Home Quest vs Grimoire Incremental
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home Quest
Develop a new settlement by building housing, farms, and workplaces. Recruit an army to defend your lands and conquer enemies. Manage your economy, resources, and production chains while uncovering a story and interacting with mythical inhabitants.
- Town building
- Army recruitment
- Economic management
- Resource gathering
- Story progression
- Worker assignment
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Build your Town You find yourself in an unknown place. Unsure of what these lands might hold, you decide it’s best to grow your settlement. Provide housing and farms for your people. Create workplaces, military facilities, and more. Recruit an Army Once settled in, eliminate threats, fight your enemies, conquer the lands, and expand your reach. Choose between different units and army compositions. Manage your Economy Keep an eye on your resources, assign your workers, and fine tune your production chains. Expand your settlements to acquire rare resources. And More... Experience a story, and learn about the inhabitants of a foreign land. Work together with a tribe of mythical shamans. Go through hardships, surprises, and fun as you progress!
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 ads: Home Quest at none against Grimoire Incremental's shown. Home Quest also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Grimoire Incremental's advantage is review sentiment (87% vs 74%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Home Quest sells 12 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Home Quest against 4.8 for Grimoire Incremental. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 942 and 544 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Home Quest's written reviews are positive against 87% of Grimoire Incremental's.
Home Quest ships an update monthly, Grimoire Incremental every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home Quest | Grimoire Incremental |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (942 ratings) | 4.8 (544 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.2% of reviews | 86.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 942 — better | 544 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — 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, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | codeSTREAM | Graham Goldstein |
Customer experience
Home Quest
Grimoire Incremental
Bugs and requests
Home Quest
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Home Quest
- Town Essentials$1.99
- Time Shards x5$2.49
- Central Park$2.99
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- Reindeer Fest$2.99
- Ruby Edition Pack$3.99
- Gold Edition$4.99
- Nature Reserve$6.99
- Time Shards$7.99
- Omega Edition$7.99
- Millennium Edition$8.99
- Sun Edition$9.99
- Omega Edition Deluxe$11.99
Grimoire Incremental
- Remove Advertisements$6.99
Questions
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