Grid Glory vs Ethos Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grid Glory
A simple 2D simulation RPG where you build an unbeatable party by recruiting powerful units. Assemble a team of up to 60 units from 30 different types to conquer challenges. This game offers an engaging experience for players who enjoy strategic party building.
- 2D simulation RPG gameplay
- Build a party of up to 60 units
- Recruit from 30 unit types
- Strategic party formation
- Completely free to play
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It is super simple and easy 2d simulation RPG game. Let's make an undefeate party attracted the strongest units. It is conscientious completely free app. Party is the largest 60 units. Player units is 30 types. Will be enthusiastic about this game! [Credits] Graphics DENZI http://www3.wind.ne.jp/DENZI/diary/ Sounds SKIPMORE http://www.skipmore.com/app/
Ethos Idle
Guide humanity's progress from its earliest discoveries to the distant future. Manage your tribe's choices, develop over 200 unique ideas, and explore the world. Advance your civilization, unlock bonuses, and enjoy a single-player, offline experience with optional ads.
- Develop over 200 historic ideas
- Explore and exploit the world
- Manage tribe choices
- Unlock exploration bonuses and synergies
- Prestige mechanic upgrades
- Customizable challenge scenarios
- Offline single-player experience
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Chart the progess of Humanity through the ages, and guide their every discovery from the moment they kindle the first fire to the far future. Develop over 200 unique ideas across three different flavours of thought. Help your people to conquer or make peace with their enemies, explore and exploit the world, and develop projects to meet their needs. Manage your tribe's choices to squeeze out more strength, or sit back and idle as your clan develop on their own. Advance as far as you can take your people, and then collect bonuses to improve future runs. Select varied challenges that change the way the game plays, and combine these challenges to create your own unique scenarios with big rewards. Features: - Over 200 historic ideas to develop, across 3 flavours of thought - Dozens of exploration bonuses and synergies to unlock and exploit - Permanently power up your civilisation with prestige mechanic upgrades - Combine varied challenge conditions to create your own scenarios with powerful rewards - Optional, out-of-the-way ads won't interrupt your experience - A completely offline, single player experience - All game content is accessible for free
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grid Glory at none against Ethos Idle's 1. Grid Glory also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Ethos Idle's advantage is ratings volume (239 vs 3). 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. Ethos Idle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Grid Glory asks for nothing beyond the download.
Grid Glory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ethos Idle has 239 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Grid Glory's written reviews are positive against 84% of Ethos Idle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grid Glory | Ethos Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.8 (239 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 84.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 239 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masahiro Kano | Graham Goldstein |
Customer experience
Grid Glory
Ethos Idle
Bugs and requests
Grid Glory
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ethos Idle
Reported bugs
2 issues- RNG for challenges is unfair and unfun
- Unlocking buffs for inaccessible technologies
Requested features
2 requests- Option to remove ads entirely
- Clarification on prestige warp gain multipliers
In-app purchases
Grid Glory
No in-app purchases
Ethos Idle
- x2 Speed$6.99
