Hatch Cats vs Dumpling Game
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hatch Cats
Collect and hatch over 500 unique cats, each with distinct traits and skills. Build and upgrade your backyard colony, send cats on missions, and discover new breeds at your own pace. Enjoy gentle gameplay with frequent rewards and offline earnings.
- Hatch over 500 unique cats
- Collect cats with different rarities and traits
- Build and upgrade your backyard colony
- Send cats on timed missions
- Earn rewards offline
- Gentle, paced gameplay
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Welcome to Hatch Cats, a cozy backyard collection game about tiny wins, cute discoveries, and building a cat colony at your own pace. Start with a sunny little base, a handful of food, and one simple goal: hatch more cats. Tap the backyard to gather food, warm eggs, meet new cats, and turn your quiet corner into a growing colony full of personalities, skills, and surprises. With over 500 cats to unlock, every hatch can feel like a new little discovery. Cats can have different rarities, colors, patterns, personalities, and skills, so each egg gives you a chance to find a new favorite. Some cats are common and comforting. Some are rare discoveries. Some are the kind you keep checking back for because their name, look, or skill just feels perfect. HATCH A HUGE CATDEX Collect cats from Basic, Rare, and Mythic eggs. Build your Catdex, discover new traits, chase rarer cats, and claim rewards as your collection grows. With more than 500 cats waiting to be found, there is always another name, color, pattern, or rarity hiding in the next egg. BUILD YOUR BACKYARD Food keeps your colony moving. Tap for quick boosts, let your cats earn while you are away, and upgrade your base into a busier, better home. Unlock more room, improve your progress, and watch your sunny backyard slowly become a real little cat world. CARE FOR YOUR CATS Pet your cats, favorite the ones you love most, level them up, merge duplicates, rehome extras, and breed new eggs when your colony is ready. Hearts and pawprints help you unlock more space, more options, and more reasons to keep growing. SEND CATS ON MISSIONS Put your cats to work on cozy timed missions like fishing trips, pantry patrols, alley prowls, blanket shifts, and porch parades. Match the right skill to the right mission for better rewards, then welcome your cats home with food, hearts, and pawprints. ALWAYS SOMETHING TO CLAIM Colony goals, daily chores, Catdex milestones, hatch timers, mission rewards, offline earnings, and shop upgrades give you useful little things to do without turning the game into work. Open the app for a minute or settle in for a longer session; either way, your cats keep nudging the colony forward. FIND YOUR OWN ROUTINE Maybe you want to save food for the next egg. Maybe you want to level one favorite cat until they become your tiny superstar. Maybe you want to fill out the Catdex, breed new generations, chase rare finds, or check in for a few quick rewards. Hatch Cats gives you a bunch of small goals so you can play the way that feels good. COME BACK TO SOMETHING NICE Eggs keep warming, cats keep helping, and offline earnings give you a reason to smile when you return. Hatch Cats is built for gentle check-ins: a hatch here, a mission there, a new upgrade when you have enough food, and one more tiny decision before you put the phone down. Small choices add up. A few taps can buy an egg. One hatch can unlock a reward. One mission can push you closer to your next cozy goal. The colony grows through simple, satisfying steps that make every return feel useful. MADE FOR COZY CHECK-INS Hatch Cats is for players who like collection games, idle progress, cute cats, satisfying upgrades, and relaxed goals. There are no stressful battles to master and no complicated build paths to memorize. Just hatch, collect, upgrade, care, and enjoy the steady feeling of your little world getting better. Optional rewarded ads are available for bonus help, but the core game is built around steady cozy progress. Play at your pace, collect the cats you love, and come back whenever you want another tiny win. Your next favorite cat might be waiting in the next egg.
Dumpling Game
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Make a squishy dumpling from scratch, then squish it as much as you like. DIY Dumpling is a calm, tactile toy: soft dough that dents under your finger and slowly rises back, a bamboo steamer, and a growing basket of dumplings with little faces. MAKE YOUR OWN • Pick a dough and knead it smooth: the lumps disappear under your finger • Add a filling you can see through the thin skin • Pinch the pleats, then decorate with faces and toppings • Steam it in a bamboo basket. Now and then a dumpling comes out with a rare Twinkle, Shimmer or Honey finish, and a voice announces its funny name SQUISH AND PLAY • Soft-body physics: press, stretch and squeeze, then watch the slow rise • Your dumplings live in a big bamboo basket: toss them, stack them, bump them into each other • They giggle when a neighbor lands on them, yawn and doze off when left alone, and wave when you come back GOALS WITHOUT PRESSURE • An album of 24 picture cards, with a new dough, filling, face or hat for every 5 you complete • A panda, a kitty and a bunny drop by with a picture wish. Hand them any dumpling and they'll be delighted • No timers, no lives, no losing SHARE • Turn any dumpling into a photo card with its name and finish, then share it or save it to Photos QUIET BY DESIGN No ads, no account, no internet needed. We don't collect any data. Making dumplings has no limit. A one-time purchase, Unlock Everything, opens every dough, filling, face and topping in the kitchen, plus the album cards that use them. Privacy Policy: https://apps.dvoryashin.com/squishy-steamer/privacy Support: https://apps.dvoryashin.com/squishy-steamer/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hatch Cats at none against Dumpling Game's 1. Dumpling Game's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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. Dumpling Game sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hatch Cats asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Hatch Cats | Dumpling Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 197 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leegan Swafford | Kyrylo Dvoriashyn |
In-app purchases
Hatch Cats
No in-app purchases
Dumpling Game
- Unlock Everything$9.99
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