Comparison

Grow! vs Everburn

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

Head to head
About

Grow!

Embark on a cosmic journey from the atomic scale to the astronomical. Absorb matter, level up, and evolve into an unstoppable force. This survivor-like action game features deep progression and a unique art style.

Highlights
  • Progress through 20 tiers of reality
  • Deep meta-progression with permanent abilities
  • Loot gear and craft builds
  • Asynchronous multiplayer leaderboards
  • Striking minimalist art style
  • Unravel mysterious lore
Features
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You are the Entity. You don't know what you are. You don't know why you're here. All you know is one thing : GROW! Grow! is an incremental survivors-like with idle progression: every run makes you permanently stronger. Start at the atomic scale. Tear through particles, nucleons, and molecules. Absorb their matter. Level up. Get stronger. Then do it again, bigger. Molecules. Bacteria. Cells. A tardigrade. Tadpoles. Insects. Animals. Humans. Buildings. Satellites. Moons. Planets. Stars. Nothing is beyond your reach. Every run pushes you further up the cosmic ladder, from the subatomic to the astronomical. Grow! is a survivor-like action game where scale IS the progression. Fight through waves of enemies that grow as you grow, loot gear, unlock abilities, and build your Entity into an unstoppable force, across runs that span the entire known universe. CORE FEATURES ◈ SCALE BEYOND IMAGINATION Progress through 20 tiers of reality : from particle physics to astrophysics. Each tier brings new enemies, new challenges, and a mind-bending sense of scale. ◈ DEEP META-PROGRESSION Every run matters : Unlock permanent abilities, upgrade your Entity, and push further than ever before. The meta-progression is massive: there's always something new to chase. ◈ LOOT & EQUIP Enemies drop gear. Spend Matter, the universal currency, during or between runs. Craft your build, find synergies, dominate. ◈ COMPETE GLOBALLY Asynchronous multiplayer leaderboards : How far can you grow? Compare your highest tier reached against players worldwide. ◈ STRIKING MINIMALIST ART Black, white, grey, and yellow : Clean vector visuals with a bold, distinctive identity. No visual clutter: just you, the swarm, and the ever-expanding universe. ◈ MYSTERIOUS LORE What is the Entity? Why does it grow? Every death delivers the same cryptic message: GR0W. Piece together the mystery as you ascend through layers of reality. Free to play. No ads.

About

Everburn

Survive the cold by foraging, hunting, and crafting in this text-based incremental survival game. Each life is short, but every death makes you stronger, allowing you to push deeper into a procedurally generated world. Automate actions and return to a burning fire, even when offline.

Highlights
  • Incremental survival gameplay
  • Text-based world exploration
  • Procedurally generated environments
  • Action automation
  • Offline progression
  • Roguelike progression system
Features
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You wake with no name and no past. Just a dying fire in front of you, and the cold pressing in from every side. Feed it. Forage in the dark, hunt what you can, craft what you need, and hold the cold off for one more night. You won't last long. That's the point. Everburn is a survival incremental about starting over. Every life is short, and every death teaches you something. You come back a little stronger, a little sharper, your fire catching faster than the last time. The wall that killed you becomes the ground you stand on. Death by death, you push deeper into the world. And it's a real world. The whole game is text: words on a screen and a fire that spreads wider the longer you survive. You climb out of the woods into the valley, feel your way through the crystal caves, and reach colder, stranger places the deeper you go. Line up your actions and watch a life run itself. Automate what you've mastered. Close the app and the time is banked, so you always come back with something to spend. And it ends. There is a last chapter, a real one, and then you're done. The first chapters are free. One purchase opens the rest, and it's yours for good. No ads, no subscriptions, ever. How far can one life take you, when you've got as many as it takes?

Screenshots

Grow!4 screens
Everburn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grow! at 94% against Everburn's 33%. Grow! also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.9) and ratings volume (132 vs 35). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Grow! sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Everburn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grow! holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 132 and 35 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Grow!'s written reviews are positive against 33% of Everburn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grow! ships an update weekly, Everburn every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Grow! versus Everburn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrow!Everburn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (132 ratings) — better3.9 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews93.9% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings132 — better35
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB28 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperThibault BrouardelleSaif Alesawy

Customer experience

Grow!

All ratings129 ratings
Positive99.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive93.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.0%

Everburn

All ratings34 ratings
Positive70.6%
Neutral5.9%
Negative23.5%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Grow!

One-time8
  • 100% of Endergy Page Cost$2.99
  • +1 Attack Slot$4.99
  • +1 Element Slot$4.99
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  • Endergy Boost x2$8.99
  • Full Bundle$8.99
  • 500% of Endergy Page Cost$8.99
  • Absolute Boost ×2$14.99
  • 5000% of Endergy Page Cost$44.99
1 purchases

Everburn

One-time1
  • Full Game$3.99

Questions

Is Grow! free?
Grow! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Everburn free?
Everburn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Grow! or Everburn?
Grow! is rated higher. Grow! averages 4.9 out of 5 from 132 ratings, while Everburn averages 3.9 from 35 ratings.
Do Grow! or Everburn have ads?
Neither Grow! nor Everburn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grow! or Everburn?
Grow! ships an update weekly, and Everburn every 11 days. Most recently, Grow! was updated on October 25, 2026 and Everburn on October 25, 2026.

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