Comparison

Forge Clicker vs Ironbound Kingdom

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

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About

Forge Clicker

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Your forge starts with one anvil and one pair of hands: yours. TAP TO EARN Tap the anvil for gold. Spend it on upgrades: hire apprentices, stoke hotter coals, and turn a village smithy into a gold machine. IDLE INCOME Apprentices keep earning gold while the game is closed, and the minions you have bound keep fighting the Mines, so you come back to XP as well: up to sixteen hours of it. DELVE THE MINES Clear the cellar under your forge and fight down through slimes, rats and slag golems, every floor on a timer. A boss waits on every fifth, and from floor 10 down it heals to full if you run out of time. Floors ending in 7 run under a weekly Aspect: one element hits hard, everything else is resisted. From floor 50 the monsters grow tough and carry traits, and a floor sometimes opens a vein of ore: tap it to dig before the floor clears. CRAFT YOUR ARSENAL Bosses and veins pay ore and embers in five grades, from Common to Legendary. Forge them into weapons and gear, equip them, and hit harder than a plain hammer ever will. Infuse a blade with an element, and reforge it on the Grand Anvil when the fight needs a different edge. The gear ladder climbs to level 250. BIND A PARTY Bind minions to fight beside you. Level them, grow each one's talent tree and signature skill, then splice any two into one of 45 hybrids that outgrows both parents. RUN THE GAUNTLET From Mines floor 50, field your party against three waves and a boss, level after level: tanks draw attacks, supports heal, skills fire on their own clocks. First clears earn Valor, which forges gear for each minion. Every 50 levels a seal bars the way, and autopilot climbs past your best while you watch. CLIMB THE TOWER When raw damage stops working, climb the Tower instead. Each floor demands one element and gives you twenty seconds, so how high you reach depends on your elemental range, not your attack number. A climb costs a key: one a day for opening the game, two more forged from rare ore, and a few more for an optional ad. Your best height banks permanent attack power. SEND EXPEDITIONS Hold floor 75 and four minions, and up to three of them can go away for 4, 8 or 12 hours. They come back with XP, boss cores and shards, and a 12-hour trip has a chance at a relic. It is the first way to level a minion that is not in your party. ASCEND AND BEGIN AGAIN Trade a run for permanent power: prestige points, a shop whose top rows never run out of ranks, heirlooms you bind for lasting bonuses, and the Crucible, which burns leftover ore and embers into Deepsteel. QUESTS TO GUIDE THE WAY A quest chain leads you from your first taps to the Rat King's hoard, with daily bounties, challenge floors and a raid along the way. The whole forge speaks nine languages. FAIR BY DESIGN - No forced ads. Watch one only if you want the bonus, or buy Remove Ads once and take the same bonuses without one. - One-time purchases only. No subscriptions, no energy, no paywalls. - No account needed. Your save stays on your device.

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Ironbound Kingdom

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Come home to Emberwick Vale, take back your mother's farm and lead a rebellion against the Iron Throne. Ironbound Kingdom is a pixel-art RPG you play with your own hands: dodge and strike in real time, explore three regions and choose how the story ends. A STORY THAT LISTENS • Seven winters ago your mother told the Throne's Collector no, and the Ironguard took her away. Now you walk home in her old hood, and the farm is "Throne land". • Book One takes you from Emberwick Vale through the Mirefen and along the Iron Road to the walls of Ironspur Keep. • Your choices change who stands with you, how the people of the Vale remember you, and which of three endings you reach. FIGHT WITH YOUR OWN HANDS • Read the telegraphs, dodge out of the lane and time a perfect dodge to set up a Riposte. • Learn techniques such as Power Strike, Cinder Sweep, Rootsnare and Ironbreaker. • Face seven bosses, from Warden Varek Holt to the Inquisitor herself. • Free seven Throne sites and slip past the curfew patrols at night. DELVE INTO THE OLD DEEPS • Twenty floors of tunnels and old workings with guardian bosses, and the Endless Dark below them. • Pick boons on the way down and decide when to bank your finds. A LIFE BETWEEN BATTLES • Chop, mine, farm, fish, cook, brew elixirs and forge: eight skills to level 30. • Forge gear in five tiers and five rarities, then improve it at the anvil. • Recruit Mira and Brandt to work for you in the Vale. • Make your hero your own in the character creator, and fill the Rebel's Codex. AUTO, WHEN YOU WANT IT • Paint work zones on the map and Auto chops, mines, farms and fishes in the Vale, even while you are away. • Take over again with one tap, and read what got done when you come back. MADE FOR PHONES AND TABLETS • Plays offline. No account needed. • Portrait or landscape, tap to move, and a pause button in every fight. • UI size up to 130 %, reduce motion, flashing effects off and a left-handed layout. This version of Ironbound Kingdom shows no ads and has no in-app purchases. Terms of Use (EULA): https://kawisoftware.com/ironbound-kingdom/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://kawisoftware.com/ironbound-kingdom/privacy/ Support: https://kawisoftware.com/ironbound-kingdom/support/ Published by Kawi Software AS, Norway.

Screenshots

Forge Clicker4 screens
Ironbound Kingdom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ironbound Kingdom at none against Forge Clicker's 3. Ironbound Kingdom also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Forge Clicker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Ironbound Kingdom asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Forge Clicker versus Ironbound Kingdom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForge ClickerIronbound Kingdom
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB173 MB
Age rating12+12+
Developer17476388 Canada Corp.KAWI SOFTWARE AS

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Forge Clicker

One-time3
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • Supporter's Crest$6.99
  • Prospector's Charter$19.99
None

Ironbound Kingdom

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Forge Clicker free?
Forge Clicker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ironbound Kingdom free?
Ironbound Kingdom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Forge Clicker or Ironbound Kingdom have ads?
Forge Clicker shows ads; Ironbound Kingdom does not.

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