Comparison

Lord Rising vs Sail Sim

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

Head to head
About

Lord Rising

Embark on an epic idle RPG adventure to grow your domain, recruit loyal vassals, and forge legendary weapons. Conquer territories, form alliances, and unleash devastating skills to become a legendary sovereign. Your lord grows stronger even while idle, offering endless rewards and a path to ultimate power.

Highlights
  • Idle growth and rewards
  • Collect legendary weapons
  • Recruit loyal vassals
  • Build and manage a domain
  • Form alliances or subjugate
  • Unleash devastating skills
  • Conquer limitless territories
Features
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Weapons, vassals, skills, and the power of your family! Grow endlessly and conquer limitless territories in this casual idle RPG. Begin your journey to greatness in Lord Rising. ■ Seize overwhelming power: Collect legendary weapons and forge an unstoppable army. Become the key to unrivaled might. ■ Loyal vassals, trusted allies: Recruit loyal vassals to fight by your side and build a stronghold that none can breach. ■ Devastating skills that dominate the battlefield: Unleash powerful skills and crush your enemies with overwhelming force ■ Form alliances—or subjugate them: Win the loyalty of noble families or bend them to your will, and expand your dominion with their support. ■ Manage and grow your domain: Carefully nurture your territory and raise a kingdom like no other. ■ Endless growth, endless rewards: Even while idle, your lord grows stronger. Harvest endless riches and climb the path to legend. ■ Conquer the world and become a legendary sovereign: Dominate every continent and leave your name etched in history.

About

Sail Sim

Features
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You wake on the beach of a small island with a 36-foot sloop at anchor offshore. The island is real. It is somewhere on Earth. Nothing aboard tells you where. SAIL is a single-handed ocean passage played in real time. One second in the game is one second in the world. Set a course, choose your canvas, put the phone down, and return when the weather, the boat, or the sky needs you. NAVIGATE BY THE REAL SKY There is no chart plotter and no satellite fix. Measure the sun, moon, Polaris, and navigational stars with a sextant. Guard the chronometer. Check the compass. Carry your position forward by dead reckoning, knowing that unseen current and instrument error are quietly pulling it away from the truth. SAIL A PHYSICAL BOAT Trim six sail plans to a changing wind. The boat heels from the force on the canvas, makes leeway, drifts with ocean currents, and suffers when you carry too much sail. The live polar diagram shows where she can go and how fast. A sailing coach explains what an experienced hand would notice—and why it matters. CROSS A LIVING OCEAN Weather grows from a simulated pressure field instead of a list of scripted conditions. Trade winds, westerlies, doldrums, squalls, swell, haze, and falling pressure all belong to the same world. The coast you raise over the horizon is drawn from the same real-Earth data the hull can strike. SURVIVE THE PASSAGE Water is finite. Food runs down. Rest, health, fresh provisions, fishing gear, medicine, sailcloth, repair stores, hull condition, and the bilge all matter. Rain can save you. A gale can dismast you. An island can feed you—if you find it. LEARN AS YOU GO No sailing knowledge is assumed. The in-game handbook uses animated diagrams to explain sail forces, points of sail, reefing, weather, latitude, longitude, dead reckoning, wayfinding, and survival. The coach teaches in the moment, then gets out of the way. MAKE THE VOYAGE YOURS Begin as a castaway on one of thousands of real islands, or take on a historic passage: a trade-wind Atlantic crossing, Bligh's open-boat journey, the James Caird in the Southern Ocean, or Slocum's long Pacific leg. Your log records the course, weather, miles, sights, decisions, and consequences hour by hour, then turns the voyage into a chart worth keeping. The ocean will keep moving when you close the app. Sail when a decision matters.

Screenshots

Lord Rising4 screens
Sail Sim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sail Sim at none against Lord Rising's 25. Sail Sim also leads on ads (none vs shown). Lord Rising's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price 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. Lord Rising sells 25 one-off in-app purchases. Sail Sim asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lord Rising ships an update every 3 days, Sail Sim every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lord Rising versus Sail Sim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLord RisingSail Sim
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB18 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSTORMXYang Liu

In-app purchases

25 purchases

Lord Rising

One-time25
  • Growth Pack 1$0.99
  • War Cry Stage Pakage$0.99
  • Chaos l Stage Pakage$1.99
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  • Chaos II Stage Pakage$1.99
  • Chaos III Stage Pakage$1.99
  • War Prelude Stage Pakage$1.99
  • OPS Pack 1$1.99
  • Growth Pack 2$1.99
  • Weekly Growth Pack$1.99
  • War Loom Stage Package$1.99
  • Stage Pass 1$2.99
  • Kill Pass$2.99
  • OPS Ticket Capacity +1$2.99
  • Vassal Pass 1$2.99
  • Infinite Beacon$2.99
  • OPS Pack 2$2.99
  • Weekly Dungeon Pack$3.99
  • Idle Reward x2$3.99
  • No Ads$5.99
  • Skill Pass 1$6.99
  • Skill Pass 2$9.99
  • Vassal Pass 2$12.99
  • Skill Pass 3$14.99
  • Persona Pack 3$19.99
  • Persona Pack 4$29.99
None

Sail Sim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lord Rising free?
Lord Rising is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sail Sim free?
Sail Sim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lord Rising or Sail Sim have ads?
Lord Rising shows ads; Sail Sim does not.
Which is updated more often, Lord Rising or Sail Sim?
Lord Rising ships an update every 3 days, and Sail Sim every 10 days. Most recently, Lord Rising was updated on October 25, 2026 and Sail Sim on October 15, 2026.

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