Comparison

DRO vs Forge Master

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

Head to head
About

DRO

Engage in intense battles where your control and strategy determine victory. Master endless growth training, conquer enemies with skillful combat, and customize your character with unique equipment. Climb the real-time rankings to claim glory and honor.

Highlights
  • Skill-based combat and strategy
  • Endless character growth and training
  • Real-time competitive ranking system
  • Charming 2D pixel art design
  • Extensive equipment collection and customization
Features
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์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์‹ค๋ ฅ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•  ์‹œ๊ฐ„! ๋‹จ๋ จ ์—์„œ ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๋Š” ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ์ „ํˆฌ์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์ปจํŠธ๋กค๊ณผ ์ „๋žต์ด ๊ณง ์ŠนํŒจ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋์—†๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ ํ›ˆ๋ จ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ƒฅ์€ ๋๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋“œ์—์„œ ์ปจํŠธ๋กค ์†๋ง›์œผ๋กœ ์ ์„ ์ œ์••ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „๋ฆฌํ’ˆ์„ ํš๋“ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์–ด์ œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๊ฐ•ํ•ด์ง„ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์œก์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ์งœ๋ฆฟํ•จ์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋žญํ‚น์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ํ”ผ ํ„ฐ์ง€๋Š” ์ „ํˆฌ ์ •์ƒ์€ ๋‹จ 1๋ช… ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฒจ๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋žญํ‚น ์ •์ƒ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋„์ „ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. 1๋ช…์ด ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜๊ด‘๊ณผ ๋ช…์˜ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋‹น์‹ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ 2D ํ”ฝ์…€ ๋””์ž์ธ ์•„๊ธฐ์ž๊ธฐํ•œ ํ”ฝ์…€ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ์†์— ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๋ฌต์งํ•œ ์†๋ง›๊ณผ ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์˜ ๋ง›์„ ๋А๊ปด๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๋ˆˆ์€ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ณ  ์†์€ ๋ฐ”๋น ์ง€๋Š” ๊ณ ์ „ ๊ฐ์„ฑ์˜ ์ง„์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ, ์žฅ๋น„ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์žฅ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์„ธํŒ…์„ ์™„์„ฑํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์žฅ๋น„๋ฅผ ์žฅ์ฐฉํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ์€ ๋”์šฑ ๋น›๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ „์žฅ์— ๋›ฐ์–ด๋“ค์–ด ์ „์„ค์˜ ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต์ด ๋˜์–ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”!

About

Forge Master

Collect weapons, armor, and accessories through automatic battles. Merge duplicate items to create higher-tier gear and use upgrade scrolls to enhance your equipment. Test your ultimate gear set against other players in PvP.

Highlights
  • Automatic battles for gold and gear
  • Merge duplicate items for higher tiers
  • Upgrade gear with scrolls
  • Daily free gear chests
  • Collect and upgrade transformation cards
  • PvP Battle Dungeon
Features
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Loot. Merge. Upgrade. Conquer. Forge Master is an idle RPG built around the hunt for better gear. Collect weapons, armor, and accessories in automatic battles. Merge matching items into higher-tier gear, then use upgrade scrolls to make your equipment stronger. Equip your best gear, take on tougher enemies, and see how far you can go. โ–  Auto Battles. Your Choices. Your character fights automatically, earning gold and gear as enemies fall. You decide what to equip, what to merge, and what to upgrade next. No complicated combat controls. Just more time to collect gear and plan your next upgrade. โ–  Duplicates? Time to Merge. Another copy of the same item? That's progress. Merge matching equipment to create higher-tier gear. Keep collecting weapons, armor, and accessories, and put your duplicates to good use. The gear you find today could be the key to your next breakthrough. โ–  Feel the Rush of Upgrading Pick a piece of gear and put your upgrade scrolls to use. Each successful upgrade makes it stronger. Feel the suspense of each attempt and the rush when it succeeds. Then take that extra power into battle and face tougher enemies. โ–  Free Gear Chests Every Day Open free gear chests each day to collect weapons, armor, and accessories. Found something you need? Upgrade it. Got a duplicate? Merge it. Every chest is another chance to improve your gear. โ–  Collect and Upgrade Transformation Cards There's more to collect than gear. Collect and upgrade transformation cards, then head into battle with a new look. Keep expanding your collection and enjoy another way to grow stronger. โ–  Put Your Gear to the Test in PvP Enter the Battle Dungeon and challenge other players with the gear you've collected, merged, and upgraded. See how your equipment holds up against theirs. Then keep improving it and get ready for your next fight. โ–  Hit a Wall? Come Back Stronger. Stuck on a stage? It's time to work on your gear. Collect more equipment, merge matching items, and upgrade your best pieces. Then try again and see how far you've come. Push through tougher stages and take on more challenging dungeons. Feel the payoff when you finally take down the enemy that stopped you. Loot. Merge. Upgrade. Conquer. Build your ultimate set of gear in Forge Master.

Screenshots

DRO4 screens
Forge Master4 screens

Verdict

The call

DRO and Forge Master are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters โ€” price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. DRO sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Forge Master sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
DRO versus Forge Master: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDROForge Master
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews โ€” better66.7% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size586 MB288 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperDONG HYEON KIMNODEBROTHERS

Customer experience

DRO

Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

Forge Master

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

DRO

One-time10
  • [ 1์ผ ] ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฑฐ$0.49
  • ๋‹จ๋ จ์˜ํ”์  70, ๊ณจ๋“œ 7๋งŒ ํŒจํ‚ค์ง€$2.99
  • ๊ณจ๋“ ๋ฒจ [ EXP ] 50$2.99
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  • ๊ณจ๋“ ๋ฒจ [ GOLD ] 50$2.99
  • [ ์•…์„ธ์‚ฌ๋ฆฌ ๋ธŒ๋ก ์ฆˆ์ƒ์ž ] x 20๊ฐœ$2.99
  • ์šฉ๋ณ‘ ๋ฝ‘๊ธฐ๊ถŒ 1์žฅ$4.99
  • [ 30์ผ ] ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฑฐ$5.99
  • [ 1๋…„ ] ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฑฐ$19.99
  • 5000 + 5000 ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํƒˆ ํŒจํ‚ค์ง€$24.99
  • ์šฉ๋ณ‘ ๋ฝ‘๊ธฐ๊ถŒ 11์žฅ$49.99
10 purchases

Forge Master

One-time10
  • 11 Sealed Transformation Cards$2.99
  • Ad-Free 2x Rewards (30 Days)$5.99
  • Knight Starter Pack$5.99
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  • Knight Starter Pack โ…ก$5.99
  • Rune Growth Pack I$6.99
  • Guardian Growth Pack I$6.99
  • Guardian & Rune Special Pack$9.99
  • Transformation Growth Pack$17.99
  • Rune Growth Pack II$19.99
  • Guardian Growth Pack II$19.99

Questions

Is DRO free?
DRO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forge Master free?
Forge Master is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DRO or Forge Master have ads?
Both DRO and Forge Master show ads.
Which is updated more often, DRO or Forge Master?
DRO ships an update every 4 days, and Forge Master every 4 days. Most recently, DRO was updated on October 31, 2026 and Forge Master on November 8, 2026.

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