Idle Skilling vs Grimoire Incremental
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Skilling
This game offers a vast amount of content with over 21 different skills to level up. Engage in a wide variety of activities like mining, crafting, farming, and battling to progress. It's a complex and engaging idle game experience with multiple prestige mechanics.
- 21+ skills to level up
- Mining, fishing, crafting
- Pet breeding and battling
- Farming and potion making
- Treasure hunting and construction
- Boss battles and prestige mechanics
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Idle games are nothing in comparison to Idle Skilling! With literal years of content, this will be your new favorite idle game! Don't believe me? Idle Skilling has mining, fishing, crafting, pet breeding, pet battling, lab research, soul farming, regular farming, flower growing, potion making, relic upgrading... Still don't believe me? Well idle skilling also has treasure hunting, construction, crusade boss battles, equipment smithing, achievements, boss fights, asylum boss fights, two separate prestige mechanics, and more. Yep, even more. Be warned, this idle game is hardcore! It is more complicated than other idle games, but is also way more fun!
Grimoire Incremental
Engage in a narrative-driven idle or clicker game where your choices shape society and unlock new mechanics. Progress through runs and prestiges with non-formulaic gameplay and optional ads.
- Non-formulaic gameplay
- Branching narrative choices
- Idle and clicker mechanics
- Unlockable mechanics
- Opt-in ads for bonuses
- Single in-app purchase option
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NON-FORMULAIC GAMEPLAY Make real choices through spells to favour, interactions with the populace, and other arcane projects. Focus on combining thematic effects to wield great power. Choose between idle and clicker mechanics as you progress through runs and prestiges. BRANCHING CHOICES Choose how you'll use the magic available to you to shape society, and witness the impact through a changing story and play style. COMPELLING NARRATIVE Experience a broad story arc that grows as you progress, and branches with the choices you make and actions you take. MANY AND VARIED MECHANICS Unlock new ways to make those numbers bigger with practice, research, spells, creations, lifestyle and expeditions. Each new mechanic offers a different twist and provides new opportunities for strategy. NO OBLIGATION Adverts are opt-in for a bonus only. No content is blocked behind ad walls. Single in-app purchase removes ad button and gives boost forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Grimoire Incremental at 4.8 against Idle Skilling's 3.5. Grimoire Incremental also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 51%). Idle Skilling's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Idle Skilling sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Grimoire Incremental sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Grimoire Incremental holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 712 and 557 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Idle Skilling's written reviews are positive against 87% of Grimoire Incremental's.
Idle Skilling ships an update every 2 months, Grimoire Incremental every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.
| Parameter | Idle Skilling | Grimoire Incremental |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (712 ratings) | 4.8 (557 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.8% of reviews | 87.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 712 — better | 557 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| 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 | 12 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Lavaflamestudios LLC | Graham Goldstein |
Customer experience
Idle Skilling
Grimoire Incremental
User reviews
Idle Skilling
From 712 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game
- 🚀 Lots of content
- 💡 Unique mechanics
- 👍 No ads or pay-to-win
- 👍 Responsive developer
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🐛 Save data loss issues
- 🐛 Certain features not working (cards, realms)
- 🐛 Progression issues (crafting, leveling)
Grimoire Incremental
From 557 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great game
- 👍 Simplicity and minimalism
- 👍 Non-intrusive ads
- 👍 Engaging gameplay
- 👍 Rewarding progression
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes
- 🐛 Slow progress in late game
- 🐛 Imbalanced builds
- 🐛 Lack of content variety
Bugs and requests
Idle Skilling
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes when accessing cards menu
- Realm and afterlife features not working
- Crafting and leveling progress getting stuck
- Save data randomly getting wiped
Requested features
4 requests- Cloud save/sync across devices
- More stable performance and bug fixes
- Improved tutorial and onboarding
- Realm and afterlife updates for iOS
Grimoire Incremental
Reported bugs
2 issues- Progress loss on crash
- Compatibility issues on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More content and updates
- Better late-game balance
- Detailed progression tracking
- Story expansion
In-app purchases
Idle Skilling
- Pile of Gems$1.99
- Sack of Gems$4.99
- Starter Pack$9.99
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- Chest of Gems$9.99
- Pet Pack$9.99
- Mastery Pack$9.99
- Mountain of Gems$19.99
Grimoire Incremental
- Remove Advertisements$6.99
Questions
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