Comparison

Ballin Tycoon vs Idle Space Mining

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

Head to head
About

Ballin Tycoon

Experience a satisfying idle arcade game by dropping balls down a peg board, aiming for jackpots, and using wins to unlock new worlds, upgrade abilities, and collect unique pets. Engage in daily quests, tournaments, and mini-games for continuous rewards and progression.

Highlights
  • Idle Plinko gameplay
  • Four unique worlds to explore
  • Collect and upgrade 36 pets
  • Daily quests and weekly tournaments
  • One-handed portrait play
  • Guilds and leaderboards
Features
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Experience a deep incremental idle simulator built for fans of the genre! Drop, bounce, collect, upgrade, raid?! your way through a massive incremental ball drop arcade in this lengthy, content-rich idle tycoon game! Ballin Idle Pet Tycoon has A LOT to keep you grinding, including: ๏ The Hoard - Build up your pet crew's damage to crack chests and break the gates. Every gate you break unlocks new menus, new upgrades and new content for your idle empire ๏ LOTS of upgrades - Bins collect ores, ores craft into bars, bars buy upgrades. Board upgrades, world upgrades, the Armory, a 55-node skill tree and research projects, lots of them locked behind gates and milestones ๏ 69 pets - Open pet crates to find them, level them up, fuse duplicates, evolve your favourites and hunt the shiny versions. Every pet is a stat for your run and a worker for your tycoon ๏ Systems unveiled over time - Boss Raids, Ball Grove, Chest Rush, the pinball arcade, Expeditions, the Ball Factory, Research, Prestige?! ๏ Active and idle gameplay - Tap to launch, hold to send a hundred balls, or let auto-drop and your pets do the work and come back to offline progress. A true incremental game either way ๏ Five worlds - Break out of the first board into the frozen Aurora Vault, overgrown Flora, the deep Maelstrom and the volcanic Inferno. Each world is a new board with new ores, new pets and its own pet crate ๏ Prestige - Unearth powerful artifacts that boost your stats on every run after ๏ 4-player boss raids - Pick a class, bring your pets and take the Warden down together, then open the loot chest and hunt the rare drop ๏ Collect everything - Sticker packs and seasonal albums, 38 skins for your miner, trophies, titles and a pet dex. Completionists have a very long list to work through Why players love Ballin Tycoon: ๏ No Ads: Free to play, no ads, no energy timers ๏ Satisfying Incremental Progression: Watch your numbers explode as every upgrade makes the next ball drop worth more. The idle loop stacks for good ๏ Deep Management Loops: Balance ores, bars, pets and upgrades to squeeze the most out of every board. It's not just a clicker; it's an incremental simulator with real decisions ๏ Offline Progress: Your bins never stop. Your idle empire keeps growing while you're away, then you come back and spend it on the next upgrade ๏ Always Something On: Daily quests, bounties, weekly tournaments, monthly bingo, Cake Party and seasonal events keep the grind fresh ๏ Community: Guilds, pet trades, sticker trading, global hiscores and an active Discord full of players comparing boards ๏ Incremental Depth: Whether you are an idle game veteran or new to clickers and incremental games, there is always another number to push What are you waiting for? Let's get ballin'! Available in 13 languages. Privacy Policy: https://ballintycoon.com/legal

About

Idle Space Mining

Build and expand a space mining empire through incremental upgrades and strategic choices. Reset your progress to gain permanent bonuses and achieve ultimate power. Earn resources even while offline.

Highlights
  • Incremental mining empire building
  • Strategic doctrine choices
  • Prestige system with Dark Matter
  • Permanent upgrades via Star Shards
  • Offline earnings
  • Challenging game modes
  • Comet catching events
Features
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Tap an asteroid. Build a mining empire. Then destroy it — and come back stronger. IDLE SPACE MINING is an idle game about scale. You start hand-mining ore from a bare rock. You end up rewriting local physics so the ore was always there. BUILD THE COLONY Twenty-six machines, from a rickety Drone Hangar to the Terminus Drillhead. Each one runs its own harvest cycle — watch the bars fill, watch the ore land. Every 10 you own doubles that machine's output, and every tier lifts the one beneath it. CHOOSE YOUR DOCTRINE At each tier you pick ONE of three paths and forfeit the other two. Triple your early generators, or cut the price of everything, or tighten your milestones. There is no right answer — and you re-decide every single run. ASCEND When growth stalls, collapse the whole colony into a singularity. You lose your ore, your generators, your tech. You keep DARK MATTER — and every scrap you have ever earned makes you permanently stronger. Dark Matter is deliberately scarce. Each one matters. HEAT DEATH Then there's the prestige above prestige. Let the universe run down, trade everything — even your Dark Matter — for Star Shards, and buy upgrades that survive the end of everything. TAKE ON CHALLENGES Mine with no hands. Run with triple-length cycles. Build with only three generator types. Beat one and keep the bonus forever. CATCH COMETS Comets drift past while you play. Tap one for a lump of ore or a burst of production. EARN WHILE YOU SLEEP Your colony keeps mining when the app is closed. Come back to a pile. One optional ad, and only if you want it: watch a Supply Drop for double production for four hours. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that interrupts play. No energy timers, no countdown "offers". Just numbers going up, forever.

Screenshots

Ballin Tycoon4 screens
Idle Space Mining4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Idle Space Mining at none against Ballin Tycoon's 10. Idle Space Mining also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.7). Ballin Tycoon's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and monetization model 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. Ballin Tycoon sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Idle Space Mining asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle Space Mining holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Ballin Tycoon versus Idle Space Mining: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBallin TycoonIdle Space Mining
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size457 MB121 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFathomISAAC MICHAEL FRETT

Customer experience

Ballin Tycoon

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Idle Space Mining

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

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Ballin Tycoon

One-time10
  • Bonus Pet Slot 1$4.99
  • +50 Ball Cap$4.99
  • 1.25X Golden Balls$4.99
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  • Deluxe Bundle - High Roller Pack$19.99
  • +50 Ball Cap$19.99
  • Bonus Pet Slot 2$19.99
  • 1.5X Golden Balls$19.99
  • Bonus Pet Slot 3$49.99
  • +50 Ball Cap$49.99
  • 2X Golden Balls$49.99
None

Idle Space Mining

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ballin Tycoon free?
Ballin Tycoon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Idle Space Mining free?
Idle Space Mining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ballin Tycoon or Idle Space Mining?
Idle Space Mining is rated higher. Ballin Tycoon averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Idle Space Mining averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Ballin Tycoon or Idle Space Mining have ads?
Idle Space Mining shows ads; Ballin Tycoon does not.
Which is updated more often, Ballin Tycoon or Idle Space Mining?
Ballin Tycoon ships an update weekly, and Idle Space Mining weekly. Most recently, Ballin Tycoon was updated on October 28, 2026 and Idle Space Mining on October 24, 2026.

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