Comparison

Idle Ages vs INTEREST.EXE

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

INTEREST.EXE

Features
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Your role: tap the desk, and money comes out. Perform the role until the money performs itself. Questions are discouraged. INTEREST.EXE is a deadpan idle game about compound interest, corporate life, and the people who post about both. Grind at your cubicle. Buy instruments. Watch the line. Become a concept. • NUMBER GOES UP: every digit of your balance counts live, from $0.05 past the GDP of Earth • A PORTFOLIO YOU CAN SEE: piggy banks stack into towers, a rocket lands on your windowsill, at some point you own a small sun • TRADE THE LINE: buy low, sell high on a live market running on a tiny 3D laptop • SHAKE FOR VOLATILITY: HR will not elaborate • SURVIVE THE MARKET: recessions, audits, meme rallies, AI winters, tax season • CLIMB THE LADDER: from folding shirts to selling a course about selling courses to becoming a concept • COLLAPSE THE ECONOMY: on purpose, for bonds • WIN THE GAME: by exceeding the gross domestic product of Earth. The number keeps going up afterwards. That was always the point. Free to play, and the ads respect you: they only ever play when YOU press a button asking for one, in exchange for a boost. Nothing interrupts play, ever. No accounts, no cloud: your empire lives on your phone.

Screenshots

Idle Ages4 screens
INTEREST.EXE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: INTEREST.EXE at none against Idle Ages's 4. INTEREST.EXE also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Idle Ages's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence and iOS requirement 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. Idle Ages sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. INTEREST.EXE asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Ages ships an update every 9 days, INTEREST.EXE every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Idle Ages versus INTEREST.EXE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle AgesINTEREST.EXE
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size254 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOogzy Entertainment LLCLocal Marketing Group Pty Ltd

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
None

INTEREST.EXE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Ages free?
Idle Ages is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is INTEREST.EXE free?
INTEREST.EXE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Ages or INTEREST.EXE have ads?
INTEREST.EXE shows ads; Idle Ages does not.
Which is updated more often, Idle Ages or INTEREST.EXE?
Idle Ages ships an update every 9 days, and INTEREST.EXE every 6 days. Most recently, Idle Ages was updated on October 3, 2026 and INTEREST.EXE on October 1, 2026.

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