Comparison

The Process vs Torque

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

Head to head
About

The Process

Features
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THE PROCESS — Welcome to the Ethereal Foundry. Build a steam-and-steel factory, wire your stations together, and watch it produce. But growth never stops here: as your system wears down, REBOOT it for a permanent multiplier — and grow faster next cycle. HOW TO PLAY • Start with the Boiler (input), route it through a Refinery, deliver it to the Emitter (output). • Unlock advanced stations as you progress: Furnace, Converter, Amplifier, Transmuter. • Use Coolant to slow degradation, and place stations smartly to trigger resonance and chain bonuses. A SYSTEM THAT DEEPENS • Blueprint Tree: spend points earned from every reboot on permanent perks. • Ascension: reset your factory a second time for Aether — a passive multiplier plus the exclusive "Aether Conduit" station. • Daily Contracts + Shift Streak: fresh goals every day, rewards for showing up. • Weekly Trial: build a mini factory and compete on the global leaderboard. MAKE IT YOURS Earn pipe color palettes and node skins to give your factory a signature look — never for sale, only earned by playing. FAIR AND TRANSPARENT Ads never play themselves. When you choose to watch one, you'll always see exactly what you're getting first. Your progress saves to the cloud automatically, so it survives a device switch. An idle/incremental factory game for players who love both hands-on tinkering and watching things grow in the background. The steam never stops. Is your factory ready?

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. Every gear ratio loads the motor, every stage runs in, and each era ends with a new prestige layer. • Six 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 … • Active at first, automated later – with foremen, plant manager and supervisory board • Offline progress, 90+ achievements and many secret ones • 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

The Process4 screens
Torque4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: The Process at 3 against Torque's 1. The Process also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
The Process versus Torque: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe ProcessTorque
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Ad-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDeniz KayaPascal Dohmeier

In-app purchases

None

The Process

No in-app purchases

None

Torque

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Process free?
The Process is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Torque free?
Torque is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Process or Torque have ads?
Both The Process and Torque show ads.

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