Idle Cinema Empire vs Eclipse Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Cinema Empire
Build and manage your own cinema empire. Expand your facilities, collect movies, and attract customers to maximize profits. Hire managers to keep your business running even when you're offline.
- Cinema expansion and facility upgrades
- Movie collection and scheduling
- Customer attraction and service improvement
- Offline manager hiring for passive income
- Variety of service settings for extra profit
- Unlockable auditoriums
- Hundreds of films to collect
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Ready to start your cinema management career? Let's become a movie tycoon together! Expand the square in front of the cinema, upgrade the service facilities, get more films and arrange the film schedule. Attract more customers, provide the best movie experience, unlock more auditoriums, and play the coolest movie！ Build a variety of service settings, such as Peripheral Shop, Game Hall, Ballroom, etc., to provide customers with a variety of services, so that the waiting time is no longer boring, and you can also reap extra profits. Open up a variety of auditoriums and arrange the most suitable tybe for films to maximize ticket revenue and profit. Hire an offline manager for your cinema, keep it running in your absence, and reap the profits. Features: • Simple and casual gameplay for every player • real-time gameplay with idle game mechanics • Constant challenges suitable for any player at any level • Many exciting quests to complete • Collect hundred films to be movie tycoon • Unique items to improve your cinema facilities • Fabulous 3D graphics and awesome animations • Offline idle game, no internet connection needed
Eclipse Run
Test your reflexes in this one-thumb arcade game where you control a glowing orb. Tap to switch between light and shadow phases to pass through matching barriers. Mistime your taps and your orb shatters.
- One-thumb gameplay
- Phase-switching mechanic
- Light and Shadow barriers
- Fast-paced action
- High score chasing
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ECLIPSE RUN is a one-thumb test of nerve. You are a glowing orb caught between two phases — Light and Shadow. Barriers rush at you in one colour or the other. Tap to flip your phase and slip straight through the matching ones; mistime it and you shatter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Eclipse Run at none against Idle Cinema Empire's 10. Eclipse Run also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Idle Cinema Empire's advantage is ratings volume (18K vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Idle Cinema Empire sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Eclipse Run asks for nothing beyond the download.
Eclipse Run holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Cinema Empire has 18K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Idle Cinema Empire ships an update every 3 weeks, Eclipse Run every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Cinema Empire | Eclipse Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (18K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 260 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 书涛 刘 | Veratus Group Limited |
Customer experience
Idle Cinema Empire
Eclipse Run
Bugs and requests
Idle Cinema Empire
Reported bugs
3 issues- Power upgrades not working as intended
- Movies not playing properly, customers leaving
- Crashes and loss of progress after updates
Requested features
3 requests- More cinema locations and content updates
- Ability to transfer progress across devices
- Offline earnings and better idle mode functionality
Eclipse Run
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Idle Cinema Empire
- Only once$0.99
- Growth package$1.99
- Key package$1.99
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- Gold Coin Pack$1.99
- Movie package$2.99
- Beginner package$4.99
- Seanson Pass$5.99
- No ads$14.99
- Growth fund$19.99
- Privilege Package$19.99
Eclipse Run
No in-app purchases
Questions
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