Last updated on May 29th, 2023 at 11:25 am
Niche – Breed and Evolve
Niche – Breed and Evolve is one of the best $2.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Stray Fawn GmbH, Niche – Breed and Evolve is a Simulation game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 23rd June 2021 with the latest update 19th July 2021
Whether you are a fan of Simulation, Education, or Casual games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
421 people have rated 1.3.12
You can download the game Niche – Breed and Evolve from APP STORE.
Description
NICHE – BREED AND EVOLVE: A BREEDING AND SIMULATION GAME FOR GENETICS FANS
Welcome to the world of Nichelings, a secret world, with unique animals, real genetics and many adventures! Do you have what it takes to be a pack leader?
Experience a genetics & breeding simulation game with cute animals and thousands of different gene combinations! Grow and strengthen your pack through selective breeding based on real genetics. Go on a journey of discovery with your animals and encounter new islands, animals, enemies and genes!
BREED NICHELINGS WITH REAL GENETICS AND STRENGTHEN YOUR PACK
The Nichelings need you: Help them strengthen their pack and adapt to different biomes! Skillfully breed Nichelings by comparing their genes and making smart breeding decisions. Mutate genes to make them stronger. Breed thousands of possible combinations and play with the cute cubs!
GO FORAGING, HUNT PREY AND FIGHT PREDATORS
Send your animals to different biomes to forage, fish and fight against predators! Join your Nichelings on their missions and help them in the Mini Game. Adapt your pack to new challenges in biomes and unlock new islands!
MEET WILD NICHELINGS WITH SPECIAL GENES
Meet wild Nichelings with special genes and abilities on your adventures. Invite them into your pack to strengthen it and breed them to collect all the genes!
DISCOVER NEW ISLANDS AND COLLECT ALL THE GENES
Level up biomes to unlock new islands where unique genes can be found. Collect over 120 genes in different biomes and discover the many possible combinations!
PET YOUR NICHELINGS AND BUILD YOUR BOND
Pet your Nichelings and strengthen your bond with them. Get bonuses that will help you forage and find new pack members!
Experience a genetic adventure: Breed and develop strong Nichelings and make your pack the strongest in the world of Niche!
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Updated on 19th July 2021
- added a button to delete your progress/restart the game
- fixed stability issues
- improved save file loading stability
- fixed various minor bugs
Niche – Breed and Evolve Reviews
We’ve been playing Niche since the beginning. To see it come so far with an amazing mobile game is great! Oh man what we wouldnt give for an Adam plush. XD So cute! We love the cool down times for this, we LOVE a game we dont have to wait hours for cool down times, they are very reasonable. We hope that never changes!
It crashes a few seconds after pressing play..
Let us just start by saying we love nieche and it’s creators. We spend a lot of time on their PC game which happens to also be named nieche, and even though we bought this game a little less than a week ago we have been playing it non-stop. As a new game, it’s got some small nitpicky things that we find confusing, but over all we think it is doing very very well. Having said that, we have a couple requests that we feel would make the game just a lick more addicting than it already is: * Add a feature that helps influence genetics when breeding * Add an extra mission that takes longer and rewards more on each island Here are some extra requests for already implemented features. * Make mutagens a little more common, or make a mutated feature more likely to pass down * Make a loop option for each mission so you can keep sending niechlings over and over again with out having to select them every time or Slow down the increase of needed attributes for each missions Disclaimer: we’re not making this post to try and make the developers change the game to another design, we are simply putting out our personal opinions that we express while playing the game. In our specific situation these requests would only serve to strengthen our enjoyment of this game. -chieph.
We love playing the computer version and heard about this version a wile ago, we’ve been waiting for this game and Im am greatly excited that its out and that we can play! It is a very fun game but we do have some requests: Changeable color gems- like the original Niche game this greatly helped us organize our nichelings and especially when Im deep into the breeding and the pelts look the same. Family tee – we think it would just be more nice to see where you started with your nichelings. More food options – like your own farm you make or food missions that are longer. Not to go against what you guys already have in the game, we think it is already so great, but these are just our thoughts and ideas to what would make it more fun for us and others. Keep doing what your doing and keep up the good job you guys already have! ~Sincerely o0SkyBagel0o.
So, we’ve always been interested in games invoking genetics and survival. When we found Niche for our computer we instantly fell in love and it became one of our go to games to relax. The only thing was we remember wishing they had an app for casual play on our phone. Look no further, it has arrived!
