Order Automatica vs Anthaul
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Order Automatica
Engage in strategic, automated battles on a compact grid. Plan your unit placements and tile manipulations to create devastating chain reactions against demonic foes. Master deep gameplay mechanics for endless tactical possibilities.
- Automated battles
- 3x3 ritual grid
- Unit positioning
- Tile manipulation
- Synergy building
- Relic combinations
- Challenging encounters
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Order Automatica is a dark tactical roguelite where automated battles are won before they even begin. Build deadly synergies on a small 3x3 ritual grid, position your units carefully, manipulate tiles, and prepare for brutal encounters against demonic enemies. Every move matters. What looks simple quickly becomes a deep game of: - positioning, - timing, - unit merging, - tile effects, - relic combinations, - curses, - and run-breaking synergies. Enemies attack automatically, but victory depends entirely on your planning. One clever setup can trigger devastating chain reactions. One mistake can end an entire run. Experiment with wildly different builds, adapt to unpredictable encounters, and discover strategies that completely change how the game is played. A small board. Endless possibilities. Like chess with demons.
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.
- 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Anthaul at 5.0 against Order Automatica's 4.1. Anthaul also leads on price ($2.99 vs $5.99). Order Automatica's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 1) and chart position (#17 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Order Automatica costs $5.99 and Anthaul $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Anthaul holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Order Automatica has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Order Automatica | Anthaul |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #17 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 315 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Pixel Perfect Dude S.A. | Anthony Craig |
In-app purchases
Order Automatica
No in-app purchases
Anthaul
No in-app purchases









