Comparison

Cosmic Forge vs Hash Imperium

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

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About

Cosmic Forge

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Cosmic Forge is a deep offline idle game about turning a single iron vein into an interstellar mining empire. START SIMPLE Tap rocks. Upgrade your shaft. Automate with a baseline foreman. Watch a transporter shuttle ore from the mine to the refinery, then to the warehouse, where it sells for Coins. Every component — shaft, transporter, refinery, warehouse — has its own milestone multipliers every 10 levels, so progression keeps unlocking speed and capacity spikes. UNLOCK THE COSMOS Beyond Alpha Asteroid there are comet clusters, planets, moons, anomalies, and singularity zones. Each location type has its own production multipliers and warehouse sell rates — anomaly-grade minerals pay poorly per second but richly per sale. HIRE MANAGERS Common managers enable auto-mining; bonus managers stack passive multipliers and trigger powerful active abilities (instant trips, production boosts, free upgrades). Assign them per mine. Some managers survive prestige. RESEARCH TREE 50+ research nodes across multiple branches — economy, production, transport, offline efficiency, stock capacity, coin multipliers, prestige. Queue active research in parallel slots (expand via Galactic Research). Every tier you complete compounds. PRESTIGE FOREVER Perform a Stellar Reset when the cosmos is ready. Earn Stardust based on your total iron-equivalent across every resource. Spend Stardust on permanent upgrades that carry across runs. Eventually unlock Galactic Ascension — a meta-prestige layer with its own research tree and Dark Matter currency. DAILY CHALLENGES Three challenges per day with streak rewards at 7 and 14 days. Missed days reset the streak but the game doesn't punish absence. OFFLINE EARNINGS Step away for up to a week — Cosmic Forge continues mining at a tapered efficiency schedule and rolls a summary up on your return. Research that was in flight completes while you sleep. COMPLETELY OFFLINE No account required. No internet required. No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. No tracking. No analytics. No SDKs phoning home. GOD MODE (OPTIONAL) Want to test builds, skip a grind, or just play sandbox? God Mode is free for everyone — a one-tap toggle in Settings (behind a "this may corrupt your save" warning, because it really can). First public release — 0.19.0. Thanks for playing through 100+ pre-release builds with us.

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Hash Imperium

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Power is cheap in Kazakhstan, Iceland stays cool and the wind blows in Texas — only the price does whatever it wants. Hash Imperium is a business simulation in the spirit of the strategy classics of the 80s and 90s, built around a mining farm for the fictional currency HashCoin. As a mining manager you buy sites at four locations from Texas to Kazakhstan, set up racks, negotiate power contracts and decide every round: sell your coins or hold them? Expand or save? And what do you do when a rival cuts your line? Whoever ends up on top is the crypto tycoon. YOUR FARM • Four locations with their own power market, climate and rules: Iceland, Texas, Scandinavia, Kazakhstan • Seven hardware generations, air, hydro and immersion cooling, risky overclocking • Spot price or fixed-price contract — heat waves, grid failures and storms keep every bill exciting • Halvings cut the block reward in half: only those who upgrade in time stay in business MARKETS AND MONEY • Candlestick chart with zoom, limit and stop orders, an OTC desk for fixed prices • Bank loan or crypto loan against your coins — and the dreaded margin call • Auctions for sites and the hardware of whole rivals EMERGENCIES AND THE DARK SIDE • Minigames: overclock chips, lay cooling pipes, fight fires, fend off cyber attacks and ransomware • Security, audits and insurance protect you — sabotage against others is possible, but the authorities are watching RIVALS AND GAMES • AI rivals with a character of their own: Rational, HODLer, Industrial Giant and Black-Hat Miner, in three strengths • Hot seat for up to four players on one iPhone or iPad • Three game lengths, three victory modes, starting scenarios and seeds of your choice • 30 world events, from ETF approval to a crypto ban ATMOSPHERE • 90s pixel art, a control room full of life, a synthwave soundtrack • Pixel-art cutscenes — from the intro to victory • News anchors and an operations manager with a voice — in English and German • Guided tutorial, tips the first time something happens and a glossary of every term FOR EVERYONE • Colour scheme for red-green colour blindness, text size up to 130 %, motion can be turned off • Plays fully offline — only buying the full version needs the internet • No ads, no data collection, no account Free to play: the short game in Iceland and Texas with up to two players. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks the full version with all locations, game lengths, AI archetypes and up to four players — no subscription, no ads. Please note: Hash Imperium is a game. HashCoin is a made-up currency — no real cryptocurrency is mined or traded, and your device does not compute anything for anyone.

Screenshots

Cosmic Forge4 screens
Hash Imperium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cosmic Forge at none against Hash Imperium's 1. Hash Imperium's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Hash Imperium sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cosmic Forge asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cosmic Forge ships an update every 5 weeks, Hash Imperium every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 2 level
Cosmic Forge versus Hash Imperium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCosmic ForgeHash Imperium
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB108 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperQUALITY CAT SP Z O OChristian Berger

In-app purchases

None

Cosmic Forge

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Hash Imperium

One-time1
  • Full version$2.99

Questions

Is Cosmic Forge free?
Cosmic Forge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hash Imperium free?
Hash Imperium is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cosmic Forge or Hash Imperium have ads?
Neither Cosmic Forge nor Hash Imperium shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cosmic Forge or Hash Imperium?
Cosmic Forge ships an update every 5 weeks, and Hash Imperium every 4 days. Most recently, Cosmic Forge was updated on October 25, 2026 and Hash Imperium on October 24, 2026.

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