Building Colonies vs ClockmakersBench
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Building Colonies
Engage in a unique strategy game focused on land colonization. Explore unknown territories, establish and defend your settlements, manage resources, and interact with local tribes. Develop your colonies and expand your empire.
- Land colonization
- Map exploration
- Colony development
- Resource management
- Colony defense and attack
- Tribal interaction
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Building Colonies is a cool, simple and unique strategy with land colonization. Founding a colony on unknown islands and continents, protecting colonies and extracting resources and much more awaits you in this strategy. How to play? Press start, select a type of terrain such as forests, deserts and winter lands. You must buy a ship to send to unknown lands to build colonies. Bring the ship closer to the ground and build a colony, but be careful, local tribes may live on the lands and will try to destroy your weak colony. Having enough resources, you can sell them in the capital and get money for them, for which you can improve the colony to protect against local tribes, and you can also gather an army in the colony and send it to destroy the settlement of the natives. Game Features: - Simple strategy - Three levels of forest, desert and snowy lands - Map exploration - Colony development - Resource sales - Hostile tribes - Colony defense and attack - Statistics
ClockmakersBench
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Pull up a stool at the Clockmaker's Bench. This is a calm, hands-on idle game about the slow craft of horology — winding escapements, seating gears into half-built pocket watches, and listening to a whole shelf of finished mechanisms tick away. Start with a bare bench. Tap to wind the mainspring; each turn seats another gear into the movement on your workbench. Finish a watch and place it on the ticking shelf, where it runs on its own and earns coin tick after tick — even while the app is closed. As coin flows in, master finer movements. Unlock the moonphase, then the chronograph, the gravity-defying tourbillon, and finally the perpetual calendar — each grade more intricate, more valuable, and more beautiful on the shelf than the last. Patrons come calling, too. Accept a commission and one of your finished watches auto-ships to its owner overnight, paying coin plus patina — a prestige currency you spend on permanent polish that lifts your whole workshop. What you'll do: - Tap to wind and watch gears click into place - Fill a ticking shelf that earns coin passively, even offline - Unlock five complication grades, from time-only to perpetual calendar - Fulfil patron commissions for coin and patina - Upgrade your winding power, automatic winder, shelf, and commission slots - Polish your workshop with patina for a permanent yield bonus Clockmaker's Bench is free to play and supported by occasional ads. You can watch an optional short video for a 30-minute taste of doubled yield, or unlock Master Horologist once to remove ads, double all coin and patina forever, and add two extra commission slots. No subscription — a single purchase, restorable on any device. No timers nagging you, no fail states, no rush. Just the quiet satisfaction of a well-built mechanism and a shelf that keeps on ticking. Pull up a stool and start winding.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Building Colonies at none against ClockmakersBench's 1. Building Colonies also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. ClockmakersBench sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Building Colonies asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Building Colonies | ClockmakersBench |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxim Rudyi | Christian Pedersen |
In-app purchases
Building Colonies
No in-app purchases
ClockmakersBench
- Clockmaker's Bench Lifetime$4.99
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