Comparison

Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game vs CodeBastion

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

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About

Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game

Build a sprawling space mining operation from a small outpost. Automate robot rovers and carriers to dig, transport resources, and process them in a high-tech factory. Progress through lunar and Martian landscapes, even while offline.

Highlights
  • Automated robot rovers and carriers
  • Idle tycoon gameplay
  • Resource processing factory
  • Lunar and Martian exploration
  • Offline progress tracking
  • Meaningful management decisions
Features
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Lead a growing space mining expedition and turn a lonely outpost into a powerful interplanetary operation. In this relaxing idle tycoon game, robot rovers dig beneath the surface of the Moon and Mars, carriers move every load, and your choices decide how quickly a small base becomes a thriving mining empire. START YOUR SPACE MINING EMPIRE Begin with a modest excavation site and a handful of automated machines. Open new dig spots, increase their level, expand the rover crew, and improve the systems that keep production moving. Every upgrade adds momentum: faster digging creates more income, stronger logistics clear the work sites, and a larger warehouse gives your expedition room to grow. WATCH ROBOT ROVERS DIG Your miners are sturdy little rovers with a job to do. They travel to excavation points, cut through layer after layer, collect valuable cargo, return to unload, recharge, and head out again. Add more rover stations and improve speed, stamina, recovery, and income to transform a quiet crater into a busy automated mine. Carrier robots collect cargo from each work site and deliver it to the central warehouse. Call the transport truck at the right time, clear space for incoming resources, and keep your automated economy moving. MASTER IDLE LOGISTICS Space Digger is an idle management game about more than watching numbers rise. You can see resources move through the full chain, from a fresh excavation point to a rover, from the rover to a carrier, and from the warehouse to your global inventory. Improve the weakest link and watch the whole base accelerate. BUILD A HIGH-TECH FACTORY Raw materials are the foundation of a larger space economy. Unlock the factory and process ordinary resources into silver, turn silver into gold, and refine gold into rare crystals. Set production queues, improve the machines, and decide whether to spend valuable materials now or save them for the next stage of your empire. Permanent office upgrades strengthen every location. Improve speed, recovery, storage, and transport to make future excavations smoother while each new site builds its own local economy. EXPLORE THE MOON AND MARS Complete layers of excavation across a campaign of lunar craters and Martian landscapes. Every location has its own progress, work sites, resources, and upgrade rhythm. Finish a dig, recover the hidden artifact, follow the expedition story, and unlock the next destination on the space map. MAKE PROGRESS WHILE YOU ARE AWAY Your expedition can calculate idle progress while you are away, adding resources and local income when there is room in storage and work left to complete. Return to collect the result, solve the next bottleneck, queue factory production, claim mission rewards, and send the machines back into action. KEY FEATURES - Relaxing idle miner gameplay with meaningful management decisions - Automated robot rovers, carriers, warehouses, and transport trucks - A visible mining and logistics chain instead of disconnected counters - Local upgrades for each excavation site and permanent global progression - Factory production that refines resources into silver, gold, and rare crystals - Office upgrades for speed, recovery, storage, transport, and efficiency - Lunar and Martian locations with layered excavation and hidden artifacts - Offline progress and rewarding return sessions - Stylized 3D space environments made for mobile play - A casual single-player tycoon experience with no defeat state Build smarter, dig deeper, and keep the resources flowing. Your robotic crew is ready, the next artifact is waiting beneath the surface, and a space mining empire can begin with one small rover. Take command of the expedition and become the ultimate idle space miner tycoon.

About

CodeBastion

Forge a city from a humble camp into a lasting bastion through strategic idle clicker and incremental city-building mechanics. Manage resources, assign citizens to jobs, research new technologies, and embark on expeditions to expand your legacy.

Highlights
  • Idle clicker and incremental progression
  • Resource and citizen management
  • Deep skill tree with research
  • Expeditions and exploration
  • Timed defense challenges
  • Offline progress
Features
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Build a city from its first camp into a lasting bastion in Code Bastion, a strategic idle clicker and incremental city-builder. Begin in Summary, where every tap matters. Gather wood, stone, food, and science through quick actions, manage your energy, watch your population, and keep your city moving even while you are away. Your resources continue to grow through citizen jobs and buildings, while seasons, incidents, and storage limits keep every plan under pressure. Move to Development to unlock a large skill tree across economy, construction, society, and expeditions. Each research choice opens new buildings, improves production, increases storage, strengthens manual gathering, expands your population, and prepares your city for the frontier. Turn a fragile settlement into a reliable system of farms, sawmills, quarries, mines, warehouses, markets, universities, barracks, walls, and more. Use the Resources screen to assign citizens to the jobs that matter most. Balance food, wood, stone, iron, coal, steel, gold, science, and influence. Build capacity before production overflows, keep enough workers in essential buildings, and adapt to changing seasons. Missions give every stage of the city a direction. Complete daily tasks, pursue a weekly campaign, and progress through a five-chapter city legacy: found the settlement, grow it into a city, open the frontier, endure its threats, and build a lasting legacy. When the city is ready, enter Expeditions. Train citizens, assign roles, craft preparation items, reveal a procedural map tile by tile, recruit from camps, discover points of interest, and research a catalogue of hidden treasures. Beyond the walls, every expedition can bring resources, experience, discoveries, and risks. Prepare for incursions with passive defenders and a timed defense challenge. Gather temporary materials, build defenses, create weapons, and decide how to hold the line when the frontier strikes back. CODE BASTION FEATURES Idle clicker and strategic incremental progression Quick actions, energy management, and offline progress Deep skill tree with research, upgrades, and unlocks Resources, citizen jobs, buildings, storage, and seasons Daily tasks, weekly campaigns, and city-wide goals Procedural exploration map, expeditions, equipment, and loot Treasure research, defense roles, incursions, and timed battles Five supported languages: English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian Build deliberately, explore carefully, and defend what you have created.

Screenshots

Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game4 screens
CodeBastion4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CodeBastion at none against Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game's 10. CodeBastion also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 25 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game against 5.0 for CodeBastion. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game ships an update every 25 months, CodeBastion every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game versus CodeBastion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Space Miner Tycoon GameCodeBastion
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size253 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoris NekrushevGines Ortiz

Customer experience

Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CodeBastion

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game

One-time10
  • Welcome pack$0.99
  • Handful of silver$0.99
  • No Ads$1.99
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  • Welcome pack$4.99
  • x2 Income forever$4.99
  • Bag of silver$4.99
  • No ADS$4.99
  • Welcome pack$8.99
  • Box with silver & gold$8.99
  • Chest with silver, gold & gems$19.99
None

CodeBastion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game free?
Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CodeBastion free?
CodeBastion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game or CodeBastion?
Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game and CodeBastion are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game or CodeBastion have ads?
Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game shows ads; CodeBastion does not.
Which is updated more often, Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game or CodeBastion?
Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game ships an update every 25 months, and CodeBastion every 10 days. Most recently, Idle Space Miner Tycoon Game was updated on October 9, 2026 and CodeBastion on October 8, 2026.

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