Comparison

Idle Hex Realms vs PlayPleroma

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

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Idle Hex Realms

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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/

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PlayPleroma

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Pleroma is a turn-based god simulation. You are the divine will above a young civilization. Your Paragons, mortal champions with minds of their own, carry it out below. CREATE YOUR PARAGONS Summon up to five Paragons, each with a role and a mandate written in your own words. A warlord told to keep the peace behaves very differently from one told to conquer. ADVANCE THE WORLD Each turn, every Paragon interprets your mandate and acts. Harvests come in, temples rise, rivalries flare, and the world chronicle grows. Every action is generated fresh, so no two runs tell the same story. BALANCE SIX FORCES Food, materials, knowledge, faith, stability, and flourishing all pull against one another. Neglect the harvest and stability falls. Chase knowledge and the faithful drift away. Victory means keeping a civilization alive and thriving. INTERVENE, SPARINGLY Reshape a Paragon's mandate mid-game with a divine intervention. Divine tokens are scarce; spend them at the right moment. COMPETE IN TOURNAMENTS Finish a run and post your score to the daily, weekly, and monthly leaderboards. One world, every player, three ladders. PLAY ANYWHERE Your game saves to the cloud after every turn. Start on your phone, finish on the web at playpleroma.com. Pleroma includes 30 free turns on sign-up. Additional turn packs and an optional subscription are available as in-app purchases.

Screenshots

Idle Hex Realms4 screens
PlayPleroma4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PlayPleroma at none against Idle Hex Realms's 1. PlayPleroma also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 11 months). Idle Hex Realms's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Idle Hex Realms sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. PlayPleroma asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Hex Realms ships an update every 11 months, PlayPleroma every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Idle Hex Realms versus PlayPleroma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Hex RealmsPlayPleroma
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 3 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size61 MB32 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperArtur NagyKinetic Flux, LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Idle Hex Realms

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
None

PlayPleroma

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Hex Realms free?
Idle Hex Realms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PlayPleroma free?
PlayPleroma is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Hex Realms or PlayPleroma have ads?
Neither Idle Hex Realms nor PlayPleroma shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Hex Realms or PlayPleroma?
Idle Hex Realms ships an update every 11 months, and PlayPleroma every 3 weeks. Most recently, Idle Hex Realms was updated on October 7, 2026 and PlayPleroma on October 7, 2026.

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