Sunforge vs Cinnabar Coil
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Sunforge
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A block made of visible mini blocks slides over your tower. Tap to drop it. Whatever hangs past the edge shears off and tumbles away โ and only the mini blocks that STAY are added to your sum. Hit the sun's target exactly and your streak smelts into a gold ingot: tower repaired, combo climbing. Go one past it and the streak scorches black. That's the whole cruel deal of Sunforge: landing exactly the number you need often means hanging cells over the edge on purpose. You trade tower width for the sum โ or sacrifice the sum to stay wide. Width is life. The sun doesn't care which you choose. ASCENT โ THE CLIMB โข Three suns, ramping speed, forge targets that grow with your altitude โข Tactical discards for hopeless blocks โ earned back by forging โข An eclipse sky that darkens as you rise, from sun-bleached sand to black totality โข Milestone stingers every ten floors THE BLOCKS THAT BREAK THE RULES โข The diamond block: land it perfectly centered and your block regrows to full starting width โ the comeback the sun occasionally grants โข The burgundy block: cursed, and it comes in fast. It never joins the tower โ let it fly past and it costs nothing; touch it down and it burns away every mini block it covers. Watch the NEXT chip for the warning. MIRAGE โ ZEN, UNTIL THE STORM Pure precision stacking, no sums โ but every so often a storm sways your tower, and honest physics decides what stands: if the weight above any edge leans too far, it topples. Stack centered and the wind finds nothing to take. LEARN BY PLAYING Two short playable lessons open on first launch โ one for Ascent (stacking, the forge sum, the diamond, the cursed block) and one for Mirage (stacking and the storm). Each is skippable in one tap and replayable from the menu. PLAY HANDS-FREE (OPTIONAL) Turn on Sound to Drop and a clap, a tap, or a short word drops the block โ no tapping the screen. It's an accessibility option, off until you enable it. The microphone is used on your device for loudness only; nothing is recorded, saved, or sent anywhere, and the game plays exactly the same by tap. NOTHING BEHIND THE CURTAIN โข No ads, no accounts, no in-app purchases โข Zero network calls โ works in airplane mode forever โข No tracking and no third-party code; your best score never leaves your device โข The only permission is the microphone, and only if you turn on Sound to Drop Built natively in SwiftUI and SpriteKit for iPhone and iPad, iOS 17+, with synthesized audio, haptics, and a hard-edged desert-forge look. The sun is watching. Forge something.
Cinnabar Coil
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Nine chambers stacked inside a brass censer, a sleeping dragon at the crown, and one breath that decides everything. You drop essences into the fire bowl at the bottom and the heat carries them upward: resin crawls one chamber per tick, citrus rind climbs four, smoke settles wherever it lands. When the dragon inhales it tastes only the top three chambers at that exact instant, so the puzzle is traffic and timing rather than a recipe. Brass gates clamped to the coil make it worse. The ash gate cools whatever stops inside it, the kiln gate drives it faster, the jade choke turns away anything too loud, and the vent fissure simply takes the essence away from you. Twelve dragons sleep across twelve regions, from the kiln steps to the coil itself. Each one you wake leaves a sealed flacon in the vault and grants a boon: hold an essence through a redraw, undo a ruined tick, light the bowl twice in a single turn. Forty essences, eight families, no timers, no ads, nothing to buy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sunforge at every 3 days against Cinnabar Coil's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sunforge ships an update every 3 days, Cinnabar Coil every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sunforge | Cinnabar Coil |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days โ better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hailey Jenkins | Claude Shannon |
In-app purchases
Sunforge
No in-app purchases
Cinnabar Coil
No in-app purchases
Questions
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