Bitmap Bay vs Homeostasis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Handmade pixel art
- Challenge legendary pirates
- Endlessly replayable voyages
- Skillful cannon battles
- Recruit your crew
- Full save and load system
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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.
Homeostasis
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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?
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Verdict
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
Bitmap Bay costs $0.99 and Homeostasis $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Bitmap Bay | Homeostasis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 82.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | NICHOLAS GENTRY | Alex Sheridan |
In-app purchases
Bitmap Bay
No in-app purchases
Homeostasis
No in-app purchases









