Ghost Terminal vs MicroField
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ghost Terminal
Build an automated income empire from a back-alley terminal. Hire agents, upgrade operations, and manage Heat as you progress through neon districts and complete challenging contracts. Reset your progress for deeper rewards and unlock new systems.
- Automated income through terminal operations
- Agent hiring and long-term upgrades
- Heat management system
- Progression through 10 neon districts
- 30 contracts with unique rules
- Multiple prestige layers (Burn, Purge, Fork)
- Offline rewards
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Enter Ghost Terminal, a terminal-style idle tycoon about automated income, upgrades, offline rewards, Heat management, and layered prestige resets. Start with a back-alley terminal and grow it into a deep-system income engine. Buy fictional operations, upgrade their cycles, hire agents, and watch the numbers climb while your build keeps producing. Each run pushes you toward new districts, tougher contracts, and stranger systems below the surface. Features: - Grow idle income through terminal-style operations - Automate production with agents and long-term upgrades - Manage Heat as your network expands - Move through 10 neon terminal districts - Complete 30 contracts with run-changing rules - Reset deeper with Burn, Purge, and Fork prestige layers - Unlock Codex records, Kernel modules, Signal runs, Nostalgia systems, AETERNA, and D0 - Earn offline rewards with balanced limits - Play in a CRT-inspired interface with synth terminal feedback Ghost Terminal is a fictional terminal management game about strategy, automation, and deep idle progression. Build the terminal that keeps running after the screen goes dark.
MicroField
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Create a Micro, evolve it in your lab, and spread its colonies as you walk. MicroField is a location-based game with a Japanese gameplay interface. Terms, privacy information and the age gate are available in English. MAKE YOUR MICRO Choose a name, shape, color and starting traits for a fictional digital organism. Its seeded cyber appearance and generated name modifier give your creation its own identity. WALK AND ESTABLISH COLONIES Visit nearby places and check in. Recorded walks earn game credits and materials, and can leave Micros along your route. Watch colonies spread as colored particles across the map. CHOOSE HOW IT EVOLVES Spend DNA and materials to improve spread, persistence and other traits. Compare changes in the lab before evolving. Select one shared trait: transmission, persistence or symbiosis. Each changes how your Micro spreads, how long it is carried or how much it affects its carrier. STUDY WHAT YOU ENCOUNTER In-game infections leave samples you can analyze by walking. Use care to recover and gain immunity, or carry a Micro to another place for a delivery reward. Samples remain available for research after recovery. PLAY SOLO, OR JOIN THE SHARED FIELD Environmental Micros and research tasks let you progress without nearby players. If you choose to join the shared field, Micros can travel between people who visit the same places at different times. Both players do not need to have the app open together. Relay totals appear in your records. START WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Real-world play requires location permission. A separate demo lets you try a fictional city without it. Optional motion access can turn available device walking history into game resources when you next open the game. Always-on location permission is not required. For ages 13 and up; minors need permission from a parent or guardian. Players aged 18 or over may opt in to banner ads in Records after privacy checks. Ads are off by default and can be turned off in settings. There are no full-screen ad interruptions or rewards for watching ads. Infections, immunity, medicines, facilities and resources are fictional game mechanics. They do not describe real health, medical treatment or infection conditions. Stop somewhere safe before using the screen. Map display and sharing require an internet connection. Districts and facilities are fictional game markers; interact from a publicly accessible location within 180 meters. Initial version: guest play only, with progress stored on this device. Apple account linking, cloud saves and cross-device recovery are not available.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MicroField at none against Ghost Terminal's 4. Ghost Terminal's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Ghost Terminal sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. MicroField asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ghost Terminal ships an update every 4 days, MicroField fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Ghost Terminal | MicroField |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HUWA STUDIO | Rikuto Yasuda |
In-app purchases
Ghost Terminal
- DARK HASH CACHE$1.99
- Boost Pack$1.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
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- Deep Sync Pack$6.99
MicroField
No in-app purchases









