MUDBasher vs Quiet Grind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MUDBasher
Experience a reimagined classic text-based adventure game. This app offers a faster, more visually appealing, and feature-rich version of a beloved program from 2012, built for modern devices. Dive into new adventures with enhanced performance and design.
- Classic text-based gameplay
- Rebuilt for modern iOS
- Faster performance
- Improved visuals
- Enhanced features
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"A Classic Returns, Reimagined" The story of MUDBasher is the story of MUDRammer—a beloved app created with love in 2012, named after a friend's ridiculous character name, that brought joy to text gamers for years. When it could no longer keep up with modern iOS, rather than let it fade away, it was completely rebuilt from the ground up. Same heart, new soul. Faster, prettier, more features, and ready for the next decade of adventures.
Quiet Grind
An idle RPG where you train skills, battle foes, and progress even when offline. Craft gear, gather resources, and explore multiple zones. Enjoy a no-ads, no-energy-bar experience with cloud saves and offline play.
- 30 unique skills
- Offline progress up to 8 hours
- No ads or energy bars
- Cloud save across devices
- Fully playable offline
- Tamed companions
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Quiet Grind is an idle RPG for people with lives. Train 30 skills, battle through five adventure zones, and keep making progress — even when you're not playing. Mine ore, chop wood, catch fish, smith gear, steep and enchant. Every skill has its own tools, recipes and mastery track, and they feed each other: what you gather becomes what you craft, and what you craft makes you stronger. PROGRESS WHILE YOU'RE AWAY Close the app and your character keeps training. Come back to a satisfying pile of gains — up to 8 hours of away progress in the free game, 24 with the optional unlock. NO ADS. NO ENERGY BARS. No forced waits you have to pay to skip. No video to sit through before a reward. Quiet Grind asks for your time, not your attention. WHAT'S INSIDE • 30 skills across gathering, artisan and combat • Five adventure zones and fifteen foes to defeat • Daily quests and a rotating merchant • 72 achievements and 9 Game Center leaderboards • Tamed companions that fight alongside you • A calm fantasy soundtrack • Six languages • Cloud save that follows you between devices • Fully playable offline PLAY EVERYWHERE iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch — one purchase, one save. Start a session on your phone, check on it from your wrist, and carry on at your Mac. FREE TO TRY Quiet Grind is free with 14 of its 30 skills, the first three adventure zones, daily quests and offline progress all included. A single unlock opens the remaining skills and zones. No subscriptions, no ads, no pay-to-win, ever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quiet Grind at 100% against MUDBasher's 28%. Quiet Grind also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). MUDBasher's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11). On price, ratings volume, ads and iOS requirement 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. Quiet Grind sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. MUDBasher asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quiet Grind holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 39 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of MUDBasher's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quiet Grind's.
MUDBasher ships an update every 6 days, Quiet Grind every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MUDBasher | Quiet Grind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (26 ratings) | 4.8 (39 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 216 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Andrew Goldfinch | Jasper Blaauw |
Customer experience
MUDBasher
Quiet Grind
In-app purchases
MUDBasher
No in-app purchases
Quiet Grind
- Pouch of Gems$0.99
- Expand Storage Space$1.99
- Witching Hour Set$2.99
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- Extended Idle Limit$2.99
- Bag of Gems$2.99
- Hallowmoon Cauldron$4.99
- Unlock Full-game Skills$4.99
- Chest of Gems$4.99
- Hallowmoon Pass$6.99
- Complete Bundle$7.99
- Hoard of Gems$9.99









