Time Idle RPG vs Idle Pact
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Idle RPG
This idle incremental game uses real-world time to progress. Earn resources and unlock new mechanics while you're away, then strategically assign your gathered time to optimize your in-game gains and climb leaderboards.
- Real-time progression
- Idle resource gathering
- Multiple layers of unlocks
- Achievements and leaderboards
- Strategic time assignment
- Offline progress
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Time Idle RPG is an idle incremental game with multiple layers of unlocks, achievements, and leaderboards. Each seconds that passes in real life is one second you can use in the multiple mechanics found in the game. As the game mechanics unfold, you will find yourself making decisions on how to assign the Time that you have gathered so far to optimize your gains. This game will gather Time and resources while not played.
Idle Pact
Cultivate mystical flora through ancient rituals and solve light puzzles. This incremental occult gardening simulator challenges you to grow plants slowly while discovering ways to accelerate their growth.
- Occult gardening simulation
- Incremental gameplay
- Light puzzle elements
- Mystical plant growth
- Ritualistic mechanics
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Ancient seeds. Secret rituals. Something stirs beneath the stone... An incremental occult gardening simulator with light puzzles. Grow increasingly slow plants while uncovering how to speed things up.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Idle Pact at 4.6 against Time Idle RPG's 3.8. Idle Pact also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 47%) and ratings volume (64 vs 6). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Time Idle RPG sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Idle Pact sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Idle Pact holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Pact has 64 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Time Idle RPG's written reviews are positive against 81% of Idle Pact's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Idle RPG | Idle Pact |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (6 ratings) | 4.6 (64 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.8% of reviews | 81.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 64 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 195 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Robinson Arias | James Fischer |
Customer experience
Time Idle RPG
Idle Pact
Bugs and requests
Time Idle RPG
Reported bugs
24 issues- Auto buy for talent fragments is broken
- Timer page is worthless
- Too many bugs
- Auto buy of tower may buy un unlocked talents
- Auto max number on anything goes to 0
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- Lost all sacred time after resetting
- Lost all progress for no reason
- Game won't start up
- Pop down menu would not go away
- Rate going down when doing things
- No combat experience offline
- No tower rewards offline
- Tunes cannot be opened to swap
- Autobuy of tower may buy some talent u doesn’t unlocked
- Can’t set accurate talent point to put in which manual operation
- Lost all my gain offline even if recontact
- Cloud save software deleted game save
- All my time got deleted after reset
- Takes time for some capture tabs to start being active after reset
- Get no progress when not looking at the app sometimes
- Tree mechanic broken?
- Game crashes after a few seconds
- Flat growth for time travel is horrendous
- Autobuy of talent fragments is broken
Requested features
21 requests- Simpler game explanation
- More tutorial
- Fix auto buy for talent fragments
- Fix timer page issues
- Fix bugs
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- Fix QoL issues
- Fix balancing issues
- Fix tree mechanic
- Better tutorial for tree mechanic
- Fix bug where pop down menu won't go away
- Fix bug where rate goes down
- Fix bug where offline gains are lost
- Fix bug where autobuy of tower buys un unlocked talents
- Fix bug where auto max number goes to 0
- Add option to choose how much to invest
- Fix bug where reset takes time for capture tabs to be active
- Fix bug where no progress when not looking at app sometimes
- Add more automation
- Fix bugs and improve polish
- Fix bugs and add quality of life changes
- Fix bugs and improve game balance
Idle Pact
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Time Idle RPG
- 100 Gems$0.99
- 500 Gems$4.99
- No More Ads$4.99
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- 1000 Gems$8.99
- 5000 Gems$39.99
- 10000 Gems$69.99
Idle Pact
- Permanent x2 Speed$5.99
