Comparison

Factor! vs CivIdle

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

Head to head
About

Factor!

Engage in a daily math and logic puzzle to enhance your streak and challenge friends. Select from 25 numbers daily, strategically choosing them in the correct sequence to achieve the highest score.

Highlights
  • Daily math and logic puzzles
  • Streak building
  • Friend competition
  • Number selection and ordering
  • Score maximization
Features
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Play Factor! the daily math and logic puzzle to build up your streak and compete with your friends. Pick out of the daily selection of 25 numbers, being careful to pick the right ones in the right order, all while trying to maximize your score.

About

CivIdle

Lead your civilization through millennia, from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, research technologies, build wonders, and trade with global players in this incremental empire-building game.

Highlights
  • Empire expansion and growth
  • Procedurally generated maps
  • Vast tech tree with 100+ technologies
  • Global trading and diplomacy
  • Construct world wonders
  • Collect great people with unique bonuses
  • Retro 90s UI
Features
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CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up! - Empire Must Grow: Expand your empire's territory, production and influence, advance your population's science and culture, and make your people happy - the empire must grow, and numbers must go up! - Every Run is Different: Explore a procedurally generated map, scouting for resources and natural wonders. Expand your empire and take advantage of different terrains. As technology advances, you can even reshape the terrain. - A Vast Tech Tree: Research and unlock a vast tech tree with 100+ technologies: from hunting and gathering, through writing and math, all the way to virtual reality and artificial intelligence. As technology advances, you will unlock more game systems and mechanisms that greatly expand the game play. - Trade and Diplomacy: Trade resources and engage in diplomacy with other players via a global market. Exchanging resources, forming alliances and fighting for influence - can your culture stand in the end? - Wonder-full Empire: Throughout different eras, construct different world wonders that provide unique bonuses, unlock new game mechanism and make your map look pretty. - Reborn with Great People: When you prestige, you will be able to collect great people - historical great figures, each with unique bonuses and abilities that will help your next run reach new height. - 90s Retro UI: A 90's retro UI, that is a love letter to the golden age of desktop computing, will surely bring back some nostalgia. There's a 1-1 replicated mode which brings maximum authenticity and an "eye protection mode" that captures the essence but is easier on your eye on modern displays.

Screenshots

Factor!4 screens
CivIdle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Factor! at none against CivIdle's 1. Factor! also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). CivIdle's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CivIdle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Factor! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Factor! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Factor!'s written reviews are positive against 80% of CivIdle's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Factor! versus CivIdle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFactor!CivIdle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (29 ratings) — better4.6 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings29 — better8
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSamuel GauckRuoyu Sun

Customer experience

Factor!

All ratings29 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CivIdle

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Factor!

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

CivIdle

One-time1
  • Supporter Pack$3.99

Questions

Is Factor! free?
Factor! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CivIdle free?
CivIdle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Factor! or CivIdle?
Factor! is rated higher. Factor! averages 5.0 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while CivIdle averages 4.6 from 8 ratings.
Do Factor! or CivIdle have ads?
Neither Factor! nor CivIdle shows ads.

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