Comparison

GPS RPG Game vs Goblin's Workshop

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GPS RPG Game

Explore a real-world fantasy RPG using your GPS. Battle creatures, craft gear, and customize your hero in this open-world adventure. Play solo or with friends in an immersive medieval setting.

Highlights
  • Location-based fantasy RPG
  • Real-world exploration
  • Character customization
  • Crafting system
  • Turn-based combat
  • Multiplayer guilds
  • AR mode battles
Features
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Turn your neighborhood into a fantasy adventure. Magic Streets is a location-based GPS RPG where real streets, buildings and landmarks become a world of monsters, quests and treasure. Walk, explore and grow stronger as you discover what lies around the next corner. EXPLORE THE REAL WORLD Find adventure along familiar routes and in places you have yet to visit. Discover nearby landmarks and parks, earn Exploration Points and raise your Exploration level to unlock rewards. Follow treasure maps to real-world destinations and meet characters with quests to complete. With step tracking enabled, work toward daily walking goals and turn your steps into progress. Your GPS location is at the heart of the adventure, with limited virtual movement, watchtowers and guild portals offering additional ways to travel. MASTER TIMING-BASED COMBAT Take turns with your enemies, then press, hold and release at the right moment to land your attacks. Learn the timing of different weapons, exploit enemy weaknesses and choose spells and abilities to suit each encounter. Every round brings a chance to put your tactics and timing to the test. Want a different view? Switch to optional AR battles and face monsters through your camera on supported devices. COLLECT MONSTER COMPANIONS Defeat monsters to earn points toward unlocking them as companions. Collect and train your favorites, discover special visual variants and bring a companion into battle for attacks, healing, shields and other useful perks. Your companions can also help defend your settlement. CREATE YOUR HERO Choose a Warrior, Archer or Mage, customize your appearance and develop your skills and abilities. Discover rare loot, forge weapons, enhance armor and combine equipment perks to shape your build. Venture into dungeons and crypts, face bosses and follow story and side quests through the overworld and underworld. Gather materials on your travels, brew potions and cook food to prepare for the challenges ahead. BUILD YOUR SETTLEMENT Make a real-world location your home base. Place and upgrade homes, workshops, farms, mines and guard towers, building a settlement that supports your adventures. Assign companions to its defenses and challenge other players' saved heroes and settlements in asynchronous battles and raids. ADVENTURE WITH A GUILD Join or create a guild to chat, trade with members and work toward cooperative challenges. Share travel destinations through guild portals, contribute to guild goals and take part in events. Add friends and exchange gifts to help each other along the way. Your next quest could begin on a street you already know.

About

Goblin's Workshop

A simulation RPG where you craft weapons, recruit monsters, and explore to gather materials. Sell items to monsters, upgrade your transport, and equip your monsters to battle humans and reclaim territories.

Highlights
  • Item crafting and selling
  • Monster recruitment and exploration
  • RPG combat mechanics
  • Idle gameplay
  • Monster equipment upgrades
  • Territory battles
Features
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***** goblin's Workshop is a simple and easy item making simulation & RPG idle game. ***** Make weapons, recruit monsters to explore, get more materials and make more powerful weapons! Defeat the evil humans! [Introduction] In the game, you can make all kinds of items to sell to monsters to earn money, from time to time there will be a variety of monsters to visit your store. If you are very idle, you can also click them to pimp, from them to cut more money. When there are not enough materials, you must send your monster hired soldiers to explore the world to get more resources. If you have some money, please buy a better transport wagon for the monsters to ride. But the humans in this world is not a vegetarian, they occupy many territories. So your monsters if the equipped items are too bad to explore, it is easy to be beaten by human! You can leave the better items to your monsters to put on, so that the monsters increase more combat power. The crap will be left to other idiot customers to buy it, this is the right way to do business! Well, no more chit chat. I'm going to the market to buy materials and drink... [Terms of Use] https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

GPS RPG Game4 screens
Goblin's Workshop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: GPS RPG Game at 4.8 against Goblin's Workshop's 3.7. GPS RPG Game also leads on ratings volume (1.9K vs 9) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Goblin's Workshop's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GPS RPG Game sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Goblin's Workshop sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GPS RPG Game holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GPS RPG Game has 1.9K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of GPS RPG Game's written reviews are positive against 71% of Goblin's Workshop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GPS RPG Game ships an update weekly, Goblin's Workshop every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
GPS RPG Game versus Goblin's Workshop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGPS RPG GameGoblin's Workshop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.9K ratings) — better3.7 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews86.5% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1.9K — better9
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size453 MB423 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperFrank SlofstraJUNG CHUN HUNG

Customer experience

GPS RPG Game

All ratings1,914 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews259 reviews
Positive86.5%
Neutral6.6%
Negative6.9%

Goblin's Workshop

All ratings8 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

GPS RPG Game

One-time11
  • Small Gems Pack$0.99
  • Basic special offer$2.99
  • Medium Gems Pack$3.99
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  • Special level up offer$6.99
  • Premium Rewards$6.99
  • Large Gems Pack$9.99
  • Remove All Ads$12.99
  • Big special offer$12.99
  • Extra Large pack of Gems$24.99
  • Serious Large Gems Pack$49.99
  • Extreme Large Gems Pack$99.99
11 purchases

Goblin's Workshop

Subscriptions3
  • Double Bless$9.997 Days
  • Goblin King's Bless$9.997 Days
  • Hire Crystal Miner$14.991 Month
One-time8
  • Fistful of crystals$0.99
  • Unlock a random recipe$1.99
  • Pouch of crystals$2.99
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  • Chest of crystals$9.99
  • 3x Battle Speed$9.99
  • Newbie Special Package$9.99
  • Barrel of crystals$29.99
  • Unlock all monsters$47.99

Questions

Is GPS RPG Game free?
GPS RPG Game is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Goblin's Workshop free?
Goblin's Workshop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, GPS RPG Game or Goblin's Workshop?
GPS RPG Game is rated higher. GPS RPG Game averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Goblin's Workshop averages 3.7 from 9 ratings.
Do GPS RPG Game or Goblin's Workshop have ads?
Both GPS RPG Game and Goblin's Workshop show ads.
Which is updated more often, GPS RPG Game or Goblin's Workshop?
GPS RPG Game ships an update weekly, and Goblin's Workshop every 3 weeks. Most recently, GPS RPG Game was updated on October 18, 2026 and Goblin's Workshop on October 15, 2026.

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