Comparison

Level Up Village! vs Sail Sim

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

Head to head
About

Level Up Village!

Build a thriving village and gather heroes to battle monsters in this idle town-building simulator. Enjoy auto-battles, hero collection, and an infinite growth system. Your town and heroes grow even when you're offline.

Highlights
  • Idle town-building simulation
  • Auto battles with offline progression
  • Hero collection and team strategy
  • Hero leveling, promotion, and talent system
  • Tower climbing and treasure discovery
  • Charming pixel art graphics
Features
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▶ Hero Town in Crisis?! Right in Front of the Demon Lord’s Castle?! Build your village, gather heroes, and fight back against endless monsters! A vertical idle simulation with auto battles and strategic town-building! ▶ Idle Town-Building Simulation Slay monsters and collect resources to construct and upgrade your own village. Create a thriving town that grows even while you're away. ▶ Auto Battles & Explosive Growth Turn off the game, and your heroes keep fighting! Gain experience and loot automatically to grow fast. ▶ Hero Collection & Team Strategy Recruit pixel-art heroes with unique jobs and skills. Build the ultimate team and take down powerful monsters with synergy. ▶ The Ultimate Hero Growth System Level up, promote, and unlock talents. Enjoy an infinite growth loop packed with upgrade satisfaction. ▶ Climb the Tower & Discover Hidden Treasures Explore unknown floors, defeat boss monsters, and find rare loot! ▶ Charming Pixel Art Heroes Cute and quirky pixel characters, flashy skills, and a delightful little town! Enjoy the fun of collecting and growing in a world full of charm. Start building your town and summon your heroes now! A growing town, evolving battles, and nonstop idle progression await! Play Level Up Village today!

About

Sail Sim

Experience a realistic, single-handed ocean passage in real time. Navigate using celestial bodies and dead reckoning, manage your boat's sails and condition, and survive the challenges of a living ocean. Learn sailing and survival skills as you embark on your own unique voyage.

Highlights
  • Real-time ocean passage
  • Celestial navigation with sextant
  • Physical boat sailing mechanics
  • Dynamic weather system
  • Survival resource management
  • In-game sailing handbook
  • Logbook and voyage charting
Features
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You wake on the beach of a small island with a 36-foot sloop at anchor offshore. The island is real. It is somewhere on Earth. Nothing aboard tells you where. SAIL is a single-handed ocean passage played in real time. One second in the game is one second in the world. Set a course, choose your canvas, put the phone down, and return when the weather, the boat, or the sky needs you. NAVIGATE BY THE REAL SKY There is no chart plotter and no satellite fix. Measure the sun, moon, Polaris, and navigational stars with a sextant. Guard the chronometer. Check the compass. Carry your position forward by dead reckoning, knowing that unseen current and instrument error are quietly pulling it away from the truth. SAIL A PHYSICAL BOAT Trim six sail plans to a changing wind. The boat heels from the force on the canvas, makes leeway, drifts with ocean currents, and suffers when you carry too much sail. The live polar diagram shows where she can go and how fast. A sailing coach explains what an experienced hand would notice—and why it matters. CROSS A LIVING OCEAN Weather grows from a simulated pressure field instead of a list of scripted conditions. Trade winds, westerlies, doldrums, squalls, swell, haze, and falling pressure all belong to the same world. The coast you raise over the horizon is drawn from the same real-Earth data the hull can strike. SURVIVE THE PASSAGE Water is finite. Food runs down. Rest, health, fresh provisions, fishing gear, medicine, sailcloth, repair stores, hull condition, and the bilge all matter. Rain can save you. A gale can dismast you. An island can feed you—if you find it. LEARN AS YOU GO No sailing knowledge is assumed. The in-game handbook uses animated diagrams to explain sail forces, points of sail, reefing, weather, latitude, longitude, dead reckoning, wayfinding, and survival. The coach teaches in the moment, then gets out of the way. MAKE THE VOYAGE YOURS Begin as a castaway on one of thousands of real islands, or take on a historic passage: a trade-wind Atlantic crossing, Bligh's open-boat journey, the James Caird in the Southern Ocean, or Slocum's long Pacific leg. Your log records the course, weather, miles, sights, decisions, and consequences hour by hour, then turns the voyage into a chart worth keeping. The ocean will keep moving when you close the app. Sail when a decision matters.

Screenshots

Level Up Village!4 screens
Sail Sim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Level Up Village! at 4.8 against Sail Sim's 4.0. Level Up Village! also leads on ratings volume (670 vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). Sail Sim's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). 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. Level Up Village! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Sail Sim asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Level Up Village! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Level Up Village! has 670 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Level Up Village! ships an update every 3 days, Sail Sim every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Level Up Village! versus Sail Sim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLevel Up Village!Sail Sim
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (670 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews69.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings670 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperekgamesYang Liu

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Level Up Village!

One-time10
  • Level Up Village Package 15$0.99
  • Level Up Village Package 16$1.99
  • Level Up Village Package 1$1.99
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  • Level Up Village Package 17$3.99
  • Level Up Village Package 2$3.99
  • Level Up Village Package 3$7.99
  • No Ads$8.99
  • Auto Hunt Reward x2$14.99
  • Level Up Village Package 10$17.99
  • Level Up Village Package 4$17.99
None

Sail Sim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Level Up Village! free?
Level Up Village! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sail Sim free?
Sail Sim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Level Up Village! or Sail Sim?
Level Up Village! is rated higher. Level Up Village! averages 4.8 out of 5 from 670 ratings, while Sail Sim averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Level Up Village! or Sail Sim have ads?
Level Up Village! shows ads; Sail Sim does not.
Which is updated more often, Level Up Village! or Sail Sim?
Level Up Village! ships an update every 3 days, and Sail Sim every 10 days. Most recently, Level Up Village! was updated on October 30, 2026 and Sail Sim on October 31, 2026.

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