Comparison

cube farm vs Hammurabi

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

Head to head
About

cube farm

Engage in a semi-idle farming simulation with endless progression and a dynamic market. Collect and train pets for battles, and enjoy quick sessions without ads or pay-to-win elements. An online expansion adds competitive multiplayer and collectible tarot cards.

Highlights
  • Semi-idle farming gameplay
  • Endless progression with prestige
  • Dynamic produce market
  • Pet collection and battling
  • Online multiplayer battles
  • Cloud saves
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-no ads or pay-to-win mechanics -quick sessions, break from scrolling -endless progression with prestige bonuses -time slows at higher layers, with larger harvests -dynamic produce market with supply and demand -pets to collect, feed, train, and battle NEW! cube farm: online [expansion required] -challenge friends to gooster battles -compete for rating in the ranked arena -take a phone break with your gooster at the park -collect tarot cards to use at the park -backup data to the cloud with cloud saves

About

Hammurabi

Manage an ancient kingdom's land, grain, and people over a ten-year reign. Make critical decisions about buying/selling land, feeding citizens, and planting harvests. Face unpredictable events like rats and plague, and rule wisely to be remembered or face impeachment.

Highlights
  • Manage land, grain, and people
  • Buy or sell farmland
  • Feed citizens from granary
  • Plant next year's harvest
  • Authentic CRT terminal look
  • Local high scores
  • In-app history lesson
Features
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Before there were graphics. Before there was color. There was a blinking cursor, a glowing screen, and one simple question: how many acres will you plant this year? Hamurabi puts you at the helm of ancient Sumeria for a ten-year reign, rendered exactly the way computing felt back in the early days — green (or amber) phosphor text scrolling up a CRT screen, sitting right there on a desk, waiting for your command. Each year, you'll manage your kingdom's land, grain, and people: • Buy or sell acres of farmland • Feed your citizens from the granary • Plant next year's harvest Nothing is guaranteed. Rats can raid your stores. Plague can sweep through your population. A bad harvest can leave you scrambling. Rule wisely for ten years and history remembers you well. Rule poorly, and you'll be impeached on the spot. THE HISTORY BEHIND THE GAME Hamurabi is a tribute to one of the oldest computer games still played today. It began in the late 1960s as "The Sumer Game," built for an early mainframe, and was soon reshaped by Doug Dyment into a short, sharp game called Hamurabi. In 1973, David H. Ahl translated it into BASIC and printed it in his book 101 BASIC Computer Games — one of the best-selling computing books of the decade. Because the full source code sat right there on the page, an entire generation typed it in by hand on their own home computers, making Hamurabi one of the very first resource-management games millions of people ever played. Its fingerprints are all over SimCity, Civilization, and every "build and manage" game that followed. WHAT'S IN THE APP • An authentic CRT terminal look — scanlines, phosphor glow, and a real boot-up sequence • Choose green or amber, just like the old monitors • Local high scores, with your ruler rating from Impeached to Fantastic • A full in-app history lesson — on the game itself, and on the real King Hammurabi the name comes from • Ambient background music while you rule No accounts, no logins, no busywork. Just you, ten years, and a kingdom that lives or dies by your decisions. Can you rule as wisely as the real Hammurabi — or will you go down as a National Fink?

Screenshots

cube farm4 screens
Hammurabi3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hammurabi at none against cube farm's 16. Hammurabi also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). cube farm's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (547 vs 2). On price, 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

Both are free to download. cube farm sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Hammurabi asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hammurabi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: cube farm has 547 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of cube farm's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hammurabi's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
cube farm versus Hammurabi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametercube farmHammurabi
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (547 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings547 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB7 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTarot Focus, LLCKen Boone

Customer experience

cube farm

All ratings542 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral0.9%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews102 reviews
Positive91.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.9%

Hammurabi

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

cube farm

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Swiping issues on farm layers
  • Inconsistent performance and input lag

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to save preferred layout settings
  • More engaging battle system
  • Clearer in-game instructions

Hammurabi

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

16 purchases

cube farm

One-time16
  • Party Egg$0.99
  • Balloon Egg$0.99
  • Taco Egg$0.99
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  • Lucky Egg$0.99
  • Bunny Egg$0.99
  • Heart Egg$0.99
  • Snowman Egg$0.99
  • Santa Egg$0.99
  • Turkey Egg$0.99
  • Jack Egg$0.99
  • Apple Egg$0.99
  • Darkness Egg$0.99
  • Online Access$1.99
  • Coffee Tip$4.99
  • Welcome Bundle$8.99
  • Complete Bundle$9.99
None

Hammurabi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is cube farm free?
cube farm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hammurabi free?
Hammurabi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, cube farm or Hammurabi?
Hammurabi is rated higher. cube farm averages 4.8 out of 5 from 547 ratings, while Hammurabi averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do cube farm or Hammurabi have ads?
Hammurabi shows ads; cube farm does not.

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