Comparison

Ant's Diary vs Hostile Seas

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

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About

Ant's Diary

Features
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Protect the Queen—grow your colony to 100 ants! "Ant's Diary" is a real-time strategy game where you raise an ant colony. Adjust the roles of your worker ants around the queen, survive enemy raids, and build a thriving colony of 100. 4 Roles to Strategize • Foragers (Green): Gather food on the surface and carry it to the nest • Nurses (Pink): Feed larvae to raise new worker ants • Soldiers (Red): Fight enemies and defend the colony • Digger: Digs to expand the nest — Completing rooms increases food and brood capacity Adjusting the balance of roles to match the situation is the key to survival. Nest Expansion & Chambers • Assign workers to digging and the nest grows organically from existing tunnels. Food stores or brood chambers form automatically as needed. • Chambers raise food and brood capacity. When food storage is full, foragers wait and automatically resume as soon as space opens. • Nurses carry eggs from the queen's chamber to brood chambers and bring food from storage. After 3 feedings, a larva becomes a pupa. Explore 2 Worlds • Surface: A dangerous world where you gather food and battle enemies • Nest: A safe haven to raise larvae and dig new chambers Defend Against Enemy Raids As time passes, enemy attacks grow fiercer. Build up your soldiers in advance to prepare. Score Attack Challenge Your time to reach 100 ants is your score. Aim for the fastest record and try again and again! Earn Your Rank Your time to 100 ants decides which of 6 ranks you earn. Break 15 minutes to become the Mythic Queen. Share your result as a card whose artwork changes with your rank. Queen Power: High Risk, High Return Raise Queen Power to lay eggs up to 3× faster. The tradeoff: the Queen gets hungry up to 8× faster, while nurses must feed her, carry eggs and tend larvae. Adjust power as the colony changes.

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Hostile Seas

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Command begins now. Hostile Seas is a persistent-world naval war strategy game where Commanders build island fortresses, design warships, and lead combined sea, air, and land forces into real-time 3D tactical battles. There is no overpowered fleet here — only doctrine. Every weapon system has a hard counter: aircraft fall to anti-air, missiles die to interceptors, submarines are hunted by sonar. Copy-paste fleets lose. Commanders who think in counters win. Build your fortress. Raise turrets, expand tiles, grow your economy, and fortify your island against raiders and the AI Directorate that never sleeps. Design your fleet. Enter the warship refit yard and configure weapon mounts, armor belts, and sensor suites. Study doctrine report cards to expose enemy weaknesses before you ever fire a shot. Command combined arms. Naval fleets, aircraft squadrons, and land battlegroups move together in real-time 3D battles where positioning and counters decide the outcome, not brute force. Rise through the ranks. Train at the War College, test new doctrines in the Proving Grounds, then take your fleet into a single persistent shared world to raid Directorate strongholds and rival Commander bases. Forge alliances. Coordinate through live chat channels, sign treaties, and climb the world rankings alongside — or against — thousands of other Commanders. One command record, every device. Your research tree, blueprints, campaign progress, and achievements follow you wherever you deploy. Hostile Seas is free to play — no ads, no in-app purchases, just the fleet you build and the doctrine you master. An online connection is required to join the shared persistent world. The sea rewards the Commander who thinks. Deploy now and prove your doctrine.

Screenshots

Ant's Diary4 screens
Hostile Seas4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ant's Diary and Hostile Seas are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Ant's Diary versus Hostile Seas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnt's DiaryHostile Seas
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB5 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperNobuaki KuwabaraWEST COAST AERIAL LTD

In-app purchases

None

Ant's Diary

No in-app purchases

None

Hostile Seas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ant's Diary free?
Ant's Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hostile Seas free?
Hostile Seas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ant's Diary or Hostile Seas have ads?
Neither Ant's Diary nor Hostile Seas shows ads.

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