Pasta Machine vs King or Fail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pasta Machine
Engage in a relaxing ASMR idle and clicker game. Shape dough, slice with precision, and build your pasta production line. Enjoy satisfying animations and realistic sounds for endless fun.
- ASMR idle gameplay
- Clicker mechanics
- Dough shaping
- Precision slicing
- Production line growth
- Satisfying animations
- Realistic sounds
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Pasta Machine is the ultimate ASMR idle & clicker experience! Shape the dough, slice with precision, create your pasta, and grow your production line. With satisfying animations, realistic sounds, and easy one-tap controls, this game offers endless relaxing fun. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
King or Fail
Build and manage a medieval kingdom, balancing farming, crafting, and construction with military conquest. Recruit and upgrade soldiers, raid enemy castles, and develop your empire to become a prosperous and fearsome ruler.
- Kingdom building and management
- Resource gathering and crafting
- Army recruitment and upgrades
- Castle raiding and combat
- Worker hiring and management
- Ballista weapon system
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► ARE YOU A FARMER OR A FIGHTER? In this fun new idle role-playing game, you’re both, with sidelines in mining, crafting, construction and management too. In fact, you’re a king, with a kingdom to protect, expand and develop, and if you want to succeed there’s a lot of work ahead of you. Start with just a small squad of swordsmen and a few berry trees, then get working to build a city, feed your people, raid enemy castles for resources and experience, expand your army and turn your tiny village into a flourishing and fearsome empire. ► ARE YOU WORTHY OF THE CROWN? • Turn your swords to plowshares: Start the game farming berries, sell them at market to feed your hungry people and use the coins you make to invest in the development of your kingdom and your wars of conquest. • …and your plowshares into swords: Spend the profits you make from crafting in this all-action RPG on expanding and upgrading your army, with five different types of soldier to recruit and improve. Turn your small band of raiders into a mighty horde of fiercely armed knights and archers, ready to conquer the known world. • Head for the longboats: Time management and resource mining aren’t enough: a great king has to prove themselves in battle. So, once you’ve taken care of your subjects’ basic needs, earned coins and upgraded your army, sail off to war, raiding over 90 enemy towns and castles for plunder and XP. • The builder king: Equip your town with new houses and facilities. The game has over a dozen different types of resources for you to craft into over 150 different new buildings and industries, from warehouses to taverns to luxurious palaces, that will also bring you idle profits when you’re out of the game. • By royal command: Of course, a king needs soldiers, but you’ll also need a whole host of other workers to keep your kingdom and your idle income ticking over. Hire and upgrade farmers, woodcutters, miners and more to really make your craft empire flourish. • Go ballista: Start every battle with a bang by using the ballista to hit the enemy where it hurts. Upgrade this powerful weapon to get access to ten increasingly destructive types of projectiles so you can really show the enemy who’s king of the castle! ► ARE YOU READY FOR A ROYAL ADVENTURE? Download King or Fail now and dive into an all-action RPG that combines crafting, conquest and world-building in a fun and addictive casual format. If you like the idea of role-playing as a hard-working, hard-fighting medieval monarch determined to build the biggest, fiercest, most prosperous kingdom, you’re guaranteed to enjoy King or Fail. Failure—like boredom—just isn’t an option. Privacy Policy: https://say.games/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://say.games/terms-of-use
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Verdict
Pasta Machine and King or Fail both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 28% of King or Fail's written reviews are positive against 16% of Pasta Machine's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Pasta Machine sells 22 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and King or Fail sells 19 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 — 4.6 for Pasta Machine against 4.7 for King or Fail. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8.8K and 17K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 16% of Pasta Machine's written reviews are positive against 28% of King or Fail's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Pasta Machine | King or Fail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8.8K ratings) | 4.7 (17K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.7% of reviews | 28.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.8K | 17K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| 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 | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 325 MB | 281 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lumos Games Teknoloji Yazilim ve Pazarlama Anonim Sirketi | SayGames LTD |
Customer experience
Pasta Machine
King or Fail
User reviews
Pasta Machine
From 8.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Satisfying gameplay
- 👍 Relaxing experience
- 💡 Unique concept
Room to improve
- 🔍 Glitches and bugs
- 🤑 Excessive ads and monetization
- ⏱️ Slow progression and upgrades
- 🤯 Frustrating user experience
King or Fail
From 17K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- 💡 Interesting concept and progression
Room to improve
- 🔍 Excessive and intrusive ads
- 🔋 Game drains device battery quickly
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches affecting gameplay
Bugs and requests
Pasta Machine
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes after completing level 2
- Daily rewards not working as intended
- Progress resets when leveling up
Requested features
3 requests- More variety in pasta types and visuals
- Improved progression and leveling system
- Ability to play offline
King or Fail
Reported bugs
3 issues- Stuck on certain missions due to missing resources
- Freezing and crashing issues
- Inconsistent behavior of certain game mechanics
Requested features
3 requests- More content and levels to progress through
- Better balance and progression for late-game battles
- Option to disable ads for a one-time fee
In-app purchases
Pasta Machine
- Remove Ad Subscription$2.997 Days
- VIP Pass 1 Week$6.997 Days
- Starter Bundle Subscription$8.997 Days
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- VIP Pass 1 Month$19.991 Month
- Speed Bundle Subscription$19.997 Days
- Endless Skip Subscription$49.997 Days
- Remove Ad Bundle Subscription$54.997 Days
- Skip-it 10$1.99
- Gem 2$2.99
- Skip-it 25$2.99
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- Fusulli Pasta$4.99
- Skip-it Pack$5.99
- Gem 3$6.99
- Game Pass$6.99
- Remove Ad$6.99
- Special Offer 1$6.99
- Halloween Pack$7.99
- Pack Starter$8.99
- Skip-it 100$9.99
- Spaghetti Pasta$9.99
- Gem 4$12.99
- Pasta Pack$15.99
King or Fail
- Pack of gems - Smallest$1.99
- Small Stack of Tickets$2.99
- Equipment special offer №1$4.99
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- Ad-free adventure 30% off$5.99
- com.playfocus.king.gems6$5.99
- Resources special offer №2$5.99
- Resources special offer №3$5.99
- Resources special offer №4$5.99
- Resources special offer №7$5.99
- Resources special offer №11$5.99
- Resources special offer №9$5.99
- Equipment special offer №2$6.99
- Adieu to Ads$7.99
- Medium pack of Tickets$7.99
- Equipment special offer №3$8.99
- Pack of gems - Medium$11.99
- Starter Pack$14.99
- Big Stack of Tickets$24.99
- Pack of gems - Big$24.99
Questions
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