Factory Frontier vs Asteronium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Factory Frontier
Design and expand a 2D factory to maximize profits by strategically placing production elements. Optimize your setup, unlock upgrades, and rebirth for unique bonuses to grow your industrial empire. Ideal for players who enjoy strategy and automation.
- Design and expand 2D factories
- Strategic placement of production elements
- Optimize production lines
- Unlock upgrades
- Rebirth for bonuses
- Automation gameplay
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Factory Frontier is a 2D mobile game where you design and expand your own factory to maximize profits. Strategically place droppers, upgraders, furnaces, and conveyors to create efficient production lines that generate money. Optimize your setup, unlock upgrades, and climb the ranks as your factory grows. Once you've built a thriving operation, rebirth to start anew with unique bonuses, pushing the boundaries of your industrial empire even further. Perfect for players who love strategy, creativity, and the thrill of automation!
Asteronium
Develop a deep-space industrial empire by strategically building and managing your space station. Optimize resource extraction, refine materials, and trade goods to become an idle mining tycoon. Research new technologies and upgrade modules to maximize efficiency, even when offline.
- Build and manage space station
- Optimize resource extraction
- Refine materials and trade goods
- Research new technologies
- Offline progression
- Upgrade modules
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Build your industrial space station and become an idle miner tycoon in a deep-space economy. Lay out your colony smartly: link ships that mine asteronium to factories that refine it, then route goods to trade drones — every connection matters, every bottleneck is yours to solve. Expand around the asteroid, upgrade your modules, and keep production flowing even while you’re offline. Research new technologies, earn permanent boosts between runs, and push your throughput to the limit. Balance mining speed against asteroid stability, then launch to Earth to refine rare finds and come back stronger. Watch your numbers soar, your layouts evolve — and chase the rumor of a mysterious element hidden at the cores of the largest asteroids. Should we explore?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Asteronium at 5.0 against Factory Frontier's 3.6. Asteronium also leads on iOS requirement (15.2 vs 17.0). Factory Frontier's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Factory Frontier sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Asteronium sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Asteronium holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Factory Frontier has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Factory Frontier ships an update every 2 weeks, Asteronium monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Factory Frontier | Asteronium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Cerrone | Marina Kornilova |
In-app purchases
Factory Frontier
- 250 Gems$1.99
- More Quests$2.99
- Double Gems$3.99
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- Extra Layout Slot$4.99
- No Ads$4.99
- 1000 Gems$4.99
- VIP$6.99
- MVIP$9.99
- Vip Bundle$12.99
- Mega Bundle$24.99
Asteronium
- Station Eta$0.99
- Station Theta$0.99
- Station Eta$1.99
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- Station Theta$1.99
- Station Zeta$2.99
- Station Eta$2.99
- Station Theta$2.99
- Station Eta$3.99
- Station Theta$3.99
- Mega Station$4.99
Questions
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