Occidental Heroes vs Empire_mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Occidental Heroes
Assemble an adventuring company to explore a new frontier. Engage in challenging skirmishes and strive for survival and eventual retirement. This game offers a no-holds-barred experience with no assistance.
- Form adventuring companies
- Explore the Occident
- Engage in brutal skirmishes
- Survival focus
- Retirement goal
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Form an adventuring company and explore the recently colonized Occident. Engage in brutal skirmishes and try to survive long enough to retire. No reloads, no hand-holding, no mercy.
Empire_mobile
Engage in a turn-based strategy war game on a computer-generated map. Capture cities to produce units for offense and defense, aiming to eliminate your opponent. Games can be lengthy and saved across sessions.
- Turn-based strategy gameplay
- Computer-generated maps
- City capture and production
- Unit production (armies, fighters, ships)
- Exploration and tactical combat
- Save and resume games
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Empire is a strategy and tactics war game, pitting you against the computer. The game is played on a computer generated map that contains land areas, sea areas, and cities. The object of the game is to eliminate the opponent by capturing cities and destroying the enemy forces. Cities once captured have production capability, and can produce units such as armies, fighters, destroyers, submarines, or carriers for offense or defense. Of course, the computer is trying to crush your forces and take over the world, as are you. Early in the game, exploration is most predominant, followed later by planned offensives and holding actions, till eventual victory or defeat. Warning, typical games can take as long as ten hours, and some people find the game addictive. The program keeps the game state in a disk file, and a single game usually takes multiple computer sessions. Since you can store the game on some cloud service (e.g. iCloud) you may also continue a game with the Mac version of Empire (https://apps.apple.com/de/app/empire/id1287139467?mt=12) and vice versa. Special credit goes to the author of the original game, Walter Bright.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Empire_mobile at none against Occidental Heroes's 1. Empire_mobile also leads on ads (none vs shown). Occidental Heroes's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (371 vs 6). On price, 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. Occidental Heroes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Empire_mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Occidental Heroes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Occidental Heroes has 371 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Occidental Heroes's written reviews are positive against 67% of Empire_mobile's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Occidental Heroes | Empire_mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (371 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.2% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 371 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vladimir Jovanovic | Frank-Peter Poschmann |
Customer experience
Occidental Heroes
Empire_mobile
Bugs and requests
Occidental Heroes
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional crashes or freezes
- UI elements not scaling properly on some devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to save progress and load games
- More character class options
- Expanded map and content
- Companion pets or animals
- Difficulty settings or options
Empire_mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Occidental Heroes
- Expanded edition$5.99
Empire_mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Occidental Heroes free?
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Do Occidental Heroes or Empire_mobile have ads?
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