PixelBay vs Bliplings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PixelBay
A relaxing game combining aquarium care, pixel art, and match-3 puzzles. Raise and decorate your underwater world, nurture fish, and enjoy pressure-free gameplay. Your fish grow and progress even when you're offline.
- Build and customize pixel aquariums
- Collect and care for various fish species
- Decorate underwater environments
- Play match-3 puzzle mini-games
- Relaxed, pressure-free gameplay
- Automatic progress saving
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Welcome to Pixel Bay, a relaxing game that brings together aquarium care, charming pixel art, and match-3 puzzles. Build Your Pixel Aquarium Collect clownfish, blue tangs, puffers, and angelfish. Feed them, interact with them, and keep their water clean as they grow from young fish into adults. Meet Every Companion Give each fish a name and discover its age, personality, growth status, and companionship level. The longer you stay together, the closer your friendship becomes. Decorate Your Underwater Home Collect seaweed, coral, treasure chests, and castles. Move decorations freely and create a pixel aquarium that feels completely your own. Play Starry Match-3 Puzzles Swap neighboring tiles, create matches, trigger cascades, and collect stars before you run out of moves. Earn shells and fish food, then bring your rewards back to the aquarium. Relaxed, Pressure-Free Care Your fish continue progressing while you are away. Low conditions may pause growth, but fish never die and you never suffer permanent loss. Keep Your Progress Safe Fish status, names, decorations, resources, and high scores are saved automatically on your device. Optional iCloud saves let you back up and restore your progress. Helpful Reminders Choose whether to receive care alerts, growth updates, companionship milestones, or a gentle daily reminder. Return to Pixel Bay and meet your first underwater companion today.
Bliplings
Raise and collect unique virtual pets from egg to elder. Care for them, play games, and discover new forms. Unlock more creatures and surprises with an optional one-time purchase.
- Hatch and raise virtual pets
- Discover new creature forms
- Play games with your pets
- Customize pet environments
- Collect a variety of Bliplings
- Optional full game unlock
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Meet your Blipling Hatch a weird little creature and raise it from Egg to Elder. Feed it, play with it, keep it clean, give it some attention, and see where its life takes it. Because the fun part is… you never quite know what your Blipling will become. Raise, play, discover. Care for your Blipling, play games together, build your Bond, and watch it grow through every stage of life. Fill your Collection with strange new forms, discover Ducks, hire a Babysitter when you need a hand, and customize their world along the way. Bliplings is free to start, with an optional one-time Full Game unlock that opens up even more creatures, colors, surprises, and things to discover. What will you hatch?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PixelBay at 100% against Bliplings's 0%. PixelBay also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Bliplings's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Bliplings sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PixelBay asks for nothing beyond the download.
PixelBay holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of PixelBay's written reviews are positive against 0% of Bliplings's.
PixelBay ships an update every 3 weeks, Bliplings every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PixelBay | Bliplings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 志跃 王 | TRAVIS DARREN COX |
Customer experience
PixelBay
Bliplings
In-app purchases
PixelBay
No in-app purchases
Bliplings
- Full Game$4.99
