Comparison

PixelBay 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

PixelBay

Features
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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.

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

PixelBay4 screens
Queen Ant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Queen Ant at every 4 days against PixelBay's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PixelBay ships an update every 2 weeks, Queen Ant every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PixelBay versus Queen Ant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelBayQueen Ant
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer志跃 王KUAN HUANG

In-app purchases

None

PixelBay

No in-app purchases

None

Queen Ant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PixelBay free?
PixelBay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Queen Ant free?
Queen Ant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PixelBay or Queen Ant have ads?
Neither PixelBay nor Queen Ant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PixelBay or Queen Ant?
PixelBay ships an update every 2 weeks, and Queen Ant every 4 days. Most recently, PixelBay was updated on September 17, 2026 and Queen Ant on October 1, 2026.

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