Comparison

Rat Raid vs Virtual Pet

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

Head to head
About

Rat Raid

Defend your farm from waves of mutant rats by gathering resources, crafting weapons, and upgrading your defenses. Fight to protect your crops and home in this action-packed defense game.

Highlights
  • Defend farm from mutant rats
  • Gather resources
  • Craft powerful weapons
  • Upgrade equipment
  • Survive endless waves
  • Explore and collect
Features
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Defend your farm, craft powerful weapons, and wipe out waves of mutant rats! The farm is under attack! A mysterious mutation has turned ordinary rats into vicious monsters, and they’re coming in endless waves! Take control of a brave farmer and fight to protect her home, crops, and everything she has worked so hard to build. Explore the farm and gather valuable resources scattered across the land. Chop, mine, collect, and harvest everything you can to keep your defenses growing. Every resource can make the difference between holding the line and watching your farm fall. Craft powerful weapons and upgrade your equipment to become stronger with every battle. Improve your tools, unlock new gear, and build up your arsenal to deal with increasingly dangerous mutant rats. The stronger the invasion becomes, the stronger you’ll need to become! Defend different areas of the farm, survive rat waves, and push back the growing rat infestation. Keep improving your equipment, expand your defenses, and turn your farm into an unstoppable fortress! The mutant rats won’t stop coming. Gather resources, upgrade your gear, and fight your way through the invasion. Can you save the farm and drive the mutant rats back for good?

About

Virtual Pet

Care for a virtual bear by feeding, bathing, and playing with it. Engage in mini-games to earn coins, customize your pet's appearance, and watch it grow. Enjoy offline play and language support.

Highlights
  • Feed and bathe virtual pet
  • Play 13 mini-games
  • Customize appearance
  • Unlock new clothes and achievements
  • Offline play supported
  • Syncs across devices with iCloud
Features
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Meet BuuDuu — a soft, round, very huggable little bear who can't wait to be your best friend! BuuDuu gets hungry, sleepy, grubby and bored, just like a real pet. Keep an eye on the four meters — food, energy, clean and fun — and give your bear everything it needs to stay happy. FEED Drag snacks straight into BuuDuu's mouth! Choose from 54 yummy treats — strawberries, pizza, sushi, cupcakes, ramen and more — and watch those sparkly eyes light up. BUBBLE BATH Pop BuuDuu in the tub, scrub up a mountain of bubbles, rinse with the shower and towel off. Squeaky clean! DRESS UP Crowns, cowboy hats, flower crowns, heart-shaped glasses and more. Try things on in the mirror, then buy your favourites with the coins you earn. 13 MINI-GAMES Bounce up through the clouds in Jump, race over the hills, shoot hoops, swipe fruit, match three, merge, pop bubbles, find the pairs and more. Every game earns coins and makes BuuDuu happy. DANCE & SING Drum along to the beat and BuuDuu dances and sings with you. SWEET DREAMS Tuck BuuDuu into bed at night — the lights go down, the Zzz's float up, and your bear wakes up full of energy. GROWS WITH YOU Every level makes BuuDuu a little bigger, from a tiny cub to a big buddy — and unlocks new clothes along the way. Collect 54 achievements as you go. MAKE IT YOURS Pick a fur colour, change the wallpaper, rug, window, plant and more, and give your bear a name all of its own. - Plays offline - Your characters sync between your iPhone and iPad with iCloud - In 14 languages BuuDuu is waiting for you. Say hello! Privacy Policy: https://apps.c2.me/p/privacy Terms of Use: https://apps.c2.me/p/terms

Screenshots

Rat Raid4 screens
Virtual Pet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Virtual Pet at none against Rat Raid's 19. Virtual Pet also leads on ads (none vs shown). Rat Raid's advantage is ratings volume (558 vs 35) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Rat Raid sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. Virtual Pet asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rat Raid holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rat Raid has 558 ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rat Raid ships an update every 4 days, Virtual Pet every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Rat Raid versus Virtual Pet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRat RaidVirtual Pet
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (558 ratings) — better4.7 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews27.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings558 — better35
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size475 MB59 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developer24 HIT Riga SIAC2M Technologies Inc.

Customer experience

Rat Raid

All ratings107 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive27.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative61.1%

Virtual Pet

All ratings30 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

19 purchases

Rat Raid

One-time19
  • Hard 1$0.99
  • Hard 1 offer$0.99
  • Hard 2$4.99
Show 16 more
  • Hard 2 offer$4.99
  • Elite wheat farmer$7.99
  • Elite corn farmer$7.99
  • Elite carrot farmer$7.99
  • Elite tomato farmer$7.99
  • Elite pumpkin farmer$7.99
  • Elite strawberry farmer$7.99
  • Elite sunflower farmer$7.99
  • Elite grapes farmer$7.99
  • Hard Pack 3$9.99
  • No ads pack$9.99
  • X2 Tool damage forever$11.99
  • X2 Weapon damage forever$12.99
  • No ads VIP pack$22.99
  • No Ads Vip Renewal for 7 Days$22.99
  • Elite workers pack with discount$31.99
None

Virtual Pet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rat Raid free?
Rat Raid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Virtual Pet free?
Virtual Pet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rat Raid or Virtual Pet?
Rat Raid is rated higher. Rat Raid averages 4.9 out of 5 from 558 ratings, while Virtual Pet averages 4.7 from 35 ratings.
Do Rat Raid or Virtual Pet have ads?
Rat Raid shows ads; Virtual Pet does not.
Which is updated more often, Rat Raid or Virtual Pet?
Rat Raid ships an update every 4 days, and Virtual Pet every 3 days. Most recently, Rat Raid was updated on October 28, 2026 and Virtual Pet on October 29, 2026.

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