This game has so far been very fun and rlly addicting lol however.. There are a few things that i’d like to be changed number one being. There’s no family tree, making it easy to inbreed nichelings For number two, traits don’t have multiple uses. We are only on the first island, but we’ve noticed that all of the traits on our nichelings don’t have more than just 1 effect. We personally think that traits like horns and the boar tusks should be able to be used for something like fishing.
This is a really fun game about managing your creatures genetics, but right now it is a bit buggy and feels very unbalanced. You have to do a lot of selective breeding in order to get the stats to progress, which costs a lot of food. The problem is that it takes a long time to get food because you can only really farm the starting area when you get star-locked out of the other areas. This starting area only gives a small amount of food and doesnt increase despite your breeding costs increasing. As a result, the game feels very Grindy and that grind just gets worse the higher you progress as breeding costs rise faster than you are able to gather food and unlock new areas.
The game is not the same as the PC game but that is to be expected. One thing that we do find disappointing however is the lack of color within the Nichelings. We feel like everyone we’ve bred is just a variation of brown. We think improving this function and allowing for more diverse colors would make the game a lot better! We look forward to future updates and hope that new colors will be included! Until then Im pretty much played out with the game. Response to Developer: we think a huge variety of colors would be fun. Any color in the rainbow would be great! We would be cool to see tons of colors implemented in the base coat, patterns, horns, eyes, etc. Reds,Yellows,Oranges,Greens,Blues,Purples,Pinks,Black,White and other variations of these colors! It would make breeding a lot more fun because the genes could throw out so many more options and variations!
Please make a mobile version of your PC game! We dont care if our phone blows up we need niche in our life again our laptop was stolen and all our worlds are gone forever idk if you guys plan on making the og version available for mobile but it seems like fans really want it!
One thing we will like for you to add is sandbox pls! :)
So glad this is finally out! So far we have really enjoyed it! Our three biggest requests would be for a family tree, a way to manually sort your nichelings, and for a way to compare genes of two nichelings without having to switch between the two. We would definitely recommend this game to any mobile gamer.
A great game for waiting skills, but this is our third game and we love it honest!
We’ve played the PC version ever since it came out of the switch and the mobile version is just as cute! Sure, its not as complex or big, but its still really fun to play. Things we love: – Even after you move on to the next island, we love how you can visit and continue working on your previous ones – Instead of dying like the PC version, you can hang on to your nichelings as long as you want until your ready to send them to retirement island, and even then you can still visit them and give them pats. – You can switch the nichelings between islands! One of our albinos named Missy had perfect genes for the desert, so we could moved her back from retirement island and into her new home! -You can PET the nichelings. Unlike the old game, you can love on your adorable little thingys. -You dont have to grind to get anything OR pay money. Everything is really quick but challenging to do, so you can get something quickly, but work your brain for it. Things we would love if you added: – The family tree. The PC version has a family tree witch was really nice to look at. For instance Im always forgetting if the nicheling Im about to breed with one of our ladys is her son or her father or someone random lol. It would be amazing if we had a detailed tree that would fill the whole screen. And dont make it too minuscule, cuz you can just make a few pages of it to scroll through. -More colors! We loved it when (in the old game) we could breed bright pink or green nichelings. It felt like it was really a different creature. We know you probably wanted to tone it down so it looked more realistic, but o will there were more colors. We relise coded things and making art to go on it takes time, and you might not want to add any of the couple of suggestions we wrote down. And thats ok!! There just suggestions! And we also relise that the PC version is NOT this game and its its own thing all together, so again, sorry if we want this to be too much like the computer version. PS: thanks for making it super cheap! Im under 15 and dont have a job, so it was nice to just scrounge around in our couch cousins to get three dollars. We love your game!!! Bye!! -Eve.
We adore the first / original Niche game so we were delighted to hear that this game was out! If you enjoy pet sims or breeding sims this will be right up you alley. We really like the stylistic direction in this game as well. All we can say is we hope theres more but Im happy with this!
This game is a great time killer. We love Niche Deskop, and we have over 350 hours in it. We wanted to try this game out, and donate to the developers. We hope you add more islands soon! Like a jungle island.
But it crashes a lot on our newer iPad Air. Could we be a tester? Ill help! <3.
This is a great game with pretty realistic genetics and a decent variety to make your own unique creatures! We love this game and enjoy playing with the different genes and creating spectacular beasts! Its excellent at teaching the basics of dominant and recessive genes and is easy to get the hang of. Im very excited for more islands to expand upon, the game felt a bit short, but im eager for further development!
