Cosmos Quest vs Akindo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cosmos Quest
Build and evolve a civilization from its earliest stages to interstellar travel. Collect heroes, battle other players, and utilize time travel to accelerate your progress. Uncover the mystery of a powerful artifact that fuels your civilization's expansion across the cosmos.
- Civilization building
- Hero collection and leveling
- Time travel mechanics
- Player vs. Player battles
- Idle progression
- Building upgrades
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Start your civilization and carry it from the discovery of fire to the stars and beyond! This idle game from the best idle publisher has it all. Civilization, Buildings, Heroes, Time Travel….even a Black Hole Cannon As you progress in the beautiful realm of Cosmos Quest, you see the impact of the evolution on your tribute. Collect heroes to help you on your journey. Fight other players in frantic battles. Grow your hero roster and level them up to reign supreme on the universe! After finding a mystical stone, your civilization has seen great discovery come faster and faster. That magical stone absorbs the energy you generate, and allows you to travel through time and space to parallel universes to grow ever faster and stronger! Conquer the Cosmos and uncover the mystery of the stone...
Akindo
Engage in real-time battles and develop a deteriorating island in this comical pixel-art RPG. Explore, gather resources, build facilities and roads to revitalize the economy and increase the population. Unlock new islands by meeting development deadlines.
- Real-time auto-battles with finger tracing controls
- Explore and gather materials/gold
- Invest in industrial facilities
- Craft equipment for companions
- Build roads to revitalize economy
- Boost and enhance escort characters
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This is a real-time battle RPG focused around themes of "reconstruction and development" in a comical and fun pixel-art world. Explore a deteriorating island, gather materials, invest in industrial facilities, and build roads to revitalize the economy. ◆ Real-time battle that you can enjoy with easy controls! Just trace the map with your finger and specify the route you want to explore, and the game will move and fight automatically. If you are at a disadvantage in battle, activate the skills of your escort characters. You can also damage enemies with the coin gun, which can only be used by the main character, the merchant. ◆Gather materials through exploration to develop the island! You can get materials and gold by exploring each area and defeating enemies. Invest the gold you get in industrial facilities to develop the island's economy or craft materials to create equipment for your companions. ◆Invest in industrial facilities and build roads to encourage distribution! By building industrial facilities and roads with the materials and gold you acquire, the island's economy will be revitalized and the island's population will increase. By liberating the island within the amount of days set by the merchant guild, you will be able to explore new islands. ◆ Boost your escorts! During battle, the player themselves has no means of attack. Your companions will automatically fight for you. There are various types of guards, so you can organize your party according to the route you choose to explore. You can even enhance the rarity of your guards by leveling them up or synthesizing them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cosmos Quest at none against Akindo's shown. Cosmos Quest also leads on ratings volume (3.8K vs 198) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). Akindo's advantage is review sentiment (48% vs 26%). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Cosmos Quest sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Akindo 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 — 4.6 for Cosmos Quest against 4.6 for Akindo. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cosmos Quest has 3.8K ratings behind it against 198, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 26% of Cosmos Quest's written reviews are positive against 48% of Akindo's.
Cosmos Quest ships an update fortnightly, Akindo monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cosmos Quest | Akindo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.8K ratings) | 4.6 (198 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.4% of reviews | 47.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 198 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 253 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kongregate | zoo |
Customer experience
Cosmos Quest
Akindo
User reviews
Cosmos Quest
From 3.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth gameplay
- 💡 Unique idle/hero collecting concept
- 👍 Beautiful pixel art and animations
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and loading issues
- 🚧 Progression bottlenecks and difficulty spikes
- 💰 Monetization and pay-to-progress concerns
Akindo
From 198 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Interesting gameplay loop
- 💡 High potential for the format
- 👍 Base building and RPG aspects
- 👍 Mini battle game enjoyment
- 👍 Replayability
Room to improve
- 💥 Too many ads
- 💥 Forced ads are stressful
- 💥 Unskippable ads
- 💥 Game won't start offline
- 🐛 Freezing issues
Bugs and requests
Cosmos Quest
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes on loading screen
- Save data loss and reset issues
- Unresponsive or non-functioning in-game buttons
Requested features
3 requests- More content and progression beyond current eras
- Better balance and progression pacing
- Offline/standalone mode option
Akindo
Reported bugs
12 issues- Game freezes after 1-2 hours of play
- Game freezes after watching reward ads
- Exploration progress lost after freezing
- Ads appear without user interaction
- Game won't start offline
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- Freezing during gameplay
- Game won't start (white screen with version)
- Display bug when gacha ticket is used immediately
- Game freezes when entering combat at date change
- Character becomes immobile during boss battles
- App crashes during gameplay
- Laggy on the biggest island
Requested features
24 requests- Update content (new maps, weapons, characters, dungeons)
- Increase boss material drop rate
- Add automation for bigger maps
- Add buy full game option
- Add extra armor slots (Head, Torso, Neck, Legs, Boots, Artifact)
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- Increase armor and weapon drop rates
- Add special boss/mob dropped weapons and armor
- Implement player classes with unique skills
- Add artifacts that can be upgraded
- Implement weapon and armor rarities
- Implement weapon and armor enhancing and enchanting
- Add abandoned structures that can be taken over
- Add iCloud save functionality
- Make 100 gems always get a 3-star item
- Add more updates and content
- Add more unique actions to partake in
- Make paid ad removal offer more benefits (e.g., constant battle speed-up, double drops)
- Implement character unlock system with stone purchases instead of ads
- Add a creator support option for a small fee
- Add machine change transfer function
- Allow collecting resources from offline hours and other islands
- Improve UI for resource collection summary
- Add more islands
- Add more variety to islands
In-app purchases
Cosmos Quest
- Marbles Pack 2$4.99
- Ancient Value Pack$4.99
- Project manager week$4.99
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- Marbles Pack 3$9.99
- Researcher pack$9.99
- Medieval Value Pack$9.99
- Hero Pack$9.99
- Equipment Pack$9.99
- Marbles Pack 4$19.99
- Industrial Value Pack$19.99
Akindo
- Ad Hiding Pack$7.99
