Comparison

ISLANDERS vs Homeostasis

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ISLANDERS

A relaxing city-building game focused on creative placement of structures to earn points. Unlock new building sets and expand your island settlements with intuitive, stress-free gameplay in a minimalist world. Enjoy offline play with no ads or timers.

Highlights
  • Cozy, minimalist building experience
  • Procedurally generated islands
  • Strategic yet relaxing gameplay
  • Offline play
  • No ads or interruptions
  • Clean, vibrant visuals
  • Peaceful soundtrack
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ISLANDERS is a relaxing city-building experience where calm creativity meets light strategy. Place buildings to earn points based on nearby structures, unlock new sets, and expand your peaceful island settlements. There are no timers, no micro-transactions, and no stress — just intuitive gameplay in a serene, minimalist world. Features: • A cozy, minimalist building experience • Procedurally generated islands every round • Strategic yet relaxing gameplay loop • Offline play with no ads or interruptions • Clean, vibrant visuals and a peaceful soundtrack Explore, build, and unwind — one island at a time. Download now and start your cozy minimalist city-building journey ... Minimum Device Requirements • Requires devices running iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 • Devices with 4 GB RAM or higher (iPhone 11 or newer; iPad 10th Generation or iPad Pro 3rd Generation) • CPU: Apple A13 Bionic (iPhone) or A12X Bionic (iPad) • RAM: 4 GB • Storage: 1 GB available space Please note that controllers are not supported. Designed for intuitive touchscreen play. Languages Supported: English, Español, Português ,Français, Italiano, Deutsch, Polski, Türkçe, Русский, Українська, 中文, 中文, 한국어, 日本語

About

Homeostasis

Features
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You are the operator of a single living cell — and everything is going wrong at once. Energy is crashing, a virus is hijacking your factories, corrosive rust is eating the engines, and the folding line is jammed. Fix one and another spikes. That tension is the game. Homeostasis is a portrait roguelike about holding a coupled, living machine in balance. Route your workers, fire emergency programs, queue production, power up the organelles that matter — and read the cell, because every crisis wants a different response. Stabilize the chaos, survive the cycle, then choose a mutation and do it again, harder. Death is the point. Each run goes deeper than the last. PILOT A LIVING CELL Seven organelles, six vital signs, all coupled. Mitochondria make energy but leak rust. Ribosomes build what you need but flood the folding line. Power the nucleus to auto-repair your weakest system. There's no single right answer — only trade-offs. SURVIVE ESCALATING, ENDLESS CRISES Viral takeovers, heat shock, starvation, oxidative stress, membrane breaches, DNA damage — telegraphed, then unleashed. Difficulty rises to a brutal climax, then settles into a sustainable plateau you can ride as far as your skill takes you. THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Real-Time — high-pressure, the clock never stops. • Tactical — auto-pauses each crisis so you can plan, then act. • Triage — turn-based rescue puzzles: stabilize a failing cell in as few moves as you can. EVOLVE & CRAFT YOUR BUILD Spend DNA in The Lab on gene-trait loadouts and one-shot field items — then anchor a run around a keystone that changes how you play: devour the virus for fuel, freeze time mid-crisis, sacrifice an organelle for a surge, win by ascending instead of surviving, or program your cell with standing rules and fight your own autopilot. COME BACK TOMORROW A new Daily Challenge every day, a ladder of in-game challenges to chase, Game Center leaderboards and achievements, and a one-tap shareable card for your best run. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just you, one cell, and the long fight against entropy. Can you keep it alive?

Screenshots

ISLANDERS4 screens
Homeostasis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: ISLANDERS at #170 against Homeostasis's unranked. ISLANDERS also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Homeostasis's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ISLANDERS costs $4.99 and Homeostasis $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ISLANDERS ships an update every 3 weeks, Homeostasis every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
ISLANDERS versus Homeostasis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterISLANDERSHomeostasis
Price$4.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.5 (34 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings34 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#170 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size656 MB12 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCoatsink SoftwareAlex Sheridan

In-app purchases

None

ISLANDERS

No in-app purchases

None

Homeostasis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ISLANDERS free?
ISLANDERS costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Homeostasis free?
Homeostasis costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ISLANDERS or Homeostasis have ads?
Neither ISLANDERS nor Homeostasis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ISLANDERS or Homeostasis?
ISLANDERS ships an update every 3 weeks, and Homeostasis every 9 days. Most recently, ISLANDERS was updated on November 8, 2026 and Homeostasis on November 5, 2026.

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