Comparison

Hatch Dragons vs Timberhold

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

Head to head
About

Hatch Dragons

Collect and nurture hundreds of unique dragons in a magical forest. Restore the land by lifting fog, summoning dragons, and decorating your environment. Uncover their origins and lore as they grow into bonded companions.

Highlights
  • Summon hundreds of unique dragons
  • Hatch, feed, and raise dragons
  • Uncover dragon lore and origins
  • Clear fog and restore the forest
  • Decorate the forest with magical items
  • Participate in missions and events
Features
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Discover Dragons like you’ve never seen before! Collect and care for hundreds of unique Dragons, uncovering their origins as they grow. From playful Cat Dragons to rare Bluebell Dragons, every new Dragon you hatch and raise brings this cozy, peaceful world to life. Long ago, Dragons filled this enchanted forest, thriving alongside nature. Each evolved into forms as diverse as the surrounding flora and fauna. Some shimmered with glittering scales, others were soft and furry, and some even bloomed with flowers or mushrooms. When nearby mining drove the Dragons away, fog crept in and the forest fell silent for years. Now, join Liv the Elf to lift the fog, summon the Dragons home, and help the forest sparkle with life once more. GAME HIGHLIGHTS * Summon Dragons: Help Liv mix elements, gems, and more to call Dragons of all shapes, forms, and rarities to your forest. * Raise Dragons: Hatch eggs, feed your Dragons, and help them grow into magical, bonded companions. * Collect Hundreds of Dragons: Discover a magical array of Dragons that evolved alongside nature. * Uncover Lore: Reveal charming legends and little-known facts about your Dragons. * Explore and Restore: Clear the fog and help the forest awaken with life, magic, and folkloric friends. * Decorate Your Forest: Adorn your forest with plants and decor that possess magical abilities to help you progress. * Missions and Events: Missions, updates, and limited-time events bring exciting new Dragons, décor, and rewards. There’s always something new to discover! If you love Dragons, cozy collection games, and relaxing adventures, you will be enchanted by Hatch Dragons. ***** Hatch Dragons is developed and published by Runaway. This game is free to play but does contain in-app purchases. If you run into any issues while playing or you have any suggestions, please reach out to us at support@runaway.zendesk.com

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

Hatch Dragons4 screens
Timberhold3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timberhold at none against Hatch Dragons's 19. Timberhold also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). Hatch Dragons's advantage is chart position (#55 vs unranked) and 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. Hatch Dragons sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Timberhold asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hatch Dragons ships an update every 10 days, Timberhold every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Hatch Dragons versus Timberhold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHatch DragonsTimberhold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (24K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings24K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#55 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size677 MB122 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperRunawayLance Dye

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Hatch Dragons

One-time18
  • Dragon's Hoard$0.99
  • 50 Gems$1.99
  • Amazing Value Pack$1.99
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  • Starter Pack$2.99
  • 130 Gems$4.99
  • Event Pack 04$4.99
  • Event Pack 01$4.99
  • Fruitkeeper Special$4.99
  • Super Price Slasher$4.99
  • Discount Fruitmaster Fairy$4.99
  • 275 Gems$9.99
  • Mega Price Slasher$9.99
  • Dragon Haven$9.99
  • Fruitmaster Fairy$9.99
  • Event Pack 03$19.99
  • Event Pack 05$19.99
  • Fox Companion Decoration$24.99
  • 3750 Gems$99.99
None

Timberhold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hatch Dragons free?
Hatch Dragons is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timberhold free?
Timberhold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hatch Dragons or Timberhold have ads?
Hatch Dragons shows ads; Timberhold does not.
Which is updated more often, Hatch Dragons or Timberhold?
Hatch Dragons ships an update every 10 days, and Timberhold every 3 days. Most recently, Hatch Dragons was updated on October 15, 2026 and Timberhold on October 1, 2026.

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