DrillKing vs NOVA IMPERIUM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DrillKing
Explore alien planets, mine valuable minerals, and construct your own colony. Upgrade your drill and facilities to unlock new technologies and help your home world. Strategic planning is key to success in this interstellar resource-gathering adventure.
- Explore 5 distinctive planets
- Mine minerals and resources
- Build and upgrade colony infrastructure
- Develop new technologies
- Complete quests for rewards
- Trade for minerals
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Drill down planet surface, mine minerals, craft buildings and upgrade your drill to build your own colony! Simply shake your device to handle various events and make progress! Features Drillking is a game where you mine minerals and build colonies on extraterrestrial planets. There are 5 distinctive planets to explore. Colonize each planet, dig up minerals, develop new technology, and help your home world Earth. How to play Drill down Planet surface to mine Minerals. Use them to build and upgrade infrastructures for your colony. Each Planet has its unique set of Minerals. You must plan carefully where to drill and what to upgrade. Some Planets are restricted, due to its strange gravity. To access these Planets, you must upgrade your Drill. DRILL: The main mining device. The deeper you dig, the more Mineral types you'll find. FACTORY: This is where you extract Minerals from ore. Upgrade Factory to increase mining speed. DEPOT: This is where you keep your Minerals. Upgrade Depot to increase its max Mineral capacity. You can trade Star for Minerals in Star Refinery, but you must unlock it first. PRO TIP: Always check Quests! Quest rewards are very helpful for easier progress. Some Quests will unlock super-effective Lab contents. Tap Comm Sat on the left for helpful tips. Synopsis Planet Earth, 327 Space Year. The human race faces a new crisis, as increasing number of population consumed most of available resources. Scientists began a project to craft an All-terrain mining vessel, capable of drilling any surface to mine minerals… …and after 5 years, The vessel is complete, and an inhabitable planet with rich amount of minerals is found. The New Frontier awaits you! Notes Your data is saved in the device. If you change device, or delete the app, all save files will be terminated. Deleting the app will terminate all save files.
NOVA IMPERIUM
Build and expand a space empire from a single homeworld to a galaxy-spanning civilization in this offline strategy game. Experience classic browser game mechanics with detailed building, research, and fleet combat systems.
- Offline single-player gameplay
- Build and upgrade 14 buildings
- Research 16 technologies
- Manage fleets and engage in 7 mission types
- Procedural universe with NPC empires
- Recruit officers and earn achievements
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NOVA IMPERIUM is a single-player, fully offline space empire strategy game — a love letter to the golden age of browser space games. Rise from a single homeworld to a galaxy-spanning civilization. Every formula, build time and battle is faithful to the classic OGame era (2002–2010). FULLY OFFLINE — Your empire grows even while closed; everything is calculated when you reopen. No internet required. BUILD & UPGRADE — 14 buildings; balance metal, crystal, deuterium and energy. RESEARCH TREE — 16 technologies: ships, weapons, shields, espionage, colonization. FLEETS & COMBAT — 14 ships, 10 defenses, 7 mission types; authentic 6-round combat engine. A LIVING GALAXY — A procedural universe of deterministic NPC empires. OFFICERS & ACHIEVEMENTS — Earn Dark Matter, recruit officers (in-game only). No ads · No in-app purchases · No pay-to-win · No account · TR/EN Your empire. Your pace. The whole galaxy awaits, Commander.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NOVA IMPERIUM at 3.0 against DrillKing's 2.5. NOVA IMPERIUM also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). DrillKing's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. DrillKing sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. NOVA IMPERIUM asks for nothing beyond the download.
NOVA IMPERIUM holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | DrillKing | NOVA IMPERIUM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JINOH Cho | kadir ulucay |
In-app purchases
DrillKing
- DrillKing 100 Stars$0.99
- DrillKing 350 Stars$2.99
- DrillKing 1500 Stars$9.99
NOVA IMPERIUM
No in-app purchases









