Comparison

Goblin's Workshop vs Life Game

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • Item crafting and selling
  • Monster recruitment and exploration
  • RPG combat mechanics
  • Idle gameplay
  • Monster equipment upgrades
  • Territory battles
Features
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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/

About

Life Game

Features
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Change a law. Solve a future. Life Game is an intervention laboratory built around eight authored challenges. Starting cells are fixed: you design local laws to change what happens next. EIGHT EXPERIMENT CHALLENGES Rescue a pair, bridge an empty gap, selectively remove a colony, or create a brief pulse of life. Each challenge supplies its own initial world, edit budget, observation generations, and spatial goals. Choose where Maze, Seeds, or HighLife will make a difference. All eight challenges are available immediately. DESIGN, PREDICT, COMPARE Tap or paint laws onto allowed squares, then predict whether the final population will be larger, equal, or smaller than the unmodified control. Your design and the control start from identical cells and evolve for equal generations. Scrub the generation slider to compare intermediate states as well as the ending. LEARN FROM EACH ATTEMPT See measured results for every goal, your prediction result, and an explanation of the mechanism. Revise your existing design and retry. Earn one star each for meeting the goals, predicting correctly, and solving without a hint. Draft designs, best scores, and the latest 60 attempts are stored locally; reopen past runs to compare them again. FREE RULE MOSAIC EXPERIMENTS The Experiment tab remains an unrestricted laboratory. Paint Conway, HighLife, Seeds, and Maze on one board and place Cyan or Coral cells. Inspect a cell's rule, neighbor counts, and cause of change. Save branch points, compare them with the current world, and record hypotheses and population graphs in the Notebook. CLASSIC CONWAY MODE Traditional Game of Life is also included, with board sizes, speed controls, wraparound edges, trails, random fill, and 15 built-in patterns. Open the pattern library from the top of the Classic screen. Available in English and Japanese. No account, advertising, in-app purchases, analytics, or behavioral tracking. Experiment data stays on your device, and all core functions work offline. Privacy Policy: https://ko-ji-apps.com/en/life-game/privacy

Screenshots

Goblin's Workshop4 screens
Life Game4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Life Game at none against Goblin's Workshop's 10. Life Game also leads on ads (none vs shown). Goblin's Workshop's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price and device support 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

Both are free to download. Goblin's Workshop sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Life Game asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Goblin's Workshop versus Life Game: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoblin's WorkshopLife Game
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size423 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJUNG CHUN HUNGKoji Tamatsu

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Goblin's Workshop

Subscriptions3
  • Double Bless$9.997 Days
  • Goblin King's Bless$9.997 Days
  • Hire Crystal Miner$14.991 Month
One-time7
  • 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
None

Life Game

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Goblin's Workshop free?
Goblin's Workshop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Life Game free?
Life Game is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Goblin's Workshop or Life Game have ads?
Goblin's Workshop shows ads; Life Game does not.

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