Guildmaster Idle vs Wasteland Orchard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guildmaster Idle
Manage and grow an interactive idle RPG guild. Engage in various minigames to gather resources, craft gear, and train adventurers for quests and dungeons. Attract new heroes and forge alliances to become a legendary guildmaster.
- Interactive idle gameplay
- Professions minigames (mining, crafting, bartending, etc.)
- Questing and dungeon crawling
- Guild and hero progression
- Talent tree upgrades
- Ad-free option
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With many immersive features including: Interactive Idle Gameplay: Break free from conventional clicker games as you actively personalise and grow your guild, making every decision count. A World of Minigames: Explore a rich tapestry of professions through completing various minigames such as mining, potion-crafting and bartending to gather the materials needed to equip your guild for missions. Their strength is forged through your skills, and the path to victory lies in your mastery of these professions. Quest for Glory: Embark on daring adventures of quests and dungeons. Rise to fame as you conquer challenges and complete feats, attracting new classes of adventurer to your guild, each bringing unique skills and abilities. Ad-Free Enjoyment: Bid farewell to intrusive ads with our optional ad system, ensuring uninterrupted gameplay. Take your gameplay a step above other idle games with interactive minigames for each profession: - Bartending: Serve drinks to the citizens for the gold needed to purchase upgrades for your guild. - Apothecary: Experiment with different herbs and other ingredients to discover magical potions, giving your adventurers the edge when fighting the powerful monsters scattered throughout the dungeon. - Foraging: Search through the forests to find wild vegetables and the herbs needed to craft potions. - Gardening: Manage your garden to grow the crops needed to cook the best food for your guild-members. - Cooking: Combine collected ingredients in the kitchen to provide food for your adventurers, granting them powerful buffs. - Hunting: Hunt wild beasts for meats to use in the kitchen, and hides to craft the armour needed by your adventurers. - Mining: Search through the mines for precious metals and gemstones to be used when crafting gear at the blacksmith. - Tree Felling: Chop trees for the building materials needed to expand your guild, with each new structure adding opportunities for your guild to prosper. - Blacksmithing: Craft enchanted weapons and armour at the forge to equip your adventurers with the tools they need to defeat the strongest foes. Use talent trees to upgrade each profession, dynamically changing each minigame to accelerate the growth of your guild. Grow your guild's fame to attract heroes with powerful spells and abilities from around the world to fight for you. Use the resources you gather from each profession to enhance your adventurers. Fight through quests, dungeons and tournaments, with advanced combat simulation. Gain the best loot possible as you progress through the game and use it to defeat powerful bosses. And that's just the beginning! Stay on the lookout for upcoming features that will expand your 'Guildmaster' experience in the next update. Forge alliances, conquer challenges, and become the legendary 'Guildmaster' you were destined to be. Are you ready for the challenge? Download now.
Wasteland Orchard
Cultivate resilient trees and harvest valuable fruit in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Manage your orchard, scavenge resources, and research abilities to survive storms and radiation. Your trees grow even when you're offline, offering daily rewards and permanent upgrades.
- Grow resilient trees
- Harvest valuable fruit
- Explore and scavenge
- Craft items and build
- Research abilities
- Permanent upgrades
- Idle progression
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Survive a wasteland ravaged by storms and radiation by growing the strongest, most resilient trees with the most valuable fruit! Select fruit with the ideal properties to plant more trees and expand your orchard! Explore the map each run, scavenge for resources, craft items, build structures, trade with and receive gifts from townsfolk, research powerful abilities, and use rare golden seeds for permanent upgrades! Your trees in Wasteland Orchard continue growing while you're away so check back daily to harvest, purchase upgrades, and expand your orchard!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Wasteland Orchard at none against Guildmaster Idle's shown. Wasteland Orchard also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 75%). Guildmaster Idle's advantage is ratings volume (539 vs 153) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Guildmaster Idle sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Wasteland Orchard sells 9 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 Guildmaster Idle against 4.7 for Wasteland Orchard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 539 and 153 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Guildmaster Idle's written reviews are positive against 91% of Wasteland Orchard's.
Guildmaster Idle ships an update weekly, Wasteland Orchard every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guildmaster Idle | Wasteland Orchard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (539 ratings) | 4.7 (153 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.7% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 539 — better | 153 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 314 MB | 237 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elvenry Studios | Dustin Auxier |
Customer experience
Guildmaster Idle
Wasteland Orchard
User reviews
Guildmaster Idle
From 539 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Practical idle game mechanics
- 🚀 Smooth and responsive gameplay
- 💡 Interesting concept and depth
- 🔒 No forced ads or paywalls
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Bugs with certain features
- 🔍 Lack of in-game information and guidance
- ⏱️ Overly long dungeon timers
Wasteland Orchard
From 153 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Unique and creative gameplay
- 💡 Deep and complex mechanics
- ✨ Great idle time burner
- 😊 No forced ads
- 🎶 Amazing soundtrack
Room to improve
- 🐛 Seeds disappear
- 🐛 Disappointing nerfs
- 🐛 Monotonous gameplay loop
- 🐛 Save bug
- 🐛 Poor balance
Bugs and requests
Guildmaster Idle
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezes and crashes
- Talent tree enhancements not working as expected
- Gear enhancements have no material requirements
- Unable to construct certain buildings
Requested features
4 requests- Add a wiki or knowledge base
- Improve UI and accessibility
- Reduce dungeon completion times
- Introduce character/guild customization
Wasteland Orchard
Reported bugs
8 issues- Seeds disappear
- Disappointing Nerfs
- Monotonous gameplay loop
- Save bug
- Game not launching after update
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- Game not opening
- Glitch where trying to claim tree treasure rewards makes it inaccessible after a storm kills trees and makes a giant text box until you close the game
- Seeds disappear after a storm
Requested features
14 requests- Add search/filter radar function to tutorial
- Journal or easily find specific trees by stats
- More missions
- More content
- Make game able to save progress
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- Quickly switch between all trees
- More frequent time potion in shop
- Balance storm requirements
- No shortcuts/features to reseed the entire map
- No shortcuts to add auto harvest/mulch/tree stakes/lightning wall/concrete wall to all trees
- No shortcut/features to see dead trees
- Not possible to make Chests keys
- Time warp Potions should be easier to come by at the beginning
- Balance some storms
In-app purchases
Guildmaster Idle
- 1000 Runes$1.99
- 2500 Runes$4.99
- Increase Max Offline Work$4.99
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- Purchase Runes (Scrolls)$4.99
- Purchase Rune Bundle$4.99
- 7500 Runes$9.99
- 15000 Runes$19.99
- 50000 Runes$49.99
- 100000 Runes$99.99
Wasteland Orchard
- Wasteland Starter Pack$1.99
- Peaceful Harvests PhillipAddOn$1.99
- Peaceful Harvests BountifulAdd$2.99
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- Great Listener$3.99
- Bountiful Orchard$4.99
- Nature's Bounty$5.99
- Peaceful Harvests$6.99
- Shard Shaman$12.99
- Time Lord$19.99
Questions
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