Comparison

IdleArc vs Rune Tower

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

Head to head
About

IdleArc

Embark on an epic idle RPG adventure where your hero battles, collects loot, and grows stronger even while offline. Discover rare gear, train pets, and conquer challenging bosses and dungeons. Engage in guilds, events, and seasonal content for endless progression and rewards.

Highlights
  • Idle progression and offline rewards
  • Rare loot and powerful gear collection
  • Pet collection and character customization
  • Bosses, raids, and monster battles
  • Guilds and multiplayer features
  • Events and seasonal challenges
Features
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Welcome to IdleArc, an online idle RPG incremental adventure where endless progression, powerful loot, monsters, pets, and strategy come together. Battle through dangerous areas, complete quests, discover rare gear, and continue growing stronger even while offline. Train your hero automatically while away and return to new rewards, stronger equipment, and greater challenges. Fight powerful bosses, explore dungeons, and build your character through skills, upgrades, pets, and item progression. Whether you enjoy loot grinding, optimizing builds, or chasing rare drops, there is always something new to unlock. Key Features: Idle Progression Your hero battles, levels up, collects loot, and trains skills even while offline. Rare Loot and Powerful Gear Find legendary weapons, armor, and upgrades to strengthen your build and push further into dangerous areas. Pets and Character Builds Collect unique pets with special abilities and customize your playstyle through equipment, upgrades, and progression choices. Bosses, Raids, and Monsters Fight challenging enemies, battle massive bosses, and take on increasingly difficult encounters for better rewards. Guilds and Multiplayer Features Join other players, compete in seasonal content, and work together to progress through tougher challenges. Events and Seasonal Challenges Participate in limited-time events, daily activities, and seasonal resets to earn exclusive rewards and climb the leaderboard. Offline Rewards and Endless Growth Progress never stops. Continue earning resources, items, and experience while away from the game. IdleArc combines the satisfying progression of an MMORPG with the convenience of an idle game. Build your legend, collect powerful loot, and continue growing stronger every day. Are you ready to begin your adventure? Download IdleArc and start your journey today! Terms of use: https://idlearc.com/terms

About

Rune Tower

Embark on a dark-fantasy idle RPG adventure. Automatically battle your way through hundreds of floors, collect rare loot, and customize your hero's build with flexible rune and job progression. Earn rewards even when offline.

Highlights
  • Automatic battles
  • Rare equipment collection
  • Flexible rune builds
  • Job progression
  • Offline rewards
  • 200 floors
Features
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Climb a tower of dark fantasy — even while you are away. Rune Tower is an idle RPG built on automatic battles, deep loot and jobs you can switch between freely. Your hero keeps growing offline; you come back, rebuild, and climb higher. BATTLES THAT PLAY THEMSELVES Both sides act as their action gauges fill. No input needed. What decides a fight is the equipment, runes and job you chose before it started. LOOT THAT GOES DEEPER THE MORE YOU DIG Three slots — weapon, armour, ring — across four rarities, 25 kinds of affix, and a quality score from 0 to 100. Two items with the same name are rarely the same item. Epic and Legendary gear carries a build effect. Critical, ailment, follow-up, counter, shield, healing, execution — which of the eight you roll changes how you fight, not just how hard you hit. And Legendary gear can roll a Rule Breaker: one turns your defence into damage, another sends the health you recover straight back at the enemy. Each breaks a single rule the rest of the game plays by, and the moment one lands, your build jumps a tier. Reforging lets you pick the affix to reroll. You see the best roll it could produce before you commit, and after seeing the result you choose whether to keep the original. THIRTEEN JOBS, ALL YOURS Take a job to Lv100 and its trait carries over to every other job. The more jobs you finish, the stronger you are in all of them. EIGHTEEN RUNES Six slots decide how you fight. Grind enemies down with poison, chain follow-up hits, or turn their attacks back on them. THE TOWER KEEPS GOING 300 floors across Normal, Hard and Nightmare. Past them lie the Abyss, a descent that runs to depth 3000, and the Underworld, a second tower with its own equipment and relics. IDLE REWARDS Up to eight hours of rewards accrue while you are gone. The tower is climbed while you sleep. Hunt the gear, build your hero, and see how high you can get.

Screenshots

IdleArc4 screens
Rune Tower4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: IdleArc at 88% against Rune Tower's 50%. IdleArc also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. IdleArc sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Rune Tower sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IdleArc ships an update every 3 days, Rune Tower every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
IdleArc versus Rune Tower: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdleArcRune Tower
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (137 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings137 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size190 MB136 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMichal StefanskiTASUKU SHIRAO

Customer experience

IdleArc

All ratings136 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.7%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive87.7%
Neutral4.1%
Negative8.2%

Rune Tower

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

IdleArc

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Account$4.991 Month
One-time7
  • 100 Arcstone$0.99
  • 550 Arcstone$4.99
  • 1,200 Arcstone$9.99
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  • 3,000 Arcstone$19.99
  • 8,500 Arcstone$49.99
  • 20,000 Arcstone$99.99
  • 15,000 Arcstone$99.99
10 purchases

Rune Tower

One-time10
  • Job EXP x2 Ticket$0.99
  • Drop Rate x2 Ticket$0.99
  • Equipment Slots +100$0.99
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  • Starter Pack (First-Time Only)$0.99
  • 2x Speed Ad Pass$1.99
  • Auto-Battle Ad Pass$1.99
  • Idle Reward Ad Pass$1.99
  • Job EXP x2 Ticket x4$2.99
  • Drop Rate x2 Ticket x4$2.99
  • Comfort Pass$5.99

Questions

Is IdleArc free?
IdleArc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rune Tower free?
Rune Tower is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do IdleArc or Rune Tower have ads?
Rune Tower shows ads; IdleArc does not.
Which is updated more often, IdleArc or Rune Tower?
IdleArc ships an update every 3 days, and Rune Tower every 3 weeks. Most recently, IdleArc was updated on November 8, 2026 and Rune Tower on November 5, 2026.

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