Comparison

Idle Town Master vs First Hearth

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Village management
  • Resource gathering
  • Building construction and upgrades
  • Player vs. player combat
  • Strategic decision-making
  • Tarot card resource bonuses
  • Task rewards
Features
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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

About

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.

Screenshots

Idle Town Master4 screens
First Hearth4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Idle Town Master versus First Hearth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Town MasterFirst Hearth
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.4 (4.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size634 MB65 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperCodigamesHarrison 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

15 purchases

Idle Town Master

One-time15
  • 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
None

First Hearth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Town Master free?
Idle Town Master is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is First Hearth free?
First Hearth costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Town Master or First Hearth have ads?
Idle Town Master shows ads; First Hearth does not.
Which is updated more often, Idle Town Master or First Hearth?
Idle Town Master ships an update every 4 days, and First Hearth every 2 days. Most recently, Idle Town Master was updated on October 28, 2026 and First Hearth on October 20, 2026.

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