Comparison

Scrap Orbit vs Amberfield

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

Head to head
About

Scrap Orbit

Manage an idle orbital salvage company, collecting dead satellites for profit. Automate your operations, build fleets, and strategically reset your progress for permanent upgrades. Haul in riches while you sleep.

Highlights
  • Idle orbital salvage simulation
  • Automated rig purchasing
  • Live radar with bonus hauls
  • Timed contracts with payouts
  • Permanent Alloy upgrades
  • Offline hauling up to 16 hours
Features
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Forty thousand dead satellites are worth a fortune to whoever hauls them in. That's you. Scrap Orbit is an idle salvage-company sim played through a mission console: monospace telemetry, an amber radar sweep, and numbers that climb while you sleep. • Eleven salvage rigs, from Magnet Skiffs to the Mass Driver • Live radar: tap priority windows for instant bonus hauls • Rotating timed contracts with real payouts — deliver tonnage, build fleets • DEORBIT: burn the whole operation into permanent Alloy (+12% each) and spend it on tech that survives every reset • Automation bays that buy rigs for you, up to once per second • Milestone bonuses at 10/25/50/100/200 of every rig • Rigs keep hauling offline (up to 16 h) • Fully on-device: no account, no connection, nothing collected Hold orbit. Get rich. Burn it down. Repeat.

About

Amberfield

Manage a cozy tavern and farm, growing crops, cooking dishes, and serving customers. Uncover a gentle mystery through conversations with regulars. Customize your space and play at your own pace, with optional content packs available.

Highlights
  • Run a tavern and serve customers
  • Tend to a seasonal farm
  • Cook and craft items
  • Uncover a village mystery
  • Customize tavern and yard
  • Play offline
  • Adjust game pace
Features
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Amberfield is a small tavern at the edge of a village, and it is yours now. Wake up, check the fields, see who is walking down the road tonight. Cook what the farm gives you, pour what the cellar holds, and listen. The regulars have stories, and some of them do not add up. Over 36 days a quiet mystery unfolds around the tavern, told one conversation at a time. When it ends, the village stays open for as long as you want to keep it. RUN THE TAVERN Plan a menu from what you grew, foraged and fished. Serve the evening crowd, learn who likes what, and watch your reputation bring new faces to the door. Hire help when the nights get busy and train them in your ways. TEND THE FARM Plant by the season, tend the orchard, keep bees, raise animals and let a companion follow you around the yard. Forage the woods and the river bank for what the fields cannot give. COLLECT, IMPROVE, REMEMBER Every crop, dish, fish and find has a page in the Almanac. Quality matters, and the best of what you make earns its mark. Feats set long goals, and the trophy room keeps what you achieved on the wall. MAKE IT YOURS Furnish the tavern room and the yard with pieces bought with the coins you earn. Rearrange, swap, keep what feels right. CHOOSE YOUR PACE Some mornings bring a decision: an opportunity, a dilemma, a busy night ahead. A single setting turns these up for a challenge or down for a calm game. Seasons change, feast days come round, and in later years the village fair invites you to set up a stall. NO TRICKS No energy meters. No timers to wait out or pay to skip. No ads. No gambling. The whole game, from the first morning to the end of the mystery and beyond, is free. If you want more, three optional content packs add a beach with its own fish and letters in bottles, a cellar with aging barrels and a drinks line, and a supporter pack of exclusive pets and furniture. Nothing you can buy changes how the game plays or how fast you progress. Amberfield plays offline, fits a few minutes or a long evening, and saves on its own. Pixel art, a warm fire, and people worth getting to know. Made by one person at Azulejo Studio, in Portugal.

Screenshots

Scrap Orbit4 screens
Amberfield4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Amberfield at Free against Scrap Orbit's $2.99. Amberfield also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Scrap Orbit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, ratings volume and device support 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

Amberfield is free to download; Scrap Orbit costs $2.99 up front. Amberfield sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scrap Orbit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Scrap Orbit against 5.0 for Amberfield. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Scrap Orbit versus Amberfield: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScrap OrbitAmberfield
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB53 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJordan WegnerFabio Coelho

Customer experience

Scrap Orbit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Amberfield

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Scrap Orbit

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Amberfield

One-time1
  • Supporter pack$3.99

Questions

Is Scrap Orbit free?
Scrap Orbit costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Amberfield free?
Amberfield is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scrap Orbit or Amberfield?
Scrap Orbit and Amberfield are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Scrap Orbit or Amberfield have ads?
Scrap Orbit shows ads; Amberfield does not.

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