Hello, we are not able to get into the game. The loading screen glitches and kicks us out, and we cant figure it out, Im just nine. Please help!
So, we love this little app. The gameplay is super relaxing and cute, the nichelings are just gorgeous, and the genetics are super fun to work with! We for one love genetics, so this game is one of our favorite. We must say: this game is NOT supposed to be like the original Niche game, you do need to actually use your brain with the genes or else you wont be able to keep up with the biomes, and its not for people who want super fast paced, exciting games. One tip to the developers is to add more islands. We think they might be working on this, but we could be wrong. Ideas: jungle island, rocky/mountain island, maybe even a volcano island!
We love this game and we have a lot of fun playing it. The only thing that we dislike is that there is no family tree, and we like knowing wether Im inbreeding nichelings or not. Either way, this game is great! Thankyou!
We have problems with petting our nichelings so much, especially when im selectively breeding them so much especially when finding new genes that theyll end up thrown out or retired before they could start benefiting us, that and we just have arthritis.. So yeah. You can also get abit soft locked if you level up an area too much that your nichelings cant even get food from it, like we managed to get level 20+ nichlings going on the first island, we have the frost island now but now we just have our forest island nichlings running through level 0 island area for food because its just more profitable than the high level biomes but, all that aside we’ve been opening the app and breeding more and all for days since we bought the app, and it had us revisit the pc version that is just far superior quite abit. Unrelated but im also a big fan of wandering village too lol, we hope if you guys made a mobile version for it aswell after finishing its development that itll be more true to the original if not just a nice direct port unlike this app, which is still nice atleast, and we hope it can get some tlc some day.
To start off, we love this game so much! We dont have steam so we saw this and HAD to buy it. We read that it focuses more on breeding, and less on strategy and fighting. (and whatever else it said) we appreciate that you made it that way but we truly like the PC game more. Though we cant play it on PC we do watch other people play it. We must say our favorite part of the PC game is that it is 3D, lets you have a sandbox mode, and has so many islands you get to choose from! But this version of the game does not have that. It is more childish and watered down then the PC one. We loved that the original game had to make you use your mind and much more. Perhaps you should add a button where it makes you go to a more strategized version of the game. With another button to go into more of a breeding version, like this one now.
You should make the gameplay more like the original niche, because we would love to try hunting bunnels and escaping bearyeanas on mobile where im more experienced. This would be a really good addition and would maie this game so much better! If you cant change this game, make a new one with normal niche controls, please.
This mobile version is really good but we are seeing some glitches. Our only suggestion is that you can choose other mutations for your nichelings instead of in hansing them. But overall this is buy far our favorite game.
Add a fam tree, make them die on there own we hate retiring. And make to original game mobile for like 10 bucks please PLEASE we want the original so bad.. We watch people play it it looks so good! This is a good game. We love it but add a fam tree we get so mixed up. Also this is just for breeding in the original you can do role play and stuff but here you cant. Good game we like it we just want the original SO BAD.
Its good but the only thing wrong with it is that unlocking stuff cost to much berry’s or add less rocks bc there kinda annoying but thats it the game is amazing.
We really wanted to like this game. Unfortunately, after 2 hours of playing we’ve run into frequent crashes; worse, this would often cause it to lose progress on leveling up the biomes, making an already grindy part of the game even more obnoxious.
We were enjoying our way through this game thoroughly but we found that theres very minimal chances to earn mutagens which are basically a tool to add to say a strength mutation to make it stronger for the requirements in biomes. Our issues is that the biomes progress too quickly in requirements for the nichelings but there are not enough wild nichelings with good new mutations or mutagens being earned from the challenges to keep our nichelings up to date for the biomes they need to take on. We feel as if we’ve hit a wall in game play and its no longer fun to play when youve found yourself unable to progress any further due to the fact that we cant earn mutagens anymore.
We’ve really like niche but when we downloaded it on our phone it won’t stop crashing we get to the play button the. It loads half way and. Then crashes and we don’t know if it is because our phone is outdated or it just doesn’t work on the iPhone 6 so someone pls help me.
We love this game as have played up till frost island, but then the foraging becomes unplayable :( Id really like to see that fixed so we can explore that area. Anyway overall its so fun.
Its probably a great game, but every time we click play it crashes. This is in no way the developers fault, but we are going to note that you shouldnt purchase this if you have an iPhone 6. Im glad we could at least support the developers, as we are a fan of their games, we have their other game on our switch, and it is high quality! We wouldnt doubt that this one is just as great! We are giving it 3 stars because The game is probably really good, but we myself cannot rate it.
