Kingdom vs CodeBastion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kingdom
Engage in real-time multiplayer strategy by mining, building, and managing your kingdom. Plan invasions and defend your territory in a quest for ultimate rule. This game offers deep strategic gameplay for ambitious rulers.
- Real-time multiplayer strategy
- Resource management (mining, woodcutting)
- Kingdom building
- Tax management
- Political intrigue (coups)
- Invasion mechanics
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A real time, multiplayer strategy game. Mine, chop wood, build houses, manage taxes, start coups, invade your neighbors. One kingdom is guaranteed to rule them all! Terms of Use: https://legal.kingdoms.ninja/terms
CodeBastion
Forge a city from a humble camp into a lasting bastion through strategic idle clicker and incremental city-building mechanics. Manage resources, assign citizens to jobs, research new technologies, and embark on expeditions to expand your legacy.
- Idle clicker and incremental progression
- Resource and citizen management
- Deep skill tree with research
- Expeditions and exploration
- Timed defense challenges
- Offline progress
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Build a city from its first camp into a lasting bastion in Code Bastion, a strategic idle clicker and incremental city-builder. Begin in Summary, where every tap matters. Gather wood, stone, food, and science through quick actions, manage your energy, watch your population, and keep your city moving even while you are away. Your resources continue to grow through citizen jobs and buildings, while seasons, incidents, and storage limits keep every plan under pressure. Move to Development to unlock a large skill tree across economy, construction, society, and expeditions. Each research choice opens new buildings, improves production, increases storage, strengthens manual gathering, expands your population, and prepares your city for the frontier. Turn a fragile settlement into a reliable system of farms, sawmills, quarries, mines, warehouses, markets, universities, barracks, walls, and more. Use the Resources screen to assign citizens to the jobs that matter most. Balance food, wood, stone, iron, coal, steel, gold, science, and influence. Build capacity before production overflows, keep enough workers in essential buildings, and adapt to changing seasons. Missions give every stage of the city a direction. Complete daily tasks, pursue a weekly campaign, and progress through a five-chapter city legacy: found the settlement, grow it into a city, open the frontier, endure its threats, and build a lasting legacy. When the city is ready, enter Expeditions. Train citizens, assign roles, craft preparation items, reveal a procedural map tile by tile, recruit from camps, discover points of interest, and research a catalogue of hidden treasures. Beyond the walls, every expedition can bring resources, experience, discoveries, and risks. Prepare for incursions with passive defenders and a timed defense challenge. Gather temporary materials, build defenses, create weapons, and decide how to hold the line when the frontier strikes back. CODE BASTION FEATURES Idle clicker and strategic incremental progression Quick actions, energy management, and offline progress Deep skill tree with research, upgrades, and unlocks Resources, citizen jobs, buildings, storage, and seasons Daily tasks, weekly campaigns, and city-wide goals Procedural exploration map, expeditions, equipment, and loot Treasure research, defense roles, incursions, and timed battles Five supported languages: English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian Build deliberately, explore carefully, and defend what you have created.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CodeBastion at none against Kingdom's 3. CodeBastion also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). Kingdom's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days) and ratings volume (18 vs 4). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Kingdom sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.
CodeBastion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Kingdom's written reviews are positive against 100% of CodeBastion's.
Kingdom ships an update every 5 days, CodeBastion every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kingdom | CodeBastion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jad Hanna | Gines Ortiz |
Customer experience
Kingdom
CodeBastion
In-app purchases
Kingdom
- Monthly Supporter$4.991 Month
- Gold and Meat Pack$1.99
- 5 Book Pack$3.99
CodeBastion
No in-app purchases









