QuestaGame vs Microscopya
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QuestaGame
Embark on outdoor adventures to discover and photograph local wildlife. Compete with others by completing quests, identifying species, and contributing to biodiversity research. Earn rewards, level up, and build your collection while helping scientists.
- Outdoor wildlife quests
- Photograph animals and plants
- Species identification
- Clans and challenges
- Leaderboard competition
- Biodiversity contribution
- In-game rewards and leveling
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Experience the adventure of your local wildlife. QuestaGame takes you outdoors - to your backyard, a local park, a hiking trail, anywhere. Join quests and compete with other players to photograph animals and plants in the wild. Your mission: Saving life on Earth. The game includes all species in your country, using national and global databases. Submit sightings of animals and plants and receive identifications, expert feedback - plus gold reward and experience points. Join quests, buy equipment, gain levels, build your collection, join clans, conquer territories, move up the leaderboard and become one of the great adventurers of all time. All sightings are geo-tagged with location, date, time and submitted to your country's national database (with your permission) - so you can not only map your conquests, but also help scientists, researchers, planners and others record and protect you region's biodiversity while you play. Some important features: - Clans and Head-to-Head Challenges. - Comms featured allows you to see what the community is up to. - QuestaLab allows you to earn gold and gain expertise levels identifying other players' sightings. - Featured sightings...and more! For more information be sure to visit http://www.questagame.com
Microscopya
Embark on a science-themed adventure and puzzle game exploring the intricate world inside a cell. Solve challenges based on real molecular processes, personalize your avatar, and discover the wonders of life's building blocks.
- Cellular exploration
- Molecular mechanism puzzles
- Character customization
- Science-themed adventure
- Original music score
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Microscopya is a science-themed adventure and puzzle game taking players on a journey through the inside of the cell. Explore the fantastical world, solve puzzles based on real molecular mechanisms, customize your character, and experience the beauty and complexity of what makes life possible. This is the first game from Beata Science Art, featuring music by the talented Jamie van Dyck of Earthside and programming by Atelier Monarch Studios. Follow @microscopyagame on social media or visit www.microscopya.com to learn more. Special thanks to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Lyda Hill Philanthropies for making this project possible, and the American Society for Cell Biology for additional funding.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Microscopya at 4.5 against QuestaGame's 3.0. Microscopya also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (32 vs 8). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Microscopya holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 32 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 78% and 78% positive.
QuestaGame ships an update every 3 weeks, Microscopya every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QuestaGame | Microscopya |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (8 ratings) | 4.5 (32 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.2% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 522 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Earth Guardians Pty Ltd | Beata Mierzwa |
Customer experience
QuestaGame
Microscopya
Bugs and requests
QuestaGame
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes on opening after update
- App crashes when submitting sightings
- App crashes when selecting observations synced from inaturalist
- Cannot create profile/account
- App says offline when online
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- Cannot delete offline sightings without photos
- Species name display in QLab history is cut off
- Search functionality is inconsistent
- App crashes when adding field notes
- Login issues
- Syncing issues with inaturalist
- Text not readable (dark on dark background)
- Cannot upload photos if wrong one is selected
Requested features
15 requests- Allow editing submitted sightings
- Improve photo upload process (batch, remove)
- Make all text readable (contrast)
- Add iPad version support
- Allow using cameras other than phone
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- More quests/challenges
- Gallery of photos
- Ability to use multiple clans
- Fix species name display in QLab history
- Increase daily sighting limit
- Make app available on iPad
- Allow offline sightings without photos to be deleted
- Improve search functionality
- Add dark mode
- Improve app layout and navigation
Microscopya
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
QuestaGame
No in-app purchases
Microscopya
No in-app purchases









