Crumb Clicker vs Forge Clicker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Crumb Clicker
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Crumb Clicker is an idle clicker game about a mysterious crumb you found between your couch cushions. Tap it. Buy upgrades. Watch it evolve from an innocent speck into something that judges you. TAP THE CRUMB Start with a single poke. Each tap earns crumbs. Simple, right? It won't stay that way. BUY UPGRADES Lint Rollers. Cushion Flips. Couch Shakers. Crumb Whisperers. Sentient Cushions. The Excavation. Each one generates crumbs automatically โ and makes things weirder. WATCH IT CHANGE The crumb evolves as you progress. It grows eyes. It develops opinions. It starts talking. It says "rude." You keep tapping anyway. EARN WHILE AWAY Your upgrades keep generating crumbs even when the app is closed. Come back to a pile of crumbs and a crumb that missed you. Probably. FREE TO PLAY No paywalls. No pay-to-win. Just a crumb, a couch, and the choices you made.
Forge Clicker
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Your forge starts with one anvil and one pair of hands: yours. TAP TO EARN Tap the anvil for gold. Spend it on upgrades: hire apprentices, stoke hotter coals, and turn a village smithy into a gold machine. IDLE INCOME Apprentices keep earning gold while the game is closed, and the minions you have bound keep fighting the Mines, so you come back to XP as well: up to sixteen hours of it. DELVE THE MINES Clear the cellar under your forge and fight down through slimes, rats and slag golems, every floor on a timer. A boss waits on every fifth, and from floor 10 down it heals to full if you run out of time. Floors ending in 7 run under a weekly Aspect: one element hits hard, everything else is resisted. From floor 50 the monsters grow tough and carry traits, and a floor sometimes opens a vein of ore: tap it to dig before the floor clears. CRAFT YOUR ARSENAL Bosses and veins pay ore and embers in five grades, from Common to Legendary. Forge them into weapons and gear, equip them, and hit harder than a plain hammer ever will. Infuse a blade with an element, and reforge it on the Grand Anvil when the fight needs a different edge. The gear ladder climbs to level 250. BIND A PARTY Bind minions to fight beside you. Level them, grow each one's talent tree and signature skill, then splice any two into one of 45 hybrids that outgrows both parents. RUN THE GAUNTLET From Mines floor 50, field your party against three waves and a boss, level after level: tanks draw attacks, supports heal, skills fire on their own clocks. First clears earn Valor, which forges gear for each minion. Every 50 levels a seal bars the way, and autopilot climbs past your best while you watch. CLIMB THE TOWER When raw damage stops working, climb the Tower instead. Each floor demands one element and gives you twenty seconds, so how high you reach depends on your elemental range, not your attack number. A climb costs a key: one a day for opening the game, two more forged from rare ore, and a few more for an optional ad. Your best height banks permanent attack power. SEND EXPEDITIONS Hold floor 75 and four minions, and up to three of them can go away for 4, 8 or 12 hours. They come back with XP, boss cores and shards, and a 12-hour trip has a chance at a relic. It is the first way to level a minion that is not in your party. ASCEND AND BEGIN AGAIN Trade a run for permanent power: prestige points, a shop whose top rows never run out of ranks, heirlooms you bind for lasting bonuses, and the Crucible, which burns leftover ore and embers into Deepsteel. QUESTS TO GUIDE THE WAY A quest chain leads you from your first taps to the Rat King's hoard, with daily bounties, challenge floors and a raid along the way. The whole forge speaks nine languages. FAIR BY DESIGN - No forced ads. Watch one only if you want the bonus, or buy Remove Ads once and take the same bonuses without one. - One-time purchases only. No subscriptions, no energy, no paywalls. - No account needed. Your save stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crumb Clicker at none against Forge Clicker's 3. Forge Clicker's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Forge Clicker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Crumb Clicker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crumb Clicker ships an update every 3 weeks, Forge Clicker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crumb Clicker | Forge Clicker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly โ better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 168 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Lucas Moeller | 17476388 Canada Corp. |
In-app purchases
Crumb Clicker
No in-app purchases
Forge Clicker
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Supporter's Crest$6.99
- Prospector's Charter$19.99
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