Cookie Empire vs Idle Chest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cookie Empire
Click to bake cookies, automate production, and grow your empire in this idle incremental game. Explore minigames, uncover cryptic lore, and ascend to unlock powerful boosts. Features include offline progress, complex synergies, and a unique grandma sacrifice mechanic.
- Incremental cookie baking
- Automation and complex synergies
- Offline progress
- Multiple minigames (Farming, Stock Market, Lucky Wheel, Tile Matching)
- Ascension/Prestige mechanics
- Grandma sacrifice to demons
- Public leaderboards
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Cookie Empire is an idle incremental clicker with a dark sense of humor: tap to bake, automate production, earn offline, and prestige for exponential growth — until one big cookie becomes a baking empire that probably shouldn't exist. What starts as a simple tapping game grows into a long-term incremental game with upgrades, automation, ascension, minigames, and a few increasingly questionable grandmas. THE ECONOMY MUST GROW. COOKIES ARE ALL WE KNOW. Hire lovely grandmas. Build farms, factories, alchemy labs, mines, and machines that should probably never have been switched on. Dig into eldritch mines. Sacrifice grandmas to Japanese demons. Follow the numbers upward until the bakery stops feeling cozy and starts feeling like something ancient is watching the production graph. FEATURES • Tap-to-bake progression with exponential upgrades • Grandmas, farms, factories, mines, and stranger production systems • Automation, prestige, ascension, and long-term incremental growth • Garden, mine expeditions, stock market, lucky wheel, tile matching, and leaderboards • Idle production and return rewards • Dark secrets, cosmetic skins, frequent solo-dev updates, and a cookie economy that absolutely refuses to stop growing Build your cookie empire one tap at a time.
Idle Chest
Embark on a treasure-hunting adventure where every click earns rewards. Upgrade your skills, collect and enhance equipment, and unlock unique abilities. Discover the secrets of this world through engaging gameplay and an addictive incremental experience.
- Open various chests
- Loot and upgrade equipment
- Buy skill upgrades
- Unlock unique skills
- Discover game story
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Dive in "Idle Chest", an adventure where each click brings you closer to fabulous treasures. Earn rewards, upgrade your skills, and unlock new chests for endless fun! Get ready to be hooked on this addictive endless incremental clicker experience! * OPEN CHESTS Open a variety of chests and discover everything they hide, from equipments to resources or other awesome chests! * LOOT EQUIPMENTS Collect different equipments upgrade them and equip them to gain bonus and discover more legendary equipments! * BUY UPGRADES Upgrade your opening skills by buying upgrades to allow you to drop more rewards and open chests faster! * UNLOCK UNIQUE SKILLS Using skill points, unlock every skills in the skill tree to become stronger and obtain unique powers! * DISCOVER THE STORY Progress in the game to discover the secret behind this world! Come discover "Idle Chest", the new incremental, clicker game which you wouldn't want to miss !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cookie Empire at none against Idle Chest's shown. Cookie Empire also leads on ratings volume (640 vs 109). Idle Chest's advantage is review sentiment (81% vs 68%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Cookie Empire sells 15 one-off in-app purchases and Idle Chest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Cookie Empire against 4.5 for Idle Chest. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cookie Empire has 640 ratings behind it against 109, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Cookie Empire's written reviews are positive against 81% of Idle Chest's.
Cookie Empire ships an update weekly, Idle Chest every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cookie Empire | Idle Chest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (640 ratings) | 4.5 (109 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.3% of reviews | 80.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 640 — better | 109 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 192 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alejandro Jimenez Rico | Thomas Gunzburger |
Customer experience
Cookie Empire
Idle Chest
User reviews
Cookie Empire
From 640 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun Little Idle Game
- 👍 THIS is how iOS games should be
- 👍 Great game, no ads
- 👍 Anxiety Relief
- 👍 Quality game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Offline progress locked
- 🐛 Putting the main idle mechanic behind an ad
- 🔋 High battery drain
- 🐛 Wasted Potential
- 🐛 Losing progress
Idle Chest
From 109 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun short idle clicker
- 👍 Consistent theme
- 👍 Enjoyable experience
- 👍 Minimalistic but rewarding grind
- 💰 Non-intrusive ads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game breaking bug with 'Chosen One' minion
- 🔍 Difficult to compare tap damage to acolyte damage
- 🔍 Some explanations could be improved
- 🔍 Slightly linear progression
Bugs and requests
Cookie Empire
Reported bugs
7 issues- Offline progress not working
- Ascension issues
- Alchemy lab not working
- Upgrades not appearing
- Crashes after updates
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- Resets progress
- Rotating screen issues
Requested features
10 requests- Add backbone please
- More audio suggestions
- Ability to see vegetables in the garden
- Volleyball skin
- Achievements
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- More menu buttons
- Prestige system
- More buildings and upgrades
- Ability to see how many of a building can be bought
- Cookie SFX
Idle Chest
Reported bugs
2 issues- Progress resets or reverts
- Minions not working after equipping 'Chosen One'
Requested features
2 requests- Dark mode option
- Better UI for comparing damage sources
In-app purchases
Cookie Empire
- Mini Gem Pack$0.99
- 53 Wings$0.99
- Magic Cookie$0.99
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- Gems 1.2$1.99
- Medium Gems Pack$1.99
- Permanent Boost$1.99
- Time Warp$2.99
- Gems Small Pack 2$3.99
- No-Ads$4.99
- Large Gems Pack$4.99
- Gems Mid Pack$5.99
- Seasonal Pack$9.99
- Big Gems Pack$9.99
- Larger Gems Pack$24.99
- Largest Gems Pack$39.99
Idle Chest
- Underwater Background Skin$3.99
- Underwater Chests Skin$3.99
- Underwater Acolytes Skin$3.99
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- No Ads$3.99
- Underwater Complete Skins Pack$8.99






