Cobble Gobble vs CodeBastion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Heads-up gameplay via sound
- Collect dots and landmarks
- Pressure-free experience
- Offline play supported
- Family Sharing
- Customizable walking routes
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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.
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.
- Idle clicker and incremental progression
- Resource and citizen management
- Deep skill tree with research
- Expeditions and exploration
- Timed defense challenges
- Offline progress
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Cobble Gobble sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Cobble Gobble | CodeBastion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manuel Kublbock | Gines Ortiz |
Customer experience
Cobble Gobble
CodeBastion
In-app purchases
Cobble Gobble
- 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
CodeBastion
No in-app purchases









