Comparison

FarmForever vs Rootflux

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

Rootflux

An idle growth game where you expand an underground root system. Gather nutrients, strengthen your network, and break through strata to build a deeper living system. Features include idle growth, visible expansion, and long-term systems like challenges and automation.

Highlights
  • Idle nutrient growth
  • Visible root network expansion
  • Transport, absorption, branching, and depth upgrades
  • Permanent growth through strata breakthroughs
  • Seedfall, challenges, and automation systems
  • Frequent updates with new content
Features
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Rootflux is an idle growth game about sending roots deeper underground. Grow new roots, gather nutrients, strengthen your transport network, break through strata, and gradually build a wider and deeper living system. Features: - Idle nutrient growth over time - A root network that visibly expands as you play - Upgrades for transport, absorption, branching, and depth - Permanent growth through strata breakthroughs - Longer-term systems including seedfall, challenges, and automation Rootflux will continue to grow through frequent updates with new systems, balance changes, and usability improvements.

Screenshots

FarmForever4 screens
Rootflux4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: FarmForever at none against Rootflux's shown. FarmForever also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Rootflux's advantage is ratings volume (88 vs 2). 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 Rootflux sells 3 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 Rootflux. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rootflux has 88 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FarmForever versus Rootflux: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFarmForeverRootflux
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)4.5 (88 ratings)
Positive reviews—60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings288 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size318 MB161 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoseph Casey KinseyIdle System, Inc.

Customer experience

FarmForever

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

Rootflux

All ratings88 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative23.3%

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
3 purchases

Rootflux

One-time3
  • Ad-Free Pass$2.99
  • Dandelion$4.99
  • Spider$4.99

Questions

Is FarmForever free?
FarmForever is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rootflux free?
Rootflux is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FarmForever or Rootflux?
FarmForever and Rootflux are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 88 ratings respectively.
Do FarmForever or Rootflux have ads?
Rootflux shows ads; FarmForever does not.

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