Comparison

Idle Space Meteor Miner vs Cosmic Forge

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

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Idle Space Meteor Miner

Features
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No ads. No forced videos. Just you, your fleet and a sky full of meteors. Idle Space Meteor Miner is a relaxing idle space mining tycoon with real depth. Tap meteors, send out your ships and upgrade everything โ€“ then watch your numbers grow from hundreds to billions and far beyond. Your fleet keeps mining while you are away, so a pile of offline earnings is always waiting for you. BUILD YOUR MINING FLEET โ€ข Command five ship classes: Scout, Fighter, Cruiser, Miner and Battleship โ€ข Deploy satellites for passive income: Solar Collector, Plasma Harvester, Reactor Core and Stellar Processor โ€ข Unlock Elite Ships with Meteor Dust โ€“ they stay with you through every prestige โ€ข Equip modules, combine five into one of higher rarity and pick a targeting mode for every ship TAP, UPGRADE, REPEAT โ€ข Clicker action: tap meteors to deal area damage โ€ข Upgrade damage, speed, cargo, range, crits and ship abilities โ€“ every level counts โ€ข Hunt Golden, Diamond and Rainbow meteors for bigger rewards โ€ข Smash Giant Meteors for Splitters and turn them into powerful Shard upgrades BOSS BATTLES โ€ข Destroy huge boss meteors before the timer runs out and climb boss level after boss level โ€ข Fire off ship abilities and cut through boss armor with upgrades โ€ข A victory never triggers a cooldown, and a lost fight can be retried after a short break PRESTIGE & DEEP PROGRESSION โ€ข Prestige for Ship Parts and buy permanent upgrades that speed up every new run โ€ข Level up, earn Talent Points and grow a huge Talent Tree โ€ข Timed Research, collectible Artefacts and multi-hour Missions for your ships โ€ข Quests, achievements and a 30-day daily login calendar TRUE IDLE: AUTOMATION & OFFLINE EARNINGS โ€ข Automate upgrades, ship and satellite purchases, quest rewards and even boss fights โ€ข Offline earnings for up to 8 hours โ€“ extend the limit to 24 hours with talents and research โ€ข Hourly Free Collect rewards and boosts for extra speed COMPETE WORLDWIDE โ€ข Global leaderboard with six categories: Overall, Quests, Meteors, Boss Kills, Prestiges and Highest Boss PLAYER-FRIENDLY โ€ข No ads at all โ€“ not even optional reward videos โ€ข A short guided start with Meteor Dust rewards for new players โ€ข Available in 10 languages โ€ข All in-app purchases are optional Love incremental games, tycoon builders and a good space theme? Then start your engines โ€“ the meteor field is waiting.

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Cosmic Forge

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Cosmic Forge is a deep offline idle game about turning a single iron vein into an interstellar mining empire. START SIMPLE Tap rocks. Upgrade your shaft. Automate with a baseline foreman. Watch a transporter shuttle ore from the mine to the refinery, then to the warehouse, where it sells for Coins. Every component โ€” shaft, transporter, refinery, warehouse โ€” has its own milestone multipliers every 10 levels, so progression keeps unlocking speed and capacity spikes. UNLOCK THE COSMOS Beyond Alpha Asteroid there are comet clusters, planets, moons, anomalies, and singularity zones. Each location type has its own production multipliers and warehouse sell rates โ€” anomaly-grade minerals pay poorly per second but richly per sale. HIRE MANAGERS Common managers enable auto-mining; bonus managers stack passive multipliers and trigger powerful active abilities (instant trips, production boosts, free upgrades). Assign them per mine. Some managers survive prestige. RESEARCH TREE 50+ research nodes across multiple branches โ€” economy, production, transport, offline efficiency, stock capacity, coin multipliers, prestige. Queue active research in parallel slots (expand via Galactic Research). Every tier you complete compounds. PRESTIGE FOREVER Perform a Stellar Reset when the cosmos is ready. Earn Stardust based on your total iron-equivalent across every resource. Spend Stardust on permanent upgrades that carry across runs. Eventually unlock Galactic Ascension โ€” a meta-prestige layer with its own research tree and Dark Matter currency. DAILY CHALLENGES Three challenges per day with streak rewards at 7 and 14 days. Missed days reset the streak but the game doesn't punish absence. OFFLINE EARNINGS Step away for up to a week โ€” Cosmic Forge continues mining at a tapered efficiency schedule and rolls a summary up on your return. Research that was in flight completes while you sleep. COMPLETELY OFFLINE No account required. No internet required. No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. No tracking. No analytics. No SDKs phoning home. GOD MODE (OPTIONAL) Want to test builds, skip a grind, or just play sandbox? God Mode is free for everyone โ€” a one-tap toggle in Settings (behind a "this may corrupt your save" warning, because it really can). First public release โ€” 0.19.0. Thanks for playing through 100+ pre-release builds with us.

Screenshots

Idle Space Meteor Miner4 screens
Cosmic Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cosmic Forge at none against Idle Space Meteor Miner's 10. Idle Space Meteor Miner's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Idle Space Meteor Miner sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Cosmic Forge asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Space Meteor Miner ships an update every 11 days, Cosmic Forge every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
Idle Space Meteor Miner versus Cosmic Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Space Meteor MinerCosmic Forge
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 days โ€” betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size166 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperManuel WegenerQUALITY CAT SP Z O O

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Idle Space Meteor Miner

One-time10
  • Support the Dev$0.99
  • Starter Dust Pack$1.99
  • Starter Offer$1.99
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  • Starter Bundle$2.99
  • 2ร— Offline Earnings$4.99
  • Weekly Bundle$4.99
  • Value Bundle$9.99
  • Premium Bundle$24.99
  • Founder's Pack$34.99
  • Cosmic Dust Pack$99.99
None

Cosmic Forge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Space Meteor Miner free?
Idle Space Meteor Miner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cosmic Forge free?
Cosmic Forge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Space Meteor Miner or Cosmic Forge have ads?
Neither Idle Space Meteor Miner nor Cosmic Forge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Space Meteor Miner or Cosmic Forge?
Idle Space Meteor Miner ships an update every 11 days, and Cosmic Forge every 5 weeks. Most recently, Idle Space Meteor Miner was updated on November 9, 2026 and Cosmic Forge on November 5, 2026.

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