Comparison

Idle Space Mining vs Torque

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

Head to head
About

Idle Space Mining

Build and expand a space mining empire through incremental upgrades and strategic choices. Reset your progress to gain permanent bonuses and achieve ultimate power. Earn resources even while offline.

Highlights
  • Incremental mining empire building
  • Strategic doctrine choices
  • Prestige system with Dark Matter
  • Permanent upgrades via Star Shards
  • Offline earnings
  • Challenging game modes
  • Comet catching events
Features
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Tap an asteroid. Build a mining empire. Then destroy it — and come back stronger. IDLE SPACE MINING is an idle game about scale. You start hand-mining ore from a bare rock. You end up rewriting local physics so the ore was always there. BUILD THE COLONY Twenty-six machines, from a rickety Drone Hangar to the Terminus Drillhead. Each one runs its own harvest cycle — watch the bars fill, watch the ore land. Every 10 you own doubles that machine's output, and every tier lifts the one beneath it. CHOOSE YOUR DOCTRINE At each tier you pick ONE of three paths and forfeit the other two. Triple your early generators, or cut the price of everything, or tighten your milestones. There is no right answer — and you re-decide every single run. ASCEND When growth stalls, collapse the whole colony into a singularity. You lose your ore, your generators, your tech. You keep DARK MATTER — and every scrap you have ever earned makes you permanently stronger. Dark Matter is deliberately scarce. Each one matters. HEAT DEATH Then there's the prestige above prestige. Let the universe run down, trade everything — even your Dark Matter — for Star Shards, and buy upgrades that survive the end of everything. TAKE ON CHALLENGES Mine with no hands. Run with triple-length cycles. Build with only three generator types. Beat one and keep the bonus forever. CATCH COMETS Comets drift past while you play. Tap one for a lump of ore or a burst of production. EARN WHILE YOU SLEEP Your colony keeps mining when the app is closed. Come back to a pile. One optional ad, and only if you want it: watch a Supply Drop for double production for four hours. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that interrupts play. No energy timers, no countdown "offers". Just numbers going up, forever.

About

Torque

Build increasingly complex gearboxes from a single gear to massive industrial projects. Progress through six distinct engineering eras, unlock new materials, and automate your factory. Enjoy offline progress and a no pay-to-win model with optional ads for boosts.

Highlights
  • Build complex gearboxes
  • Six distinct engineering eras
  • Real engineering principles
  • Materials lab with alloys
  • Factory automation
  • Offline progress
  • Optional rewarded ads
Features
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One gear. One crank. Many orders of magnitude. In Torque you build gearboxes: first at the workbench, then in the workshop, your own factory, the test center, a whole industrial group and finally megaprojects like a tunnel boring machine or a Mars rover. And when it's all done, you hand the company to the next generation. Every gear ratio loads the motor, every stage runs in, and each era ends with a new prestige layer. • Seven eras – everything unlocks step by step • Real engineering: worm gears, planetary gears, differentials, CVTs, strain wave gears • Materials lab with real alloys: bronze, brass, Invar, Hastelloy … • Endless endgame: heirlooms, a family endowment with compound interest and a portrait gallery of your dynasty • Active at first, automated later – with foremen, plant manager, supervisory board and family council • Offline progress, 100+ achievements and many secret ones • In English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Japanese • Dark mode, choice of number notation • No pay-to-win: ads only if you choose – for 4 hours of double speed For everyone who loves big numbers – and gears.

Screenshots

Idle Space Mining4 screens
Torque4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Torque at 4.7 against Idle Space Mining's 4.0. Torque also leads on monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Idle Space Mining's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Torque holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Space Mining ships an update weekly, Torque every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Idle Space Mining versus Torque: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Space MiningTorque
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperISAAC MICHAEL FRETTPascal Dohmeier

Customer experience

Idle Space Mining

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

Torque

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Idle Space Mining

No in-app purchases

None

Torque

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Space Mining free?
Idle Space Mining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Torque free?
Torque is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Idle Space Mining or Torque?
Torque is rated higher. Idle Space Mining averages 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Torque averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Idle Space Mining or Torque have ads?
Both Idle Space Mining and Torque show ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Space Mining or Torque?
Idle Space Mining ships an update weekly, and Torque every 4 days. Most recently, Idle Space Mining was updated on October 24, 2026 and Torque on October 24, 2026.

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