Comparison

Gather Inc vs Forgotten Town

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

Head to head
About

Gather Inc

Gather resources through various activities like chopping, fishing, and mining to upgrade your capabilities. Trade valuable items for powerful gear and recruit allies to enhance your progress. Defend your loot from nocturnal zombie threats.

Highlights
  • Resource gathering (chopping, fishing, mining)
  • Trading for gear
  • Pet adoption for bonuses
  • Crew recruitment
  • Zombie defense
  • Epic upgrades
Features
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Gather. Trade. Survive. Thrive! Chop, fish, mine, and explore your way to greatness! Whether you're harvesting everyday resources or hunting down rare treasures, every move gets you closer to epic upgrades. - Chop trees - or hire a lumberjack to do the hard work! - Collect crystals and trade them for legendary gear! - Reel in rare fish and exchange them for powerful upgrades! - Adopt a pet to boost your gathering power! - Recruit a crew to speed things up! But watch out…Zombies come out at night - and they’re after your loot!

About

Forgotten Town

Features
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A little town. A missing story. Yours to find. Forgotten Town is a cozy merge adventure with a real mystery underneath it. Merge everyday objects into better ones, deliver what each repair needs, and bring a hundred and fifty abandoned places across fifty regions back to life — from an old house and its walled garden to a sunbeam motel, a police station, a train station, a cabin by the lake, and on toward the dam that was never going to fail. Every object you restore leaves something behind. A photograph. A ticket stub. A ledger nobody closed. Pin them to the evidence board, meet the suspects, and work through a hundred linked cases, each one turning the town's quiet story a little further. A wrong answer never locks you out. WHAT IS INSIDE - 2500 orders across 50 regions of 50 levels, each with its own items, costs and rewards, then repeatable town orders once the story is told - 150 restoration areas, each with three illustrated states as you repair them, plus finishing touches to make each one yours - 100 linked cases built from evidence you actually earned, with suspects and clues on an evidence board for every region - 18 merge chains across 101 item tiers, each tier announced the first time you make it - Burst production, so a full energy bar can go out in one tap instead of twenty - Daily tasks, a weekly task and a seven-day lantern streak - The Forgotten Archive of collectible evidence, a new Weekly Mystery every Monday, five story seasons and a Records page, all open after the story and all optional - Original music and sound, written for this town - 16 languages, including full right-to-left Arabic PLAY IT YOUR WAY The whole game works offline. Continue as a guest and you need no account, no payment and no advertisement to reach the end. Sign in with Google, Apple or email only if you want your town to follow you to another device. Energy sets the pace of a session. It refills on its own over time, and every chapter and every finale gives some back. When you want more right now, a rewarded advertisement (up to three a day), a few gems or the store can refill it. Nothing is ever walled off. HONEST ABOUT ADS Levels 1 to 5 have no advertisements at all. From level 6 you may choose to watch a rewarded advertisement for extra energy or a bigger level reward — only ever because you tapped it. Occasional advertisements between levels begin at level 21 and never interrupt a merge, a conversation or a case reveal. There are no banner advertisements and none when the game opens. Remove Ads is a one-time purchase that permanently stops every forced advertisement. It deliberately leaves the optional rewarded ones available, in case you still want the energy. No subscriptions. Ever.

Screenshots

Gather Inc4 screens
Forgotten Town4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Forgotten Town at every 2 days against Gather Inc's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Gather Inc sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Forgotten Town sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gather Inc ships an update fortnightly, Forgotten Town every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Gather Inc versus Forgotten Town: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGather IncForgotten Town
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (191 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings191 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size376 MB99 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperA Creative EndeavorBURAK YILMAZ

Bugs and requests

Gather Inc

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Camera issues when changing maps
  • Disappearing bridge
  • Inventory full preventing quest completion
  • Ticket purchases not working as intended
  • Lumber machine not functioning

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to mute music
  • Healing system
  • Restore purchase option

Forgotten Town

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Gather Inc

One-time10
  • Small Gem Pack$1.99
  • Big Gem Pack$3.99
  • Extra Item Slot$4.99
Show 7 more
  • Secret Chest$6.99
  • Premium Pass$6.99
  • Big Pack$6.99
  • Starter Pack$9.99
  • Exclusive Deal$9.99
  • Skip Its Pack$9.99
  • Mythic Mount$14.99
6 purchases

Forgotten Town

One-time6
  • Small Gem Pouch$1.99
  • Starter Pack$2.99
  • Energy Pack$2.99
Show 3 more
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Medium Gem Chest$4.99
  • Large Gem Vault$9.99

Questions

Is Gather Inc free?
Gather Inc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forgotten Town free?
Forgotten Town is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gather Inc or Forgotten Town have ads?
Both Gather Inc and Forgotten Town show ads.
Which is updated more often, Gather Inc or Forgotten Town?
Gather Inc ships an update fortnightly, and Forgotten Town every 2 days. Most recently, Gather Inc was updated on November 5, 2026 and Forgotten Town on October 31, 2026.

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