Comparison

Dawnmaker vs The Last Factory

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

Head to head
About

Dawnmaker

A solo strategy game blending city building and deck building mechanics. Rebuild a world shrouded in toxic smog by constructing buildings, acquiring powerful cards, and upgrading your lighthouse to reclaim lost lands and technologies.

Highlights
  • City building mechanics
  • Deck building gameplay
  • Resource management
  • Lighthouse upgrades
  • Smog reclamation
  • Technology recovery
Currently charting
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Dawnmaker is a solo strategy game combining elements of city building and deck building to create a board game-like experience. In a world covered by a toxic Smog, only you can rekindle the ancient lighthouses and bring light and life back. Construct buildings, gain new cards, generate resources and improve your central lighthouse to unlock new building space. Optimize your deck - gain increasingly powerful cards as you improve your city. Your cards and buildings interact in various ways: choose them wisely to create the most powerful combinations! Build efficient cities - make the best of your limited space by optimally positioning your buildings. Improve your lighthouse to repel the Smog and expand your city. Manage your resources - grow farms, build industries, develop science and inspire your people to create the rarest of resources: Eclairium! Reclaim the lost continent - the continent of Heksiga has been covered by a toxic Smog. Repair and improve magical lighthouses to repel that Smog and reclaim the land, region by region. Recover lost technologies - explore vestiges of the old Empire and rediscover technologies that were lost to the Smog.

About

The Last Factory

Build and defend a factory on a desolate planet. Automate production chains, manage power, research lost technologies, and fend off escalating machine raids. Discover the planet's history and unlock its final secrets.

Highlights
  • Automated production chains
  • Power grid management
  • Research and unlock technologies
  • Defend against machine raids
  • Explore and uncover secrets
  • Mobile-first design
  • Offline production
Features
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VEYRA-9 is dead. Three centuries of automated mining stripped the planet bare, and the rogue AUTON network silenced every factory but one. Yours. The Last Factory is a build-and-defend factory sim. Lay out production chains, raise a power grid, research lost technology, and hold the line against escalating machine raids, on a hand-built world you uncover one chunk at a time. BUILD Drag modules onto the grid and chain them into flowing production lines. Mine ore, smelt ingots, forge alloy plate, print circuits, and feed it all into deeper tech. Belts, splitters, pipes, and smart routers move everything where it needs to go. POWER Stand up solar relays and reactor cores, then extend the grid with conduits. Manage cryo-coolant, ride out brownouts, and bank a surge buffer that keeps your turrets alive when the grid dips. DEFEND Every module you build makes you louder, and a bigger target. The AUTON network sends scouts and breakers in escalating raids. Emplace turrets, EMP emitters, and maintenance bots, and turn the wreckage into salvage. RESEARCH Signal Towers generate Research Points. Spend them in the blueprint tree to unlock tier after tier, compressed cells, neural cores, and a sample → data centre → R&D loop that researches permanent upgrades for the modules you already run. DISCOVER Out past the fog: collapsed archives, broken transit lines, a field-hospital shell. Each ruin carries a fragment of what happened here the week the factories went dark. And somewhere at the very end, one blueprint that isn't in the tree, found, not unlocked. PREMIUM, NO TRICKS Pay once, own everything. No ads. No in-app purchases. No energy timers. No battle pass. All future updates free. MOBILE-FIRST Pinch to zoom. Tap to rotate. Designed for one-handed play on any screen. Auto-saves into rotating slots, and keeps producing while you're away. Hold the line. Power up. Outlast the static.

Screenshots

Dawnmaker4 screens
The Last Factory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dawnmaker at 100% against The Last Factory's 0%. Dawnmaker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Dawnmaker costs $4.49 and The Last Factory $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dawnmaker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Dawnmaker's written reviews are positive against 0% of The Last Factory's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dawnmaker ships an update daily, The Last Factory weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Dawnmaker versus The Last Factory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDawnmakerThe Last Factory
Price$4.49 — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyDaily — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#162 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.4
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB100 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperAcram DigitalHello World Labs Ltd

Customer experience

Dawnmaker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

The Last Factory

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Dawnmaker

No in-app purchases

None

The Last Factory

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dawnmaker free?
Dawnmaker costs $4.49, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Last Factory free?
The Last Factory costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dawnmaker or The Last Factory?
Dawnmaker is rated higher. Dawnmaker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while The Last Factory averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Dawnmaker or The Last Factory have ads?
Neither Dawnmaker nor The Last Factory shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dawnmaker or The Last Factory?
Dawnmaker ships an update daily, and The Last Factory weekly. Most recently, Dawnmaker was updated on October 30, 2026 and The Last Factory on October 28, 2026.

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