Comparison

Vineyard Sim vs Exploding Piggies

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

Head to head
About

Vineyard Sim

Manage a working vineyard over a 5-year campaign, making critical decisions from tending vines to blending and aging wines. Build your reputation to unlock better buyers and achieve winemaking mastery.

Highlights
  • 5-year vineyard campaign
  • Seasonal vineyard management
  • Winemaking and blending
  • Reputation and buyer system
  • Grape variety and aging options
  • Unlockable legacy titles
Features
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A cozy wine-making sim about patience. Grow the grapes, pick the harvest at its peak, make the wine, then decide which bottles to sell now and which to hold until they are worth more. Raise a glass and tilt it: the rim's color tells you how far each wine has come. Run a working vineyard one season at a time: winter, spring and summer are a turn each, in every campaign. Prune in winter, manage water and canopy through summer, fight disease and watch every block ripen. Then comes the hardest call of the year: pick now, or wait a month for riper fruit and risk the weather. Every option shows the wine it will make before you choose. At the winery, choose a fermentation (cool and safe, warm to bring out the grape, or wild yeast: a gamble that can make your best wine or your worst) and a vessel: stainless steel, oak or concrete. Plant a second grape and blend the two. Then the patience part. Wines in oak and concrete gain value as they age, but storage is billed every month, and cash in the cellar is cash you cannot spend. For every wine you see the sale you'd make now and what one more year nets after storage, so you choose what to hold. From 24 months, every buyer pays more for age-worthy reds, and the premium buyers pay the most. Read the rim: raise the glass from a wine in the cellar or on the sale screen and tilt your phone (or drag the glass). The rim runs from young to its peak to fading. Age-worthy wines hide one finest season inside their peak, and a bright edge on the rim gives it away. Bottle the wine then and it keeps its peak value, plus 10%. Sell to four buyers, from the local wine shop to international distributors. Reputation opens the better ones. Each year's summary names what held your vintage back, and your campaign ends with every vintage you made laid out on a barrel rack. Features: - Three campaigns, all played a season at a time: Quick (5 vintages), Full Arc (20 vintages) and Endless - Harvest timing that shows the wine from picking now or waiting, and the weather risk of waiting - Ripeness that matters: ripe is the peak, over-ripe costs quality - 3 fermentations × 3 vessels, each showing the resulting quality, tier and value - Sell or hold: the sale you'd make now and what one more year nets after storage - Peak windows for every wine in your cellar - Read the rim: tilt the glass to read a wine's age and find its finest season - Six grapes: Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Sangiovese, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir - Four regions with their own climate risks: Mendoza, Marlborough, Napa Valley and Tuscany - The Competition: enter your best wines and fill your Medal Case - Quality tiers from Table Wine to Grand Cru; reputation from Unknown to Prestigious - Four upgrades: Drip Irrigation, Weather Station, Barrel Program, Tasting Room - Legacy titles earned by how consistently you make great wine; Grand Master needs a strong finish - Plays offline, in 10 languages No ads, ever. Mendoza and Marlborough are free to play. Napa Valley, Tuscany, the Estate Bundle (every region, three estate slots and Endless from day one) and the Vintner's Patron pack are optional in-app purchases.

About

Exploding Piggies

Features
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Exploding Piggies is a fast, one-touch arcade experience built around controlled chaos. Pop pigs, build streaks, and trigger explosive chain reactions before 20 misses end your run. Easy to start. Hard to master. Completely ad-free. CHAIN THE CHAOS Pop nuclear pigs to blast nearby targets, unleash ultra strikes, and turn a single tap into a screen-clearing combo. BATTLE FOUR BOSSES Take on the Hog-Ship, Sky Hog, Cyber Hog, and Fortress. Each encounter changes the rules with armor, weak spots, escorts, split phases, and a ticking clock. LEARN EVERY PIG Some pigs need multiple taps. Others unleash nuclear blasts or electrical bursts. Choose the right target before the board overwhelms you. DYNAMIC POP DEBRIS & JUICE Watch hats, goggles, helmets, and mud splats tumble in 2D space and land on the background floor with every pop. MAKE IT YOURS Give your piggies custom names, add your own cropped photo, and discover or unlock 14 playful skins—from Ninja and Cyber Neon to Celestial Monarch. POWER UP YOUR RUN Spend earned rubies on Nuclear Strikes, Ultra Nuclear Strikes, and Refills when a run is on the line. COMPETE AND COMPLETE Climb the global Game Center leaderboard, unlock 50 achievements, and chase goals for scores, streaks, flawless runs, bosses, special pigs, and more. SYNC YOUR PROGRESS Keep high scores, rubies, unlocked skins, power-ups, and challenge progress seamlessly in sync with iCloud. WATCH THE WORLD REACT Hand-illustrated skies shift from bright days to sunsets, eclipses, and deep night while expressive sky mascots celebrate your streaks—and panic when pigs slip past. SEE HOW YOU DID Every game-over summary shows your score, level, pigs popped, special-pig counters, and best streak. ACCESSIBILITY BUILT-IN Native support for Reduce Motion and Dim Flashing Lights preferences for a tailored visual experience. No ads. Just piggies.

Screenshots

Vineyard Sim4 screens
Exploding Piggies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Vineyard Sim at 15.0 against Exploding Piggies's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Vineyard Sim sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Exploding Piggies sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vineyard Sim ships an update every 9 days, Exploding Piggies fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Vineyard Sim versus Exploding Piggies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVineyard SimExploding Piggies
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB38 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperAnfre Technologies LLCSaurabh Goyal

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Vineyard Sim

One-time4
  • Estate Bundle: Napa & Tuscany$2.49
  • Unlock Napa Valley$2.99
  • Unlock Tuscany$2.99
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  • Vintner's Patron$2.99
2 purchases

Exploding Piggies

One-time2
  • Starter Gems Pack$0.99
  • Best Value Gem Pack$4.99

Questions

Is Vineyard Sim free?
Vineyard Sim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Exploding Piggies free?
Exploding Piggies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vineyard Sim or Exploding Piggies have ads?
Neither Vineyard Sim nor Exploding Piggies shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vineyard Sim or Exploding Piggies?
Vineyard Sim ships an update every 9 days, and Exploding Piggies fortnightly. Most recently, Vineyard Sim was updated on November 5, 2026 and Exploding Piggies on October 31, 2026.

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