Comparison

Bitmap Bay vs Homeostasis

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

Head to head
About

Bitmap Bay

Embark on a retro pirate adventure with a handcrafted pixel art world. Engage in skillful cannon battles, face legendary captains, and recruit your crew in this roguelite experience. Enjoy endless replayability with a full save system, playable completely offline.

Highlights
  • Handmade pixel art
  • Challenge legendary pirates
  • Endlessly replayable voyages
  • Skillful cannon battles
  • Recruit your crew
  • Full save and load system
Features
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"A bold new retro take... quite the intriguing one" – Pocket Gamer. Welcome to Bitmap Bay - a pixel-art pirate adventure. Explore the low-res high seas, build your legacy, and test your cannon-firing reflexes against legendary historical captains. • Authentic Pixel Art: A charming, low-res retro world created by an artist. • Legendary Pirates: Challenge over 40 real historical captains, each with unique, hand-drawn portraits. • Tactical Cannon Battles: Combat is simple to learn but hard to master. Time your shots perfectly to claim victory. • Recruit Your Crew: Hire a loyal crew of sailors, specialists, and scoundrels. • Endlessly Replayable: Encounter a wide range of random events – duels, storms, thieves, and mysteries. • Premium Experience: Playable completely offline with zero ads and zero in-app purchases. About the Developer: Bitmap Bay is the creation of Grandom Games, the solo dev studio of a visual artist and designer. It is built with a passion for classic retro gaming and offered as a true premium mobile experience.

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

Bitmap Bay4 screens
Homeostasis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bitmap Bay at every 4 days against Homeostasis's every 9 days. Bitmap Bay also leads on price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Bitmap Bay costs $0.99 and Homeostasis $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bitmap Bay ships an update every 4 days, Homeostasis every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bitmap Bay versus Homeostasis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBitmap BayHomeostasis
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.3 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB12 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperNICHOLAS GENTRYAlex Sheridan

In-app purchases

None

Bitmap Bay

No in-app purchases

None

Homeostasis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bitmap Bay free?
Bitmap Bay costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Homeostasis free?
Homeostasis costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bitmap Bay or Homeostasis have ads?
Neither Bitmap Bay nor Homeostasis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bitmap Bay or Homeostasis?
Bitmap Bay ships an update every 4 days, and Homeostasis every 9 days. Most recently, Bitmap Bay was updated on October 14, 2026 and Homeostasis on September 30, 2026.

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