Comparison

Pixel Bay vs Tether Arcade

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Tether Arcade

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Pixel Bay4 screens
Tether Arcade4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tether Arcade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pixel Bay asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pixel Bay versus Tether Arcade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel BayTether Arcade
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.614.0.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size519 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer志跃 王Adolfo Orlandini

In-app purchases

None

Pixel Bay

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tether Arcade

One-time1
  • Tether Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Pixel Bay free?
Pixel Bay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tether Arcade free?
Tether Arcade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pixel Bay or Tether Arcade have ads?
Tether Arcade shows ads; Pixel Bay does not.

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