Bee Idle vs Last Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bee Idle
Build a thriving honey empire from a single bee. Tap to gather resources, upgrade your hive, and sell honey. Enjoy offline earnings and unlock new varieties and systems as you progress.
- Cozy idle gameplay loop
- Hundreds of upgrades
- Multiple honey varieties and Prestige tiers
- Offline earnings
- Extensive endgame content
- Home Screen widget and Siri shortcuts
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Bee Idle is a cozy idle game about turning a single bee into a buzzing honey empire. Tap to gather honey, let your swarm fill the combs, and sell it at your little market stall. Spend your gold on upgrades, buy more bees, and watch your hive grow – comb by comb, variety by variety. Best of all: your Night Swarm keeps working while you're offline. Come back and collect a sweet honey payday. When you're ready, ascend to a brand-new honey variety with a permanent bonus. Fourteen varieties await, from humble Blossom honey to legendary Ambrosia – and beyond them, ten mythic varieties for those who want to go deeper. Go further with a Prestige to unlock whole new systems: a honey factory, research & breeding, trade routes, your own beekeepers, and a sprawling honey empire. In the endgame, the Golden Eras await: automatons take over the routine, trials challenge you with handicaps, essences make every variety stronger – and in the Swarm Flight, your queen moves out with half the colony to start anew. FEATURES • Pure cozy idle – tap, gather, sell, upgrade, repeat • Hundreds of upgrades for combs, bees, market and research • 14 honey varieties to ascend through plus 10 mythic ones, each with its own look and bonus • Five Prestige tiers: factory, research, logistics, operations, empire • A long endgame: automatons with your own rules, trials, essences, Royal Decrees and the Swarm Flight • Offline earnings – your Night Swarm keeps working while you sleep • 111 achievements, each granting a permanent Honey Blessing bonus, plus an album with 31 stickers • Home Screen widget and Siri shortcuts for a quick look at your hive • Handmade, buttery-smooth custom art and animation • Fully localized in English and German • No accounts, no tracking, no ads – everything stays on your device Sweet, calm, and endlessly satisfying. Grab a jar and start buzzing!
Last Light
Engage in a relaxing idle clicker where you command a self-replicating swarm to consume entire solar systems. Watch your fleet grow and evolve as you progress through an endless roguelite loop, unlocking permanent upgrades and discovering new star types.
- Idle clicker gameplay
- Visually simulated fleet of ships
- Roguelite progression loop
- Permanent upgrades via Blueprint Data
- Offline progress tracking
- Discoverable star types
- In-game catalog of consumed systems
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Last Light is an idle clicker about a self-replicating probe swarm that consumes solar systems. It starts on the asteroid belt, moves on to the planets, and finishes with the star, which shrinks in stages. Then you launch for the next system and start over. THE FLEET Every probe you build is a ship in the scene. It flies in from deep space, joins the formation, works, drifts, and gets pulled back into line. Scouts range wide and fast. Harvesters crawl in close. The formation tightens as your command structure grows. Hundreds of ships fly at once. Pinch to zoom, drag to look around at any zoom, and let go to glide back. TAP IF YOU WANT TO Tap the star and matter is pulled out of it. Or leave the swarm to work on its own. Offline progress banks automatically, up to twelve hours. COLLAPSE IT, THEN DO IT AGAIN Collapsing the core ends the run. The swarm strips the system bare and you earn Blueprint Data for permanent upgrades. Each collapse then offers a field of surveyed destinations with their own traits. Metal-rich systems fabricate cheaply, ancient ones run deep and slow, radiant stars burn bright and die fast. Chart new star types as you go: red dwarfs, gas giant systems, binary pairs, white dwarfs, red giants, neutron stars and brown dwarfs. THE ATLAS Every consumed system goes into your catalog: its designation, what kind of place it was, how long it took, how large the swarm grew. • Finite systems. Everything the swarm takes, the star visibly loses. • Hundreds of individually simulated ships. • Roguelite destination choices, each system with its own traits. • Permanent progression through Blueprint Data. • Offline earnings up to 12 hours. • iPhone and iPad. • Optional rewarded boosts. One purchase removes the banner ad. Nothing is paywalled.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bee Idle at none against Last Light's 1. Bee Idle also leads on ads (none vs shown). Last Light's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Last Light sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bee Idle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Last Light holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Bee Idle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Last Light's.
Bee Idle ships an update weekly, Last Light every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bee Idle | Last Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (8 ratings) | 4.5 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathanael Sommer | HADDAN BRYANT WARD |
Customer experience
Bee Idle
Last Light
In-app purchases
Bee Idle
No in-app purchases
Last Light
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