Comparison

Idle Pact vs Nebula Forge

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Occult gardening simulation
  • Incremental gameplay
  • Light puzzle elements
  • Mystical plant growth
  • Ritualistic mechanics
Features
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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.

About

Nebula Forge

Features
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Grow a galaxy from a single mote of dust. Nebula Forge is a merge game about building something enormous out of almost nothing. Forge celestial items, combine matching pairs into stronger ones, and arrange them across a hex grid where every placement changes what your galaxy produces. WHERE YOU PUT THINGS MATTERS Each element earns its output differently. Fire stacks hard beside other Fire. Ice takes a little from every neighbour. Void drains what it sits next to and grows fat on it. Radiant barely produces at all, and makes everything around it better. The number under each item is exactly what that tile is worth, so you can see a rearrangement pay off as you make it. FUSE OPPOSITES Two different elements at the same tier don't tier up — they fuse. Four hybrid chains, from Tempest to Final Dark, each far more powerful than the ordinary merge you gave up to reach them. GO SUPERNOVA When your galaxy is dense enough, collapse it. You lose the board and keep Galaxy Marks, which buy permanent upgrades. Marks scale with how deep you merged, not how much you crammed in. PLAY AT YOUR OWN PACE Your galaxy keeps producing while the app is closed. Comets drop onto the board and fade after twenty seconds if nobody catches them. There is no timer, no energy meter, and nothing to lose. No ads. No tracking. Your progress stays on your device. SUBSCRIPTIONS Nebula Pass Monthly (1 month), Nebula Pass Plus (1 month), Nebula Pass Architect (1 month) and Gem Subscription (1 week). Prices are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://ema19rivas99-max.github.io/nebula-forge/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Idle Pact4 screens
Nebula Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Nebula Forge at none against Idle Pact's shown. Idle Pact's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. Idle Pact sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Nebula Forge sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Idle Pact versus Nebula Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle PactNebula Forge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (64 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings64 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB49 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJames Fischerelmer rivas

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Idle Pact

One-time1
  • Permanent x2 Speed$5.99
10 purchases

Nebula Forge

Subscriptions4
  • Nebula Pass$4.991 Month
  • Gem Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Nebula Pass Plus$9.991 Month
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  • Pass Architect$19.991 Month
One-time6
  • Handful of Gems$0.99
  • Architect Kit$9.99
  • Crate of Gems$9.99
Show 3 more
  • Vault of Gems$19.99
  • Hoard of Gems$49.99
  • Galaxy of Gems$99.99

Questions

Is Idle Pact free?
Idle Pact is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nebula Forge free?
Nebula Forge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Idle Pact or Nebula Forge have ads?
Idle Pact shows ads; Nebula Forge does not.

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