Island Empire vs Cask
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Island Empire
Engage in a turn-based strategy game where you build and expand your island empire. Develop your economy, fortify defenses, train units, and conquer enemy territories through a campaign or multiplayer battles. Enjoy offline play and customizable maps.
- Turn-based strategy gameplay
- Empire building and expansion
- Economic development and defense
- Unit training and conquest
- Weekly challenges and random maps
- Map editor for custom gameplay
- Offline play
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Island Empire is a captivating turn-based strategy game that's easy to learn but challenging to master. Navigate through a thrilling campaign filled with unique levels and strategic challenges. Develop a winning strategy, expand your empire, and secure a thriving economy. Fortify your defenses with walls, train units, and prepare to conquer enemy territories. Are you ready to build your island empire? Download now and start your journey! - Features - * Balanced blend of strategy, economy, building, defense, and attack * Weekly challenges with fresh levels * Random maps and local multiplayer for endless replayability * Up to 8 players in multiplayer * Map editor for custom gameplay * Optional DLCs with extra campaigns * Offline play * Charming pixel graphics * Unlockable skins for your civilization Featuring Music by Matthew Pablo http://www.matthewpablo.com
Cask
Build a nation from scratch in this real-time strategy game. Collect resources, construct buildings, train armies, and conquer vast continents in engaging 30-minute sessions.
- Resource collection (wood, food, gold)
- Nation building from scratch
- Army training (knights, archers)
- Real-time strategy combat
- Casual 30-minute gameplay sessions
- Conquer vast continents
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Embark on a grand adventure with CASK, the ultimate mobile real-time strategy game! Immerse yourself in a strategic journey, collecting resources, building a nation from the ground up, and commanding armies to conquer the virtual world. With CASK, you can relive the mechanics of classic RTS games, experiencing vibrant casual gameplay sessions of 30 minutes. Begin your village from scratch, equipped with a Town Hall and 2 Villagers. Your goal is to grow your nation by collecting wood, food, and gold, enabling the construction of houses, castles, towers, and the training of more villagers or soldiers, including knights and archers. Launch daring attacks, defend on all fronts, and surge across vast continents.Launch daring attacks, defend yourself on all fronts and surge across vast continents.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Island Empire at 4.8 against Cask's 4.2. Island Empire also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Cask's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Island Empire sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Cask sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Island Empire holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Island Empire has 152 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Island Empire's written reviews are positive against 75% of Cask's.
Island Empire ships an update every 3 weeks, Cask every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Island Empire | Cask |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (152 ratings) — better | 4.2 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.6% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 152 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 309 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Michael Haberzeth | Fernando Pastor |
Customer experience
Island Empire
Cask
Bugs and requests
Island Empire
Reported bugs
6 issues- Advertising is now mandatory for some
- Ad to simply go back to the main menu
- Saving issues in battle mode
- User created levels disappearing
- Doesn't show when a user level is completed
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- In-app rating did not work
Requested features
17 requests- Save user-generated maps
- Modify user-generated maps
- More buildings and mechanics
- Hardcore mode
- Score system for replayability
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- More abilities/unit types
- Play with other people
- Copy and edit user levels
- iCloud backup
- More user-created levels
- Indication of completed user levels
- New islands/content
- Teleport portal building
- Ranged units (e.g., wizard)
- Diplomacy feature
- Power-ups for difficult levels
- More islands for iOS
Cask
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Island Empire
- Coins XS$0.99
- Coins S$1.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
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- Mapeditor$2.99
- Coins M$3.99
- Island 2$4.99
- Island 3$4.99
- Coins L$7.99
- Full Game$8.99
- Coins XL$14.99
Cask
- Map Pathways$0.99
- Tiny Islands$0.99
- Europe$1.99
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- Latin America$1.99
- USA$1.99
- All Maps$9.99
