Idle Pact vs HexTowerDefense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Pact
Cultivate mystical flora through ancient rituals and solve light puzzles. This incremental occult gardening simulator challenges you to grow plants slowly while discovering ways to accelerate their growth.
- Occult gardening simulation
- Incremental gameplay
- Light puzzle elements
- Mystical plant growth
- Ritualistic mechanics
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Ancient seeds. Secret rituals. Something stirs beneath the stone... An incremental occult gardening simulator with light puzzles. Grow increasingly slow plants while uncovering how to speed things up.
HexTowerDefense
Engage in strategic tower defense on a hexagonal grid. Master placement, range, and timing across 50 campaign levels, daily challenges, and a community workshop. Enjoy a retro aesthetic with no energy timers and limited ads.
- Hexagonal grid placement
- 50 handcrafted campaign levels
- Daily challenges and endless mode
- Community Workshop for sharing layouts
- Eight tower types
- Retro neon aesthetic
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Place towers. Hold the line. HexTowerDefense is a minimalist tower defense game built around a hexagonal grid. Every placement decision matters — angles, range, and timing are yours to control. Three ways to play Campaign — 50 handcrafted levels with Normal, Hard, Veteran & Nightmare difficulty. Earn up to 3 stars per level. Challenges — Daily run, Endless mode, invisible enemies, and more. Complete daily challenges to earn Workshop Tokens. Sandbox — Build freely, experiment, validate your layout, then share it with the world through the Community Workshop. Community Workshop Browse boards submitted by other players, download and test them, rate your favorites, and submit your own for review. Eight tower types, endless possibilities Neon-on-black retro aesthetic. No energy timers. Limited ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HexTowerDefense at none against Idle Pact's shown. HexTowerDefense also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Idle Pact's advantage is ratings volume (64 vs 4) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On price, in-app purchases 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. Idle Pact sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and HexTowerDefense sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HexTowerDefense holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Pact has 64 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Idle Pact ships an update every 4 days, HexTowerDefense every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Idle Pact | HexTowerDefense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (64 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Fischer | Maxime Hussenet |
In-app purchases
Idle Pact
- Permanent x2 Speed$5.99
HexTowerDefense
- x2/x4 Speed$1.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Gotta Go Faster$4.99
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- All-in-One$4.99
