Comparison

Grow Your Island vs CodeBastion

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

Head to head
About

Grow Your Island

Features
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Grow Your Island is a relaxing idle island builder game focused on exploration, expansion and satisfying progression. Start with a small island and grow it into a vibrant world. Clear trees, plants and natural obstacles to unlock new areas and expand your island step by step. Each action reveals new land, structures and opportunities, making your island feel more alive. This idle island game is designed to be simple, smooth and relaxing. There is no complex management. Just explore, build and expand at your own pace while enjoying a satisfying progression system. FEATURES: • Clear trees, plants and obstacles • Expand your island and unlock new areas • Discover structures and hidden zones • Relaxing idle gameplay experience • Simple and intuitive controls • Offline gameplay supported • Smooth and satisfying progression If you enjoy idle games, island builder games, casual simulation games or relaxing exploration games, Grow Your Island is perfect for you. Build your island, explore new areas and enjoy a calm, relaxing adventure.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Idle clicker and incremental progression
  • Resource and citizen management
  • Deep skill tree with research
  • Expeditions and exploration
  • Timed defense challenges
  • Offline progress
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Grow Your Island4 screens
CodeBastion4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CodeBastion at none against Grow Your Island's 6. CodeBastion also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Grow Your Island sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Grow Your Island versus CodeBastion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrow Your IslandCodeBastion
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size214 MB40 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMehmet Mert DonmezGines Ortiz

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Grow Your Island

One-time6
  • Pirate Outfit$1.99
  • GoldSmall$2.99
  • No Ads$3.99
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  • GoldMedium$3.99
  • Gold Big$5.99
  • Starter Pack$7.99
None

CodeBastion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grow Your Island free?
Grow Your Island is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CodeBastion free?
CodeBastion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grow Your Island or CodeBastion have ads?
Grow Your Island shows ads; CodeBastion does not.

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