Comparison

thecooldown vs Idle Deepcore

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

Head to head
About

thecooldown

Log, rate, and review your entire gaming history. Create custom tier lists, participate in community polls, and play daily guessing games. Connect with other gamers and build your personalized gaming profile.

Highlights
  • Log and track played games
  • Rate and review games
  • Create custom tier lists
  • Participate in weekly Versus matchups
  • Play daily 'Guess the Game'
  • Follow friends and join discussions
Features
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thecooldown is the ultimate platform for gamers who want to track, review, and share their gaming journey. Log every game you play. Rate them, track your hours, and build your gaming profile. Playing it, completed it, 100%'d it, dropped it, or sitting in your backlog — keep track of it all. Link your Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation accounts to import your library and hours automatically, and pick up right where you left off with Continue Playing. Write reviews and share your honest opinions with the community. See what others think and discover your next favourite game. Create tier lists and rank your favourite games, characters, and franchises. Share them with friends and settle the debate once and for all. Vote in weekly Versus matchups — who wins in a fight? Master Chief or Captain Titus? Joel Miller or Arthur Morgan? Cast your vote and see how the community decides. Play Guess the Game daily and build your streak. Genre, release year, platform, developer — use the clues to figure out the mystery game before your guesses run out. Share your best moments. Upload screenshots to any game's page — the best ones get featured for the whole community to see. Every Sunday, get your Weekly Review — a personal recap of everything you played, reviewed, and ranked, complete with your streaks, stats, and Versus picks, ready to share. Earn badges as you go, from writing your first review to logging thousands of hours, and show them off on your profile. Join community discussions, follow other gamers, and keep up with what your friends are playing through the feed. Your gaming identity, all in one place.

About

Idle Deepcore

Embark on an epic pixel-art mining adventure, tapping to break blocks and collect ore. Automate your progress with upgradeable machines, even while offline, and descend through diverse biomes to discover rarer resources. Reset your progress for permanent boosts and unlock new systems to dig deeper and get richer.

Highlights
  • Tap-to-mine with pixel-art feedback
  • Automate with upgradeable mining machines
  • Smelt raw ore into valuable ingots
  • Descend through distinct biomes
  • Prestige for permanent power
  • Build a rocket and mine asteroids
  • Offline progress
Features
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Idle Deepcore is a pixel-art idle mining game about digging from the surface all the way down to the planet's molten core — and beyond, into orbit. Tap to break blocks and collect ore, then buy machines — jackhammers, steam drills, seismic hammers, excavators and more — to mine for you, even while you're away. The deeper you dig, the rarer the ore and the tougher the blocks. FEATURES • Tap-to-mine with crunchy pixel-art feedback • Automate with a roster of upgradeable mining machines • Smelt raw ore into valuable ingots in your furnaces • Descend through distinct biomes to ever-deeper layers • Prestige to reset for permanent power and unlock new systems • Skill tree, mastery nodes and a research lab to specialize each run • Build a rocket and mine asteroids out in orbit • Offline progress — your machines keep mining while the app is closed • Cloud save via Game Center — back up and restore your progress • Playable in 29 languages Optional rewarded ads can double your offline haul — never required to progress. Dig deeper. Get richer. Idle Deepcore.

Screenshots

thecooldown4 screens
Idle Deepcore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: thecooldown at 100% against Idle Deepcore's 50%. thecooldown also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Idle Deepcore's advantage is ratings volume (51 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence 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. Idle Deepcore sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. thecooldown asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

thecooldown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Deepcore has 51 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of thecooldown's written reviews are positive against 50% of Idle Deepcore's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

thecooldown ships an update every 4 days, Idle Deepcore every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
thecooldown versus Idle Deepcore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterthecooldownIdle Deepcore
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (51 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings151 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB138 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperEdward IrvineFlavio Valceschini

Customer experience

thecooldown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Idle Deepcore

All ratings51 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral2.0%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

thecooldown

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Idle Deepcore

One-time1
  • Supporter Pack$5.99

Questions

Is thecooldown free?
thecooldown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle Deepcore free?
Idle Deepcore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, thecooldown or Idle Deepcore?
thecooldown is rated higher. thecooldown averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Idle Deepcore averages 4.6 from 51 ratings.
Do thecooldown or Idle Deepcore have ads?
Idle Deepcore shows ads; thecooldown does not.
Which is updated more often, thecooldown or Idle Deepcore?
thecooldown ships an update every 4 days, and Idle Deepcore every 5 days. Most recently, thecooldown was updated on October 1, 2026 and Idle Deepcore on October 8, 2026.

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