Comparison

Pixel Mage vs Timberhold

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Mage

Engage in immersive battles with charming pixel art characters and dynamic action. Connect skill blocks for strategic combat and unlock new abilities and costumes through a free advancement system. Ascend a tower for rewards and defeat powerful bosses.

Highlights
  • Dot graphic action
  • Skill chain system
  • Job change system
  • Magic Tower progression
  • Boss battles
  • Character customization
Features
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1. Dot Graphic Action Adorable dot characters with spectacular action! Enjoy yourself in the dot graphic world with immersive battles. 2. Chain Skill System Collect and connect Skill Blocks to eliminate enemies with even more powerful attacks. Easy and fun with strategic elements! 3. Class Change System Change your class and obtain special costumes and skills for free! Transform into even more powerful character after your class change! 4. Magic Tower Climb the Magic Tower and receive bountiful rewards! Eliminate stronger bosses as you climb and become stronger after each victory. Set off on the adventure now and vow to take vengeance on Kingdom of Armis! Defeat the Demon Lords and become a legend yourself!

About

Timberhold

Features
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Timberhold is a cozy isometric lumber RPG you can play in five-minute pockets or settle into for an evening. You start with a sharp axe and a small clearing. You finish with a working logging camp, a sawmill humming through planks, and a frontier that pushes back the trees ring by ring. THE LOOP Walk up to a tree and hold the chop button. Fell it. Strip its limbs. Buck the trunk. Drag the stacked logs to your sawmill to plank them up, or take them straight to the merchant for raw timber pay. Coins go back into sharper axes, a faster sawmill, better hauling — and into building out your camp. TEN TIMBER SPECIES Pine and oak are everyday work. Birch, heartpine, and maple show up once you've earned a better axe. Walnut, cherry, mahogany, and bog oak hide in the rarer biomes. Frostpine waits at the far edge of the map, where the snow line starts. A WORLD THAT GROWS A macro-biome generator decides where mixed humid forests give way to high rocky stands or wet drainage groves. Each ring you unlock changes what trees grow nearby and how valuable they are. The world is procedurally generated from a seed, so it stays consistent across sessions while still feeling hand-laid out. CAMP PROGRESSION Stockpile enough milled logs and you can build a campfire, then a tent, then a workbench. The workbench unlocks crafting recipes — sharper saw blades that hit harder, sign posts that mark your camp, rope coils that let you haul more wood per trip. DAY AND NIGHT A short day/night cycle drifts the light from cool dawn to noon glare to amber sunset to a quiet starlit dark. Ambient audio shifts with it. You can keep working at night — the trees don't sleep either. ACCESSIBILITY VoiceOver labels on every interactive control. Dynamic Type so the HUD scales with your iOS text size. Reduce Motion gates the springy animations. Sufficient contrast on chips and buttons. Built to be played one-handed if that's what your day looks like. WHAT YOU WON'T FIND HERE No accounts. No ads. No analytics or telemetry. No internet connection required — Timberhold runs entirely on your device. Saves stay local. There's no shop except the in-game merchant, and there are no in-app purchases. BUILT BY ONE PERSON Timberhold is built and maintained solo by an independent developer at CGRD LLC. It's released as a complete, finished v1 — not a free-to-play live service. You buy it once and you own it.

Screenshots

Pixel Mage4 screens
Timberhold3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timberhold at none against Pixel Mage's 5. Timberhold also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Pixel Mage's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.4). 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. Pixel Mage sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Timberhold asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Mage ships an update fortnightly, Timberhold every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pixel Mage versus Timberhold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel MageTimberhold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (80 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings80 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size392 MB122 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperYONGJIN JOLance Dye

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Pixel Mage

One-time5
  • Small amount of Red Gems$0.89
  • Red Gem Pouch$6.99
  • Red Gem Chest (S)$25.99
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  • Red Gem Chest (M)$46.99
  • Red Gem Chest (L)$85.99
None

Timberhold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixel Mage free?
Pixel Mage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timberhold free?
Timberhold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pixel Mage or Timberhold have ads?
Pixel Mage shows ads; Timberhold does not.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Mage or Timberhold?
Pixel Mage ships an update fortnightly, and Timberhold every 3 days. Most recently, Pixel Mage was updated on October 18, 2026 and Timberhold on October 17, 2026.

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