Comparison

Hello, Lizards vs Queen Ant

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

Head to head
About

Hello, Lizards

Nurture a pixel lizard family in a virtual terrarium. Engage in feeding, temperature control, cleaning, and bonding to watch your lizards grow, breed, and unlock new patterns. Discover various species and morphs in this relaxing simulation.

Highlights
  • Pixel lizard care simulation
  • Breeding and genetics
  • Species, morph, and pattern collection
  • Daily missions and rewards
  • Offline care functionality
  • Relaxed gameplay sessions
Features
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Care for a growing lizard family in your own tiny pixel terrarium. Feeding, temperature, cleaning, bonding, and observing — five kinds of care let you track hunger, mood, cleanliness, warmth, and energy, then watch each lizard react. Steady care builds trust, advances growth, and unlocks new patterns through shedding. Adopt new companions, breed mature lizards, incubate eggs, and welcome hatchlings. As you discover different species, morphs, and patterns, your collection and family story continue to grow. [Features] · Focused pixel care for one lizard at a time — relaxed 1–3 minute sessions · Five care actions (feed / temperature / clean / bond / observe) with instant reactions · A growing lizard family with breeding, genetics, eggs, and hatching · A collection of lizard species, morphs, and patterns to discover · Long-term progress through trust levels, growth, shedding, and pattern unlocks · Daily missions that change every day, plus login-streak rewards · Forgiving design — no permanent damage even after time away, always recoverable · Contains ads · Core care is free · Premium species, rack expansions, and decorations are one-time purchases · Contains randomized items · Premium species are guaranteed; individual traits are randomized, with odds and distributions shown before purchase · Includes Morph Boxes opened with Crystals (paid currency) · Odds: Common 75%, Rare 22%, Legendary 3% · Legendary guaranteed within 30 boxes · Odds shown before opening · Care works offline · Internet is needed for new purchases, purchase checks, and pending-grant recovery on the same install Spend a little calm time with your lizard family in a cozy pixel terrarium today.

About

Queen Ant

Experience the realistic journey of raising an ant colony from a single queen to a thriving kingdom. Manage your colony's growth in real-time, respecting their need for darkness and quiet. Unlock new species and nest designs as your ant room expands.

Highlights
  • Realistic ant-keeping simulation
  • Real-time colony growth
  • Red light mode for observation
  • Expandable ant room with new species
  • Home screen widgets for colony status
Features
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One rainy summer night, a young queen lands, sheds her wings, and looks for a safe place to start her kingdom. That place is your test tube. QUEEN ANT is an ant-keeping simulator that follows the real hobby, step by step. Start with a single queen in a founding test tube. Keep her warm, dark and undisturbed while she raises her first tiny workers. Move your growing colony into a proper nest. Then do it all again with a new species — every colony on your shelf is its own little world. RAISE HER IN REAL TIME Eggs hatch and workers emerge over hours and days, not seconds. Check in for a few minutes a day and come back to real progress. Your colony keeps living while you are away. THE GOLDEN RULE: DO NOT DISTURB HER A founding queen wants darkness and silence. Check on her too often and she gets stressed — real ant keepers know the hardest part is waiting. Patience is the game. RED LIGHT MODE Ants cannot see red light. Switch it on to watch her quietly at night, just like real keepers do. GROW YOUR ANT ROOM • Move your colony from test tube to a proper nest when it is ready • Keep multiple colonies side by side on your shelf • Unlock new species, each with its own look, pace and personality • Home Screen widgets: population and hatching countdowns at a glance FAIR BY DESIGN The full journey from queen to thriving colony is free. We sell new species and nests — never timers, never energy. Waiting is the soul of this game, and it is not for sale. New species and seasonal events are on the way. Your first queen is waiting.

Screenshots

Hello, Lizards4 screens
Queen Ant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Queen Ant at none against Hello, Lizards's shown. Queen Ant also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Hello, Lizards's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Hello, Lizards sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Queen Ant sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Hello, Lizards against 3.0 for Queen Ant. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Hello, Lizards's written reviews are positive against 67% of Queen Ant's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hello, Lizards versus Queen Ant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHello, LizardsQueen Ant
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (4 ratings)3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeori LabsKUAN HUANG

Customer experience

Hello, Lizards

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Queen Ant

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Hello, Lizards

One-time12
  • Starlight Accessory Set$0.49
  • Habitat Rack Expansion II$0.99
  • Habitat Rack Expansion I$0.99
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  • Night Sky Terrarium$0.99
  • Uromastyx$1.99
  • 300 Crystals$1.99
  • Crystal Starter$1.99
  • 슈팅스타 토케이$1.99
  • 은하 게코$1.99
  • 1,000 Crystals$6.99
  • 3,200 Crystals$19.99
  • 5,500 Crystals$34.99
11 purchases

Queen Ant

One-time11
  • Weaver$2.99
  • Amberdrop$2.99
  • Goldvein$2.99
Show 8 more
  • Heartback$2.99
  • Nightglow$2.99
  • Waterbearer$2.99
  • Miller$2.99
  • Shepherd$2.99
  • Sunrunner$2.99
  • Ant Room Pro$4.99
  • All Species$12.99

Questions

Is Hello, Lizards free?
Hello, Lizards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Queen Ant free?
Queen Ant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hello, Lizards or Queen Ant?
Hello, Lizards and Queen Ant are both rated 3.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Hello, Lizards or Queen Ant have ads?
Hello, Lizards shows ads; Queen Ant does not.
Which is updated more often, Hello, Lizards or Queen Ant?
Hello, Lizards ships an update every 3 days, and Queen Ant every 3 days. Most recently, Hello, Lizards was updated on October 28, 2026 and Queen Ant on October 29, 2026.

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