Comparison

Idle Ages vs Neon Isles

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

Head to head
About

Idle Ages

Build an empire across thousands of years of history, from ancient Sumer to the Han Dynasty. Summon legendary heroes to boost your production and manage your ages. The game continues to generate resources even when you're away.

Highlights
  • Progress through 30 historical ages
  • Summon 115 legendary heroes
  • Offline progress and resource generation
  • Manage ages with managers
  • Participate in special events
  • Climb leaderboards
Features
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Five thousand years of history, working for you. It starts with mud-brick huts in Sumer. Twenty-nine ages later you're running the Han Dynasty. And history isn't finished yet. Each age feeds the next. Grain from Sumer becomes gold in Akkad, becomes monuments in Egypt, becomes legions in Rome. SUMMON THE GREATS Gilgamesh. Cleopatra. Hammurabi. Ramses II. 115 heroes who double production, quicken cycles, or run an age for you. Legendaries hold sway over several at once. WALK AWAY. COME BACK RICHER. Give an age a manager and it keeps working with the app closed. Return to a fortune, reinvest in a minute, get on with your day. EVENTS Fresh empires with their own currencies and leaderboards. Climb, claim heroes, keep them for good.

About

Neon Isles

Features
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Build a sky-island empire that earns while you sleep! Start with one plasma lemonade kiosk on a floating meadow and grow into a glittering three-island empire — from a fusion-powered factory platform in the clouds to a cyberpunk neon harbor where quick fingers chain combo cash. WATCH YOUR SKY-ISLAND GROW • Every building you construct appears on your floating island and grows bigger as it levels up • Your crew lives on the island too — they bob beside their buildings while coins puff into the sky • Collect coin bubbles, upgrade buildings, and double your speed at every milestone • Come back to a fat "Welcome back" payout — your isles keep working while you're away HIRE A SPACE-SUITED CREW • Twelve adorable animal workers, from Common friends to Cosmic legends like Nova the Star Whale • Level up workers, fire their special abilities (up to ×10 across your whole empire!), and discover secret crew synergies • Epic and better workers collect coins for you automatically • Crack open the Elite Crew Vault or the Cosmic Capsule for a shiny card-flip reveal STEP INTO THE SHOWROOM • A neon boutique of glowing loot capsules with a featured deal every single day • Spin the free Daily Wheel, crack the once-a-day Mystery Box, and warp time itself with instant production skips • Build the Shard Synthesizer and harvest free Quantum Shards every day • A raccoon shopkeeper with opinions about everything THREE SKY-ISLANDS, THREE PLAYSTYLES • Aurora Meadow — the classic collect-and-upgrade idle loop under dancing auroras • Fusion Works — factory machines that pay out in giant batches • Neon Harbor — chain quick collects into a x2.5 combo frenzy FAIR AND FRIENDLY • No ads. No accounts. Progress saves on your device. • Every pack can be earned with Quantum Shards from playing — purchases only speed things up Your empire is waiting. Build, upgrade, expand!

Screenshots

Idle Ages4 screens
Neon Isles4 screens

Verdict

The call

Idle Ages and Neon Isles are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Idle Ages sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Neon Isles sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Idle Ages versus Neon Isles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle AgesNeon Isles
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size254 MB32 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOogzy Entertainment LLCDavid Long

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Idle Ages

One-time4
  • Sprinkle of Diamonds$0.99
  • Handful of Diamonds$4.99
  • Pile of Diamonds$9.99
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  • Hoard of Diamonds$19.99
9 purchases

Neon Isles

One-time9
  • Fistful of Shards$1.99
  • Neon Launch Kit$2.99
  • Satchel of Shards$4.99
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  • Shard Battery$4.99
  • Circuit Surge$4.99
  • Chest of Shards$9.99
  • Royal Vault$19.99
  • Overdrive Cache$19.99
  • Mega Shard Cell$49.99

Questions

Is Idle Ages free?
Idle Ages is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Neon Isles free?
Neon Isles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Idle Ages or Neon Isles have ads?
Neither Idle Ages nor Neon Isles shows ads.

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