Comparison

Impossible Lines vs Cookie Empire

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

Head to head
About

Impossible Lines

Draw lines with your finger to navigate through challenging levels and find the exit. Use your drawn lines wisely as they can be both your guide and your downfall. Test your skills across over 50 unique levels.

Highlights
  • Draw lines freely
  • Over 50 unique levels
  • Strategic line placement
  • Casual yet challenging gameplay
  • Multiple solutions per level
Features
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A new impossible challenge made up of Lines: can you beat it? Use your finger to draw as many lines as you want where you want. Yes, is that simple! But pay attention: the lines you draw will be your only help to find the exit, and they can turn into a trap if not used wisely! With over 50 levels to tackle, you'll have to draw your way throughout victory each time. Game features: - 50 levels to complete, 50 unique challenges! - Lots of different ways to get your goal. It's up to you! - A casual gameplay but a hard challenge, fun and inspirational! - Engaging for all kind of gamers! Take on Impossible Lines and put your skills to test. Are you up to the challenge? Please send us any feedback you have. We take it very seriously. Follow our Facebook and VK pages “Tiny Games”!

About

Cookie Empire

Click to bake cookies, automate production, and grow your empire in this idle incremental game. Explore minigames, uncover cryptic lore, and ascend to unlock powerful boosts. Features include offline progress, complex synergies, and a unique grandma sacrifice mechanic.

Highlights
  • Incremental cookie baking
  • Automation and complex synergies
  • Offline progress
  • Multiple minigames (Farming, Stock Market, Lucky Wheel, Tile Matching)
  • Ascension/Prestige mechanics
  • Grandma sacrifice to demons
  • Public leaderboards
Features
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Cookie Empire is an idle incremental clicker with a dark sense of humor: tap to bake, automate production, earn offline, and prestige for exponential growth — until one big cookie becomes a baking empire that probably shouldn't exist. What starts as a simple tapping game grows into a long-term incremental game with upgrades, automation, ascension, minigames, and a few increasingly questionable grandmas. THE ECONOMY MUST GROW. COOKIES ARE ALL WE KNOW. Hire lovely grandmas. Build farms, factories, alchemy labs, mines, and machines that should probably never have been switched on. Dig into eldritch mines. Sacrifice grandmas to Japanese demons. Follow the numbers upward until the bakery stops feeling cozy and starts feeling like something ancient is watching the production graph. FEATURES • Tap-to-bake progression with exponential upgrades • Grandmas, farms, factories, mines, and stranger production systems • Automation, prestige, ascension, and long-term incremental growth • Garden, mine expeditions, stock market, lucky wheel, tile matching, and leaderboards • Idle production and return rewards • Dark secrets, cosmetic skins, frequent solo-dev updates, and a cookie economy that absolutely refuses to stop growing Build your cookie empire one tap at a time.

Screenshots

Impossible Lines4 screens
Cookie Empire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Impossible Lines at none against Cookie Empire's 15. Impossible Lines also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). Cookie Empire's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 7 months) and rating (4.5 vs 4.2). On price, review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cookie Empire sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Impossible Lines asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cookie Empire holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cookie Empire has 654 ratings behind it against 58, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Impossible Lines's written reviews are positive against 68% of Cookie Empire's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Impossible Lines ships an update every 7 months, Cookie Empire weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Impossible Lines versus Cookie Empire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpossible LinesCookie Empire
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (58 ratings)4.5 (654 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews — better68.4% of reviews
Number of ratings58654 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB57 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTiny GamesAlejandro Jimenez Rico

Customer experience

Impossible Lines

All ratings58 ratings
Positive77.6%
Neutral8.6%
Negative13.8%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive74.8%
Neutral10.3%
Negative15.0%

Cookie Empire

All ratings653 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral4.0%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews266 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral11.3%
Negative20.3%

User reviews

Impossible Lines

From 58 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 😊 Highly addictive and engaging gameplay
  • 🧠 Creative and challenging level design
  • ⚙️ Interesting physics mechanics
  • 🎮 Simple yet fun concept
  • 🎨 Good visual design and themes

Room to improve

  • 📺 Ad banner blocks gameplay area
  • 🚫 No option to remove ads
  • 🐛 Physics inconsistencies and unrealistic ball behavior
  • 📱 Ad placement issues on larger devices (iPhone Plus models)
  • 😤 Difficulty spikes on specific levels

Cookie Empire

From 654 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun Little Idle Game
  • 👍 THIS is how iOS games should be
  • 👍 Great game, no ads
  • 👍 Anxiety Relief
  • 👍 Quality game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Offline progress locked
  • 🐛 Putting the main idle mechanic behind an ad
  • 🔋 High battery drain
  • 🐛 Wasted Potential
  • 🐛 Losing progress

Bugs and requests

Impossible Lines

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Ad banner covers bottom of screen on certain device sizes
  • Automatic win bug on level 39
  • Lines show blue but don't register/disappear
  • Game crashes occasionally
  • Line drawing fails when larger lines are nearby
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  • Annoying push notifications for new levels when none exist
  • Ad banner moved from bottom to cover gameplay area in updates

Requested features

8 requests
  • More levels beyond the initial 50
  • Remove ads option or paid ad-free version
  • Undo/eraser tool for line drawing
  • Confirmation button for restart to prevent accidental resets
  • Level editor for user-created content
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  • Online level sharing and community features
  • Sequel with more retro game references
  • Move ad banner to title screen instead of gameplay area

Cookie Empire

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Offline progress not working
  • Ascension issues
  • Alchemy lab not working
  • Upgrades not appearing
  • Crashes after updates
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  • Resets progress
  • Rotating screen issues

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add backbone please
  • More audio suggestions
  • Ability to see vegetables in the garden
  • Volleyball skin
  • Achievements
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  • More menu buttons
  • Prestige system
  • More buildings and upgrades
  • Ability to see how many of a building can be bought
  • Cookie SFX

In-app purchases

None

Impossible Lines

No in-app purchases

15 purchases

Cookie Empire

One-time15
  • Mini Gem Pack$0.99
  • 53 Wings$0.99
  • Magic Cookie$0.99
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  • Gems 1.2$1.99
  • Medium Gems Pack$1.99
  • Permanent Boost$1.99
  • Time Warp$2.99
  • Gems Small Pack 2$3.99
  • No-Ads$4.99
  • Large Gems Pack$4.99
  • Gems Mid Pack$5.99
  • Seasonal Pack$9.99
  • Big Gems Pack$9.99
  • Larger Gems Pack$24.99
  • Largest Gems Pack$39.99

Questions

Is Impossible Lines free?
Impossible Lines is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cookie Empire free?
Cookie Empire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Impossible Lines or Cookie Empire?
Cookie Empire is rated higher. Impossible Lines averages 4.2 out of 5 from 58 ratings, while Cookie Empire averages 4.5 from 654 ratings.
Do Impossible Lines or Cookie Empire have ads?
Neither Impossible Lines nor Cookie Empire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Impossible Lines or Cookie Empire?
Impossible Lines ships an update every 7 months, and Cookie Empire weekly. Most recently, Impossible Lines was updated on October 23, 2026 and Cookie Empire on October 30, 2026.

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