Comparison

CosmoGen vs Atomics

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

Head to head
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CosmoGen

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CosmoGen is a premium cosmic civilization simulator where you guide life from its first fragile spark to an interstellar Kardashev Type-II civilization. Begin with a young planet, a microscopic species, and a universe full of uncertainty. As a cosmic overseer, your choices shape the destiny of an evolving civilization across deep time — from primordial survival to advanced technology, social complexity, planetary crisis, and the possibility of reaching the stars. Inspired by real scientific ideas, CosmoGen blends planetary physics, evolution, sociology, technology, and the mystery of the Fermi Paradox into an immersive strategy experience. Guide your civilization through major evolutionary eras, unlock powerful technologies, respond to world-changing events, and survive the Great Filters that may destroy advanced life before it becomes interstellar. Your civilization is not just a number. It has stress, harmony, inequality, trust, population pressure, technological ambition, and environmental limits. Every decision affects its future. Will you build a balanced society, push dangerous technologies too quickly, protect your planet, or risk everything for rapid progress? FEATURES • Guide life from microscopic origins to an advanced space civilization • Experience a procedurally generated planet with habitability, climate, resources, moons, axial tilt, and carrying capacity • Survive Great Filters such as solar super-flares, climate collapse, resource depletion, AI singularity, and cosmic disasters • Make strategic choices through scientific, ethical, and risky paths • Unlock a deep technology tree across Biology, Physics, Society, and Space • Manage population, energy, stress, harmony, technology, and social stability • Watch your civilization evolve through eras inspired by Earth’s deep history • Meet Lumina, an AI companion that provides contextual narrative and scientific explanations • Enjoy a cinematic interface with 3D planets, starfields, particles, aurora gradients, and frosted glass visuals • Designed with accessibility in mind, including dynamic typography, semantic colors, VoiceOver support, and high-contrast visual layers A SCIENTIFICALLY INSPIRED GOD GAME CosmoGen is built around one of the greatest questions in science: Why is the universe so quiet? The game transforms the Fermi Paradox into an interactive journey. Each civilization faces existential challenges that test its intelligence, ethics, resilience, and ability to survive its own progress. Some civilizations collapse before reaching the stars. Others adapt, transform, and rise beyond their home planet. Your choices decide which story will be written. AN EVOLVING COSMIC STORY No two civilizations feel exactly the same. Your planet, your events, your risks, your technologies, and your decisions create a unique timeline every time you play. CosmoGen is a strategy game, a scientific narrative, and a cinematic simulation of life’s greatest challenge: Can intelligence survive long enough to become cosmic?

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Atomics

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Atomics is an idle clicker game about growing elements and expanding your own periodic table. Start with Hydrogen. Tap to collect Energy, upgrade research labs, automate reactors, improve element efficiency, and discover the next element. You can return to any discovered element, keep building your favorites, and raise the power of your entire research cycle. Every element has its own skill. As you develop elements, you unlock bonuses that affect your whole lab. Build several elements from the same category to activate set bonuses from nonmetals, noble gases, alkali metals, transition metals, and more. Once you reach the 10th element and beyond, rebirth becomes available. Use Atomic Cores and rebirth points to make the next run stronger. Expand the rebirth skill tree, improve idle production, tap power, active slots, and unlock deeper research paths such as compounds, isotopes, and antimatter. Whether you play in short tapping sessions or let progress build while idle, your lab keeps moving forward. Fill the periodic table and enjoy a long-form elemental growth game. - 118 elements from Hydrogen to Oganesson - Simple tap-and-idle Energy growth - Labs, reactors, and efficiency upgrades for each element - Unique element skills and category set bonuses - Long-term progression with Atomic Cores and rebirth points - Map-style rebirth skill tree - Deep research into compounds, isotopes, and antimatter - Achievements to guide your progress - Supports Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Russian - Autosave support

Screenshots

CosmoGen4 screens
Atomics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CosmoGen at none against Atomics's shown. Atomics's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, 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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
CosmoGen versus Atomics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCosmoGenAtomics
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB39 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developerpezhman mohammadzadehkordestaniGarageLabs

In-app purchases

None

CosmoGen

No in-app purchases

None

Atomics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CosmoGen free?
CosmoGen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Atomics free?
Atomics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CosmoGen or Atomics have ads?
Atomics shows ads; CosmoGen does not.
Which is updated more often, CosmoGen or Atomics?
CosmoGen ships an update every 2 weeks, and Atomics every 2 weeks. Most recently, CosmoGen was updated on September 10, 2026 and Atomics on September 22, 2026.

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