Comparison

Akindo vs Scrap Orbit

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

Head to head
About

Akindo

Engage in real-time battles and develop a deteriorating island in this comical pixel-art RPG. Explore, gather resources, build facilities and roads to revitalize the economy and increase the population. Unlock new islands by meeting development deadlines.

Highlights
  • Real-time auto-battles with finger tracing controls
  • Explore and gather materials/gold
  • Invest in industrial facilities
  • Craft equipment for companions
  • Build roads to revitalize economy
  • Boost and enhance escort characters
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This is a real-time battle RPG focused around themes of "reconstruction and development" in a comical and fun pixel-art world. Explore a deteriorating island, gather materials, invest in industrial facilities, and build roads to revitalize the economy. ◆ Real-time battle that you can enjoy with easy controls! Just trace the map with your finger and specify the route you want to explore, and the game will move and fight automatically. If you are at a disadvantage in battle, activate the skills of your escort characters. You can also damage enemies with the coin gun, which can only be used by the main character, the merchant. ◆Gather materials through exploration to develop the island! You can get materials and gold by exploring each area and defeating enemies. Invest the gold you get in industrial facilities to develop the island's economy or craft materials to create equipment for your companions. ◆Invest in industrial facilities and build roads to encourage distribution! By building industrial facilities and roads with the materials and gold you acquire, the island's economy will be revitalized and the island's population will increase. By liberating the island within the amount of days set by the merchant guild, you will be able to explore new islands. ◆ Boost your escorts! During battle, the player themselves has no means of attack. Your companions will automatically fight for you. There are various types of guards, so you can organize your party according to the route you choose to explore. You can even enhance the rarity of your guards by leveling them up or synthesizing them.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Akindo4 screens
Scrap Orbit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Akindo at Free against Scrap Orbit's $2.99. Akindo also leads on ratings volume (198 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). Scrap Orbit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Akindo is free to download; Scrap Orbit costs $2.99 up front. Akindo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scrap Orbit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scrap Orbit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Akindo has 198 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Akindo versus Scrap Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAkindoScrap Orbit
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.6 (198 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings198 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperzooJordan Wegner

Customer experience

Akindo

All ratings197 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive47.7%
Neutral25.0%
Negative27.3%

Scrap Orbit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Akindo

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Game freezes after 1-2 hours of play
  • Game freezes after watching reward ads
  • Exploration progress lost after freezing
  • Ads appear without user interaction
  • Game won't start offline
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  • Freezing during gameplay
  • Game won't start (white screen with version)
  • Display bug when gacha ticket is used immediately
  • Game freezes when entering combat at date change
  • Character becomes immobile during boss battles
  • App crashes during gameplay
  • Laggy on the biggest island

Requested features

24 requests
  • Update content (new maps, weapons, characters, dungeons)
  • Increase boss material drop rate
  • Add automation for bigger maps
  • Add buy full game option
  • Add extra armor slots (Head, Torso, Neck, Legs, Boots, Artifact)
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  • Increase armor and weapon drop rates
  • Add special boss/mob dropped weapons and armor
  • Implement player classes with unique skills
  • Add artifacts that can be upgraded
  • Implement weapon and armor rarities
  • Implement weapon and armor enhancing and enchanting
  • Add abandoned structures that can be taken over
  • Add iCloud save functionality
  • Make 100 gems always get a 3-star item
  • Add more updates and content
  • Add more unique actions to partake in
  • Make paid ad removal offer more benefits (e.g., constant battle speed-up, double drops)
  • Implement character unlock system with stone purchases instead of ads
  • Add a creator support option for a small fee
  • Add machine change transfer function
  • Allow collecting resources from offline hours and other islands
  • Improve UI for resource collection summary
  • Add more islands
  • Add more variety to islands

Scrap Orbit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Akindo

One-time1
  • Ad Hiding Pack$7.99
None

Scrap Orbit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Akindo free?
Akindo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scrap Orbit free?
Scrap Orbit costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Akindo or Scrap Orbit?
Scrap Orbit is rated higher. Akindo averages 4.6 out of 5 from 198 ratings, while Scrap Orbit averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Akindo or Scrap Orbit have ads?
Both Akindo and Scrap Orbit show ads.

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