Comparison

CodeBastion vs DelveKin

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

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About

CodeBastion

Forge a city from a humble camp into a lasting bastion through strategic idle clicker and incremental city-building mechanics. Manage resources, assign citizens to jobs, research new technologies, and embark on expeditions to expand your legacy.

Highlights
  • Idle clicker and incremental progression
  • Resource and citizen management
  • Deep skill tree with research
  • Expeditions and exploration
  • Timed defense challenges
  • Offline progress
Features
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Build a city from its first camp into a lasting bastion in Code Bastion, a strategic idle clicker and incremental city-builder. Begin in Summary, where every tap matters. Gather wood, stone, food, and science through quick actions, manage your energy, watch your population, and keep your city moving even while you are away. Your resources continue to grow through citizen jobs and buildings, while seasons, incidents, and storage limits keep every plan under pressure. Move to Development to unlock a large skill tree across economy, construction, society, and expeditions. Each research choice opens new buildings, improves production, increases storage, strengthens manual gathering, expands your population, and prepares your city for the frontier. Turn a fragile settlement into a reliable system of farms, sawmills, quarries, mines, warehouses, markets, universities, barracks, walls, and more. Use the Resources screen to assign citizens to the jobs that matter most. Balance food, wood, stone, iron, coal, steel, gold, science, and influence. Build capacity before production overflows, keep enough workers in essential buildings, and adapt to changing seasons. Missions give every stage of the city a direction. Complete daily tasks, pursue a weekly campaign, and progress through a five-chapter city legacy: found the settlement, grow it into a city, open the frontier, endure its threats, and build a lasting legacy. When the city is ready, enter Expeditions. Train citizens, assign roles, craft preparation items, reveal a procedural map tile by tile, recruit from camps, discover points of interest, and research a catalogue of hidden treasures. Beyond the walls, every expedition can bring resources, experience, discoveries, and risks. Prepare for incursions with passive defenders and a timed defense challenge. Gather temporary materials, build defenses, create weapons, and decide how to hold the line when the frontier strikes back. CODE BASTION FEATURES Idle clicker and strategic incremental progression Quick actions, energy management, and offline progress Deep skill tree with research, upgrades, and unlocks Resources, citizen jobs, buildings, storage, and seasons Daily tasks, weekly campaigns, and city-wide goals Procedural exploration map, expeditions, equipment, and loot Treasure research, defense roles, incursions, and timed battles Five supported languages: English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian Build deliberately, explore carefully, and defend what you have created.

About

DelveKin

Become the Dungeon Master in this charming strategy game. Design your dungeon with rooms, traps, and monsters to battle invading heroes. Take direct control of monsters in turn-based combat and unlock new defenses as you progress through handcrafted and replayable challenges.

Highlights
  • Build custom dungeons with rooms, monsters, and traps
  • Command monsters in turn-based battles
  • Set clever traps to hinder heroes
  • Unlock new monsters, traps, and rooms
  • Face diverse hero combinations
  • Engage in replayable Deep Delve challenges
  • Progress through Dungeon Raids
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The heroes are coming. Build a dungeon worthy of stopping them! DelveKin is a charming dungeon defense strategy game where you take the role of the Dungeon Master. Design your defenses, place traps, command monsters, and battle invading heroes across handcrafted encounters and replay-able dungeon challenges. BUILD YOUR DUNGEON - Choose rooms with different layouts and tactical advantages, then fill them with monsters and traps. Every placement matters as heroes advance deeper into your dungeon. COMMAND YOUR MONSTERS - Take direct control during turn-based battles. Move across the battlefield, launch basic attacks, unleash special abilities, and combine your monsters' strengths to overcome each group of heroes. SET CLEVER TRAPS - Slow heroes with snares, strike from the walls with arrow slits, or punish careless movement with hidden hazards. Traps can shape the battlefield and create opportunities for your monsters. GROW YOUR ARSENAL - Unlock new monsters, traps, rooms, and powerful bosses as you progress. Earn experience, level up your defenses, and build stronger dungeon teams for the challenges ahead. FACE NEW HEROES - Each stage introduces different hero combinations, abilities, and tactical threats. Adapt your dungeon to withstand knights, mages, rogues, clerics, and other determined adventurers. VENTURE INTO DEEP DELVE - Put your dungeon building skills to the ultimate test in Deep Delve, a replay-able 20-depth challenge where every run is different. Build a run specific roster, recruit and replace monsters and traps, choose powerful upgrades, evolve your boss, and see how deep your dungeon can survive. CONTINUE INTO DUNGEON RAIDS - Complete the main campaign and enter Dungeon Raids, where increasingly dangerous hero parties push your defenses even further. CHARMING ART STYLE - DelveKin features expressive characters, lively battle animations, and a playful fantasy world. Play the opening chapters for free. A single Premium unlock opens the full campaign, additional progression, Dungeon Raids, and Deep Delve. Build carefully. Fight cleverly. Protect your dungeon.

Screenshots

CodeBastion4 screens
DelveKin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CodeBastion at none against DelveKin's 1. DelveKin's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. DelveKin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CodeBastion against 5.0 for DelveKin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CodeBastion ships an update every 10 days, DelveKin every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CodeBastion versus DelveKin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCodeBastionDelveKin
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings45 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB72 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGines OrtizCinder Code LLC

Customer experience

CodeBastion

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DelveKin

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CodeBastion

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

DelveKin

One-time1
  • Premium Upgrade$4.99

Questions

Is CodeBastion free?
CodeBastion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DelveKin free?
DelveKin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CodeBastion or DelveKin?
CodeBastion and DelveKin are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do CodeBastion or DelveKin have ads?
Neither CodeBastion nor DelveKin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CodeBastion or DelveKin?
CodeBastion ships an update every 10 days, and DelveKin every 3 days. Most recently, CodeBastion was updated on October 8, 2026 and DelveKin on October 17, 2026.

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