Comparison

AntWorld vs Receive No.1

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

Head to head
About

AntWorld

Experience the mesmerizing simulation of thousands of ants building sprawling colonies. Observe emergent behaviors like foraging highways and supply chains as ants follow simple rules to dig tunnels and find food. Interact by placing food and carving tunnels to shape their world.

Highlights
  • Ant colony simulation
  • Emergent behavior
  • Tunnel digging
  • Food placement
  • Colony building
  • Resource management
Features
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Watch thousands of ants build sprawling colonies in this mesmerising simulation. Ants follow simple rules — sense pheromones, find food, dig tunnels — creating complex emergent behaviour like foraging highways and efficient supply chains. Place food, carve tunnels, and watch nature unfold.

About

Receive No.1

Features
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'Receive No.1' is back on iPhone, three decades later. A tennis game that ran on the PC-9801, written in N88-BASIC (a Japanese vintage 8-bit/16-bit computer's BASIC dialect from the late 80s/early 90s). One hundred lines of code, published in Microcomputer BASIC Magazine (ベーマガ) — a Japanese hobby coding magazine. Now ported to iPhone with the original logic intact. ■ Faithfully the original Physics: the original gravity model, unchanged. Arm collision detection: the same Sin/Cos lookup tables sampled at 22.5° steps. Score handling, ball-fall calculation — everything follows the original BASIC code. Because the math matches, the original behavior comes through: - Serves rise straight up from the court edge and fall back down - The angle and speed of the return are decided by the moment your arm swings through - Touch the ball three times and you lose the rally - Only the server scores points ■ The original feel, nostalgic again Sometimes the ball passes right through your arm. Sometimes you can't return the serve. That's how the math worked back then. Because the original is reproduced faithfully, those quirks come back — and now they feel nostalgic. The same 90s-era precision, running on a modern phone. ■ CPU opponent, finally possible Single-player CPU mode was hard to implement back on PC-9801. Now it's here. - Evolving CPU: a learning AI driven by 20 genes. We ship an "initial CPU" pre-trained for 1500 generations. Train your own and export it as JSON to share. - Watch mode: let CPU vs. CPU rallies play out. Some go on for many exchanges. ■ For you, if… - You once copied program listings out of Microcomputer BASIC Magazine - You played games on PC-9801, PC-8801, MSX, or X68000 - You've touched N88-BASIC - You're into 90s Japanese DIY game culture ■ Free. Ads only on AI parts. The app is fully free. Ads only appear during AI training and CPU vs. CPU watch mode. Modes where a human is playing (vs. CPU, two-player) have no ads at all. We collect no personal data. Everything stays on your device.

Screenshots

AntWorld4 screens
Receive No.13 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Receive No.1 at none against AntWorld's shown. AntWorld's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AntWorld ships an update monthly, Receive No.1 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
AntWorld versus Receive No.1: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAntWorldReceive No.1
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNante StudioTatsuro Saito

In-app purchases

None

AntWorld

No in-app purchases

None

Receive No.1

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AntWorld free?
AntWorld is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Receive No.1 free?
Receive No.1 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AntWorld or Receive No.1 have ads?
AntWorld shows ads; Receive No.1 does not.
Which is updated more often, AntWorld or Receive No.1?
AntWorld ships an update monthly, and Receive No.1 every 3 months. Most recently, AntWorld was updated on October 30, 2026 and Receive No.1 on October 24, 2026.

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