Comparison

Stellaforge vs Cosmic Forge

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

Head to head
About

Stellaforge

Engage in a ruthless sci-fi universe where power, politics, and conquest reign. Start with a single colony and expand, dominate, or be consumed by rivals. Forge your path to dominance through strategy, diplomacy, and relentless adaptation.

Highlights
  • Massively multiplayer strategy
  • Sci-fi universe
  • Colony expansion
  • Diplomacy and alliances
  • Conquest and domination
  • Real-time player interaction
Features
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Massively multiplayer strategy game set in a ruthless sci-fi universe driven by power, politics, and conquest. You start with a single, insignificant colony on a forgotten planet. What happens next is up to you: expand, dominate, or be swallowed by those who move faster and think smarter. The universe does not wait. Other players are advancing, scheming, and striking while you hesitate. Diplomacy can save you—or betray you. Alliances offer protection and power, but only as long as your interests align. Move smarter, strike faster, and adapt relentlessly. In Stellaforge, dominance isn’t given. It’s forged—by those willing to outthink, outmaneuver, and outlast everyone else.

About

Cosmic Forge

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Cosmic Forge is a deep offline idle game about turning a single iron vein into an interstellar mining empire. START SIMPLE Tap rocks. Upgrade your shaft. Automate with a baseline foreman. Watch a transporter shuttle ore from the mine to the refinery, then to the warehouse, where it sells for Coins. Every component — shaft, transporter, refinery, warehouse — has its own milestone multipliers every 10 levels, so progression keeps unlocking speed and capacity spikes. UNLOCK THE COSMOS Beyond Alpha Asteroid there are comet clusters, planets, moons, anomalies, and singularity zones. Each location type has its own production multipliers and warehouse sell rates — anomaly-grade minerals pay poorly per second but richly per sale. HIRE MANAGERS Common managers enable auto-mining; bonus managers stack passive multipliers and trigger powerful active abilities (instant trips, production boosts, free upgrades). Assign them per mine. Some managers survive prestige. RESEARCH TREE 50+ research nodes across multiple branches — economy, production, transport, offline efficiency, stock capacity, coin multipliers, prestige. Queue active research in parallel slots (expand via Galactic Research). Every tier you complete compounds. PRESTIGE FOREVER Perform a Stellar Reset when the cosmos is ready. Earn Stardust based on your total iron-equivalent across every resource. Spend Stardust on permanent upgrades that carry across runs. Eventually unlock Galactic Ascension — a meta-prestige layer with its own research tree and Dark Matter currency. DAILY CHALLENGES Three challenges per day with streak rewards at 7 and 14 days. Missed days reset the streak but the game doesn't punish absence. OFFLINE EARNINGS Step away for up to a week — Cosmic Forge continues mining at a tapered efficiency schedule and rolls a summary up on your return. Research that was in flight completes while you sleep. COMPLETELY OFFLINE No account required. No internet required. No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. No tracking. No analytics. No SDKs phoning home. GOD MODE (OPTIONAL) Want to test builds, skip a grind, or just play sandbox? God Mode is free for everyone — a one-tap toggle in Settings (behind a "this may corrupt your save" warning, because it really can). First public release — 0.19.0. Thanks for playing through 100+ pre-release builds with us.

Screenshots

Stellaforge4 screens
Cosmic Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cosmic Forge at every 5 weeks against Stellaforge's every 16 months. Stellaforge's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stellaforge ships an update every 16 months, Cosmic Forge every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stellaforge versus Cosmic Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStellaforgeCosmic Forge
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArdian KrasniqiQUALITY CAT SP Z O O

In-app purchases

None

Stellaforge

No in-app purchases

None

Cosmic Forge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stellaforge free?
Stellaforge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cosmic Forge free?
Cosmic Forge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stellaforge or Cosmic Forge have ads?
Neither Stellaforge nor Cosmic Forge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stellaforge or Cosmic Forge?
Stellaforge ships an update every 16 months, and Cosmic Forge every 5 weeks. Most recently, Stellaforge was updated on September 28, 2026 and Cosmic Forge on September 19, 2026.

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