HamBalls vs Fishful Thinking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
HamBalls
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Dig, break, collect, and relax in HamBalls! Carve your way through the soil, break wax obstacles, and collect fresh vegetables as you make your way through each stage. Every level offers simple puzzles, satisfying interactions, and relaxing ASMR-inspired sounds designed to make each play session feel calm and cozy. Take your time, try different paths, and enjoy a laid-back puzzle adventure with your hamster companion.
Fishful Thinking
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Build the aquarium you always wanted. Fishful Thinking is an idle aquarium sim. Stock a tank, plant it out, furnish it however you like โ then close the app and let it live. Your fish keep growing, breeding and earning while you're gone. COLLECT 24 SPECIES Start with a cheap guppy and work your way up to the showpieces: koi, discus, arowana, even a freshwater stingray. Six of them can't be bought at all. BREED SOMETHING NO SHOP SELLS Pair two grown fish and see what hatches โ a Prism Guppy, an Opal Koi, a Celestial Discus. Every fish carries its own traits: Greedy, Hardy, Shy, Fertile, Ancient and more. CATCH A VISITOR Wild fish swim up to the glass. Win them over in a quick match-3 or bubble-popping round and they join your tank. PLANT IT AND WALK AWAY Plant a sprout, come back to a jungle. Keep the water clean and the oxygen up, and your plants and fish thrive together. FURNISH IT YOUR WAY Driftwood, pots, coral, a sunken shipwreck โ put every piece exactly where you want it. Change the sand and the whole tank changes: black basalt makes a neon tetra glow, bleached coral sand turns the same fish into a postcard. PUT THE TANK ON STAFF A little boat feeds your fish while you're at work, and a magnet gathers the coins. Come back to a tank that kept going without you. IT'S ALIVE It's not a screensaver. Feed them and keep the water clean and they flourish. Let a predator in and you can lose one for good โ so be ready to drive it off. NO ADS Nothing interrupts your tank. Optional pearl packs are there if you want to speed things up. Your aquarium is backed up to your own iCloud account, so it follows you to a new iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Fishful Thinking at none against HamBalls's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. HamBalls sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Fishful Thinking sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | HamBalls | Fishful Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 234 MB | 207 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | YOUHA JUNG | Cat Tran |
In-app purchases
HamBalls
- 1,000 Coins$0.99
- 5,000 Coins$2.99
- 12,000 Coins$4.99
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- Boss Pass$7.99
Fishful Thinking
- Handful of Pearls$0.99
- Pouch of Pearls$2.99
- Jar of Pearls$4.99
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- Chest of Pearls$9.99





