Comparison

Idle Quest vs Everburn

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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)

About

Everburn

Survive the cold by foraging, hunting, and crafting in this text-based incremental survival game. Each life is short, but every death makes you stronger, allowing you to push deeper into a procedurally generated world. Automate actions and return to a burning fire, even when offline.

Highlights
  • Incremental survival gameplay
  • Text-based world exploration
  • Procedurally generated environments
  • Action automation
  • Offline progression
  • Roguelike progression system
Features
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You wake with no name and no past. Just a dying fire in front of you, and the cold pressing in from every side. Feed it. Forage in the dark, hunt what you can, craft what you need, and hold the cold off for one more night. You won't last long. That's the point. Everburn is a survival incremental about starting over. Every life is short, and every death teaches you something. You come back a little stronger, a little sharper, your fire catching faster than the last time. The wall that killed you becomes the ground you stand on. Death by death, you push deeper into the world. And it's a real world. The whole game is text: words on a screen and a fire that spreads wider the longer you survive. You climb out of the woods into the valley, feel your way through the crystal caves, and reach colder, stranger places the deeper you go. Line up your actions and watch a life run itself. Automate what you've mastered. Close the app and the time is banked, so you always come back with something to spend. And it ends. There is a last chapter, a real one, and then you're done. The first chapters are free. One purchase opens the rest, and it's yours for good. No ads, no subscriptions, ever. How far can one life take you, when you've got as many as it takes?

Screenshots

Idle Quest4 screens
Everburn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Idle Quest at 86% against Everburn's 33%. Idle Quest also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.9) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.1). Everburn's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Idle Quest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Everburn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle Quest holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 86 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Idle Quest's written reviews are positive against 33% of Everburn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Quest ships an update every 2 months, Everburn every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Idle Quest versus Everburn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle QuestEverburn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (86 ratings) — better3.9 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews86.2% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings86 — better31
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB28 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTopCog LLCSaif Alesawy

Customer experience

Idle Quest

All ratings86 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral5.8%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive86.2%
Neutral4.6%
Negative9.2%

Everburn

All ratings31 ratings
Positive71.0%
Neutral3.2%
Negative25.8%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Idle Quest

One-time5
  • 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
1 purchases

Everburn

One-time1
  • Full Game$3.99

Questions

Is Idle Quest free?
Idle Quest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Everburn free?
Everburn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Idle Quest or Everburn?
Idle Quest is rated higher. Idle Quest averages 4.6 out of 5 from 86 ratings, while Everburn averages 3.9 from 31 ratings.
Do Idle Quest or Everburn have ads?
Neither Idle Quest nor Everburn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Quest or Everburn?
Idle Quest ships an update every 2 months, and Everburn every 11 days. Most recently, Idle Quest was updated on October 17, 2026 and Everburn on October 15, 2026.

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