Will we ever get more islands, as promised? Is this game still being updated in any way?
We love the original pc niche game and coming into this we knew it would of course be different however we were lost the second the tutorial ended. We didnt know you could adventure to different places so we just sat there adventuring in the same place for 10 minutes. It takes so long to go to the next place we gave up after half an hour. It takes so much time with little reward. Im not sure how you could fix this all we can say is It is NOT worth the money for this game. Dont know what happened or why it has so many good reviews.
This is one of the only five star ratings we’ve ever done! We’ve been waiting so long for this game to come out because we had a feeling they were gonna, its different from the switch version but also a lot like it! This game is so fun, so great! We’ve always loved breeding/genetic games and this is 100% A game you need if your anything like us!
We love this game, its a great time waster! Theres no ads that we’ve encountered yet, we’ve never been prompted to spend more money, and all the features of the game are included with purchase. Thats a huge plus for us. The progression is solid, if a tiny bit grindy. But its still not a chore to progress, because while youre grinding levels, you can also be breeding your nichelings. We personally had a very hard time finishing the Creek level because for some reason none of our babies seemed to inherit fishing genes despite our best efforts. We havent played much of the original game yet (just bought it during the steam sale) so we feel a bit confused? The dominant/recessive trait system is so much fun to play with, but we dont understand the genetics. Theres no clear indication of what traits ARE dominant or recessive in regards to each other. Theres an encyclopedia of the traits youve discovered, but all that tells you is the stat it boosts. We cant reduce the star rating for something Im just personally unable to figure out, but it is a little frustrating breeding nichelings only for the traits you bred for to never appear.
We love the game! We just want to tell you that there is a glitch with the paws of baby nichelings. If the baby has one no paw, then the no-paw doesnt show up, visually anyway. Lets say that your nicheling has a berry paw and a no paw, well both paws would show up as berry paw, the only way to tell is to go into the genetics.
Our initial review didnt save, so Ill do our best to recreate what we wrote to the best of our ability. Niche – Breed and Evolve is a mobile version of Niche – a genetics survival game but in this version its more so focused on the genetics aspect. So far we’ve been able to collect Nichelings, explore islands, and breed. We’ve been a fan of the Niche franchise since before its full release, so we know the mobile version has loads of potential, and has the ability to become more immersive as time goes on. Therefore Im giving it 5 stars, to inspire further development. We recommend Niche – Breed and Evolve to anyone that loves cute animals, biology and genetics. From what we’ve been told Stray Fawn studios has lots of plans and ideas for the game, but in order to implement them, they require further support. So please consider trying it out, so far we personally have enjoyed every bit of it! Before we leave, we want to thank the developers for everything theyve done to make Niche what it is today, and congratulate the on the mobile versions release! :)
We have Niche on nintendo AND on the ipad now! We like this game but we dont know how to pet the nichelings. It doesnt really work. But we think this game is great! But where did the immunity and fertility genes go? It is also kinda complicated to use the mutations, But other than that we rate it 4 and a half-5 stars! Great game and we love Niche! We also like how there are new genes and a new way to gather. We probably like the nintendo version better, but this is a really great game too. Thank you for your time reading this. -vWfgr.
We hate to be critical, because its clear the team behind this game worked hard on it. That being said, they shouldnt market this as the mobile version of their computer game. Its not the same game. The original has sandbox elements and focused more on the genetics and strategy of the game. This version is a pet simulator, in a market with a bunch of pet simulators. The bright side is they kept the genetics aspect of the game, but its really watered down. This feels like a kiddie version of the original game, and we dont mean that to be disparaging, but everything from the art style to the cutesy focus on bonding really does feel like its for grand schoolers. We wouldnt be as critical, except they force you to start with Adam and Eve. We dont want Adam and Eve. We want a random pair of sandbox characters so the world feels unique instead of like a preset. What set the original apart was that it felt like it treated its audience like they were intelligent. This just feels like Nintendogz with decent explanations about how breeding works. Not the worst game ever, and probably fun for a first timer, but if youre getting this because you like the original then please save your money.
We really wanted to support the developers and love this app. However, this app is totally different from the PC version. There is one foraging mini game and it is repetitive and boring. There is no exploration nor family trees nor death nor blood types nor what made Niche unique. The genetics are really dumbed down. This is a pet owning game geared towards children. We would not have paid three bucks for this app had we known what the gameplay would be.