Comparison

Chubby Monsters vs Anthaul

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

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Chubby Monsters

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Chubby Monsters combines merge mechanics with fast-paced tower defense shooting. Start with basic tanks, drag and merge them into stronger units, and build the best lineup to stop each incoming monster wave. Earn coins, unlock upgrades, and refine your strategy as difficulty ramps up. Features: - Merge tanks to create stronger defenders. - Easy to learn, challenging to master. - Multiple waves and increasing difficulty. - Satisfying combat effects and dynamic audio. - Clear progression and rewarding upgrades. If you enjoy strategic defense games with addictive merge gameplay, Chubby Monsters is for you.

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Anthaul

Build and manage an ant colony deckbuilder. Strategically tap ants into trails to forage for food, clear targets, and upgrade your colony. Unlock new queens, mutations, and face challenging bosses across five unique colonies.

Highlights
  • Ant colony deckbuilding gameplay
  • Strategic ant placement and foraging
  • Unlock and crown powerful queens
  • Mutate ants for unique abilities
  • Five distinct colonies with difficulty levels
  • Daily runs and endless mode
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Your deck is an ant colony. Tap up to five ants into a trail and send it out to forage. Every ant adds its carry, patterns multiply it with pheromone, and the food pours into the round's target. Clear the target within four trails, spend your pay in the Nest, and keep your colony fed through a season of eight rounds. EVERY ANT IS A CARD Workers carry the most. Scouts add pheromone. Nurses recount the ant tapped just before them. Soldiers keep the Anteater, the Rival Colony and Pesticide at bay. Winged ants are wild. Line them up into Pairs, Squads, Convoys, Columns and three more patterns, then choose: FORAGE with the trail you have, or SWAP ants back for new ones. The COLONY screen shows exactly what's left to draw, so every swap is an informed choice. CROWN QUEENS, BREAK THE MATH The Nest is your shop between rounds. Crown up to four queens from the 21 who turn up on its shelf: some boost a caste, some grow stronger every round, and the good ones feed each other. After round two the Royal Cell opens, offering one of seven red queens at a time, and red queens multiply instead of add, in crown order. Line up the right ones and a single trail can haul ten times the target. That's an OVERHAUL! SHAPE YOUR COLONY Stamp Marks to level up a pattern. Send the Colony Doctor to retire the ants you don't need or clone the ones you do. Tear open an egg sac and pick a hatchling, hire Workers, or mutate a Worker at random: Gold ants bring food every time they haul, Armored ants can't be eaten, Glass ants carry double until they shatter, and Pheromone-soaked ants add pheromone every play. FIVE COLONIES, SIX DIFFICULTIES Garden, Leafcutter, Fire, Army and Honeypot each want a different trail, from Fire's Soldier-heavy ranks to Army's sixty ants. Start with Garden or Fire and open the rest as you clear rounds and win. Win with a colony to open its next difficulty, from Fair Weather to Long Winter, each one adding a new hardship. BOSSES The Anteater eats your highest-carry ant. Rain shrinks your hand. The Rival Colony halves your pheromone. Pesticide grounds your Winged and quiets your Scouts. The Flood raises the final target. A DAILY RUN Every day brings a new daily run: the same colony and the same opening hand for everyone who plays it. Come back tomorrow for another. KEEP HAULING Win the season and play on. Targets climb faster every round, a boss comes every third round, and the first miss ends it. How big can your biggest haul get? FEATURES - A roguelike deckbuilder where your deck is a living colony: 5 castes, 7 patterns, 4 mutations - 28 queens to crown, including 7 red queens that multiply - 5 colonies, each with 6 difficulty levels - 5 season bosses, plus the Mudslide in Keep Hauling - A new daily run every day, the same opening hand for everyone - Endless Keep Hauling after a won season - Cute chibi ants on cel-shaded foil trading cards - Every trail's math on screen, and a log of the run - Sound on every pick, pattern and total, and haptics on iPhone - Normal, Fast or Instant scoring; tap to skip - Saves after every move: quit anytime and continue later - Plays fully offline, in portrait, on iPhone and iPad - No account, no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking

Screenshots

Chubby Monsters4 screens
Anthaul4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Chubby Monsters at Free against Anthaul's $2.99. Chubby Monsters also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On ads, 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

Chubby Monsters is free to download; Anthaul costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Chubby Monsters versus Anthaul: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChubby MonstersAnthaul
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB74 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperDang Thi Anh ThoAnthony Craig

In-app purchases

None

Chubby Monsters

No in-app purchases

None

Anthaul

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chubby Monsters free?
Chubby Monsters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anthaul free?
Anthaul costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chubby Monsters or Anthaul have ads?
Neither Chubby Monsters nor Anthaul shows ads.

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