My Virtual Cat vs PixelBay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Virtual Cat
Engage in a peaceful life simulation with a virtual cat. Explore activities like cooking, fishing, gardening, and crafting, all while interacting with 16 unique cat personalities based on MBTI types. This game offers a relaxing experience for cat lovers and fans of simulation.
- MBTI-based cat personalities
- Cooking and gardening simulation
- Fishing and hunting mini-games
- Crafting system
- Daily quests and story mode
- Relaxing gameplay
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Create a special daily life with your adorable virtual cat My Virtual Cat: Life is a healing simulation game featuring 16 unique cat personalities based on MBTI types, where you can enjoy a peaceful life together. Key Features: Cooking: Create delicious meals with various ingredients as gifts for your cat Fishing: Catch fresh fish by the river and use them as cooking ingredients Hunting: Meet various animals in the forest and collect special materials Gardening: Plant seeds, grow them, and harvest fresh vegetables and herbs Crafting: Create special items and potions using collected materials Diverse Game Content: 16 different cat personality systems based on MBTI Over 100 cooking recipes to discover Real-time gardening and crop cultivation Exciting fishing and hunting mini-games Special items crafted from collected materials Daily quests and story mode adventures Healing Experience: A moment of peace and relaxation in your busy daily life Heartwarming interaction and communication with cute cats Rewarding collection and crafting systems Perfect casual gameplay for stress relief Perfect for: Anyone who loves cats Those seeking relaxing casual games People interested in cooking and gardening Fans of collection and simulation games MBTI enthusiasts Download now and start your special daily life with an adorable virtual cat. Sprunki, Tanghulu, Emoji, Mukbang
PixelBay
A relaxing game combining aquarium care, pixel art, and match-3 puzzles. Raise and decorate your underwater world, nurture fish, and enjoy pressure-free gameplay. Your fish grow and progress even when you're offline.
- Build and customize pixel aquariums
- Collect and care for various fish species
- Decorate underwater environments
- Play match-3 puzzle mini-games
- Relaxed, pressure-free gameplay
- Automatic progress saving
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Welcome to Pixel Bay, a relaxing game that brings together aquarium care, charming pixel art, and match-3 puzzles. Build Your Pixel Aquarium Collect clownfish, blue tangs, puffers, and angelfish. Feed them, interact with them, and keep their water clean as they grow from young fish into adults. Meet Every Companion Give each fish a name and discover its age, personality, growth status, and companionship level. The longer you stay together, the closer your friendship becomes. Decorate Your Underwater Home Collect seaweed, coral, treasure chests, and castles. Move decorations freely and create a pixel aquarium that feels completely your own. Play Starry Match-3 Puzzles Swap neighboring tiles, create matches, trigger cascades, and collect stars before you run out of moves. Earn shells and fish food, then bring your rewards back to the aquarium. Relaxed, Pressure-Free Care Your fish continue progressing while you are away. Low conditions may pause growth, but fish never die and you never suffer permanent loss. Keep Your Progress Safe Fish status, names, decorations, resources, and high scores are saved automatically on your device. Optional iCloud saves let you back up and restore your progress. Helpful Reminders Choose whether to receive care alerts, growth updates, companionship milestones, or a gentle daily reminder. Return to Pixel Bay and meet your first underwater companion today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PixelBay at none against My Virtual Cat's shown. PixelBay also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). My Virtual Cat's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for My Virtual Cat against 5.0 for PixelBay. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
My Virtual Cat ships an update every 4 days, PixelBay every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Virtual Cat | PixelBay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 414 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dahae kim | 志跃 王 |
In-app purchases
My Virtual Cat
No in-app purchases
PixelBay
No in-app purchases









