Work hard Hero vs Progress Knight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Work hard Hero
An incremental game where you earn money by hiring soldiers to hunt monsters. Upgrade your soldiers and invest in property to continuously increase your earnings. Expand your empire by purchasing neighboring castles.
- Hire soldiers to hunt monsters
- Tap to earn gold
- Upgrade soldiers for increased gold
- Invest in property for continuous income
- Purchase neighboring castles
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Let's make some money by hiring solders!! This is Incremental game. ※ STORY By when do we need to hunt monsters? Let's get some money easier! All you have to do is earning money by hiring solders! Hunting monsters is the hired solders' job. Please, level up to get the solders work hard without any break. If you save a lot of money, purchase the neighboring castles. The proper investment into property brings you another fortune. ※ GAME TIPs 1. Tap on the screen helps you to get golds. 2. If you add more functions, your solders would get more golds. 3. If you invest into property, you can continuously get more golds. ※ DEVELOPER'S REMARK Please, enjoy it and have fun!! If you have any advice to improve our games, feel free and let us know. It would be very appreciated. Also, if there are bugs, let us know. We'll fix it as soon as possible. E-mail : terryyoung.studio@gmail.com Naver cafe address : http://cafe.naver.com/terryyoung.
Progress Knight
Embark on a fantasy life-simulation where you progress through careers, gain skills, and manage expenses. Choose your path from commoner to military or magic, and eventually prestige for faster progression in subsequent lives.
- Fantasy medieval life simulation
- Career progression
- Skill acquisition
- Expense management
- Multiple career paths (commoner, military, magic)
- Prestige system for multipliers
- Idle gameplay
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Progress Knight is a life-sim incremental based in a fantasy/medieval setting, where you must progress through the career ladder and acquire new skills to become the ultimate being. You first start off as a beggar, barely being able to feed yourself as the days go by. However, over the years you learn new skills and gain plenty of work experience to enter new high paying jobs while managing your living expenses... Will you decide to take the easy route of doing simple commoner work? Or will you go through harsh training to climb the ranks within the military? Or maybe will you decide to study hard and enrol in a magic academy, learning life-impacting spells? Your career path is open-ended, the decision is up to you. Eventually, your age will catch up to you. You will be given an option to prestige and gain xp multipliers (based on the performance of your current life) for your next life at the cost of losing all your levels and assets. Fear not though, as you will re-gain your levels much, much more quickly than in your previous life...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Work hard Hero at none against Progress Knight's shown. Work hard Hero also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.4). Progress Knight's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Work hard Hero sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Progress Knight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Work hard Hero against 4.4 for Progress Knight. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 262 and 257 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 73% and 73% positive.
Work hard Hero ships an update every 2 months, Progress Knight every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Work hard Hero | Progress Knight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (262 ratings) | 4.4 (257 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.1% of reviews — better | 72.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 262 — better | 257 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jong Jin Kim | Noe LE PHILIPPE |
Customer experience
Work hard Hero
Progress Knight
User reviews
Work hard Hero
From 262 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game concept
- 👍 Fun and engaging gameplay
- 👍 Nice 8-bit theme
- 👍 Good for casual play
- 👍 Easy to comprehend
Room to improve
- 😴 Repetitive gameplay
- 🐌 Slow progression
- 😴 Boring after a while
- 😴 Tedious clicking
- 😴 Game doesn't run in background
Progress Knight
From 257 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game
- 🚀 Addictive gameplay
- 💡 Interesting progression
- 🤩 Satisfying incremental experience
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🔋 Battery drain issues
- 🔒 Lack of accessibility features
- ⏱️ Slow progression at endgame
Bugs and requests
Work hard Hero
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes after iOS update
- Overflow error trivializes game
- Poor English translation
Requested features
11 requests- Add background idle money making
- Add a 100x upgrade option
- Add an upgrade for random large gold chance
- Allow app to make money when closed
- Refine leveling system
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- Add explanation for leveling mechanics
- Add a Buy Max button for upgrades
- Clarify purpose of conquest characters
- Add more benefits for idle play
- Make game more difficult
- Add visual representation of buildings
Progress Knight
Reported bugs
4 issues- Progress and data loss issues
- Skill level resets after transcendence
- Autopause not working as expected
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More content and updates
- Auto-purchase feature for the store
- Offline progress tracking
- Improved autopause functionality
In-app purchases
Work hard Hero
- 100 Ruby$0.99
- 1,500 Ruby$9.99
Progress Knight
- Remove the ads$2.99








