Idle Town Master vs First Hearth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Town Master
Build and manage your own pixel village, preparing it to confront other towns for resources. Expand your territory by constructing buildings, gathering resources, and making strategic decisions to become the wealthiest and most powerful. Interact with other players' villages to acquire necessary items and ensure your village's dominance.
- Village management
- Resource gathering
- Building construction and upgrades
- Player vs. player combat
- Strategic decision-making
- Tarot card resource bonuses
- Task rewards
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Manage your own village and prepare it to fight for resources! Build and prepare your villagers to confront other small towns and become the wealthiest and most powerful territory of all. Start with a small basic village and work hard to make your reputation grow. Improve every aspect and turn your modest village into a big and prepared one with the best resources and characteristics. Pay attention to your highlights and downs and improve them as much as possible, as you will need to be always the dominant territory. Make the proper decisions to be victorious easily no matter who the opponent is. Prepare yourself for battle and choose your perks wisely. Every single action will have an impact on your small village. Invest your assets intelligently. GAIN EXTRA RESOURCES: Ask your fate to the Tarot cards and obtain extra benefits as multipliers, tools, or assets that will help you immediately or in the future. Also, take advantage of the nature available and plant some crops, take wood out of the trees, or make use of the local mine with interesting prices! Don’t forget to complete some tasks that will give you very juicy rewards. EXPAND YOUR VILLAGE Build and upgrade some structures wisely to improve a few aspects of your little town: a Sawmill, Houses, a Quarry, a Carpenter Shop… Every natural resource will be useful for development and improvement! Make your villagers comfortable and happy and they will make a good performance in battle and will also multiply your population! INTERACT WITH OTHER VILLAGES Need more items to expand your territory? Let’s make a friendly visit to the villages close by! Confront real players’ towns and “borrow” their resources to take them to your home. Take into account that you need to be properly prepared for this, as they are very strong villages around! Get ready to manage and prevail as a successful village empire above the rest. Start today! Main Features: Casual and strategic gameplay for every kind of player More detailed management system Resources administration Dozens of buildings to be unlocked and upgraded Lots of interaction Cute pixel graphics A small living world in miniature
First Hearth
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Begin with one person. Build a civilization. First Hearth is a civilization, survival, and settlement-building game where every world begins with a single founder and an untouched wilderness. Gather your first resources, establish a home, grow food, and survive long enough to turn a lonely settlement into something greater. As your population grows, build farms, workshops, schools, hospitals, roads, ports, railways, factories, and the infrastructure needed to support an increasingly complex society. Progress from primitive beginnings through centuries of technological development toward the Machine Age. Discover new technologies, develop industry, establish trade routes, manage resources and production, and watch generations live within the civilization you created. Explore a living world of changing seasons, wildlife, rivers, coastlines, and distant lands. Encounter other civilizations, establish relationships, trade, compete for territory, or go to war. Build an economy Resources move through production chains as your settlement develops from local survival into an interconnected economy. Decide where infrastructure belongs and how your civilization should grow while your people keep it running. Shape a civilization Expand from a handful of buildings into villages, towns, industrial centres, ports, farms, rail networks, and sprawling settlements. Your decisions determine how the world develops. Advance through the ages Research technologies across multiple eras, transforming what your people can build, produce, transport, and discover as centuries pass. Follow generations Your original founder is only the beginning. Families form, generations pass, and the settlement grows into a civilization with a history of its own. Explore and encounter Venture beyond your home, discover new lands and resources, encounter wildlife and other civilizations, and connect distant settlements through roads, shipping, and rail. Return to where it began Even after your civilization has grown far beyond its humble beginnings, your founder's original home remains part of the world. Walk through the civilization you built and see how far it has come. First Hearth is a complete premium game. One purchase. The complete game. No ads. No in-app purchases. No premium currency. No real-world construction timers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Idle Town Master at Free against First Hearth's $3.99. First Hearth's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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
Idle Town Master is free to download; First Hearth costs $3.99 up front. Idle Town Master sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. First Hearth asks for nothing beyond the download.
Idle Town Master ships an update every 4 days, First Hearth every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Town Master | First Hearth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (4.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 40.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 634 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Codigames | Harrison Hertz |
Bugs and requests
Idle Town Master
Reported bugs
4 issues- Progress resets after closing the app
- Inability to progress due to missing resources
- Ads not working as intended
- Sync issues between devices
Requested features
4 requests- More content and new villages
- Ability to revisit and progress previous villages
- Option to reset progress and start over
- More ways to earn resources without ads
First Hearth
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Idle Town Master
- Initiated pack$0.99
- 200 gems pack$4.99
- Jewels Pack$4.99
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- Welcome Pack$4.99
- Rotating Even - Gems Pack A$9.99
- Foreman$9.99
- No Ads Pack$9.99
- Witch's Cards Pack$9.99
- Heroes Pack$9.99
- Rotating Event - Premium Pass$9.99
- Destiny Pack$12.99
- Visionaries Pack$12.99
- No Ads$14.99
- No Ads$19.99
- Rotating Event - Gems Pack C$29.99
First Hearth
No in-app purchases







