Pixel Bay vs Tether Arcade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Bay
Explore vibrant pixel-art ocean destinations, discover marine life, and collect artifacts. Restore a damaged logbook and build your own underwater aquarium with found species. This is a relaxing adventure focused on observation and collection.
- Explore six real ocean destinations
- Discover and collect marine life
- Recover research artifacts
- Build and decorate an aquarium
- Pixel-art 3D underwater scenes
- Device save and iCloud sync
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Become the newest nature observer at Pixel Bay and help restore the water-damaged Tide Log. Travel across a pixel-art world map to six real ocean destinations: the Great Barrier Reef, Maldives, Raja Ampat, Darwin Island, the Red Sea, and Palau. Each dive pairs a short field briefing with a focused mission, from locating red coral to following a jellyfish through a strong current. EXPLORE AT YOUR OWN PACE Choose any destination, study the local habitat, and return safely before your oxygen runs out. DISCOVER AND COLLECT Encounter distinctive marine life, recover keepsakes and research artifacts, and build a record of every find. BUILD YOUR OCEAN HOME Arrange treasures in your collection room. Add discovered species to your aquarium, feed them, interact with them, and decorate their habitat. A QUIET PIXEL-ART ADVENTURE Enjoy colorful 3D underwater scenes, concise story moments, and a collection-driven journey about observation rather than conquest. Progress is saved on your device and synced with iCloud when available. No account is required.
Tether Arcade
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Tether is a one-touch arcade game. No account, no sign-in, no in-app purchases and no ads. It works fully offline. HOW TO PLAY Hold anywhere to hook the nearest anchor and swing around it. Release to fly off along the tangent, then hold again to catch the next one. There is no brake and no undo - just how far you get before the wipeout. SKIM THE SAWS Saws sit between the anchors. Cutting close to one without touching it stacks your multiplier, so the tighter your line, the faster the score climbs. Play it safe and you score slowly. Play it greedy and you score fast. DAY STREAK Come back on consecutive days and your streak raises the score floor you start every run from. SKINS New looks unlock as your best score climbs, from the first at 60 all the way to 1500. SHARE Every run ends with a card of your score, ready to share. LANGUAGES The game reads the device language at launch and shows its text in whichever of its thirteen supported languages matches: English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian and Thai. Any other language falls back to English.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pixel Bay at none against Tether Arcade's 1. Pixel Bay also leads on ads (none vs shown). Tether Arcade's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 16.6). On price 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. Tether Arcade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pixel Bay asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Pixel Bay | Tether Arcade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 14.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 519 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 志跃 王 | Adolfo Orlandini |
In-app purchases
Pixel Bay
No in-app purchases
Tether Arcade
- Tether Pro$2.99









