Quirkies Evolution vs Idle evolution
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quirkies Evolution
Explore the fascinating process of evolution through interactive gameplay. Guide populations of creatures by selecting mates and influencing traits to ensure survival and adaptation. Discover new characteristics, learn through engaging content, and track your progress via a detailed family tree.
- Simulate natural selection and reproduction
- Influence trait evolution through mate selection
- Explore genetic recombination and mutation
- Learn via educational videos and podcasts
- Earn badges and survival points
- Manipulate genes in the biolab
- Track lineage with family tree and population view
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This game teaches how evolution works: quirkies evolve through natural selection, reproduction, recombination and mutation of genes. The basics: by selecting mates who get to reproduce, you and other players simulate the environment in which the best quirkies survive. You can choose a trait that you would like the population to have (do this on the settings screen). As you play the game, try to select quirkies with that trait. In each generation, the offspring inherit the genes from the parents. The trait that you picked will become common throughout the population. Your fitness score at the top of the main screen will improve, and you win the game with high enough fitness over generations. But quirkies might also be rejected by mates, experience harmful mutations, and risk extinction. As you play, quirkies will entertain you with funny comments (even with speech), quiz your understanding of evolution, and make suggestions from an amazing range of educational videos and podcasts. Earn badges through these activities! Your quirkies will evolve new traits such as colors, nose, mouth, limbs, hair, and more by regulatory gene adaptations. Explore it all through the family tree (showing how genes are inherited) and population view. You can also earn survival points with mini-games: help your offspring feed, fight challengers, and find their parents. And don't tell anyone, but if you get to the biolab, you can manipulate your quirkie's genes! Evolved a really cute quirkie? You can give it a name (it will also get a scientific species name), save it for later, and share it with your friends! (Parents, no worries --- your kid cannot post on social media without your permission.) You can get news updates, when one of your quirkies has new siblings or offspring. And then you can explore the families of your quirkies: their parents, siblings, mates, and offspring. Iris Menczer (4th grade) and her dad created this game for kids to have fun learning about evolution. Evolutionary biologists have helped make it more educational. Hope you enjoy both the fun and the learning!
Idle evolution
Explore the 4-billion-year history of life on Earth through an engaging idle game. Learn about ancient creatures and human culture while restoring biological forms and unlocking evolutionary mysteries. Experience a blend of casual gameplay and educational content.
- Casual idle gameplay
- Popular science education
- Biological restoration
- Intellectual equipment technology
- Unlock mysteries of life
- Experience life evolution
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"Life on Earth" is not an ordinary idle game, but also a professional education game about life evolution. You can not only experience the easy and funny idle evolution games, but also learn the knowledge about mysterious ancient creatures and human culture. ---Story background--- Life has evolved for 4 billion years. Since the birth of human beings, only a million of years have passed. We can only occupy a few minutes on the timeline of life evolution. In the struggle against nature, these great prehistory creatures have stepped from the ocean to the land, from the low level to the high level, and on the Earth - our common home, they painted a colorful and shining historical picture! You are a scientist in the paleontology laboratory. With the help of your robot assistant, you can study the history of paleontology, draw a blueprint for life evolution, and unlock the mysteries of life. ●Casual idle game This is a casual idle game. You can enjoy the real joy of game with less time and efforts! ●Popular science education In Life On Earth, there are lots of professional knowledge of ancient creatures, you can learn new areas that you have never known before, and feel the greatness of life evolution! ●Biological restoration Restoring the various real forms of ancient creatures, displaying their lifestyles and habits, just like communicate with ancient creatures face-to-face! Watching life evolve from spores to fish, dinosaurs, and humans. ●Intellectual equipment technology Improve intellectual equipment technology, and with the power of technology, to restore the process of life evolution and fasten the speed of life evolution. ●Mysteries of Earth Upgrade evolution technology, speed up the evolution of Paleontology, draw a blueprint for life evolution, and unlock the mysteries of life. The team members of Life On Earth are ancient creatures enthusiasts. In order to make this game, we have searched a large amount of literature materials. If you are also interested in life evolution, download Life On Earth to join us now! If you have any suggestion, welcome to send an email to us. We may add it in next versions. Email: support@domobile.com Website: https://www.domobile.com Auto-renewable Subscription Rules These rules are attachments of User Agreement. If there is any conflict between these Rules and the User Agreement, these Rules shall prevail. If you need to use Life On Earth subscription service, you should agree to these rules in advance. You understand and agree: 1.The subscription is automatic renewal service under the premise that you agree to use the Life On Earth subscription service. If you agree to use the subscription service, you are deemed to authorize DoMobile, when the subscription about to expire, have the rights to charge fee of next billing cycle from your iTunes account (hereinafter referred to as “accounts”) balances. The subscription service is provided on the premise that you have bound with the above accounts, and DoMobile can successfully charge from the accounts. You are responsible for any failed renewal due to insufficient debit balance in the above accounts. 2.Subscription will automatically renew weekly. You can select the prefer rate. 3.Subscription automatically renews unless it is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. 4. You may suspend or terminate this subscription service by: Open the phone Settings -> iTunes and App Store -> Apple ID, select “View Apple ID”, enter the “Account Settings” page, click “Subscribe”, select Life On Earth and cancel subscription. 5.Terms of use: http://tpkapp.domogame.com/evolution/loeen.html 6.Privacy Policy: https://www.domobile.com/best/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Idle evolution at 4.6 against Quirkies Evolution's 3.7. Idle evolution also leads on ratings volume (5.8K vs 10). Quirkies Evolution's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 22) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and device support 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. Idle evolution sells 22 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Quirkies Evolution asks for nothing beyond the download.
Idle evolution holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle evolution has 5.8K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Quirkies Evolution's written reviews are positive against 75% of Idle evolution's.
Quirkies Evolution ships an update monthly, Idle evolution every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 6, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quirkies Evolution | Idle evolution |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (10 ratings) | 4.6 (5.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | 74.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 5.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 330 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Indiana University | DoMobile Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Quirkies Evolution
Idle evolution
Bugs and requests
Quirkies Evolution
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Idle evolution
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game not loading or crashing
- Incorrect resource deduction when purchasing items
- Ads not closing properly
- Saved progress not syncing across devices
Requested features
5 requests- More dinosaur and prehistoric creature models
- Improved tutorial and onboarding
- Ability to reset progress and start over
- More advanced gameplay modes
- Optimization for larger screens
In-app purchases
Quirkies Evolution
No in-app purchases
Idle evolution
- VIP3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Diamond X100$1.99
- Limit Gift 01$1.99
- Sea.sale1$2.99
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- Energy output Permanent x2$3.99
- Silver Passport$3.99
- Speed Gift 2$4.99
- Limit Gift 6$4.99
- Limit Gift 04$4.99
- Sealimit.gift1$4.99
- Humanlimit.gift1$4.99
- Diamond X300$4.99
- Valued package$5.99
- DNA output Permanent x2$5.99
- Sea.sale2$9.99
- Human.sale2$9.99
- Diamond X675$9.99
- Life Tree Gift 2$9.99
- Special golden passport$11.99
- Golden Passport$19.99
- Diamond X1500$19.99
- Sea.sale3$19.99
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