The Marble Age vs Pixel Tribe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Marble Age
Lead a Greek civilization from a small village to a world-dominating city-state over 4000 years. Manage population, technology, buildings, trade, exploration, and warfare while navigating historical events.
- Turn-based strategy
- Civilization development
- Technology invention
- City building
- Trade and exploration
- Warfare management
- Historical events
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Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world! **Pocket Gamer - Bronze Award ** During the 4000 years (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD), you will have to: • Raise the population • Invent technologies • Construct buildings • Trade goods • Explore world • Found new cities • Start and end wars with neighbors • Survive through the hundred real historical events. The key to victory is choosing the right development priorities, allocating resources and managing the foreign policy. Mechanics of the game is a mix of old-school game designs.
Pixel Tribe
Build and manage a Viking tribe in a retro pixel art strategy RPG. Craft weapons, upgrade your kingdom, and lead your Vikings in turn-based raids and PVP battles. Farm resources, raise animals, and customize your village to become the ultimate Viking chief.
- Build and upgrade Viking kingdom
- Craft weapons and armor
- Turn-based combat raids
- Farm resources and raise animals
- Multiplayer clans and PVP battles
- Customize Viking skills
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Pixel Tribe: Viking Kingdom is a strategy RPG with retro pixel art graphics where you build and upgrade a tribe of Vikings. As the chief, you must build your kingdom, raise a tribe of Vikings, craft weapons and armor, and send your Vikings on epic turn-based raids. Craft items and resources, upgrade your kingdom and improve your Vikings fighting skills. Build, farm, raise animals, decorate, upgrade and customize your own Viking Kingdom. Craft weapons and armor for your Vikings to give them a fighting chance against the toughest enemies in Midgard! PIXEL TRIBE: VIKING KINGDOM FEATURES CRAFT, BUILD & UPGRADE ● Craft and upgrade weapons and armor. ● Build and upgrade buildings like the Weaponsmith, Viking ship, Church and more. ● Craft resources to earn gold and upgrade your kingdom. ● Craft items and gear to upgrade your Vikings fighting skills. ● Upgrade your farm to craft food and more valuable resources. FIGHTING ● Earn rewards by fighting and raid your enemies! ● Level up your Vikings and upgrade your fighting skills! ● Fighting lets you specialize your Vikings as tanks, fighters, archers or mages. ● Top the Leaderboards by fighting your way to glory! FARM, BUILD & UPGRADE ● Build a farm and craft food to heal your Vikings. ● Plant and harvest crops. ● Build your kingdom and raise animals. ● Farm and feed your animals to produce eggs, wool, and milk. MULTIPLAYER ● Clans with Raids, Orders, and Buffs ● PVP battles ● Leagues and Leaderboards ● Visit other Players villages
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pixel Tribe at Free against The Marble Age's $2.99. Pixel Tribe also leads on ratings volume (4K vs 81) and review sentiment (89% vs 76%). The Marble Age's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (6.1 vs 13.0). On rating, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Pixel Tribe is free to download; The Marble Age costs $2.99 up front. The Marble Age sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pixel Tribe sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pixel Tribe holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Tribe has 4K ratings behind it against 81, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of The Marble Age's written reviews are positive against 89% of Pixel Tribe's.
The Marble Age ships an update every 5 weeks, Pixel Tribe every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Marble Age | Pixel Tribe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (81 ratings) | 4.9 (4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.3% of reviews | 89.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 81 | 4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 308 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MIKHAIL VASILEV18619964037 | Kvannli AS |
Customer experience
The Marble Age
Pixel Tribe
Bugs and requests
The Marble Age
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pixel Tribe
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional crashes or bugs
- Soft-locking issues due to progression imbalance
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to rename or customize Vikings
- Expanded clan/multiplayer features
- More diverse building and decoration options
- Reduced crafting/production times
- Offline/background progression mode
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- Challenging boss battles or events
- Improved quest/progression system
In-app purchases
The Marble Age
- Civilization points pack$0.99
Pixel Tribe
- Pocketfull of Gems$0.99
- Pile of Gems$1.99
- Bag of Gems$4.99
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- Sack of Gems$9.99
- Box of Gems$19.99
- Chest of Gems$49.99
- Golden Gem Chest$99.99
