I Bought A Bar vs Last Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
I Bought A Bar
Manage a bar, serve customers, and decide how much to charge them. Build your staff, unlock new menu items, and face a growing debt. Make risky decisions to pay off your obligations or face the consequences.
- Bar management simulation
- Customer service and billing
- Staff recruitment and upgrades
- Menu item unlocking
- Debt repayment mechanics
- Risk-based decision making
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You bought a bar. Nobody mentioned the $100,000 debt. I Bought A Bar is a cheeky bar management game where you serve the drinks and decide the bill. Build your team, keep the orders coming and earn enough to face the debt collector. HOW MUCH WILL THEY PAY? Collect the original bill or choose your own amount. Read the customer's comments and your staff's whispers before taking a risk. Different customers, staff experience and how much a guest has been drinking affect the outcome. Push too far and a customer may refuse or alert the police. BUILD YOUR BAR TEAM Choose the hostesses for each shift. Drag a hostess to a customer or tap their speech bubble to assign someone. Hostesses earn experience from their work. Collect their progress after closing and upgrade them in STAFF when they are ready. Save your cash to unlock more staff. KEEP THE ORDERS COMING Serve food and drinks, watch for another round and collect the bill before the night ends. Unlock menu items by completing nights and paying game cash. Expand your options as your bar grows. HANDLE THE FALLOUT A refused bill is another decision. Accept the original payment or, when available, call Muscle to collect three times the original bill. The first call each night is free; extra calls use a bonus ticket or an optional rewarded ad. If the police arrive, a cheeky bribe might keep your night going. PAY OFF THE DEBT Your debt keeps growing during play. Collect your revenue and decide what to spend or repay. The collector returns after five playable nights. Keep making progress toward the next bar while enjoying the comic story and your customers' over-the-top reactions. Quick shifts, risky bills and a bar full of cartoon personalities. How far will you push the price? Optional in-app purchases and rewarded ads are available.
Last Light
Guide ships home by sweeping a lighthouse beam across the sea. Manage your lighthouse and village, upgrade your equipment, and experience dynamic weather. A relaxing idle game that respects your time.
- Drag lighthouse beam to guide ships
- Upgrade lighthouse and village
- Dynamic weather system
- Collect ship lore
- Offline progress up to 8 hours
- Home screen widget
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A cozy idle lighthouse game. Drag the beam across a black sea, and every ship it catches finds its way home. Free to play. Rewarded ads are always optional, and one purchase removes all other ads. You keep the only light on a dark coast. Ships come in out of the night, some quick, some heavy, some shy of the light. Put your finger on the sea and sweep the beam over them; the ones you light turn toward harbor, unload their cargo, and the village above the cliffs sells it for Coin. A NIGHT ON THE COAST Check in for two minutes to collect the night and queue an upgrade, or stay for a full sweep when a storm rolls in. Every night ends on a quiet summary: what you lit, what the rocks took, and tomorrow's forecast. WHAT YOU BUILD • A lighthouse that grows with you: lens for range, beam for width, a foghorn for the thick nights, a harbor with more berths. • A village of twelve buildings that lights up window by window and opens new branches of the tower. • A journal of 36 ships and visitors, each with a sketch and a few lines of lore. Some only come out in storms. • Three coasts. When one is fully lit, sail on to the next and keep a permanent bonus. WEATHER THAT CHANGES THE NIGHT Fog narrows the beam. Storms push ships toward the rocks. Calm nights bring double traffic. When a ship drifts toward the reef, a flare calls it home. Flares drop from storms you weather, you can buy them with Coin at the Harbor, and you can also get one by watching a short ad if you choose. MONSTER NIGHTS Every few nights the beam goes dark and the sea answers. Swipe to fire flares at what surfaces, from drifting wisps to the Fog Mother, and keep every window in the village lit. Each one you turn back joins the Bestiary in your journal. A GAME THAT RESPECTS YOUR TIME • No game over. A ship lost to the rocks costs its cargo and nothing more. • The coast keeps working while you are away, up to 8 hours. • A daily storm with a Game Center leaderboard, plus eight achievements. Game Center is optional. • A home screen widget that shows your next build, or the ships waiting for your light. • No account and no login. WHAT IS FOR SALE Everything in the game can be earned by playing. The optional purchases are: • Keeper's Charter (one time): no ads, 2 flares and 15% more Coin every night, 2x and 4x speed, and all three keeper skins. • Remove ads (one time): turns off the ads shown between nights. Rewarded ads stay available, and only play if you tap to watch one. • Fair Winds (one time): play every night at 2x or 4x speed. • Keeper skins (one time): the Lantern, Storm Coat and Festival looks for your lighthouse. Try them on the coast before you buy. • Single skins (one time each): Torii, Nordic, Spanish and Ghost Ship. • Starter chest (once per account): 300 Coin and the Lantern keeper skin. • Coin sacks: 100, 500 or 1,500 Coin. The Keeper's Charter, Remove ads, Fair Winds and Keeper skins support Family Sharing. Restore purchases is in the Harbor and in Settings. Ads are personalized only if you allow tracking when asked, and the game plays the same either way. Hushed, warm and weathered: a small light against a big sea. Privacy Policy: https://lastlight.devera.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Last Light at 3.8 against I Bought A Bar's 3.1. I Bought A Bar's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. I Bought A Bar sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Last Light sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Last Light holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 11 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 50% positive.
I Bought A Bar ships an update weekly, Last Light fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | I Bought A Bar | Last Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (8 ratings) | 3.8 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 262 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gen Studios | Farzin Tavakoli |
Customer experience
I Bought A Bar
Last Light
In-app purchases
I Bought A Bar
- Quick Shift$0.99
- Boss Shift$1.99
- Full Energy Refill$1.99
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- MAX Energy 60$2.99
- 10,000 Cash Pack$2.99
- Permanent 2x Speed$2.99
- 20 Bonus Tickets$3.99
- New York After Hours Pass$6.99
- New Jersey After Hours Pass$6.99
- Starter Bundle$6.99
Last Light
- Torii skin$0.99
- Spanish skin$0.99
- Nordic skin$0.99
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- Ghost Ship skin$0.99
- Starter chest$2.99
- Game Speed$2.99
- Remove ads$3.99
- Coin sack$3.99
- Keeper's Charter$6.99
- Large coin sack$9.99
Questions
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