Builderment Idle vs Hammurabi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Builderment Idle
Build and manage automated factories in this idle incremental game. Harvest resources, craft items, and upgrade your production lines to become a factory tycoon. Your factories continue to work even when you're offline, allowing you to collect profits and expand your empire.
- Automated resource harvesting
- Factory upgrades for efficiency
- Unlock new factories and resources
- Offline progress and gold collection
- Factory module bonuses
- Prestige mechanics for permanent benefits
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Harness the power of automation and become the ultimate factory tycoon in this thrilling idle incremental game. Get started harvesting logs and crafting them into wood planks to sell for gold. Use the gold to upgrade your factory to increase efficiency and production capabilities. Once you've earned enough gold and proven you can manage a Lumber Mill, purchase the Stone Quarry to advance your earnings even further! • Upgrade. Boost your factory efficiency and profit with upgrades to your Harvester, Workshop, and Marketplace. • Expand. Purchase new factories to unlock rare resources and craft valuable items. • Always working. Your factory is always harvesting and crafting items, even when you're busy with life. Come back anytime to collect the gold earned and keep playing! • Factory Modules. Collect and equip factory modules to grant unique bonuses and modifiers to your factory. • Prestige Mechanics. Restart your journey with permanent benefits, increasing your sell value and cementing your industrial legacy. Embark on a journey of industrial conquest, where every upgrade, every factory acquisition, and every prestige brings you closer to becoming the ultimate tycoon. Are you ready to automate your way to greatness? PS don't forget to tap/swipe the boat to collect its valuable cargo!
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.
- 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
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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?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hammurabi at 100% against Builderment Idle's 33%. Hammurabi also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Builderment Idle's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads and device support 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. Builderment Idle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Hammurabi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hammurabi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Builderment Idle has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Builderment Idle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hammurabi's.
| Parameter | Builderment Idle | Hammurabi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Builderment LLC | Ken Boone |
Customer experience
Builderment Idle
Hammurabi
In-app purchases
Builderment Idle
- Pile of Gems$2.99
- Harvest Gem Tree$5.99
- Sack of Gems$7.99
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- Chest of Gems$19.99
Hammurabi
No in-app purchases
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