Space Colony Idle vs Orbit Miners
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Space Colony Idle
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2087. Earth has run out of resources, and its cities are going dark one by one. The Atlas Program launched its last capsule: humanity needs a new home across six worlds, and you are the one who builds it. You land on Mars with one solar field and a skeleton crew. A few hours later the lights never go out. BUILD AND PRODUCE Five production modules, each one paying for the next. The classic idle loop, with no dead time: tap to push output, speed it up, or close the app entirely. Production keeps running without you. SIX WORLDS Mars, Europa, Titan, Venus, Io, Callisto. Every planet brings its own hazard: dust storms, ice sheets, sulfur ash. Raise your shields, plan the drilling order, unlock adaptation tiers before the surface takes the colony apart. RECRUIT A CREW Engineers, pilots, guardians, scientists and prospectors. Assign them to modules, send them on missions, level them up. One legendary crew member changes how the whole colony runs. MISSIONS Launch scouting, mining and rescue runs from the star map. Collect planet keys and open up the next world. RESEARCH A 26-node research tree: production multipliers, automation droids, offline earnings, crew capacity. What you unlock first changes how your colony grows. LEAP AND BEYOND When the colony is complete, take the Leap: reset everything, earn Dark Matter, and come back far faster with permanent multipliers. Clear the 16-node Dark Matter tree to reach the Singularity, a final layer with no level cap. OFFLINE EARNINGS Production continues while the game is closed. Your energy is waiting when you come back. ON EVERY SCREEN Dedicated layouts for phones, tablets and open foldables. Color-blind friendly icon+name pairs, three text sizes, haptics you can switch off. CLOUD BACKUP Your progress is backed up automatically while you play. WEEKLY LEAGUE Production counts toward a weekly league score, offline earnings included. Race other colonies on the same table and collect extra rewards with the Season Pass. SKY EVENTS Now and then a black hole passes close to the colony, and the first close pass will take your flag. On Europa, Io and Callisto, Jupiter hides the sun once a day, and a shooting star crosses the sky when you unlock a letter or an achievement. Space Colony is free. Ads are optional: watching a rewarded ad is your call, and you can remove ads altogether. There are no countdowns, you lose nothing for missing a day, and progress is never for sale. Playable in English, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazil). Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://shaumne.github.io/uzay-kolonisi-gizlilik/
Orbit Miners
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A space idle game where the rockets do the digging. Rockets fly out from your base and land on planets. The crew steps out, swings pickaxes, loads the ore into crates, and brings it home. Just watch the ore pile up. HOW IT WORKS - Spend ore to open new planets: the farther out, the more they pay (ice, iron, crystal, gas, plasma, dark matter, antimatter) - More rockets come from the spaceports at your base - Tap a planet to zoom in and see its card; pinch to zoom - It keeps going while the app is closed (up to 8 hours). Come back and collect it all FEATURES - A universe screen that is fun to watch: the base, planets that all look different, landing rockets, astronauts at work - 60 upgrades in three branches: mining, automation, exploration. Auto-repair and auto-shield - Meteors fly in now and then. Prepare with shields (meteors never touch the vault) - 96 planets in 12 zones, and the scenery changes as you go outward. Nothing ever resets: the universe just keeps growing - A town inside your base: build and grow a space colony with thirteen kinds of buildings, from homes and apartments to mining stations, labs, shops, parking lots and a spaceport that launches rockets. Residents walk the streets and kids play in parks. View it from any angle, from day through night (with small bonuses) - A history log of what happened - Random events: space merchants, solar flares, magnetic storms and space pirates, plus seasonal events like Halloween - Opening planets unlocks titles and astronaut suits - Codex of 96 planets, achievements, daily and weekly missions - iCloud sync: move to a new iPhone without losing progress - Game Center leaderboard ABOUT PURCHASES - Free to play, with a banner ad at the bottom. Watch a video ad to double mining for 30 minutes - Orbit Miners Pro (one-time): no ads, income doubled forever, up to 24 hours offline - Optional tips: they never change the gameplay. As thanks, astronaut suits (looks only)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Orbit Miners at daily against Space Colony Idle's every 3 days. 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
Both are free to download. Space Colony Idle sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Orbit Miners sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Space Colony Idle ships an update every 3 days, Orbit Miners daily. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Space Colony Idle | Orbit Miners |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EMRECAN CETINKAYA | yojiro motoba |
In-app purchases
Space Colony Idle
- Orbit Pass$4.991 Month
- 100 Gems$1.99
- Starter Bundle$2.99
- Dark Matter Pack$4.99
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- Season Pass$4.99
- 550 Gems$7.99
- 1200 Gems$14.99
- 3000 Gems$29.99
- 6500 Gems$59.99
- 14000 Gems$99.99
Orbit Miners
- Orbit Miners Pro$0.99
- Small thanks$0.99
- Thanks$2.99
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- Big thanks$5.99









