Comparison

Tame a Pet vs TamaShell

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

Head to head
About

Tame a Pet

Features
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A virtual pet that actually answers โ€” and now it has a farm. Pick a dog, cat, dragon or bee, name it, and care for it in real time. It gets hungry, sleepy and moody, it has its own personality โ€” and it chats with you, remembering what you've been through together. TAME VILLAGE: YOUR OWN FARM A map that is yours, to build from nothing. โ€ข Five buildings: town hall, farm, sawmill, hen house and cattle pen โ€” each produces and levels up โ€ข Five crops: wheat, carrot, tomato, pumpkin and strawberry โ€ข Six farm animals: chicken, duck, pig, cow, bull and sheep. You name them, they wander the yard and chat with each other โ€ข Fence the yard, open the gate, and see who wanders off โ€ข Buy new plots of land and watch the map grow โ€ข Four seasons that change how the whole village looks Production runs in real time, with the app closed. Come back and the harvest is waiting. CARE FOR IT AND WATCH IT GROW Egg to baby, baby to adult. Time passes for real: disappear and it misses you. Feed it, bathe it, play, put it to bed. EVERY PET IS DIFFERENT Seven personality traits โ€” greedy, sleepy, studious, playful, vain, brave and fearful โ€” change how it behaves, what it likes doing, even how it talks to you. SCHOOL AND CAREER Teach your pet and see what it graduates as: athlete, teacher, developer, artist, gardener or chef. Once it graduates, it works and brings coins home every day. DECORATE THE SCENE Bedroom, garden, beach, a loft with a mezzanine, a beach house and a mansion. Buy furniture and place it wherever you like โ€” your pet interacts with what you put down: climbs into bed, sits on the couch, smells the flowers. MINIGAMES AND ACHIEVEMENTS Classic Snake and Treat Catch, both paying in coins. Tasks with real rewards, and achievements that last forever. REAL CONSEQUENCES Tantrums happen. You choose between teaching and spoiling, and that shapes who it becomes. Neglect it long enough and it leaves โ€” but it leaves behind an egg that inherits its name and memories. No death, but consequences. NO ADS. EVER. Tame a Pet has no advertising and no tracking SDK. The whole game is playable for free. TAME PREMIUM (OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION) โ€ข 30 chat messages a day (the free plan has 10) โ€ข Exclusive items, scenes and customisation โ€ข 10 minigame plays a day (instead of 3) โ€ข LAB: multiple pets with cryo chambers โ€ข Invite friends and both earn coins And this is only the beginning: the village avenue leaves the map heading east, and what lies that way is still to come. Available in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Terms of Use: https://tameapet.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://tameapet.com/privacy

About

TamaShell

Features
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TamaShell is a virtual pet that lives entirely inside a fake computer terminal. Hatch an egg, then keep your pet fed, clean, rested, and happy using simple typed commands or on screen buttons. Your pet keeps living in real time, even while the app is closed, so a few days of neglect will actually catch up with you. Along the way there is a full day and night cycle, a coin economy you can earn by putting your pet to work, a shop for food and room decorations, and more... who knows what hides away in the terminal? If your pet dies, it does not just disappear. Reset and start the next generation. Raise a pet. Keep the terminal alive.

Screenshots

Tame a Pet4 screens
TamaShell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Tame a Pet at 16.4 against TamaShell's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Tame a Pet sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and TamaShell sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Tame a Pet versus TamaShell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTame a PetTamaShell
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size77 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperImobilizaKAMIL BARCZAK

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tame a Pet

Subscriptions1
  • Tame Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
4 purchases

TamaShell

One-time4
  • Cat Form$1.99
  • Robot Form$1.99
  • $ theme creator -enable$3.99
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  • TamaShell Pro Set$5.99

Questions

Is Tame a Pet free?
Tame a Pet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TamaShell free?
TamaShell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tame a Pet or TamaShell have ads?
Neither Tame a Pet nor TamaShell shows ads.

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