Comparison

Idle Adventure vs Split Squad

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

Head to head
About

Idle Adventure

Embark on an epic incremental idle RPG adventure. Build your team of heroes, collect powerful artifacts, and conquer fantasy worlds. Prestige to grow stronger with each run and compete on global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Incremental idle RPG progression
  • Hero and companion recruitment
  • Artifact collection and upgrading
  • Gear crafting and set bonuses
  • Mastery specialization trees
  • Endless Void endgame mode
  • Global leaderboard competition
Features
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PRESTIGE & PROGRESS Push through hundreds of stages, defeat powerful bosses, and prestige to grow stronger every run. Earn emeralds, discover artifacts, and unlock permanent progression as you climb higher with each ascension. BUILD YOUR TEAM Recruit 9 unique companions from the Tavern, each with their own class, abilities, and awaken skills. Create powerful synergies between warriors, rangers, and mages to maximize your potential. COLLECT ARTIFACTS Discover 28 artifacts with unique effects. Increase your damage, improve rewards, speed up progression, and build powerful combinations to support your playstyle. FORGE YOUR GEAR Craft powerful gear sets with helmets, armor, gloves, belts, and boots. Complete full sets to unlock powerful bonuses and strengthen your heroes. MASTER YOUR BUILD Unlock 24 masteries across Warrior, Idle, Greed, and Assassin trees. Customize your strategy with critical strikes, faster progression, stronger companions, and more. DAILY QUESTS & ACHIEVEMENTS Complete daily challenges, earn rewards, and track your progress through multiple achievement categories. COMPETE WITH OTHER PLAYERS Register your account, sync your progress to the cloud, and climb the global leaderboard. THE VOID After conquering the main worlds, enter The Void — an endless endgame where progression continues beyond the campaign for those seeking the ultimate challenge. SEASON MODE Every month a new season begins — a fresh 30-day competitive race on a separate profile and leaderboard. Climb the season rankings, earn a live rank badge displayed on the global leaderboard, and carry your skins and pets in with you. Each season has unique modifiers that change how you play. Your main game progress is never affected. TRIALS Take on a series of weekly challenges that test your build in new ways. Complete missions, earn medals, and spend them in the Trials store to unlock permanent bonuses that carry back into your main game. HERO SKINS Customize your heroes with unique skins featuring exclusive animations and permanent bonuses that scale with your ascension tier. KEY FEATURES • Incremental idle RPG progression • 8 handcrafted worlds to conquer • Endless Void endgame mode • Prestige system with permanent progression • 9 companions with unique abilities and awaken skills • 28 artifacts to discover and upgrade • 6 gear sets to craft and complete • 24 mastery upgrades across 4 specialization trees • Daily quests and achievement progression • Global leaderboard competition • 30-day competitive seasons with unique modifiers and live rankings • Weekly Trials challenges with permanent medal store upgrades • Cloud saves with automatic sync • No ads, ever Icon attributions: https://github.com/Okin107/policies/blob/main/IdleAdventure/attributions.md

About

Split Squad

Experience an idle RPG where four heroes simultaneously explore distinct dungeons. Your heroes continue to grow and earn rewards even when the app is closed, offering a unique split-screen adventure with strategic town upgrades and challenging bosses.

Highlights
  • Four heroes, four dungeons, split-screen gameplay
  • Simultaneous hero progression and buffs
  • Idle progression with offline rewards up to 12 hours
  • Strategic town building and upgrades
  • Boss battles every 10 floors
  • Weekly joint raids and parallel world progression
Features
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Four heroes climb four different dungeons at the same time. A split-screen idle RPG where the expedition never stops, even with the app closed. ■ Made for you if · You want an idle RPG that grows while you are away · One-character auto battlers have started to feel thin · You love pixel art and medieval fantasy dungeons ■ Features ▸ Four dungeons, one screen Knight, Rogue, Mage and Priest each fight in their own dungeon. Everything grows four times over. ▸ Buffs that lift each other The deeper one hero goes, the more defense, gold, EXP and regen the other three receive. Raising all four evenly is the fastest route down. ▸ Auto battle with a real gate You must beat the monster before the timer runs out. Running out of time is not a clear. ▸ Grow the town Upgrade weapon, armor, trinket and helm at the smithy, furnish the home to raise recovery, and build the plaza to multiply the whole town's attack. ▸ Offline rewards Close the app and come back — up to 12 hours are settled under exactly the same rules as live play. ▸ A boss every 10 floors Each boss you beat becomes the elevator for your next run. You never start from floor 1 again. ▸ Joint raid Once all four heroes clear their floor 10 boss, a three-phase raid opens once a week. ▸ Parallel worlds Reach floor 50 with every hero and shift worlds for a permanent attack bonus. Primal, Ember, Verdant and Void each change the enemies and the palette. ■ Ads kept to a minimum No forced interstitials, no banners in your way. Only opt-in rewarded ads you choose yourself. ■ Comfortable to play · Plays without a network connection (except rewarded ads) · Export and re-import your save as a file · Portrait, one-handed play Send out your first expedition now.

Screenshots

Idle Adventure4 screens
Split Squad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Split Squad at none against Idle Adventure's 15. Split Squad also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17). Idle Adventure's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, 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. Idle Adventure sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Split Squad asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Idle Adventure versus Split Squad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle AdventureSplit Squad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (95 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings95 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS1715.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size303 MB39 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperNiko GogaSONGHWA CHAE

Customer experience

Idle Adventure

All ratings90 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.9%

Split Squad

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

15 purchases

Idle Adventure

One-time15
  • Knight Templar Skin$1.99
  • Orc Skin$1.99
  • Medal Surge$2.99
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  • Pet Hellbound$2.99
  • Pet Ghost Fire$2.99
  • Armored Orc Skin$3.99
  • Elite Orc Skin$3.99
  • Dead Knight Skin$3.99
  • Void Thief Skin$4.99
  • Orc Rider Skin$4.99
  • Lancer Skin$4.99
  • Werewolf Skin$4.99
  • Void Warden Skin$7.99
  • Necromancer Skin$8.99
  • Void Sovereign Skin$11.99
None

Split Squad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Adventure free?
Idle Adventure is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Split Squad free?
Split Squad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Adventure or Split Squad have ads?
Split Squad shows ads; Idle Adventure does not.
Which is updated more often, Idle Adventure or Split Squad?
Idle Adventure ships an update every 2 days, and Split Squad every 2 days. Most recently, Idle Adventure was updated on October 21, 2026 and Split Squad on October 17, 2026.

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