Trash Goblin vs Unfading
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trash Goblin
A cozy shopkeeping game where you discover, clean, and upcycle trinkets for eccentric customers. Customize your shop and tools with no pressure or fail states, focusing on good vibes and creative play.
- Discover and clean trinkets
- Upcycle items into new forms
- Serve eccentric customers
- Upgrade and customize your shop
- Relaxed gameplay with no pressure
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[TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!] Trash Goblin is a wholesome and cosy shopkeeping game where you uncover and clean trinkets for sale! Customise them by upcycling and more to meet the eccentric requests of your endless colourful customers. Spend your savings to upgrade your shop, buy new and better tools, and customise your space! There is no pressure, no risk, no right way to play - it is not a simulator, it's just good vibes and nice customers to serve. DISCOVER PECULIAR TRINKETS Unearth knick-knacks of all kinds by chipping away at the dirt and cruft they're embedded inside, wrestling with different types of dirt that yield in different ways. RESTORE FORGOTTEN CURIOS TO GLORY Scrub all these strange items up nice and clean with your sponge to get them ready for sale! UPCYCLE INTO IMAGINATIVE NEW FORMS! Customise these curios by combining Trinkets together, turning them into strange and wonderful new items! SELL TO A PARADE OF COLOURFUL CUSTOMERS A wide range of intriguing, odd and charming customers will frequent your store, some with interesting stories to tell, others after a particular object, some just browsing... UPGRADE YOUR WORKSHOP Spend your savings to expand your tool set, and unlock more space to work in. Buy a display mat to tempt customers with specific wares, or a soak tub to clean up overnight, an honesty box for getting rid of unwanted trinkets, and more! TREAT YOURSELF Customise your space, decorate your shelves however you like, get some nice plants, change up the wallpaper and bedclothes; make it your own! MAXIMUM CHILL, ZERO PRESSURE There's a gentle limit to how much you can do in a given day but customers will return, you can potter as much as you like, and there are no fail states.
Unfading
Experience inspiring true stories through interactive adventures. Make choices that shape your path, play story-driven minigames, and unlock short videos revealing the real people and events behind each narrative. Discover courage and compassion in moments that matter.
- Interactive branching narratives
- Story-driven minigames
- Unlockable short videos
- Decision-based gameplay
- Real-life inspired stories
- Character stat building
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Every adventure in Unfading is built around an inspiring true story. The world is more than bleak headlines. In every place and every age, people act with courage, compassion and conviction. Unfading brings their stories to light. Step into the moment, make difficult decisions, win story-driven minigames and unlock short videos revealing the real people and events behind each adventure. THE STORY IS YOURS TO PLAY Choose your path through each adventure. Your decisions shape your stats and can unlock new ways to progress in the story. The strengths you build affect the difficulty of the challenges you face. PLAY THROUGH THE MOMENT Minigames woven into the story put those strengths to the test. Complete the main goals to reach the end—and every optional goal to earn a Golden Seal. DISCOVER WHO REALLY LIVED IT Finish each adventure to unlock a short video about the real people and events behind what you played. FIND STORIES WORTH REMEMBERING Meet ordinary people who faced extraordinary moments—and left behind proof of what people can do when it matters. For fans of branching stories, interactive fiction and visual novels, Unfading brings meaningful choices and minigames together with something rare: inspiring stories rooted in real life. The playable stories are dramatizations inspired by the historical record, not documentaries. Your choices shape how you experience them; they do not change the real act at their center. Dialogue and inner lives may be imagined, timelines compressed, and some characters renamed or combined. Each reveal explores the real history behind the fiction. Made by Mannord Games.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Unfading at 100% against Trash Goblin's 45%. Unfading also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Trash Goblin's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (185 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Trash Goblin sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Unfading sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Unfading holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trash Goblin has 185 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Trash Goblin's written reviews are positive against 100% of Unfading's.
Trash Goblin ships an update every 6 days, Unfading every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trash Goblin | Unfading |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (185 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 185 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #52 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 770 MB | 148 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Doghowl Games Ltd. | Mannord Games |
Customer experience
Trash Goblin
Unfading
In-app purchases
Trash Goblin
- Base Product Sale$8.99
- Base Offer$10.49
Unfading
- Tip - a coffee's worth$2.99
- Complete the Shrine$3.99
- Tip - bigger$14.99
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- Tip - generous$49.99
- Tip - very generous$99.99









