Comparison

CodeBastion vs Buffs & Crafts

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

Head to head
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

Buffs & Crafts

Features
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A spark. A hammer. A new possibility. The old forges have fallen silent, but your adventure is just beginning. Travel a fantasy world while your Emberkeeper battles the creatures ahead. At the forge, every new piece of gear asks a question: equip it, keep it, or sell it to shape something better? MAKE YOUR BUILD YOUR OWN Discover weapons, armor, and accessories with grades, qualities, affixes, materials, and set identities. Compare the actual stat changes, protect favorite finds, and experiment with combinations that suit the next fight. A LITTLE MAGIC GOES A LONG WAY Combine reusable skills and consumable potions in an eight-slot buff loadout. Choose damage, protection, speed, recovery, or resource bonuses — then change your approach when a boss stands in the way. FOLLOW THE SPARK Explore distinct regions, meet their foes, and uncover the lore of the lost forges in your journal. Progress through rounds, collect drops, improve your forge, and find the next piece that makes your build click. PLAY AT YOUR PACE Automatic battles leave you free to make the meaningful choices. Save a favorite setup, organize your inventory, and return to your locally saved adventure. Clear forging odds and bad-luck protection help you plan the next discovery. Play in 18 languages. Progress stays on this device. Free to start. Terms of Service: https://buffsandcrafts.com/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://buffsandcrafts.com/eula Privacy Policy: https://buffsandcrafts.com/privacy

Screenshots

CodeBastion4 screens
Buffs & Crafts4 screens

Verdict

The call

CodeBastion and Buffs & Crafts 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
CodeBastion versus Buffs & Crafts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCodeBastionBuffs & Crafts
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB147 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGines OrtizKoha-Tech sp. z o.o.

In-app purchases

None

CodeBastion

No in-app purchases

None

Buffs & Crafts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CodeBastion free?
CodeBastion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Buffs & Crafts free?
Buffs & Crafts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CodeBastion or Buffs & Crafts have ads?
Neither CodeBastion nor Buffs & Crafts shows ads.

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