Incremental ELM Quest 2 vs Everburn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Incremental ELM Quest 2
Explore a world where elemental forces are merging, cataloging creatures and uncovering a deep mystery. This offline RPG features extensive progression systems, a vast bestiary, and a narrative told through field reports. Earn rewards even while offline.
- Catalog over 4000 unique creatures
- Level up over 300 hero classes
- Explore elemental portals
- Offline progression
- Narrative told through field journals
- Deep progression systems
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A free incremental RPG you can play entirely offline. No ads, no paywall, and every goal in the game is reachable without spending a cent. The world's eight elemental forces were once held apart. Now they are bleeding together, and everything is changing. You are a Cataloguer: a licensed scholar sent into the saturated zones to document what lives there. Encounter creatures, record them, and fill the Manifest, one species at a time. The more you catalogue, the more the world opens up, and the closer you come to the thing nobody wants to talk about: why everything is falling apart. If you've always wanted to play a uniquely idle monster collecting adventure with the patience of a nature documentary and the wit of a dungeon crawl, this is your chance. Explore portals, return to new species and new regions, and watch the Manifest fill in like a field journal. WHAT YOU'LL FIND • Over 4,000 creatures to find, fight, and catalogue. Each holds a small piece of the overall narrative. • Over 300 classes to equip and level up. Send your hero into elemental portals and take control as battles unfold. • Offline progression that unlocks early and never stops: your hero keeps earning and your disciples keep hunting while the app is closed. • Every portal is graded. The threat ratings are, unfortunately, accurate. • 16 narrators bring the world alive through their lost dossiers. Sixteen cataloguers came before you and its on you to find out why they stopped writing. • Deep progression: level classes, raise disciples, study at the university, upgrade your guild license, master insignias, power up skills, and more. • Rare enemy variants, an ever-expanding ladder of achievements, and Game Center leaderboards (purely optional). FAIR BY DESIGN The whole game is offline, free, and ad-free. The optional purchases are purely cosmetics that support a solo, part-time developer. I'm an incremental game fan who got bored waiting for the next one to drop. Made by one person as a part-time passion project. Thank you for giving it a shot!
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.
- Incremental survival gameplay
- Text-based world exploration
- Procedurally generated environments
- Action automation
- Offline progression
- Roguelike progression system
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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?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Incremental ELM Quest 2 at 83% against Everburn's 33%. Incremental ELM Quest 2 also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.9) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Everburn's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Incremental ELM Quest 2 sells 16 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.
Incremental ELM Quest 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 49 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Incremental ELM Quest 2's written reviews are positive against 33% of Everburn's.
Incremental ELM Quest 2 ships an update every 4 days, Everburn every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Incremental ELM Quest 2 | Everburn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (49 ratings) — better | 3.9 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 190 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Eric Marin | Saif Alesawy |
Customer experience
Incremental ELM Quest 2
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In-app purchases
Incremental ELM Quest 2
- Cosmetic: D- Pack$0.99
- Support Tip$0.99
- Support Coffee$4.99
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- Cosmetic: S- Pack$6.99
- Cosmetic: SS- Pack$7.99
- Cosmetic: S+ Pack$7.99
- Cosmetic: SS+ Pack$8.99
- Cosmetic: SSS- Pack$9.99
- Cosmetic: SSS Pack$9.99
- Cosmetic: SSS+ Pack$9.99
- Cosmetic: Letter of Patronage$9.99
- Support Lunch$9.99
- Cosmetic: Founder's Edition$19.99
- Support Dinner$19.99
- Support Updates$29.99
- Support Next Game$49.99
Everburn
- Full Game$3.99
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