asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mine Cat Digger holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maneater has 23 ratings behind it against 3, 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 Mine Cat Digger's.
Maneater ships an update every 3 weeks, Mine Cat Digger every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maneater | Mine Cat Digger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $10.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (23 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #138 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.7 GB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | THQ Nordic Mobile GmbH | Erick Zanardo |
Customer experience
Maneater
Mine Cat Digger
In-app purchases
Maneater
No in-app purchases
Mine Cat Digger
- No ads$3.99
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