Comparison

FarmForever vs Archmage Idle

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

Head to head
About

FarmForever

Experience a full year of farming in just three minutes in this cozy simulation. Cultivate crops, manage your farm's growth, and choose between manual or automated gameplay at your own pace. Perfect for quick sessions or extended play.

Highlights
  • Fast-paced seasonal cycles
  • Tap-to-farm tractor controls
  • Expandable farm plots
  • Automated farm management options
  • Crop variety and upgrades
  • Contract fulfillment
Features
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One year in three minutes. FarmForever is a cozy farming sim with a fast heartbeat. Cultivate your fields, plant a season's worth of crops, and watch your farm roll through spring, summer, and fall — a whole year every three real minutes. Start with one tractor and a few plots, and grow into a sprawling, humming operation. Go big, or keep it small. Farm by hand, or automate the whole thing. It's your farm, your pace. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Tap a field to send your tractor out — till, plant, and harvest with a single touch. - Grow eight crops, from wheat and tomatoes to pumpkins, sunflowers, and hops. - Watch the satellite view shift palette as the seasons turn. - Pin contracts from local diners, restaurants, exporters, and the rare Gold Star buyer. - Race the season — crops ripen on the clock, so plan your year and bring in the harvest before it turns. - Earn stars for the work you ship, and spend them on automations. GROW AS BIG AS YOU LIKE - Buy new plots and expand across the satellite map. - Upgrade your fleet — cultivators, planters, and combine harvesters, each faster than your tractor and upgradable too. - More fields give you more inventory, but watch out for your barn's capacity and the buyers who'll want more goods. MANUAL, OR AUTOMATED — YOUR CALL - Hire a Broker to auto-sell your harvest - Bolt GPS Auto-steer onto your cultivators and an NDVI module onto your harvesters to work fields hands-free. - Call in the Crop Duster to ripen a whole field in a single pass. - Do it all yourself, or let the farm run itself — the choice is always yours. A FARM THAT FITS YOUR DAY - A full year takes three minutes - Dip in for one quick year on the bus, or settle in for a long, productive afternoon. - Close the app and the clock waits for you — no idle farming behind your back. Pick up right where you left off. If you love cozy farming sims but don't want a second job, this one's built for you. In-app purchases are entirely optional — the full game is 100% playable and ad free.

About

Archmage Idle

An idle RPG where you train skills and recruit wizards to conquer foes. Your skills directly impact combat and resource management, with unique abilities like Chronomancy and Diplomacy tying everything together. Collect items and manage resources while your guild works offline.

Highlights
  • Interconnected skill system
  • Recruit and train wizards
  • Elemental hex map combat
  • Resource management (Runecrafting, Alchemy, Mercantile)
  • Offline guild progression
  • Item collection
Features
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Train Skills. Recruit Wizards. Conquer Foes. An idle/incremental RPG with deeply interconnected skills. Your skills feed the frontlines: Attunement, Summoning, and Sigilry power your wizards as they fight across an elemental hex map. Your skills feed the supply lines: Research, Runecrafting, Alchemy, Mercantile, and Scavenging keep the resources flowing. And skills you won't find anywhere else, like Chronomancy, Diplomacy, and Appraisal, tie it all together. Burn Runes in the Runic Cauldron. Train wizards at the Academy. Sell surplus goods on the Bazaar. Collect hundreds of items that fuel both your skilling and your combat. Your guild keeps working while you're offline.

Screenshots

FarmForever4 screens
Archmage Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: FarmForever at none against Archmage Idle's shown. FarmForever also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Archmage Idle's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 2) and chart position (#85 vs unranked). On price, rating, 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. FarmForever sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Archmage Idle sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for FarmForever against 4.5 for Archmage Idle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Archmage Idle has 74 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
FarmForever versus Archmage Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFarmForeverArchmage Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)4.5 (74 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—77.4% of reviews
Number of ratings274 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#85 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size318 MB379 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoseph Casey KinseyTopCog LLC

Customer experience

FarmForever

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Archmage Idle

All ratings74 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral4.1%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive77.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative18.9%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

FarmForever

One-time4
  • Stars - Handful$0.99
  • Stars - Pocketful$2.99
  • Stars - Sack$4.99
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  • Stars - Crate$9.99
9 purchases

Archmage Idle

One-time9
  • Time Warp$0.99
  • VIP 1 - Apprentice Patron$2.99
  • Remove Ads + XP Boost$4.99
Show 6 more
  • VIP 2 - Adept Patron$4.99
  • Animus Augment$9.99
  • Time Warp x10$9.99
  • VIP 3 - Mage Patron$9.99
  • VIP 4 - Grandmage Patron$14.99
  • VIP 5 - Archmage Patron$19.99

Questions

Is FarmForever free?
FarmForever is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Archmage Idle free?
Archmage Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FarmForever or Archmage Idle?
Archmage Idle is rated higher. FarmForever averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Archmage Idle averages 4.5 from 74 ratings.
Do FarmForever or Archmage Idle have ads?
Archmage Idle shows ads; FarmForever does not.

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