Comparison

Cosmic Factory vs Idle Space Mining

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

Head to head
About

Cosmic Factory

Features
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Build your galactic empire from a tiny asteroid mine to a quantum multiverse factory! - Buy and upgrade businesses that produce Stardust automatically - Prestige with Dark Matter to multiply your production - Hire managers so factories run even while you sleep - Travel to new galaxies for permanent production bonuses - Collect rare artifacts on every prestige - Survive boss events every 5 prestiges - Reach milestones and unlock cosmic rewards - Choose your prestige path: Speed or Power The universe won't build itself. Start mining! Completely free to play!

About

Idle Space Mining

Build and expand a space mining empire through incremental upgrades and strategic choices. Reset your progress to gain permanent bonuses and achieve ultimate power. Earn resources even while offline.

Highlights
  • Incremental mining empire building
  • Strategic doctrine choices
  • Prestige system with Dark Matter
  • Permanent upgrades via Star Shards
  • Offline earnings
  • Challenging game modes
  • Comet catching events
Features
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Tap an asteroid. Build a mining empire. Then destroy it — and come back stronger. IDLE SPACE MINING is an idle game about scale. You start hand-mining ore from a bare rock. You end up rewriting local physics so the ore was always there. BUILD THE COLONY Twenty-six machines, from a rickety Drone Hangar to the Terminus Drillhead. Each one runs its own harvest cycle — watch the bars fill, watch the ore land. Every 10 you own doubles that machine's output, and every tier lifts the one beneath it. CHOOSE YOUR DOCTRINE At each tier you pick ONE of three paths and forfeit the other two. Triple your early generators, or cut the price of everything, or tighten your milestones. There is no right answer — and you re-decide every single run. ASCEND When growth stalls, collapse the whole colony into a singularity. You lose your ore, your generators, your tech. You keep DARK MATTER — and every scrap you have ever earned makes you permanently stronger. Dark Matter is deliberately scarce. Each one matters. HEAT DEATH Then there's the prestige above prestige. Let the universe run down, trade everything — even your Dark Matter — for Star Shards, and buy upgrades that survive the end of everything. TAKE ON CHALLENGES Mine with no hands. Run with triple-length cycles. Build with only three generator types. Beat one and keep the bonus forever. CATCH COMETS Comets drift past while you play. Tap one for a lump of ore or a burst of production. EARN WHILE YOU SLEEP Your colony keeps mining when the app is closed. Come back to a pile. One optional ad, and only if you want it: watch a Supply Drop for double production for four hours. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that interrupts play. No energy timers, no countdown "offers". Just numbers going up, forever.

Screenshots

Cosmic Factory4 screens
Idle Space Mining4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Idle Space Mining at weekly against Cosmic Factory's every 2 months. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cosmic Factory ships an update every 2 months, Idle Space Mining weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Cosmic Factory versus Idle Space Mining: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCosmic FactoryIdle Space Mining
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB121 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYusuf UyarISAAC MICHAEL FRETT

In-app purchases

None

Cosmic Factory

No in-app purchases

None

Idle Space Mining

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cosmic Factory free?
Cosmic Factory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle Space Mining free?
Idle Space Mining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cosmic Factory or Idle Space Mining have ads?
Both Cosmic Factory and Idle Space Mining show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cosmic Factory or Idle Space Mining?
Cosmic Factory ships an update every 2 months, and Idle Space Mining weekly. Most recently, Cosmic Factory was updated on October 25, 2026 and Idle Space Mining on October 24, 2026.

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