Comparison

Flux Armada vs Cosmic Forge

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

Head to head
About

Flux Armada

Features
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The Fleet, or your collection of ships, in Flux Armada is where Flux Armada gets its name. At any time, you can rearrange your Fleet to construct the optimal path for attacking Infiltrator units, or create a blocking section to prevent your Core Ship from taking direct hits. When itโ€™s your turn, choose between cards in your hand that offer different capabilities of attack for different amounts of energy. If you pay its cost, you send out the Transport Orb with it inside. The other player has no idea what you selected, but they know they donโ€™t want it! Watch out! Once your Transport Orb makes it out into the open space between fleets, it becomes anyoneโ€™s match in an escalating game of back and forth between the Guardians. Once the Transport Orb makes it past the Guardianโ€™s defenses, it will collide with a ship within the Fleet. When a Transport Orb opens up, you can expect any number of nasty surprises like a HE BOMB or the release of Infiltrator assault units. Infiltrator units make their way through enemy fleet, taking the shortest path to the Core Ship. Once they reach the Core Ship, theyโ€™ll self-destruct against it in an attempt to take it down. Make sure to take out enemy Infiltrators, by creating a long path for them!

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Cosmic Forge

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Cosmic Forge is a deep offline idle game about turning a single iron vein into an interstellar mining empire. START SIMPLE Tap rocks. Upgrade your shaft. Automate with a baseline foreman. Watch a transporter shuttle ore from the mine to the refinery, then to the warehouse, where it sells for Coins. Every component โ€” shaft, transporter, refinery, warehouse โ€” has its own milestone multipliers every 10 levels, so progression keeps unlocking speed and capacity spikes. UNLOCK THE COSMOS Beyond Alpha Asteroid there are comet clusters, planets, moons, anomalies, and singularity zones. Each location type has its own production multipliers and warehouse sell rates โ€” anomaly-grade minerals pay poorly per second but richly per sale. HIRE MANAGERS Common managers enable auto-mining; bonus managers stack passive multipliers and trigger powerful active abilities (instant trips, production boosts, free upgrades). Assign them per mine. Some managers survive prestige. RESEARCH TREE 50+ research nodes across multiple branches โ€” economy, production, transport, offline efficiency, stock capacity, coin multipliers, prestige. Queue active research in parallel slots (expand via Galactic Research). Every tier you complete compounds. PRESTIGE FOREVER Perform a Stellar Reset when the cosmos is ready. Earn Stardust based on your total iron-equivalent across every resource. Spend Stardust on permanent upgrades that carry across runs. Eventually unlock Galactic Ascension โ€” a meta-prestige layer with its own research tree and Dark Matter currency. DAILY CHALLENGES Three challenges per day with streak rewards at 7 and 14 days. Missed days reset the streak but the game doesn't punish absence. OFFLINE EARNINGS Step away for up to a week โ€” Cosmic Forge continues mining at a tapered efficiency schedule and rolls a summary up on your return. Research that was in flight completes while you sleep. COMPLETELY OFFLINE No account required. No internet required. No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. No tracking. No analytics. No SDKs phoning home. GOD MODE (OPTIONAL) Want to test builds, skip a grind, or just play sandbox? God Mode is free for everyone โ€” a one-tap toggle in Settings (behind a "this may corrupt your save" warning, because it really can). First public release โ€” 0.19.0. Thanks for playing through 100+ pre-release builds with us.

Screenshots

Flux Armada4 screens
Cosmic Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cosmic Forge at every 5 weeks against Flux Armada's every 38 months. Flux Armada's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flux Armada ships an update every 38 months, Cosmic Forge every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Flux Armada versus Cosmic Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlux ArmadaCosmic Forge
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsEvery 5 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size139 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKenneth RoecksQUALITY CAT SP Z O O

In-app purchases

None

Flux Armada

No in-app purchases

None

Cosmic Forge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flux Armada free?
Flux Armada is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cosmic Forge free?
Cosmic Forge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flux Armada or Cosmic Forge have ads?
Neither Flux Armada nor Cosmic Forge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flux Armada or Cosmic Forge?
Flux Armada ships an update every 38 months, and Cosmic Forge every 5 weeks. Most recently, Flux Armada was updated on September 18, 2026 and Cosmic Forge on September 19, 2026.

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