Comparison

Pixel Pigeon vs Wandering Alchemist

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Pigeon

Play as a pigeon in a stealth game where you sneak, steal, and cause mischief in various urban environments. Enjoy offline play with no ads or subscriptions, and customize your bird.

Highlights
  • Stealth gameplay
  • Offline play
  • Customizable bird
  • Multiple environments
  • Mission-based objectives
  • Shareable mugshots
Features
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You are a pigeon. Everybody on the street would rather you were somewhere else. Pixel Pigeon is a stealth game about a small grey bird with a plan. Case a place from the wires above it. Watch a shopkeeper's back, count the seconds a cat keeps its eyes shut, then drop in, take what you came for, and be three roofs away before anyone works out where the noise came from. NO SIGNAL, NO PROBLEM Download it once and the whole game sits on your phone. Every city, every level, every crumb. It plays exactly the same in a plane seat, in a tunnel, on the tube, in a queue at the airport, with the phone in airplane mode and nothing at all in the bars. Nothing to stream, nothing to sign into, no account to make. Open it and it is there. WHERE YOU WORK A city rooftop at dusk. A Bangkok weekend market at full volume. A cliff above the sea, an Irish bog, the great stones of the Pyramids, a neon backstreet in Hong Kong, a night train running dark. Every place has its own crowd, its own weather and its own way of catching you. WHAT YOU DO Read a street before you cross it, then take your moment Slip past cats, work a crowd, mind the wires, ride the wind Peck, poop, topple, and generally make yourself the problem Take the day's jobs, one of which names the exact piece of mischief it wants Keep a case file of what you have pulled off in every place Get booked: pull your pigeon's mugshot and charge sheet, then share it Kit out your bird and make the nest your own Play the golf tour through Venice, the Pyramids and Bangkok THE STREET ANSWERS BACK Lamps, statues, market stalls, temple bowls: touch almost anything and something has a word to say about it. Knock one thing over and the street notices. Keep going and it starts looking for you. Some of the faces turn up again in the next city, and they remember you. BUY IT ONCE Start free. One purchase opens the rest of the game and it stays yours. No subscriptions, no ads, no timers counting down while you wait, nothing that needs a connection. A wry little story about making it through, one feather at a time. Privacy Policy: https://dro1d.org/pixelpigeon.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Wandering Alchemist

Explore your surroundings as an alchemist, gathering resources to brew potions and decorate your neighborhood. This free, offline RPG uses GPS to track your walks and offers a unique, procedurally generated game world with no ads or data collection.

Highlights
  • GPS-enabled real-world exploration
  • Resource collection and potion brewing
  • Neighborhood decoration
  • Procedurally generated game world
  • Fully offline gameplay
  • No ads or data collection
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Walk outside as a wandering alchemist. Collect resources from your neighborhood, brew potions in your cauldron, and sell them to decorate the streets you explore. Fully free and offline, no internet required on your walk. No ads, no data collection and no paywalls, the in-app purchase is just a fully optional "Support the Developer" tip. Features: • GPS tracks your real-world walks (only while the app is open) • A fully procedural game world that belongs to you • Every player sees the same generated world and resources, find something rare, tell others about it • Brew potions and fulfill the requests of merchants • Freely decorate your neighborhood • Fully offline RPG anywhere, with zero data usage • Optional street map download to help you get your bearings (one-time download, no extra data while playing) Privacy: the app never collects, transmits, or shares your data. Location is read on your device only while you play.

Screenshots

Pixel Pigeon4 screens
Wandering Alchemist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wandering Alchemist at 100% against Pixel Pigeon's 0%. Wandering Alchemist also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Pixel Pigeon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Wandering Alchemist sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Pigeon ships an update weekly, Wandering Alchemist daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pixel Pigeon versus Wandering Alchemist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel PigeonWandering Alchemist
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1815.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB159 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDRO1D LABS LIMITEDAndreas Friedle

Customer experience

Pixel Pigeon

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Wandering Alchemist

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixel Pigeon

One-time1
  • Pixel Pigeon Lifetime Access$1.99
4 purchases

Wandering Alchemist

One-time4
  • Support the Developer$1.00
  • Support the Developer$2.00
  • Support the Developer$5.00
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  • Support the Developer$10.00

Questions

Is Pixel Pigeon free?
Pixel Pigeon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wandering Alchemist free?
Wandering Alchemist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pixel Pigeon or Wandering Alchemist have ads?
Neither Pixel Pigeon nor Wandering Alchemist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Pigeon or Wandering Alchemist?
Pixel Pigeon ships an update weekly, and Wandering Alchemist daily. Most recently, Pixel Pigeon was updated on November 5, 2026 and Wandering Alchemist on November 7, 2026.

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