Idle Grill Master vs Nebula Forge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Grill Master
Build a BBQ empire from your backyard, serving delicious food and earning rewards. Upgrade your grills, recipes, and staff to become a legendary franchise. Enjoy idle income and comeback bonuses even when offline.
- Build a BBQ franchise
- Cook various foods
- Serve customers
- Upgrade equipment and staff
- Earn idle income offline
- Unlock bonuses and events
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Enter the world of Idle Griller, where every tap and upgrade turns your backyard cookout into a booming BBQ empire. Start small with a humble backyard and grow into a legendary BBQ Franchise: Cook juicy hotdogs, wings, brisket, and mouthwatering wagyu. Serve hungry customers and earn tasty rewards Upgrade grills, recipes, staff, and your grill pit Unlock powerful bonuses, seasonal events, and reputation boosts Keep earning while offline with idle income and comeback rewards Perfect for fans of cooking games, idle simulators, and fast-paced restaurant tycoon fun. Idle Griller delivers addictive progression, colorful visuals, and satisfying growth every time you return to the kitchen.
Nebula Forge
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Grow a galaxy from a single mote of dust. Nebula Forge is a merge game about building something enormous out of almost nothing. Forge celestial items, combine matching pairs into stronger ones, and arrange them across a hex grid where every placement changes what your galaxy produces. WHERE YOU PUT THINGS MATTERS Each element earns its output differently. Fire stacks hard beside other Fire. Ice takes a little from every neighbour. Void drains what it sits next to and grows fat on it. Radiant barely produces at all, and makes everything around it better. The number under each item is exactly what that tile is worth, so you can see a rearrangement pay off as you make it. FUSE OPPOSITES Two different elements at the same tier don't tier up — they fuse. Four hybrid chains, from Tempest to Final Dark, each far more powerful than the ordinary merge you gave up to reach them. GO SUPERNOVA When your galaxy is dense enough, collapse it. You lose the board and keep Galaxy Marks, which buy permanent upgrades. Marks scale with how deep you merged, not how much you crammed in. PLAY AT YOUR OWN PACE Your galaxy keeps producing while the app is closed. Comets drop onto the board and fade after twenty seconds if nobody catches them. There is no timer, no energy meter, and nothing to lose. No ads. No tracking. Your progress stays on your device. SUBSCRIPTIONS Nebula Pass Monthly (1 month), Nebula Pass Plus (1 month), Nebula Pass Architect (1 month) and Gem Subscription (1 week). Prices are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://ema19rivas99-max.github.io/nebula-forge/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Nebula Forge at none against Idle Grill Master's shown. Idle Grill Master's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Idle Grill Master sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Nebula Forge sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Idle Grill Master | Nebula Forge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (57 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KAL Foundry, LLC | elmer rivas |
In-app purchases
Idle Grill Master
- Gems 50$2.99
- Gems 300$4.99
- Gems 700$7.99
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- Remove Ads$9.99
Nebula Forge
- Nebula Pass$4.991 Month
- Gem Subscription$4.997 Days
- Nebula Pass Plus$9.991 Month
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- Pass Architect$19.991 Month
- Handful of Gems$0.99
- Architect Kit$9.99
- Crate of Gems$9.99
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- Vault of Gems$19.99
- Hoard of Gems$49.99
- Galaxy of Gems$99.99
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