Comparison

Aethel Idle vs Yuusha Idle

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

Head to head
About

Aethel Idle

Embark on a long-term fantasy idle RPG adventure with 21 distinct skills to master. Progress even when the app is closed, engage in combat with multiple styles, and explore a world filled with lore and challenges. Trade with other players and join clans for a rich multiplayer experience.

Highlights
  • 21 unique skills to master
  • Idle progression while offline
  • Deep combat system with gear ladders
  • Player-driven marketplace
  • Clan and friend system
  • Extensive world exploration
Features
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Aethel Idle is a fantasy idle RPG about the long haul. Pick a skill, start working, and keep making progress — while you watch, and while the app is closed. There is no energy bar, no timer telling you to come back tomorrow, and no ads. TWENTY-ONE SKILLS Chop, mine, fish and hunt. Cook, smith, craft, fletch and brew. Grow crops, bind runes, pick locks. Every skill has its own screen, its own recipes and its own mastery to deepen — and they feed each other, so the ore you mine becomes the sword you fight with. FIGHT YOUR WAY Melee, ranged and magic each have a full gear ladder, and enemies have weaknesses worth exploiting. Save equipment loadouts and let the game swap to the right one automatically. Raise an altar and earn Devotion for blessings that turn a losing fight around. A WORLD WITH SOMETHING IN IT 16 open combat regions and 20 dungeons, from a quiet overgrown common to places that have gone very wrong. 240 creatures to learn and kill. 65 quests that tell a story about what happened to this world, rather than just handing you a checklist. Take contracts from the hunters' lodge for targets and rewards you won't find elsewhere. PROGRESS WHILE YOU'RE AWAY Close the app and your character keeps working. Come back to a pile of logs, ore or loot. This isn't an estimate — the game replays the time you were gone, tick by tick, so what you earn is exactly what you would have earned watching. PLAY TOGETHER, OR DON'T Found or join a clan, chat with your members, and build an emblem. Add friends and message them. Climb the hiscores and compare any skill against every other player, then dig into anyone's profile to see how they got there. Or ignore all of it — nothing here needs another person. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU No ads. No pop-ups begging you to rate it. Seventeen in-game guide books that tell you how things actually work instead of hiding it in a wiki. Optional reminders when something finishes. Your progress is saved to our servers, so it follows you between devices. Aethel Idle is in active development and we ship updates constantly. There's a Community tab in-game with the changelog and player polls, because the people playing it should get a say in where it goes.

About

Yuusha Idle

Features
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Yuusha Idle is a pixel-art fantasy RPG that keeps playing after you close it. You build the hero; the hero does the fighting. Your class comes from the weapons you carry. Two daggers make an Assassin, sword and shield a Warrior, a scythe a Reaper, gauntlets a Brawler. There are 15 classes, and switching weapons switches the class without losing anything you've built. Each class spends its own resource. Wizards and the Paladin use mana. The Assassin, Archer, Rogue and Reaper use energy. The Warrior, Berserker, Knight, Guardian, Wanderer and Brawler build rage as they fight. You choose the gear, the talents and when each skill fires. After that the hero fights on its own, including up to 8 hours while the app is closed. There are nine zones, each with its own monsters and equipment. Mine, fish, gather herbs and cut wood for materials, then craft and forge in the village workshop. The Compendium lists every item you can craft, which recipes you are still missing and how to learn them. Trade with other players in the market, at a fixed price or by auction. The guild gives you contracts and rank exams. Raids put many heroes against a single boss, and your chance at its loot grows with your share of the damage. Every zone has a crypt beneath it: go in alone or let the group finder put a party together. The Abyss is a turn-based descent where you play monster cards against each foe and decide after every fight whether to go deeper or keep what you've won. Rebirth sends you back to level 1 with more power and opens new skill lines. Fill the Echo bar before you rebirth and you unlock a harder Echo of the world, with bigger rewards and rarer loot. Your account holds up to five heroes, and all of them fight, gather and earn at the same time. On phone and tablet, the home screen shows your hero and your adventure, with four sections for Hero, Village, Combat and Bag. No pay to win. The shop sells skins, frames and auras, plus extra hero slots and storage. Nothing you buy makes a hero stronger.

Screenshots

Aethel Idle4 screens
Yuusha Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Yuusha Idle at every 5 days against Aethel Idle's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Aethel Idle sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Yuusha Idle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Aethel Idle ships an update every 2 weeks, Yuusha Idle every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Aethel Idle versus Yuusha Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAethel IdleYuusha Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (24 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB43 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJoshua CoonceCristian Navia

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Aethel Idle

One-time7
  • Handful of Crowns$0.99
  • Adventurer's Bundle$3.99
  • Pouch of Crowns$4.99
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  • Chest of Crowns$9.99
  • Founder's Pack$9.99
  • Vault of Crowns$19.99
  • Royal Hoard$49.99
4 purchases

Yuusha Idle

One-time4
  • 5 Crystals$4.99
  • 16 Crystals$14.99
  • 34 Crystals$29.99
Show 1 more
  • 119 Crystals$99.99

Questions

Is Aethel Idle free?
Aethel Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yuusha Idle free?
Yuusha Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Aethel Idle or Yuusha Idle have ads?
Neither Aethel Idle nor Yuusha Idle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Aethel Idle or Yuusha Idle?
Aethel Idle ships an update every 2 weeks, and Yuusha Idle every 5 days. Most recently, Aethel Idle was updated on November 6, 2026 and Yuusha Idle on November 6, 2026.

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