Comparison

Cobble Gobble vs CodeBastion

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

Head to head
About

Cobble Gobble

This game transforms Old Towns into interactive walking experiences using sound cues. Collect dots and landmarks hands-free while exploring cities, with no timers or pressure. Your first city is free to play.

Highlights
  • Heads-up gameplay via sound
  • Collect dots and landmarks
  • Pressure-free experience
  • Offline play supported
  • Family Sharing
  • Customizable walking routes
Features
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New corners of old places. Cobble Gobble is a cozy walking game for the town you think you know, and for every Old Town you visit after it. Pick a city. On the map, the grey streets are the ones you have never walked. Walk one and it turns gold. Landmarks are fruit — a little bonus, and a story, for passing a great sight. Fill the whole Old Town over as many visits as you like, and you have cleared the level. The twist: you play it heads-up. Your phone stays in your pocket. Sound carries the game (collect chimes and, if you like, spoken updates), so you can look up, watch the traffic, and enjoy the city while you walk. Nothing on screen ever needs your attention. And it's pressure-free by design. No timers, no streaks, no leaderboards, nothing to lose. The score only ever goes up. Play for five minutes or a whole afternoon; stop whenever, come back whenever. When you want a plan, one button lays out a walking route that covers everything a city still owes you, and speaks each turn as you reach it. Every city has a page you can read before you buy it: its history, its emblem, and a spoiler-free line about each landmark. Twenty-nine of them also tell you what to eat there and where. And Your harvest adds up every street, dot and landmark you have ever walked, across all your cities. Take it travelling — every Old Town you visit can become its own level. • Heads-up: designed to be played without looking at your phone • Pressure-free: no timers, no streaks, nothing expires • Private: Data Not Collected — your location never leaves your phone • Offline: a city you own plays with no signal • Family Sharing supported Your first city is free.

About

CodeBastion

Forge a city from a humble camp into a lasting bastion through strategic idle clicker and incremental city-building mechanics. Manage resources, assign citizens to jobs, research new technologies, and embark on expeditions to expand your legacy.

Highlights
  • Idle clicker and incremental progression
  • Resource and citizen management
  • Deep skill tree with research
  • Expeditions and exploration
  • Timed defense challenges
  • Offline progress
Features
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Build a city from its first camp into a lasting bastion in Code Bastion, a strategic idle clicker and incremental city-builder. Begin in Summary, where every tap matters. Gather wood, stone, food, and science through quick actions, manage your energy, watch your population, and keep your city moving even while you are away. Your resources continue to grow through citizen jobs and buildings, while seasons, incidents, and storage limits keep every plan under pressure. Move to Development to unlock a large skill tree across economy, construction, society, and expeditions. Each research choice opens new buildings, improves production, increases storage, strengthens manual gathering, expands your population, and prepares your city for the frontier. Turn a fragile settlement into a reliable system of farms, sawmills, quarries, mines, warehouses, markets, universities, barracks, walls, and more. Use the Resources screen to assign citizens to the jobs that matter most. Balance food, wood, stone, iron, coal, steel, gold, science, and influence. Build capacity before production overflows, keep enough workers in essential buildings, and adapt to changing seasons. Missions give every stage of the city a direction. Complete daily tasks, pursue a weekly campaign, and progress through a five-chapter city legacy: found the settlement, grow it into a city, open the frontier, endure its threats, and build a lasting legacy. When the city is ready, enter Expeditions. Train citizens, assign roles, craft preparation items, reveal a procedural map tile by tile, recruit from camps, discover points of interest, and research a catalogue of hidden treasures. Beyond the walls, every expedition can bring resources, experience, discoveries, and risks. Prepare for incursions with passive defenders and a timed defense challenge. Gather temporary materials, build defenses, create weapons, and decide how to hold the line when the frontier strikes back. CODE BASTION FEATURES Idle clicker and strategic incremental progression Quick actions, energy management, and offline progress Deep skill tree with research, upgrades, and unlocks Resources, citizen jobs, buildings, storage, and seasons Daily tasks, weekly campaigns, and city-wide goals Procedural exploration map, expeditions, equipment, and loot Treasure research, defense roles, incursions, and timed battles Five supported languages: English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian Build deliberately, explore carefully, and defend what you have created.

Screenshots

Cobble Gobble4 screens
CodeBastion4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CodeBastion at none against Cobble Gobble's 10. CodeBastion also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Cobble Gobble sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. CodeBastion 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 Cobble Gobble against 5.0 for CodeBastion. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cobble Gobble ships an update every 3 weeks, CodeBastion every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Cobble Gobble versus CodeBastion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCobble GobbleCodeBastion
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperManuel KublbockGines Ortiz

Customer experience

Cobble Gobble

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CodeBastion

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cobble Gobble

One-time10
  • Venice$1.99
  • Dubrovnik$1.99
  • Colmar$1.99
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  • Bath$1.99
  • Copenhagen$1.99
  • Ghent$1.99
  • Lucca$1.99
  • Santiago de Compostela$1.99
  • Toledo$1.99
  • York$1.99
None

CodeBastion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cobble Gobble free?
Cobble Gobble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CodeBastion free?
CodeBastion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cobble Gobble or CodeBastion?
Cobble Gobble and CodeBastion are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Cobble Gobble or CodeBastion have ads?
Neither Cobble Gobble nor CodeBastion shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cobble Gobble or CodeBastion?
Cobble Gobble ships an update every 3 weeks, and CodeBastion every 10 days. Most recently, Cobble Gobble was updated on October 17, 2026 and CodeBastion on October 8, 2026.

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