Idle Quest vs Incremental ELM Quest 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Quest
Embark on quests by accepting tasks from townsfolk, traveling to locations, and battling unique enemies. Return to town to collect gold, craft gear, and upgrade your character. Continue your adventure even when offline.
- Accept quests from townsfolk
- Battle hundreds of zany enemies
- Craft hundreds of exotic items
- Unlock over 40 achievements
- Compete on global leaderboards
- Grow stats to extreme values
- Upgrade four skills
- Continue quests offline
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Questing! It's what we love, and it's what we do. Begin by getting quests from townsfolk. Then, scurry to the designated questing location with the footgear of your choice. Once there, slay the needed monsters with a flip of your sword, and return to town. Charm the townsfolk with your magical amulet and collect massive piles of gold! Use your newfound loot to craft new gear, letting you tackle with ease the next challenging quest... -Fight hundreds of zany enemies such as Rioting Centaurs and Double Parking Lawnmowers! -Craft hundreds of exotic items such as Name Brand Snowglobes and Vorpal Katanas! -Over 40 achievements to unlock! -Compete with friends on the global leaderboards! -Grow your stats to values greater than 10 to the power 200! -Four skills to upgrade to improve your questing powers! -Continue your quests even when the game is closed! (Note: no battery life is used when the game is closed)
Incremental ELM Quest 2
Explore a world where elemental forces are merging, cataloging creatures and uncovering a deep mystery. This offline RPG features extensive progression systems, a vast bestiary, and a narrative told through field reports. Earn rewards even while offline.
- Catalog over 4000 unique creatures
- Level up over 300 hero classes
- Explore elemental portals
- Offline progression
- Narrative told through field journals
- Deep progression systems
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A free incremental RPG you can play entirely offline. No ads, no paywall, and every goal in the game is reachable without spending a cent. The world's eight elemental forces were once held apart. Now they are bleeding together, and everything is changing. You are a Cataloguer: a licensed scholar sent into the saturated zones to document what lives there. Encounter creatures, record them, and fill the Manifest, one species at a time. The more you catalogue, the more the world opens up, and the closer you come to the thing nobody wants to talk about: why everything is falling apart. If you've always wanted to play a uniquely idle monster collecting adventure with the patience of a nature documentary and the wit of a dungeon crawl, this is your chance. Explore portals, return to new species and new regions, and watch the Manifest fill in like a field journal. WHAT YOU'LL FIND • Over 4,000 creatures to find, fight, and catalogue. Each holds a small piece of the overall narrative. • Over 300 classes to equip and level up. Send your hero into elemental portals and take control as battles unfold. • Offline progression that unlocks early and never stops: your hero keeps earning and your disciples keep hunting while the app is closed. • Every portal is graded. The threat ratings are, unfortunately, accurate. • 16 narrators bring the world alive through their lost dossiers. Sixteen cataloguers came before you and its on you to find out why they stopped writing. • Deep progression: level classes, raise disciples, study at the university, upgrade your guild license, master insignias, power up skills, and more. • Rare enemy variants, an ever-expanding ladder of achievements, and Game Center leaderboards (purely optional). FAIR BY DESIGN The whole game is offline, free, and ad-free. The optional purchases are purely cosmetics that support a solo, part-time developer. I'm an incremental game fan who got bored waiting for the next one to drop. Made by one person as a part-time passion project. Thank you for giving it a shot!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Incremental ELM Quest 2 at every 4 days against Idle Quest's every 2 months. Incremental ELM Quest 2 also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Idle Quest's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Idle Quest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Incremental ELM Quest 2 sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Idle Quest against 4.7 for Incremental ELM Quest 2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 86 and 49 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Idle Quest's written reviews are positive against 83% of Incremental ELM Quest 2's.
Idle Quest ships an update every 2 months, Incremental ELM Quest 2 every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Quest | Incremental ELM Quest 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (86 ratings) | 4.7 (49 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.2% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 86 — better | 49 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 190 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | TopCog LLC | Eric Marin |
Customer experience
Idle Quest
Incremental ELM Quest 2
In-app purchases
Idle Quest
- 100 Gems + x100 Gold$0.99
- 400 Gems + 3 Day Stat Boost!$2.99
- Idle Quest 1k Gems + Permanent IIQQR of x1.05$9.99
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- 2.5k Gems$9.99
- 6k Gems for Idle Quest!$19.99
Incremental ELM Quest 2
- Cosmetic: D- Pack$0.99
- Support Tip$0.99
- Support Coffee$4.99
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- Cosmetic: S- Pack$6.99
- Cosmetic: SS- Pack$7.99
- Cosmetic: S+ Pack$7.99
- Cosmetic: SS+ Pack$8.99
- Cosmetic: SSS- Pack$9.99
- Cosmetic: SSS Pack$9.99
- Cosmetic: SSS+ Pack$9.99
- Cosmetic: Letter of Patronage$9.99
- Support Lunch$9.99
- Cosmetic: Founder's Edition$19.99
- Support Dinner$19.99
- Support Updates$29.99
- Support Next Game$49.99
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