Comparison

BeeVille vs Ant Colony Simulator

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

Head to head
About

BeeVille

Features
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BeeVille is a cosy real-time colony sim. Your bees keep working while the app is closed, so a colony you leave overnight is a colony that got on with it.

About

Ant Colony Simulator

Experience realistic antkeeping on your phone. Start with a queen, build a formicarium, and manage your colony's needs. Survive challenges and explore different ant species in this engaging simulation game.

Highlights
  • Realistic ant life cycle simulation
  • Build and expand formicariums
  • Care for 5 different ant species
  • Survive environmental challenges and raids
  • Story mode with rescue missions
  • Colony progress tracking and journal
Features
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Keep your own ant colony — right on your phone. Ant Colony Simulator is a relaxing, realistic antkeeping game. Start with a single mated queen in a test tube, care for her through the founding stage, and watch her colony grow from the first egg to hundreds of busy workers. Build your formicarium piece by piece, keep your ants fed and watered, and protect them from everything that can go wrong. FROM ONE QUEEN TO A WHOLE COLONY • Choose your first queen and move her into a test tube with water and cotton • Watch every stage of life: eggs, larvae, pupae and the very first worker • Name your queen and follow her for her whole lifetime • Winged alates and nuptial flights once your colony matures BUILD YOUR FORMICARIUM • Connect test tubes, acrylic nests, aerated concrete nests and outworlds • Expand when the nest gets crowded and give every worker room to live • Add heat mats, thermometers, feeders and decor to your desk • Pinch to zoom in and watch individual ants walk, carry brood and forage REALISTIC ANT CARE • Feed honey for energy and protein so the larvae can grow • Keep water, humidity and temperature in the right range • Cover the nest — ants prefer the dark and get stressed by light • Clean up leftovers before mold spreads • Day and night cycle, four seasons and winter hibernation 5 REAL ANT SPECIES Black Garden Ant (Lasius niger), Harvester Ant (Messor structor), Carpenter Ant (Camponotus ligniperda), Big-headed Ant (Pheidole pallidula) and Pavement Ant (Tetramorium caespitum). Each species has its own size, colors, development times and difficulty. SURVIVE THE UNEXPECTED Chase off spiders, fight mite outbreaks, handle heat waves, cold snaps and moldy cotton, and defend your nest from enemy raids. STORY MODE: ANT RESCUE CENTER Six hand-crafted missions put you in charge of colonies in trouble — a forgotten tube, a nest that has dried out, a mite outbreak, an overcrowded nest, an aging queen and raid season. YOUR COLONY KEEPS LIVING Time passes even while the app is closed, so there is always something new to see when you come back. Track the population on charts, read the colony journal and learn real ant facts in your field notebook. Take photos of your colony with Photo Mode. Whether you are a curious beginner, a real antkeeper or just looking for a cozy virtual pet, Ant Colony Simulator brings the fascinating world of ants to your desk. Optional in-app purchases are available for coin packs. The game can be fully played without them. Privacy Policy https://appdoro.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA) https://appdoro.com/terms

Screenshots

BeeVille4 screens
Ant Colony Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

BeeVille and Ant Colony Simulator are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. BeeVille sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Ant Colony Simulator sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BeeVille versus Ant Colony Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeeVilleAnt Colony Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (50 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—50 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB392 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlex MilmanAppdoro LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

BeeVille

One-time2
  • 60 Royal Jelly$0.99
  • 500 Royal Jelly$4.99
9 purchases

Ant Colony Simulator

One-time9
  • Rubber Duck$0.99
  • 400 Coins$0.99
  • Treasure Chest$2.99
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  • 1300 Coins$2.99
  • Army Ant Starter Pack$4.99
  • 2800 Coins$5.99
  • 6000 Coins$9.99
  • 13,000 Coins$19.99
  • 21,000 Coins$29.99

Questions

Is BeeVille free?
BeeVille is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ant Colony Simulator free?
Ant Colony Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BeeVille or Ant Colony Simulator have ads?
Neither BeeVille nor Ant Colony Simulator shows ads.

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