Comparison

Coffee Inc 2 vs Progress Knight

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

Head to head
About

Coffee Inc 2

Build a global coffee empire from a small cafe. Manage employees, develop products, run marketing campaigns, and expand into major cities worldwide. Compete with rivals and prove yourself as the ultimate coffee entrepreneur.

Highlights
  • Build a global coffee empire
  • Manage employees and finances
  • Develop new coffee products
  • Expand into real-world cities
  • Customize store interiors and exteriors
  • Enter the plantation and investment business
Features
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Coffee Inc 2 - Build Your Global Coffee Empire Coffee Inc 2 is the next generation of the hit business simulation game. Start as the founder of a small cafe and grow into a world-class coffee empire. From brewing your first blend to managing thousands of employees, every decision is in your hands. Hire and inspire great talent, develop new products, run marketing campaigns, manage your finances, and expand into major cities around the world. Compete with rival shops, dominate new markets, and prove yourself as the ultimate coffee entrepreneur. What’s New in Coffee Inc 2 • Expand into real-world cities: San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Osaka, London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid, Sydney, and Seattle. • Play globally with multiple currencies: USD, EUR, JPY, and GBP. • Customize store interiors, exteriors, and equipment - or design your own layouts. • Set menus and pricing, and create brand-new coffee products. • Run smarter marketing campaigns, from local promotions to city-wide brand awareness drives. • Hire staff, keep them happy, and delegate daily operations to store managers. • Handle unexpected incidents from both employees and customers. • Build offices and create departments in HR, Finance, Marketing, Products, Engineering, Executive, and Investment. • Track detailed financials with income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports. • Develop online services and apps to expand beyond the cafe walls. • Hire C-level executives like COO, CFO, CTO, and CMO - and reward them with stock options. • Hold board meetings, set executive compensation, and decide on dividends. • Work with investment banks to pursue IPOs and acquisitions. • Enter the plantation business: grow your own coffee beans, manage harvests, and control quality from farm to cup. • Diversify into real estate and stock markets through your investment division. • Keep personal wealth separate from company wealth. • Save and sync your progress across devices with iCloud. • Always ad-free.

About

Progress Knight

Embark on a fantasy life-simulation where you progress through careers, gain skills, and manage expenses. Choose your path from commoner to military or magic, and eventually prestige for faster progression in subsequent lives.

Highlights
  • Fantasy medieval life simulation
  • Career progression
  • Skill acquisition
  • Expense management
  • Multiple career paths (commoner, military, magic)
  • Prestige system for multipliers
  • Idle gameplay
Features
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Progress Knight is a life-sim incremental based in a fantasy/medieval setting, where you must progress through the career ladder and acquire new skills to become the ultimate being. You first start off as a beggar, barely being able to feed yourself as the days go by. However, over the years you learn new skills and gain plenty of work experience to enter new high paying jobs while managing your living expenses... Will you decide to take the easy route of doing simple commoner work? Or will you go through harsh training to climb the ranks within the military? Or maybe will you decide to study hard and enrol in a magic academy, learning life-impacting spells? Your career path is open-ended, the decision is up to you. Eventually, your age will catch up to you. You will be given an option to prestige and gain xp multipliers (based on the performance of your current life) for your next life at the cost of losing all your levels and assets. Fear not though, as you will re-gain your levels much, much more quickly than in your previous life...

Screenshots

Coffee Inc 24 screens
Progress Knight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Progress Knight at Free against Coffee Inc 2's $2.99. Progress Knight also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Coffee Inc 2's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On review sentiment, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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

Progress Knight is free to download; Coffee Inc 2 costs $2.99 up front. Coffee Inc 2 sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Progress Knight 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

Coffee Inc 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coffee Inc 2 has 2.5K ratings behind it against 257, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Coffee Inc 2's written reviews are positive against 72% of Progress Knight's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coffee Inc 2 ships an update every 6 weeks, Progress Knight every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Coffee Inc 2 versus Progress Knight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoffee Inc 2Progress Knight
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (2.5K ratings) — better4.4 (257 ratings)
Positive reviews69.0% of reviews72.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.5K — better257
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#16 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size412 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSide Labs LLCNoe LE PHILIPPE

Customer experience

Coffee Inc 2

All ratings2,471 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews983 reviews
Positive69.0%
Neutral12.1%
Negative18.9%

Progress Knight

All ratings257 ratings
Positive85.6%
Neutral5.1%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews97 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral11.3%
Negative16.5%

User reviews

Coffee Inc 2

From 2.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Brilliant game
  • 🚀 Piece of art
  • 👍 Great game but some improvements would be fantastic
  • 👍 Great game just missing sound
  • 👍 Love this game so much

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Does not work
  • 🐛 Terrible
  • 🐛 Waste of $3
  • 🐛 Forced bankruptcy
  • 🐛 Terrible

Progress Knight

From 257 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great game
  • 🚀 Addictive gameplay
  • 💡 Interesting progression
  • 🤩 Satisfying incremental experience

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🔋 Battery drain issues
  • 🔒 Lack of accessibility features
  • ⏱️ Slow progression at endgame

Bugs and requests

Coffee Inc 2

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Does not work
  • Terrible
  • Waste of $3
  • Forced bankruptcy
  • Terrible
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  • Waste of $3
  • Forced bankruptcy

Requested features

14 requests
  • Great game but some improvements would be fantastic
  • AMAZING GAME, but Dev please read!
  • Things to add in my opinion
  • How to make it amazing
  • I need a Chief Lobbying Officer
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  • Great game but some improvements would be fantastic
  • AMAZING GAME, but Dev please read!
  • Things to add in my opinion
  • How to make it amazing
  • I need a Chief Lobbying Officer
  • Suggestion
  • Enjoyable but would love to see some updates
  • Suggestion
  • Enjoyable but would love to see some updates

Progress Knight

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Progress and data loss issues
  • Skill level resets after transcendence
  • Autopause not working as expected
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More content and updates
  • Auto-purchase feature for the store
  • Offline progress tracking
  • Improved autopause functionality

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Coffee Inc 2

One-time6
  • Private Jet$0.99
  • Custom Interior$0.99
  • Real Estate Expansion$1.99
Show 3 more
  • Venture Expansion$1.99
  • Sports Expansion$1.99
  • Auction Expansion$1.99
1 purchases

Progress Knight

One-time1
  • Remove the ads$2.99

Questions

Is Coffee Inc 2 free?
Coffee Inc 2 costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Progress Knight free?
Progress Knight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Coffee Inc 2 or Progress Knight?
Coffee Inc 2 is rated higher. Coffee Inc 2 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.5K ratings, while Progress Knight averages 4.4 from 257 ratings.
Do Coffee Inc 2 or Progress Knight have ads?
Progress Knight shows ads; Coffee Inc 2 does not.
Which is updated more often, Coffee Inc 2 or Progress Knight?
Coffee Inc 2 ships an update every 6 weeks, and Progress Knight every 3 weeks. Most recently, Coffee Inc 2 was updated on October 23, 2026 and Progress Knight on October 20, 2026.

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