Comparison

Graveyard Empire vs Astro Builder

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

Head to head
About

Graveyard Empire

Manage and expand your own cemetery in this offline strategy game. Upgrade burial grounds, hire staff, and serve both living families and supernatural beings. Defend your property from zombies and become an underworld empire tycoon.

Highlights
  • Cemetery management and expansion
  • Hire and manage staff
  • Serve living families and supernatural beings
  • Defend against zombies
  • Upgrade graves and crypts
  • Offline gameplay
Features
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Dive into the world of non-stop fun, offline strategy games, and management of your own cemetery in Graveyard Empire: Funeral Games. You are the boss of this burial ground, and you can safely upgrade it to a luxurious cemetery with various hospitality items for the undead. Combine your management and undertaker skills and become an underworld empire tycoon by opening new locations, serving families and the dreaded undead, and hiring skilled staff. In Graveyard Empire: Offline Strategy Games you will meet a vampire, a walking skeleton, a legendary Frankenstein, and a charming succubus: give them the necessary favors and they will generously thank you with resources or protection from zombies. You have a huge range of actions that you can do: dig a new grave, put flowers on a monument, make a coffin, fight off the walking dead, and much more, demonstrate your tactics and strategy, and become the owner of a first-class cemetery. Download Graveyard Tycoon: Underworld Empire absolutely FREE and play right now! Idle Strategy Gameplay Easy to learn and accessible to everyone, the gameplay will give you a fun experience of managing the cemetery. Upgrade and Expand In our example of funeral games, you can upgrade anything from ordinary graves to entire crypts and expand your property by opening new locations. Expand the Staff Hire new assistants who will help you in the affairs of the undertaker and accelerate your becoming a tycoon. Great 3D Graphics Restrained dark colors and creepy decorations will immerse you in the atmosphere of the cemetery of the plague era. Offline Graveyard You can play anywhere and anytime, nothing will stop you from building your underworld empire and enjoying offline strategy games. Are you ready for the challenges that funeral games business manager face? You will have to cooperate with a succubus, calm a vampire, wake up Frankenstein, stop the walking dead, all so that families can mourn their loved ones in peace. Make important decisions to become the owner of the best graveyard in Graveyard Tycoon: Underworld Empire Manager and enjoy the offline strategy games experience to your heart's content.

About

Astro Builder

Build a sprawling space station in orbit with this idle construction game. Start with basic components and expand your facility by unlocking new equipment and generating resources. Discover and develop new areas as your station grows.

Highlights
  • Idle space station construction
  • Resource management
  • Unlock new equipment
  • Expand and develop areas
  • Space elevator material transport
Features
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Welcome to Astro Builder, the ultimate casual idle game where you construct a space station in near-Earth orbit. Begin with a simple setup—a connecting ground track and a small platform. Material is transported to the platform via a space elevator and piled on the ground. Utilize the resources to expand and improve the platform, unlocking new equipment and producing valuable resources. Each construction phase reveals a new area, waiting to be developed and unlocked. Can you build the ultimate space station and conquer the cosmos?

Screenshots

Graveyard Empire4 screens
Astro Builder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Graveyard Empire at every 2 months against Astro Builder's every 11 months. Graveyard Empire also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Astro Builder's advantage is ratings volume (3.3K vs 150) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Graveyard Empire sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Astro Builder sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Astro Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Astro Builder has 3.3K ratings behind it against 150, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Graveyard Empire's written reviews are positive against 34% of Astro Builder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Graveyard Empire ships an update every 2 months, Astro Builder every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Graveyard Empire versus Astro Builder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGraveyard EmpireAstro Builder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (150 ratings)4.7 (3.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews34.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1503.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 11 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size266 MB251 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer24 HIT Riga SIASolid Games

Customer experience

Graveyard Empire

All ratings150 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral4.0%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative66.7%

Astro Builder

All ratings3,298 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral3.6%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews123 reviews
Positive34.1%
Neutral9.8%
Negative56.1%

Bugs and requests

Graveyard Empire

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Astro Builder

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Builders getting stuck or ignoring resource needs
  • Inconsistent behavior when collecting from processors
  • Permanent worker upgrades not functioning properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to continue progress offline
  • More varied level designs and challenges
  • Autonomous builder behavior
  • Background progress while app is closed

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Graveyard Empire

One-time12
  • Pile of Gems$2.99
  • Piggy Bank$3.99
  • Cemetery Manager Offer$3.99
Show 9 more
  • Business Pass Elite$7.99
  • Income Multiplier x1.5$9.99
  • Manager Necropolis$9.99
  • No Ads Offer$9.99
  • Case of Gems$19.99
  • Business Pass Premium$19.99
  • Income Multiplier x3$49.99
  • Safe of Gems$59.99
  • Truck of Gems$114.99
5 purchases

Astro Builder

One-time5
  • AD TICKETS 10$0.99
  • AD TICKETS 25$1.99
  • AD TICKETS 60$3.99
Show 2 more
  • Ad-free 7 day$4.99
  • Permanent ad-free!$9.99

Questions

Is Graveyard Empire free?
Graveyard Empire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Astro Builder free?
Astro Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Graveyard Empire or Astro Builder?
Astro Builder is rated higher. Graveyard Empire averages 4.5 out of 5 from 150 ratings, while Astro Builder averages 4.7 from 3.3K ratings.
Do Graveyard Empire or Astro Builder have ads?
Both Graveyard Empire and Astro Builder show ads.
Which is updated more often, Graveyard Empire or Astro Builder?
Graveyard Empire ships an update every 2 months, and Astro Builder every 11 months. Most recently, Graveyard Empire was updated on October 10, 2026 and Astro Builder on October 16, 2026.

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