Tiny Shop vs King Smith
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Shop
Design and manage your own fantasy shop in a charming RPG world. Research, craft, and sell magical goods, complete quests, and expand your business. An assistant helps sell items even when you're offline.
- Personalize and design your shop
- Research, craft, and trade fantasy items
- Complete quests and missions
- Build and upgrade your city
- Grow and harvest plants for crafting
- Offline item sales with assistant
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YOU are a brand new member of the trading guild just stepping into this fantasy world. Personalize and design your own store, attract customers and sell magical and epic goods! Research, craft, trade, negotiate, buy and sell fantasy items and products from all over the world in this RPG simulation game and learn to manage your store to become the city’s best shop! Build, design and customize your very own cute fantasy shop with dozens of options! Making your store as outstanding as it can be will upgrade customers' satisfaction and boost your shop! Fortune awaits! With the help of your cute little assistant, discover a RPG world crafted with love. Meet mages and knights and send your heroes on epic adventures! Earn money and XP without doing anything as your assistant will sell your items for you while you are offline! Just fill your warehouse to the brim with goods and items and let the cash flow! Complete quests and missions for the trading guild and your customers and become the most beloved and reliable shopkeeper in town! Follow a cute and funny story, discover characters from your town and outside, build and upgrade your city to unlock more items and quests! Expand and upgrade your shop tile by tile. Buy beautiful and cute furniture and decoration to make your shop truly yours. Upgrade your shop’s statistics to boost your gold and xp! Plant and harvest exotic plants to craft powerful potions and other magic alchemy goods. From beautiful flowers to leafy vines you can become the best gardener around! Visit the botanist in the city center to buy new seeds and expand your garden. In this RPG fantasy shop adventure you will: RESEARCH, DISCOVER and CRAFT dozens of different items and goods to trade DESIGN and CUSTOMISE your tiny shop to improve your sales! COMPLETE STORY MISSIONS and QUESTS to help your city become prosperous EXPLORE and BUILD your city and world GROW and HARVEST cute plants and flowers ENJOY CUTE and CHARMING hand painted visuals HAVE A GOOD and RELAXING time Tiny Shop is a RPG store simulation game that will let you customize and design your own shop within a cute fantasy world. You can research, craft and sell: armor, potions, magic books, all kinds of gear and equipment as well as crafting materials such as plants, metals and gems. With your hard earned money you can expand and personalize your cute fantasy shop and explore the world to become the most prosperous shopkeeper in town! Install Tiny Shop for free NOW! Craft, trade, buy, sell, quest and customize in this fantasy RPG game! Music in our game is made by Kevin MacLeod at https://incompetech.com/ We're using the following tunes: * Carpe Diem * Porch Swing Days (slower) * Montauk Point Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
King Smith
Embark on a heroic quest to save the kingdom from monster attacks. Manage a forge, craft powerful weapons, and assemble a party of heroes to defeat enemies and rescue villagers. Discover hidden blueprints and forge legendary weapons to operate a giant golem and vanquish the ultimate evil.
- Manage a forge and craft weapons
- Collect blueprints for powerful items
- Operate a golem with crafted swords
- Assemble a party of heroes
- Battle monsters and collect materials
- Rescue captive villagers
- Explore for hidden legendary weapon blueprints
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The Kingdom is suffering from monster attacks. Manage the Forge with cute Forge King and Heroes and start a new adventure to save the Kingdom. Our cute Forge King never tires. Making better, stronger weapons is his joy. Collect Blueprints and craft weapons until you craft the most powerful weapon in the world. Operate the Golem. The Kingdom's last hope is the Golem. Craft the Great Sword to operate the Golem and defeat the enemy. Hurry up and craft the Great Sword in the middle of the village. Be on a fun adventure with the Heroes. Defeat the monsters around the Kingdom and collect materials. The villagers are held captive by monsters. Assemble a party and equip a weapon to save them all. What's the most powerful legendary weapon? The sword that slain the Demon King. The sword made of dragon bones. The bow carried by the archangel. Start your story of seeking the hidden blueprint. Manage the Forge with our cute King, the last Blacksmith of this world, and other Heroes to save the Kingdom! The sequel for "Warriors' Market Mayhem" is finally released! More diverse adventures, item collection, Hero growth await. Travel across the Kingdom and collect materials to build a Forge that can craft the most powerful weapon of all.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Tiny Shop at 1.3K against King Smith's 253. King Smith's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Tiny Shop sells 18 one-off in-app purchases and King Smith sells 26 one-off in-app purchases. 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 Tiny Shop against 4.7 for King Smith. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Shop has 1.3K ratings behind it against 253, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 79% and 79% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Shop | King Smith |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.3K ratings) | 4.7 (253 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.7% of reviews | 79.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 253 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 270 MB | 164 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mateusz Lesinski | Indie Cat Co. |
Customer experience
Tiny Shop
King Smith
User reviews
Tiny Shop
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Engaging gameplay
- 🚀 Generous with free rewards
- 🎨 Charming art style
- 💰 No pay-to-win mechanics
- 📺 Optional, non-intrusive ads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- ⏱️ Slow progression at times
- 🔋 Battery-intensive
- 🔍 Lack of customization options
King Smith
From 253 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⭐ Addictive and fun gameplay
- 👍 Cute and well-made graphics
- 🎁 Free gems and content
- 🎨 Crafting and customization options
- 🔍 Engaging progression and challenges
Room to improve
- 🚧 Unskippable banner ads
- 🐛 In-app purchases not working
- 🔍 Lack of clear direction after tutorial
Bugs and requests
Tiny Shop
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes or gets stuck during loading
- Disappearing or malfunctioning shop displays
- Recipes or licenses getting reset unexpectedly
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to customize character/avatar
- More furniture and shop decorations
- Daily customer requests or challenges
- Improved balance for crafting materials
King Smith
Reported bugs
2 issues- Ads freezing and preventing gameplay
- Save data being reverted or deleted
Requested features
2 requests- Comprehensive hero stat list
- Improved save system to prevent data loss
In-app purchases
Tiny Shop
- Small Gem pack$1.99
- Birthday bundle$1.99
- Adventurer bundle$1.99
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- Croissant Bundle$1.99
- Coral Crab Bundle$1.99
- Starting Pack$2.99
- Winter hat bundle$3.99
- Big Gem pack$4.99
- Bundle$4.99
- Botanist Furniture Bundle$4.99
- Blacksmith Furniture Bundle$4.99
- Home Furniture Bundle$4.99
- Kitchen Furniture Bundle$4.99
- Ad Tickets bundle$4.99
- Sunny festival$4.99
- Flooded Bundle$4.99
- Large Gem pack$9.99
- Enormous Gem pack$19.99
King Smith
- Event Item 01$0.99
- Starter Pack$0.99
- Daily Deals01$0.99
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- weekly pack1$1.99
- Season Event Package 01$2.99
- Starter$2.99
- Gem Touch$2.99
- Event Item 02$4.99
- Advanced$4.99
- Daily Deals02$4.99
- Gem Pouch$4.99
- Weekend Event Pass$9.99
- weekly pack3$9.99
- Advanced$9.99
- Food Package$9.99
- weekly pack2$9.99
- Main Event Pass$9.99
- Video Ad Removal Package$9.99
- Event Item 03$9.99
- Gem Box$9.99
- Gem Cart$19.99
- Rune Package$29.99
- Premium Contract Package$29.99
- Homun Package$29.99
- Gem Warehouse$49.99
- Gem Mine$99.99








