Idle Hex Realms vs Pyramid Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Hex Realms
Build and expand your empire in a post-collapse world. Collect resources, upgrade your settlements, and discover powerful Hexes to aid your progress. Enjoy incremental gameplay where your empire thrives even when you're away.
- Incremental idle gameplay
- City building and upgrades
- Resource collection
- Unique Hexes for power-ups
- Randomly generated maps
- AFK progression
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Idle Hex Realms is an incremental idle game (where you progress even when you are AFK), uniting multiple genres (idle, boardgames, city building, CCG). After the collapse of the Ruon empire you find yourself in one of the three remaining kingdoms trying to make a name for yourself. Your first city starts from the small land that the ruler has given to you in exchange for your services. You will be collecting resources (food, wood, stone, and gold) in order to upgrade your settlement. Once the settlement is self-sustaining, you can venture out and found a new city to get a boost on future progress. A growing empire never sleeps. Being a leader has its own benefits, as you don't have to supervise every tiny bit to keep things running. Feel free to take breaks, production will be taken care of. Just make sure you upgrade your warehouses, so there is place to stockpile the resources. While searching for the perfect location of your new city, you will meet Lorekeepers. Lorekeepers are knowledgable people as they were in charge of the Imperial Library back in the Ruon empire. They are willing to share their knowledge with you, in the form of Unique Hexes. These are special tiles with knowledge infused, making them capable of altering the environment, acting as power-ups in your gameplay. Every new city starts with a new randomly generated map and a random draw of three starting Unique Hexes from your gathered collection to help you grow your new city in various ways. This game contains In-App Purchases. Standard Apple Terms of Use applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Pyramid Idle
An incremental strategy game where you build ancient pyramids stone by stone. Manage workers, resources, and logistics to achieve steady progress and unlock larger projects. Designed for relaxed, long-term idle play.
- Build pyramids stone by stone
- Manage mining, transport, and placement
- Upgrade workforce, logistics, and production
- Unlock larger quarry projects
- Earn coins for permanent progress
- Continue progress offline
- Track statistics and best pyramids
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Build pyramids and grow a lasting village in ancient Egypt. Pyramid Idle combines incremental construction with a settlement you keep developing. Switch between two modes, plan your economy and turn a few stone blocks into something monumental. GROW A VILLAGE THAT LASTS Start with workers, a quarry, basic food and water. Assign your people where they are needed, balance taxes and wages, and keep your settlement supplied. Expand a permanent pyramid shell by shell: each new layer builds on what you have already achieved. DEVELOP YOUR PRODUCTION As the pyramid grows, unlock new buildings and production chains. Improve workshops, water supply and food production. Develop ships and trade, then work towards later research and city projects. Plan construction and save worker assignments to make your next visit count. TAKE ON CLASSIC PYRAMID PROJECTS Choose a pyramid height and explore 11 materials. Balance mining, transport and construction, earn Ankhs and develop research, talents and permanent upgrades. Discover the Trials of Ra as your journey continues. PLAY AT YOUR PACE Return to offline progress, adjust your workforce and choose your next investment. A replayable tutorial introduces the Village mode. Optional cloud synchronization uses Game Center and iCloud Drive; local play needs no app login. The Village mode is included without an extra purchase. Both modes share one Pyramids balance. Optional Pyramids packs are available as in-app purchases and can be used for boosts. Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Simplified Chinese. Terms of Use: https://kasparmedia.de/pyramid-idle-terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pyramid Idle at 3.9 against Idle Hex Realms's 1.0. Pyramid Idle also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (19 vs 1). Idle Hex Realms's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Hex Realms sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Pyramid Idle sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pyramid Idle holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pyramid Idle has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Idle Hex Realms ships an update every 11 months, Pyramid Idle weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Hex Realms | Pyramid Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 3.9 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Artur Nagy | Jan Lennart Wagener |
In-app purchases
Idle Hex Realms
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
Pyramid Idle
- Small Pyramid Pack$1.99
- Medium Pyramid Pack$4.99
- Large Pyramid Pack$12.99
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