Remagotchi vs Stacker Roguelike
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Remagotchi
Experience the authentic 90s virtual pet simulation. Care for your digital companion with classic pacing, real consequences, and diverse evolutions. Discover over 10 unique pixel pets, each with its own behavior and development path.
- Faithful classic virtual pet experience
- Classic pacing, no shortcuts
- Evolutions based on care
- Real consequences for pet's health
- Retro pixel art
- Over 10 unique virtual pets
- Screen reader compatibility
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Relive the authentic experience of caring for a virtual pet exactly as it was in the 90s. Remagotchi was created with a single goal: to faithfully reproduce the original feeling of classic virtual pets. Nothing has been simplified or sped up. The pacing, rules, evolutions, and consequences follow the same logic as the originals. Here, taking care of your pet truly matters. A faithful classic experience Classic pacing, with no shortcuts. Evolutions based entirely on care. Real consequences: your pet can get sick or even die. Retro pixel art inspired by original devices. Continuous gameplay designed to create a real bond with your pet. This is not just a game inspired by the past. It is the original experience, recreated with respect. More than 10 virtual pets Each pet has its own behavior, rules, and evolutions, following the design of classic virtual pets. Pixel Dino The absolute classic of the 90s. Can evolve into a Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, or Triceratops. Pixel Penguin Can become carnivorous, herbivorous, or omnivorous depending on its diet. Pixel Alien Arrived directly from space in the 90s. Features unique feeding rules and evolutions. Pixel Ocean Starts as a tadpole and can evolve into a fish, eel, swordfish, seahorse, crab, or jellyfish. Features different gameplay and 2 exclusive mini-games. Pixel Chan & Pixel Smarty A human-based virtual pet with educational activities and life choices that shape its future. Pixel Fish An adaptation of Pixel Ocean to work on a console with 5 buttons like most other virtual pets. Pixel Cat Independent, affectionate, and full of personality. Pixel Dog Extremely loving, playful, and always seeking attention. Pixel Bear Starts small and grows into a strong and very cute bear. Pixel Deer Calm and happy, sometimes mistaken for a reindeer. Pixel Phant An elephant from the pixelated forests of Africa. Large in size, but very gentle. Pixel Shark A fun shark that decided to live in a pixelated sea. How it works Free version Play for free with Pixel Dino for 3 days and get to know the classic Remagotchi experience. Premium version (one-time purchase) Unlimited access to all virtual pets. Play forever, with no time limits. All future pets included. Exclusive customizations and features. One-time payment, no subscriptions. Buy once and enjoy the complete experience forever. Accessibility Remagotchi is fully compatible with screen readers on iOS, allowing visually impaired players to experience the classic gameplay in full. If you lived through the 90s, you will recognize every detail. If you didn’t, this is the right way to discover how virtual pets truly were.
Stacker Roguelike
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The machine is rigged. That isn't a complaint, it's the premise. Tap to stop the moving block. Land it on the one below, or lose whatever hung over the edge. Fifteen rows to the top of a floor, ten floors to the top of a run, and the machine gets faster every time you're right. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY FREE PLAY — Ten floors, with a draft between every one of them. The full run. UNLIMITED TOWER — No top floor. Lava rises from the bottom of the cabinet and never stops, and the only way to stay ahead of it is to keep placing. Let it catch you and it takes the row you were standing on. BLIND CLIMB — One cabinet a day for everybody on the planet. Same seed, same relics, same curses, rolling over at midnight UTC. Play it as often as you like; only your best counts. Small tombstones down the margin show where everyone else died today. ONE CABINET — One machine, one score. No draft, no curses, no climb. The arcade original, for when you want the pure thing. THE DRAFT Between floors it deals you cards. Three relics, take one — or trade tickets for a block back, which costs you the relic you didn't take. Twenty-five relics. Twelve curses, and the curses aren't optional. Some speed you up. Some take blocks out of your hand. Two of them lie to you about where the block is. THE WEATHER Nine hazards blow across the cabinet as you climb, and the higher you get the harder it blows. Crosswind leans on the clock. Frost sticks the button. A magnetic storm takes the block somewhere you never sent it. Meteors warn you before they land, and that warning is the only one you get. THREE MACHINES THE TOWER — Seven columns, bottom to top. The arcade original. Free forever. THE VAULT — A square, played inward from the outer edge. The walls close in. There are no edges left to hide behind. THE DRUM — A circle, played inward from the rim. It never narrows. It turns round on you instead, and the direction flips at every ring. Each machine has four heat settings, from STOCK to OPERATOR'S CUT, and each setting keeps its own leaderboard. RACE SOMEBODY Every run is recorded as a tape and played back by the same code that played it live, so a ghost is never an approximation of what somebody did. Race your own best. Send a run to a friend as a challenge. Tap WATCH on a leaderboard row and see the run that put them there. WHAT ISN'T IN IT No ads. No analytics, no trackers, no third-party SDKs, no account to create. Tickets are earned and never sold. There is one optional purchase — The Back Room, which unlocks The Vault and The Drum for good. Bought once, no subscription, shared with your family. BUILT TO BE PLAYED Assist speed slows the whole machine down. The floor clock can be hidden. Reduce Motion is honoured. The soundtrack mixes over whatever you already had playing rather than stopping it. Game Center leaderboards for every mode, machine and heat, global and friends-only. This machine is rigged. Rig it back.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Remagotchi at 3 against Stacker Roguelike's 1. Remagotchi also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Remagotchi sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Stacker Roguelike sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Remagotchi | Stacker Roguelike |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (70 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ewerton Jose Wantroba | GAICOMTEL SRL |
In-app purchases
Remagotchi
- Premium version$6.99
Stacker Roguelike
- The Back Room$3.99
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