Goblin's Workshop vs Idle Pocket Crafter 2
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/
Idle Pocket Crafter 2
Embark on a relaxing idle adventure filled with mining, crafting, and hunting. Automate your resource gathering and craft powerful gear. Collect pets, artifacts, and complete achievements for permanent boosts.
- Relaxing idle gameplay
- Craft new gear
- Automate mining and hunting
- Collect pets and artifacts
- Hundreds of achievements
- Monthly events and daily challenges
- Prestige system with permanent upgrades
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Idle Pocket Crafter 2 is a relaxing idle game about crafting, mining, foraging and hunting. Tap to send your miner to work and sit back and relax while your pockets gets full of ores. Relaxing Idle Gameplay Go idle or tap your way to wealth. Harvest rare ores, collect herbs, hunt fierce enemies and use your precious loot to craft epic gear. Craft New Gear Use the materials from the mines to craft your gear for digging, hunting and lumberjacking. Idle or dig; better gear is just a tap away! Automate Everything Automate mining, wood cutting and hunting. Idle without a single tap and dig up a fortune! Lots of Pets Collect, raised and level up your pets. Collect Artifacts Find rare Artifacts to your collection. Hundreds of Achievements Complete Achievements for powerful rewards! Awards Earn Awards to permanently boost your power! Upgrades Lots of upgrades to choose from! Spells Run a Daily Mine to collect Mana Gems and use Mana Gems to purchase powerful spells! Events 12 exciting monthly events! Find and mine Event Ores in all of the biomes to gain Event Levels with powerful rewards! Challenges Daily and weekly challenges! Retire & Relax Retire your hero to gain prestige currency, which can be used to buy powerful, permanent dig upgrades like lightning fast rush mining. Tons of idle equipment and weapons are just one tap away. Lovers of the retro digging and crafting games won't be able to put down this addicting idle mining game. Go on a epic tap adventure, explore the island and craft epic mining gear and weapons! ___________________________ Welcome to the island! Contact us Email: ruotogames@hotmail.com Discord: https://discord.gg/Ynedgm738U Facebook: www.facebook.com/ruotogames Twitter: twitter.com/RuotoGames
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Idle Pocket Crafter 2 at 4.6 against Goblin's Workshop's 3.7. Idle Pocket Crafter 2 also leads on ratings volume (92 vs 9) and review sentiment (80% vs 71%). Goblin's Workshop's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15). 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. Goblin's Workshop sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and Idle Pocket Crafter 2 sells 26 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Idle Pocket Crafter 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Pocket Crafter 2 has 92 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Goblin's Workshop's written reviews are positive against 80% of Idle Pocket Crafter 2's.
Goblin's Workshop ships an update every 3 weeks, Idle Pocket Crafter 2 every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | Goblin's Workshop | Idle Pocket Crafter 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (9 ratings) | 4.6 (92 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 92 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 423 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | JUNG CHUN HUNG | Iron Horse Games LLC |
Customer experience
Goblin's Workshop
Idle Pocket Crafter 2
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
Idle Pocket Crafter 2
- Sopala Island bundle$0.99
- Freebie Bundle Sale$0.99
- Freebie Bundle$1.99
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- Ace Bundle$1.99
- Merchant$1.99
- Book of Fasting$3.99
- Event Crafting Bundle$4.99
- SM Container$4.99
- Cake of Pet Experience$4.99
- Resource Bundle$4.99
- Time Crate$8.99
- Event Bundle$8.99
- Halloween Premium Pass$9.99
- Honey Premium Pass$9.99
- Time Premium Pass$9.99
- Magma Premium Pass$9.99
- Midsummer Premium Pass$9.99
- Mana Premium Pass$9.99
- Easter Premium Pass$9.99
- Goodie Bundle$9.99
- Mythic Artifact Chest$14.99
- Chestful of Mana Gems$19.99
- Supporter's Mega Bundle$19.99
- Epic Supporter's Mega Bundle$29.99
- Mythic Supporter's Mega Bundle$39.99
- Chestful of Amber$39.99
Questions
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