Comparison

Timberhold vs Ant Colony Simulator

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

Head to head
About

Timberhold

Features
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Timberhold is a cozy isometric lumber RPG you can play in five-minute pockets or settle into for an evening. You start with a sharp axe and a small clearing. You finish with a working logging camp, a sawmill humming through planks, and a frontier that pushes back the trees ring by ring. THE LOOP Walk up to a tree and hold the chop button. Fell it. Strip its limbs. Buck the trunk. Drag the stacked logs to your sawmill to plank them up, or take them straight to the merchant for raw timber pay. Coins go back into sharper axes, a faster sawmill, better hauling — and into building out your camp. TEN TIMBER SPECIES Pine and oak are everyday work. Birch, heartpine, and maple show up once you've earned a better axe. Walnut, cherry, mahogany, and bog oak hide in the rarer biomes. Frostpine waits at the far edge of the map, where the snow line starts. A WORLD THAT GROWS A macro-biome generator decides where mixed humid forests give way to high rocky stands or wet drainage groves. Each ring you unlock changes what trees grow nearby and how valuable they are. The world is procedurally generated from a seed, so it stays consistent across sessions while still feeling hand-laid out. CAMP PROGRESSION Stockpile enough milled logs and you can build a campfire, then a tent, then a workbench. The workbench unlocks crafting recipes — sharper saw blades that hit harder, sign posts that mark your camp, rope coils that let you haul more wood per trip. DAY AND NIGHT A short day/night cycle drifts the light from cool dawn to noon glare to amber sunset to a quiet starlit dark. Ambient audio shifts with it. You can keep working at night — the trees don't sleep either. ACCESSIBILITY VoiceOver labels on every interactive control. Dynamic Type so the HUD scales with your iOS text size. Reduce Motion gates the springy animations. Sufficient contrast on chips and buttons. Built to be played one-handed if that's what your day looks like. WHAT YOU WON'T FIND HERE No accounts. No ads. No analytics or telemetry. No internet connection required — Timberhold runs entirely on your device. Saves stay local. There's no shop except the in-game merchant, and there are no in-app purchases. BUILT BY ONE PERSON Timberhold is built and maintained solo by an independent developer at CGRD LLC. It's released as a complete, finished v1 — not a free-to-play live service. You buy it once and you own it.

About

Ant Colony Simulator

Experience realistic antkeeping on your phone. Start with a queen, build a formicarium, and manage your colony's needs. Survive unexpected events and explore different ant species in this engaging simulation game.

Highlights
  • Realistic ant life cycle simulation
  • Build and customize formicariums
  • Manage ant needs (food, water, temperature)
  • Survive environmental challenges and raids
  • Play with 5 different ant species
  • Story mode with rescue missions
  • Colony continues to live offline
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Keep your own ant colony — right on your phone. Ant Colony Simulator is a relaxing, realistic antkeeping game. Start with a single mated queen in a test tube, care for her through the founding stage, and watch her colony grow from the first egg to hundreds of busy workers. Build your formicarium piece by piece, keep your ants fed and watered, and protect them from everything that can go wrong. FROM ONE QUEEN TO A WHOLE COLONY • Choose your first queen and move her into a test tube with water and cotton • Watch every stage of life: eggs, larvae, pupae and the very first worker • Name your queen and follow her for her whole lifetime • Winged alates and nuptial flights once your colony matures BUILD YOUR FORMICARIUM • Connect test tubes, acrylic nests, aerated concrete nests and outworlds • Expand when the nest gets crowded and give every worker room to live • Add heat mats, thermometers, feeders and decor to your desk • Pinch to zoom in and watch individual ants walk, carry brood and forage REALISTIC ANT CARE • Feed honey for energy and protein so the larvae can grow • Keep water, humidity and temperature in the right range • Cover the nest — ants prefer the dark and get stressed by light • Clean up leftovers before mold spreads • Day and night cycle, four seasons and winter hibernation 5 REAL ANT SPECIES Black Garden Ant (Lasius niger), Harvester Ant (Messor structor), Carpenter Ant (Camponotus ligniperda), Big-headed Ant (Pheidole pallidula) and Pavement Ant (Tetramorium caespitum). Each species has its own size, colors, development times and difficulty. SURVIVE THE UNEXPECTED Chase off spiders, fight mite outbreaks, handle heat waves, cold snaps and moldy cotton, and defend your nest from enemy raids. STORY MODE: ANT RESCUE CENTER Six hand-crafted missions put you in charge of colonies in trouble — a forgotten tube, a nest that has dried out, a mite outbreak, an overcrowded nest, an aging queen and raid season. YOUR COLONY KEEPS LIVING Time passes even while the app is closed, so there is always something new to see when you come back. Track the population on charts, read the colony journal and learn real ant facts in your field notebook. Take photos of your colony with Photo Mode. Whether you are a curious beginner, a real antkeeper or just looking for a cozy virtual pet, Ant Colony Simulator brings the fascinating world of ants to your desk. Optional in-app purchases are available for coin packs. The game can be fully played without them. Privacy Policy https://appdoro.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA) https://appdoro.com/terms

Screenshots

Timberhold3 screens
Ant Colony Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timberhold at none against Ant Colony Simulator's 9. Ant Colony Simulator's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). On price, update cadence, ads 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

Both are free to download. Ant Colony Simulator sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Timberhold asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Timberhold versus Ant Colony Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimberholdAnt Colony Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (22 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—22 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB364 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperLance DyeAppdoro LLC

In-app purchases

None

Timberhold

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Ant Colony Simulator

One-time9
  • Rubber Duck$0.99
  • 400 Coins$0.99
  • Treasure Chest$2.99
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  • 1300 Coins$2.99
  • Army Ant Starter Pack$4.99
  • 2800 Coins$5.99
  • 6000 Coins$9.99
  • 13,000 Coins$19.99
  • 21,000 Coins$29.99

Questions

Is Timberhold free?
Timberhold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ant Colony Simulator free?
Ant Colony Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Timberhold or Ant Colony Simulator have ads?
Neither Timberhold nor Ant Colony Simulator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timberhold or Ant Colony Simulator?
Timberhold ships an update every 3 days, and Ant Colony Simulator every 3 days. Most recently, Timberhold was updated on October 28, 2026 and Ant Colony Simulator on October 31, 2026.

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