Time Idle RPG vs Scrap Orbit
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.
Scrap Orbit
Manage an idle orbital salvage company, collecting dead satellites for profit. Automate your operations, build fleets, and strategically reset your progress for permanent upgrades. Haul in riches while you sleep.
- Idle orbital salvage simulation
- Automated rig purchasing
- Live radar with bonus hauls
- Timed contracts with payouts
- Permanent Alloy upgrades
- Offline hauling up to 16 hours
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Forty thousand dead satellites are worth a fortune to whoever hauls them in. That's you. Scrap Orbit is an idle salvage-company sim played through a mission console: monospace telemetry, an amber radar sweep, and numbers that climb while you sleep. • Eleven salvage rigs, from Magnet Skiffs to the Mass Driver • Live radar: tap priority windows for instant bonus hauls • Rotating timed contracts with real payouts — deliver tonnage, build fleets • DEORBIT: burn the whole operation into permanent Alloy (+12% each) and spend it on tech that survives every reset • Automation bays that buy rigs for you, up to once per second • Milestone bonuses at 10/25/50/100/200 of every rig • Rigs keep hauling offline (up to 16 h) • Fully on-device: no account, no connection, nothing collected Hold orbit. Get rich. Burn it down. Repeat.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Time Idle RPG at Free against Scrap Orbit's $2.99. Time Idle RPG also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Scrap Orbit's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). On ads 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
Time Idle RPG is free to download; Scrap Orbit costs $2.99 up front. Time Idle RPG sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Scrap Orbit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scrap Orbit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Idle RPG | Scrap Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 195 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robinson Arias | Jordan Wegner |
Customer experience
Time Idle RPG
Scrap Orbit
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
Scrap Orbit
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
Scrap Orbit
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Time Idle RPG free?
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