Space Academy Idle vs Idle Deepcore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Space Academy Idle
Construct and expand a futuristic space academy, recruiting students and training them in various disciplines. Watch your academy grow and unlock new opportunities as graduates increase its value. Prestige to earn permanent progression and climb leaderboards.
- Build and upgrade a futuristic space academy
- Unlock new buildings and optimize campus
- Train students across multiple knowledge disciplines
- Recruit gifted students with unique bonuses
- Collect daily rewards and special gifts
- Prestige with Endowments for permanent progression
- Grow academy even while offline
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Welcome to Space Academy Idle! Build the greatest academy in the galaxy by recruiting students, expanding your campus, and turning promising cadets into legendary scientists. Start with a single dormitory and grow into a thriving university. Construct new facilities, upgrade classrooms, and help your students master Cognition, Discipline, and Creativity before they graduate. Every graduate increases your academy’s value, unlocking new opportunities to expand even faster. Features - Build and upgrade a futuristic space academy - Unlock new buildings and optimize your campus - Train students across multiple knowledge disciplines - Recruit talented and gifted students with unique bonuses - Collect daily rewards and discover special gifts - Prestige with Endowments to earn permanent progression - Watch your academy grow even while you’re away - Complete achievements and climb Game Center leaderboards
Idle Deepcore
Embark on an epic pixel-art mining adventure, tapping to break blocks and collect ore. Automate your progress with upgradeable machines, even while offline, and descend through diverse biomes to discover rarer resources. Reset your progress for permanent boosts and unlock new systems to dig deeper and get richer.
- Tap-to-mine with pixel-art feedback
- Automate with upgradeable mining machines
- Smelt raw ore into valuable ingots
- Descend through distinct biomes
- Prestige for permanent power
- Build a rocket and mine asteroids
- Offline progress
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Idle Deepcore is a pixel-art idle mining game about digging from the surface all the way down to the planet's molten core — and beyond, into orbit. Tap to break blocks and collect ore, then buy machines — jackhammers, steam drills, seismic hammers, excavators and more — to mine for you, even while you're away. The deeper you dig, the rarer the ore and the tougher the blocks. FEATURES • Tap-to-mine with crunchy pixel-art feedback • Automate with a roster of upgradeable mining machines • Smelt raw ore into valuable ingots in your furnaces • Descend through distinct biomes to ever-deeper layers • Prestige to reset for permanent power and unlock new systems • Skill tree, mastery nodes and a research lab to specialize each run • Build a rocket and mine asteroids out in orbit • Offline progress — your machines keep mining while the app is closed • Cloud save via Game Center — back up and restore your progress • Playable in 29 languages Optional rewarded ads can double your offline haul — never required to progress. Dig deeper. Get richer. Idle Deepcore.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Space Academy Idle at 100% against Idle Deepcore's 50%. Space Academy Idle also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Idle Deepcore's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (80 vs 9). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Space Academy Idle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Idle Deepcore sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Space Academy Idle holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Deepcore has 80 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Space Academy Idle's written reviews are positive against 50% of Idle Deepcore's.
Space Academy Idle ships an update every 3 weeks, Idle Deepcore every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Space Academy Idle | Idle Deepcore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better | 4.6 (80 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 80 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roberto Frias Nerio | Flavio Valceschini |
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Space Academy Idle
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In-app purchases
Space Academy Idle
- Small Box$1.99
- Medium Box$3.99
- Shipment$6.99
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- XL Shipment$12.99
Idle Deepcore
- Supporter Pack$5.99
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