FarmForever vs Rootflux
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Fast-paced seasonal cycles
- Tap-to-farm tractor controls
- Expandable farm plots
- Automated farm management options
- Crop variety and upgrades
- Contract fulfillment
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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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | FarmForever | Rootflux |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (88 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 88 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 318 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joseph Casey Kinsey | Idle System, Inc. |
Customer experience
FarmForever
Rootflux
In-app purchases
FarmForever
- Stars - Handful$0.99
- Stars - Pocketful$2.99
- Stars - Sack$4.99
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- Stars - Crate$9.99
Rootflux
- Ad-Free Pass$2.99
- Dandelion$4.99
- Spider$4.99









