Goblin's Workshop vs Cavern Adventurers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Goblin's Workshop
A simulation RPG where you craft weapons, recruit monsters, and explore to gather materials. Sell items to monsters, upgrade your transport, and equip your monsters to battle humans and reclaim territories.
- Item crafting and selling
- Monster recruitment and exploration
- RPG combat mechanics
- Idle gameplay
- Monster equipment upgrades
- Territory battles
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***** goblin's Workshop is a simple and easy item making simulation & RPG idle game. ***** Make weapons, recruit monsters to explore, get more materials and make more powerful weapons! Defeat the evil humans! [Introduction] In the game, you can make all kinds of items to sell to monsters to earn money, from time to time there will be a variety of monsters to visit your store. If you are very idle, you can also click them to pimp, from them to cut more money. When there are not enough materials, you must send your monster hired soldiers to explore the world to get more resources. If you have some money, please buy a better transport wagon for the monsters to ride. But the humans in this world is not a vegetarian, they occupy many territories. So your monsters if the equipped items are too bad to explore, it is easy to be beaten by human! You can leave the better items to your monsters to put on, so that the monsters increase more combat power. The crap will be left to other idiot customers to buy it, this is the right way to do business! Well, no more chit chat. I'm going to the market to buy materials and drink... [Terms of Use] https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Cavern Adventurers
Assemble a team of adventurers to explore, secure, and develop a sprawling underground cave network. Manage your team, build infrastructure, and defend against monsters and thieves to uncover treasures and establish a thriving subterranean settlement.
- Team assembly and management
- Cave exploration and expansion
- Infrastructure building (torches, bridges)
- Monster combat and taming
- Trap laying for defense
- Merchant settlement and profit generation
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In a faraway fantasy kingdom, everything was peaceful... Until monsters started pouring out of a hole in the ground! Put together a team of adventurers to secure, explore, and develop a vast underground network of caves in this cavern management simulator. Your adventurers will face all kinds of challenges in the underground, but there's no obstacle you can't deal with if you know how. Place torches to light up the darkness, build bridges to traverse gorges, and use explosives to clear away large rocks! To create a truly great cave, you'll have to stay on your toes and pay attention to the time of day. When the sun's up, organize your miners to discover new areas and build new fixtures. And when night falls, send in your adventurers to show those monsters who's boss! The deeper you dig, the better the treasure you'll find - just how deep can you go? All that fame can come at a price. As your cave becomes more popular, thieves will appear to try and make off with its treasures. Keep your booty safe by laying devious traps around the entrance! Not all monsters are bad. Some of them might even become your friends and fight alongside you! Once you make an entire floor safe, merchants will be able to move in and set up shop there. With a cut of the profits for you, of course! Keep developing the space and earning gold, and pretty soon you'll have the finest cave in all the land! In this quirky management sim, fun, adventure, and riches are lurking right under your nose... Or should we say, right under your boots? -- Supports drag to scroll and pinch to zoom. Search for "Kairosoft" to see all of our games, or visit us at http://kairopark.jp Be sure to check out both our free-to-play and paid games! Kairosoft's pixel art game series continues! Follow us on X (Twitter) for the latest Kairosoft news and information. https://twitter.com/kairokun2010
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Goblin's Workshop at Free against Cavern Adventurers's $6.99. Cavern Adventurers's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). On review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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
Goblin's Workshop is free to download; Cavern Adventurers costs $6.99 up front. Goblin's Workshop sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Cavern Adventurers asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cavern Adventurers holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cavern Adventurers has 117 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Goblin's Workshop's written reviews are positive against 67% of Cavern Adventurers's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Goblin's Workshop ships an update every 3 weeks, Cavern Adventurers every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Goblin's Workshop | Cavern Adventurers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (9 ratings) | 4.4 (117 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 67.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 117 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 423 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | JUNG CHUN HUNG | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
Customer experience
Goblin's Workshop
Cavern Adventurers
Bugs and requests
Goblin's Workshop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Cavern Adventurers
Reported bugs
3 issues- Traps not functioning properly
- Adventurer AI getting stuck
- Crashes or freezes at higher levels
Requested features
5 requests- Add Thai language support
- Improve tutorial and onboarding
- Streamline UI and menus
- Introduce faster progression options
- Enhance lighting and visibility
In-app purchases
Goblin's Workshop
- Double Bless$9.997 Days
- Goblin King's Bless$9.997 Days
- Hire Crystal Miner$14.991 Month
- Fistful of crystals$0.99
- Unlock a random recipe$1.99
- Pouch of crystals$2.99
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- Chest of crystals$9.99
- 3x Battle Speed$9.99
- Newbie Special Package$9.99
- Barrel of crystals$29.99
- Unlock all monsters$47.99
Cavern Adventurers
No in-app purchases
Questions
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