Idle Pact vs Archmage Idle
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.
Archmage Idle
An idle RPG where you train skills and recruit wizards to conquer foes. Your skills directly impact combat and resource management, with unique abilities like Chronomancy and Diplomacy tying everything together. Collect items and manage resources while your guild works offline.
- Interconnected skill system
- Recruit and train wizards
- Elemental hex map combat
- Resource management (Runecrafting, Alchemy, Mercantile)
- Offline guild progression
- Item collection
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Train Skills. Recruit Wizards. Conquer Foes. An idle/incremental RPG with deeply interconnected skills. Your skills feed the frontlines: Attunement, Summoning, and Sigilry power your wizards as they fight across an elemental hex map. Your skills feed the supply lines: Research, Runecrafting, Alchemy, Mercantile, and Scavenging keep the resources flowing. And skills you won't find anywhere else, like Chronomancy, Diplomacy, and Appraisal, tie it all together. Burn Runes in the Runic Cauldron. Train wizards at the Academy. Sell surplus goods on the Bazaar. Collect hundreds of items that fuel both your skilling and your combat. Your guild keeps working while you're offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Idle Pact at ad-supported against Archmage Idle's free with in-app purchases. Archmage Idle's advantage is chart position (#110 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Archmage Idle sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Idle Pact against 4.5 for Archmage Idle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 74 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Idle Pact's written reviews are positive against 77% of Archmage Idle's.
Idle Pact ships an update every 4 days, Archmage Idle every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Idle Pact | Archmage Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (64 ratings) — better | 4.5 (74 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.0% of reviews — better | 77.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 64 | 74 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #110 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 379 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Fischer | TopCog LLC |
Customer experience
Idle Pact
Archmage Idle
In-app purchases
Idle Pact
- Permanent x2 Speed$5.99
Archmage Idle
- Time Warp$0.99
- VIP 1 - Apprentice Patron$2.99
- Remove Ads + XP Boost$4.99
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- VIP 2 - Adept Patron$4.99
- Animus Augment$9.99
- Time Warp x10$9.99
- VIP 3 - Mage Patron$9.99
- VIP 4 - Grandmage Patron$14.99
- VIP 5 - Archmage Patron$19.99
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