Comparison

Star Colony vs Cosmic Forge

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

Head to head
About

Star Colony

Features
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Expand your colony, automate production, and build a space empire from nothing. Star Colony is an idle colony builder inspired by the satisfying progression of clicker and incremental games. Start small, earn credits, unlock powerful upgrades, and scale your colony into a massive operation across the stars. Keep tapping, keep upgrading, and keep growing while your empire generates progress over time. Features: โ€ข Fast and satisfying idle progression โ€ข Tap-to-earn gameplay with meaningful upgrades โ€ข Automation systems that grow your income โ€ข Space-themed colony building and expansion โ€ข Offline-style progress and incremental growth โ€ข Easy to learn, hard to put down

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Cosmic Forge

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Cosmic Forge is a deep offline idle game about turning a single iron vein into an interstellar mining empire. START SIMPLE Tap rocks. Upgrade your shaft. Automate with a baseline foreman. Watch a transporter shuttle ore from the mine to the refinery, then to the warehouse, where it sells for Coins. Every component โ€” shaft, transporter, refinery, warehouse โ€” has its own milestone multipliers every 10 levels, so progression keeps unlocking speed and capacity spikes. UNLOCK THE COSMOS Beyond Alpha Asteroid there are comet clusters, planets, moons, anomalies, and singularity zones. Each location type has its own production multipliers and warehouse sell rates โ€” anomaly-grade minerals pay poorly per second but richly per sale. HIRE MANAGERS Common managers enable auto-mining; bonus managers stack passive multipliers and trigger powerful active abilities (instant trips, production boosts, free upgrades). Assign them per mine. Some managers survive prestige. RESEARCH TREE 50+ research nodes across multiple branches โ€” economy, production, transport, offline efficiency, stock capacity, coin multipliers, prestige. Queue active research in parallel slots (expand via Galactic Research). Every tier you complete compounds. PRESTIGE FOREVER Perform a Stellar Reset when the cosmos is ready. Earn Stardust based on your total iron-equivalent across every resource. Spend Stardust on permanent upgrades that carry across runs. Eventually unlock Galactic Ascension โ€” a meta-prestige layer with its own research tree and Dark Matter currency. DAILY CHALLENGES Three challenges per day with streak rewards at 7 and 14 days. Missed days reset the streak but the game doesn't punish absence. OFFLINE EARNINGS Step away for up to a week โ€” Cosmic Forge continues mining at a tapered efficiency schedule and rolls a summary up on your return. Research that was in flight completes while you sleep. COMPLETELY OFFLINE No account required. No internet required. No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. No tracking. No analytics. No SDKs phoning home. GOD MODE (OPTIONAL) Want to test builds, skip a grind, or just play sandbox? God Mode is free for everyone โ€” a one-tap toggle in Settings (behind a "this may corrupt your save" warning, because it really can). First public release โ€” 0.19.0. Thanks for playing through 100+ pre-release builds with us.

Screenshots

Star Colony4 screens
Cosmic Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cosmic Forge at none against Star Colony's 4. Star Colony's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Star Colony sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Cosmic Forge asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Star Colony ships an update every 3 weeks, Cosmic Forge every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Star Colony versus Cosmic Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStar ColonyCosmic Forge
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks โ€” betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size50 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMARTIN M J LYNCHQUALITY CAT SP Z O O

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Star Colony

One-time4
  • 50 Gems$0.99
  • 220 Gems$3.99
  • 575 Gems$7.99
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  • 1200 Gems$14.99
None

Cosmic Forge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Star Colony free?
Star Colony is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cosmic Forge free?
Cosmic Forge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Star Colony or Cosmic Forge have ads?
Neither Star Colony nor Cosmic Forge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Star Colony or Cosmic Forge?
Star Colony ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cosmic Forge every 5 weeks. Most recently, Star Colony was updated on October 8, 2026 and Cosmic Forge on October 6, 2026.

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