Comparison

Contact Origin vs Stonegate

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

Head to head
About

Contact Origin

Engage in an epic idle strategy RPG where you develop advanced technology and powerful weapons to defend Earth from universal invasion. Discover new civilizations, craft unique strategies, and upgrade your arsenal in an endless space war. Progress continues even when you're offline.

Highlights
  • Discover and advance civilizations
  • Strategic combinations of units and tech
  • Upgrade weapons and technologies
  • Endless space war scenarios
  • Offline gold production
  • One-handed gameplay
Features
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Advance civilization and protect the Earth! Develop stronger weapons and advanced technology! A fun space war begins even if you just watch! Contact Origin is an idle strategy RPG game that can be easily enjoyed with one hand. Download it right now! ◆ Features ◆ ◈ Let's find a powerful civilization! Are you having a hard time stopping the invasion of the universe? Discover and advance civilization with the SP (Search Point) acquired through the wormhole! ◈ Your own strategy! Combination of civilizations, weapons, technologies, and skills with your own strategy to defeat stronger enemies! ◈ Upgrade! Defeat enemies and collect meteorites to make your weapons and technologies even more powerful! ◈ Endless space war The invasion of the universe that started from the solar system! What kind of universe will you meet next time! ◈ Gold production continues even offline! ◆ Notes ◆ - When you delete the game, the data will also be deleted, so we recommend that you log in to protect your data. - The game is free, but the game includes in-app purchases items that can speed up progress, and in-app purchases can be restricted through device settings. For more information, see https://support.apple.com/HT204396 - Contact Origin continues to try to update various contents! If you write a valuable review, it will be a great help to the developer! Privacy Policy: http://laxasoft.com/privacy-en Terms of Service: http://laxasoft.com/terms-en If you have any questions, please send us to cs@laxasoft.com

About

Stonegate

Embark on a cooperative deckbuilding adventure with three heroes sharing a single deck. Strategize together to overcome dungeon challenges, manage resources, and shape your expedition through card choices and upgrades. Offers various expedition lengths and daily challenges.

Highlights
  • Shared deck for cooperative play
  • Turn-based strategic combat
  • Card collection and upgrades
  • Multiple expedition lengths
  • Daily challenges and leaderboards
  • Player progression and records
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Three heroes. One shared deck. A turn-based deckbuilding adventure beneath Stonegate. Lead the Warden, Scout, and Keeper through a dungeon where your strongest turns come from working together. Read enemy intentions, protect a threatened hero, and combine cards across the party. Play the first depth free. One Full Descent purchase unlocks the remaining two depths, Short Descent, and Daily Descent. No ads or subscriptions. BUILD A PLAN TOGETHER Protect a teammate, expose an opening, and spend the party’s Momentum when it matters. One shared deck gives you three heroes to coordinate on every turn. SHAPE EACH EXPEDITION Choose card rewards, visit markets, upgrade favorites, and remove cards that no longer fit. Discover relics, choose your route, and recover between battles across three dungeon depths. Choose a starting deck that suits your approach, or let Random Deck choose for you. CHOOSE YOUR EXPEDITION Take on the full 12-room expedition, extend it to 15 rooms through the optional Tollhouse detour, or choose a six-room Short Descent. Face five rotating final guardians with different attacks and defenses. Full and Short victories unlock harder challenge tiers; automatic advancement is optional. Save and resume when you need a break. MORE REASONS TO RETURN Combine up to three custom modifiers and share a run code. Take on three weekly local contracts for cosmetic titles. Fill a Codex of cards, relics, guardians, and discoveries, with hints for what remains unseen. Risk HP for rare relics that reshape your deck. After a Full victory, keep your deck for stronger Bellworks loops; your original win stays recorded. KEEP AN EXPEDITION RECORD Track fights, victories, recent runs, and the choices you return to. Chase personal scores with separate records for different expedition setups and a clear results breakdown. Earn player levels and titles as you play. Your last expedition can influence an opening boon offer on the next run. Records and player progression stay on your device. RETURN FOR DAILY DESCENT Take on a dated six-room challenge with a prepared deck. Earn medals, improve your turn record, and build a streak by completing today’s challenge. Every three consecutive completion days earns a Streak Boon to refresh an opening offer in a Full or Short expedition. Replay recent challenges from the seven-day archive. Choose Daily or Daily Expert, with separate saves and medals and rotating setups featuring all twelve relics. Both are included with Full Descent. PLAY ACROSS IPHONE DISPLAYS On the opened iPhone Duo display, keep the battle beside your shared hand and compare card choices alongside your deck. Adaptive layouts preserve your expedition and pending selections as the display changes. LEARN AT YOUR PACE Start with a guided battle. Hold a card to inspect its artwork and complete rules. Adjust text and contrast, control music and sound separately, and choose optional haptics. Includes Game Center achievements and iCloud support for the main expedition. Daily saves and personal Daily and mastery records stay on the device. A stolen bell rings below. Build your deck, protect your party, and silence it.

Screenshots

Contact Origin4 screens
Stonegate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Stonegate at none against Contact Origin's shown. Stonegate also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs weekly). Contact Origin's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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. Contact Origin sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Stonegate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Contact Origin against 5.0 for Stonegate. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contact Origin has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Contact Origin's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stonegate's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contact Origin ships an update weekly, Stonegate every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Contact Origin versus Stonegate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContact OriginStonegate
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size242 MB102 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperLAXASOFTNovoBuild LLC

Customer experience

Contact Origin

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

Stonegate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Contact Origin

One-time8
  • 100 GEMS$0.99
  • Starter Package$0.99
  • 420 GEMS$3.99
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  • 900 GEMS$7.99
  • Remove Ads Package$7.99
  • 2900 GEMS$19.99
  • 5500 GEMS$39.99
  • 12000 GEMS$79.99
1 purchases

Stonegate

One-time1
  • Full Descent$4.99

Questions

Is Contact Origin free?
Contact Origin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stonegate free?
Stonegate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Contact Origin or Stonegate?
Contact Origin and Stonegate are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Contact Origin or Stonegate have ads?
Contact Origin shows ads; Stonegate does not.
Which is updated more often, Contact Origin or Stonegate?
Contact Origin ships an update weekly, and Stonegate every 4 days. Most recently, Contact Origin was updated on October 24, 2026 and Stonegate on October 24, 2026.

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