Walking Games vs Mettle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Walking Games
This app transforms your real-world steps into a charming farming simulation. Walk to earn in-game currency, unlock new villagers and structures, and cultivate your own cozy island. It offers a relaxing way to increase your daily activity.
- Convert steps into in-game gems
- Build and decorate a virtual island
- Unlock villagers, animals, and crops
- Offline progression
- Track walking progress
- Participate in step challenges
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Pixel Step makes walking feel like a cozy farming adventure. Turn your real-life steps into in-game progress. Walk throughout the day, earn gems, unlock villagers, build structures, grow your farm, and decorate your island at your own pace. Whether you walk a little or a lot, every step helps your village grow. FEATURES • Turn daily steps into gems • Build and decorate your cozy island • Unlock villagers, animals, crops, and structures • Let villagers help your farm progress • Join step-based challenges and collect badges • Track your walking progress in a fun and relaxing way • Play casually with offline progression Pixel Step is designed for players who want a cute, relaxing reason to move more. No pressure, no complicated workout plans — just walk, collect, build, and grow. Your steps are counted using Apple Health with your permission.
Mettle
This game turns your real-world steps into in-game attacks against monsters. Walk with friends to form a party, defeat foes, and earn coins to recruit and level up heroes. Compete on leaderboards and enjoy an ad-free experience that encourages physical activity.
- Steps deal damage to monsters
- Create parties with friends
- Recruit and level up heroes
- Daily and weekly leaderboards
- Syncs with Apple Health
- No ads
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Mettle is a free walking game where your steps are your weapon. Join a squad with your friends, take on monsters together, and level up as a team. Every real-world step you take deals damage, and every monster you defeat earns coins to recruit new heroes, like the mage, swordsman, archer and bard. Walk more, and your heroes level up and hit harder. How it works: - Pick your starting hero. When you walk in real life, your hero deals damage to monsters. - Join or create a squad and fight side by side with friends, wherever they are. - Take on a weekly expedition: a new monster every day and a boss every Sunday. - Go on hunts: forays and bounties with 47+ monsters, solo or with your squad. - Level up your squad to unlock emblems, banners, more members and tougher monsters. - Join the Weekly World Raid, where every player fights one giant boss together. - Add friends and challenge them to step duels. - Steps sync from Apple Health and hit the monster automatically, even while the app is closed. - Collect heroes across 24 lines, feed them XP from your walking, and evolve them into rarer forms. - Climb the leaderboard for today, this week, this month and all time. - No ads. Just you, your friends and a lot of walking! Note from the creator: Hey, I’m Daniel, and I built Mettle to motivate my family and friends to walk more and stay active. The first week of testing was a complete success. Everyone was hooked and genuinely making an effort to walk more to defeat the monsters together, level up their heroes, and climb the leaderboard. I designed and built Mettle entirely on my own. My goal now is to share it with any group that wants to stay active together. Happy walking!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mettle at none against Walking Games's 1. Mettle also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (26 vs 4). Walking Games's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Walking Games sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mettle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Walking Games holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mettle has 26 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Walking Games ships an update monthly, Mettle every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Walking Games | Mettle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.7 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 181 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dante Luciano | Daniel Chung |
Customer experience
Walking Games
Mettle
In-app purchases
Walking Games
- Remove Ads$9.99
Mettle
No in-app purchases






