Showdown at Willow Creek vs CodeBastion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Showdown at Willow Creek
Embark on an interactive Western mystery where your decisions shape the narrative. Explore a town filled with secrets, romance, and conflict as you unravel a conspiracy. Your choices determine the fate of Willow Creek and its inhabitants.
- Interactive text-based story
- Branching narrative choices
- Western mystery genre
- Multiple romance options
- Moral and ethical dilemmas
- Unravel town conspiracies
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Saddle up and defend the town of Willow Creek from nefarious outlaws and city slickers! It all starts when a rancher's daughter goes missing, and it ends at the showdown at Willow Creek, where greed, lust, science, and Mother Nature will face off at high noon. Showdown at Willow Creek is an interactive western mystery novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--but powered by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Gamble, seduce, brawl, or shoot your way through Willow Creek, where gunslingers make the laws and everybody has secrets. Will you romance the gambler or the soiled dove (or both)? Will you side with the scientists bringing electricity to the Old West, or with a tribe of Native American Utes? Will you unravel the conspiracy that threatens to tear the town apart, or will you light the fuse to blow it all sky high?
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.
- Idle clicker and incremental progression
- Resource and citizen management
- Deep skill tree with research
- Expeditions and exploration
- Timed defense challenges
- Offline progress
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CodeBastion at 5.0 against Showdown at Willow Creek's 4.4. CodeBastion also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Showdown at Willow Creek's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price 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. Showdown at Willow Creek sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.
CodeBastion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Showdown at Willow Creek has 21 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Showdown at Willow Creek's written reviews are positive against 100% of CodeBastion's.
Showdown at Willow Creek ships an update every 11 months, CodeBastion every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Showdown at Willow Creek | CodeBastion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Choice of Games LLC | Gines Ortiz |
Customer experience
Showdown at Willow Creek
CodeBastion
In-app purchases
Showdown at Willow Creek
- Chapters 4 through 8$4.99
CodeBastion
No in-app purchases
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