Comparison

The Mormon Trail vs Turnslide

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

Head to head
About

The Mormon Trail

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The Mormon Trail is a single-player historical survival strategy game set in 1846. Lead your wagon company from Nauvoo to the Salt Lake Valley. Each day, you decide how far to travel, how much food to ration, and when to rest, hunt, trade, or push through dangerous weather. Small decisions compound: supplies run low, health drops, morale shifts, and unexpected events can change everything. Features: - Day-by-day trail strategy with pace and ration controls - Landmark stops, settlements, and event-driven choices - Hunting mini-game to gather food with limited ammo - Resource management: food, ammo, cash, wagon load, and party health - Save/load slots plus autosave - Classic and modern visual styles - Offline play with no account required Can you keep your party alive and reach the valley before winter?

About

Turnslide

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Build the ultimate water park and watch the visitors slide in! Turnslide is an idle management game where you design winding waterslides, grow your resort, and earn your way to a tropical empire. HOW TO PLAY Start with a small pool and a basic slide. Tap to spawn visitors who ride down your waterslide and splash into the pool below. Every visitor generates income that you can reinvest into expanding your park. The more you build, the more you earn. UPGRADE EVERYTHING Three core actions drive your park forward. Spawn new visitors to fill your slides, upgrade your structures for bigger capacity and faster rides, and boost your income rate to accelerate your earnings. Balancing all three is the key to growing efficiently. EXPAND YOUR RESORT As your earnings pile up, unlock new levels with bigger pools, longer slides, and more elaborate park layouts. Each new stage brings a fresh resort to develop from scratch, with higher earning potential and more visitors to manage. Watch your simple slide transform into a sprawling water park. KEY FEATURES - Idle water park management with satisfying growth loop - Winding waterslide designs with splashing visitors - Three-way upgrade system for spawn, structure, and income - Multiple resort levels to unlock and develop - Passive income that keeps earning while you're away - Relaxing visuals with a sunny poolside atmosphere Turnslide captures the joy of building something small and watching it grow into something spectacular. Every upgrade brings visible change and every visitor adds to your thriving resort. Open the gates and start sliding!

Screenshots

The Mormon Trail4 screens
Turnslide3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: The Mormon Trail at none against Turnslide's shown. Turnslide's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
The Mormon Trail versus Turnslide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Mormon TrailTurnslide
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 days
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS26.013.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size54 MB144 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew Freestonenusret takla

In-app purchases

None

The Mormon Trail

No in-app purchases

None

Turnslide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Mormon Trail free?
The Mormon Trail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Turnslide free?
Turnslide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Mormon Trail or Turnslide have ads?
Turnslide shows ads; The Mormon Trail does not.

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