Samurai of Hyuga vs CodeBastion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Samurai of Hyuga
Embark on a brutal interactive tale set in a land of fantasy and grim reality. Make tough choices as a ronin, facing combat, drama, and your own demons. Will you protect others or succumb to your bloodthirst?
- Become a ronin, manslayer, and bodyguard
- Interactive story with tough choices
- Combat and drama
- Join with a spirit animal
- Face mythological oni
- Over 140,000 words of fiction
Read full descriptionHide full description
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around. A bodyguard, an assassin, a savior. Become all those things and more! Will you be able to change your ways and protect those around you? Or will you succumb to your bloodthirst and become the ultimate manslayer? Will you find love, or lust? Will you adopt a code of honor, or do whatever it takes to win? Can your spirit survive against your own demons? Combat, drama, and so much more await you in the first book of this epic series! • Become a badass ronin, a master manslayer, and reluctant bodyguard for hire! • Join with your spirit animal to take on mythological oni! • Face down your own demons in this dramatic, unforgettable adventure! • Over 140,000 words of interactive fiction!
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CodeBastion at none against Samurai of Hyuga's 1. CodeBastion also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 13 months). Samurai of Hyuga's advantage is ratings volume (161 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. Samurai of Hyuga sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.
CodeBastion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Samurai of Hyuga has 161 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Samurai of Hyuga's written reviews are positive against 100% of CodeBastion's.
Samurai of Hyuga ships an update every 13 months, CodeBastion every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Samurai of Hyuga | CodeBastion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (161 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 161 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 2 weeks — 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 | 29 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Gines Ortiz |
Customer experience
Samurai of Hyuga
CodeBastion
Bugs and requests
Samurai of Hyuga
Reported bugs
2 issues- Choices leading to blank screens and forced restarts
- Compatibility issues on older devices
Requested features
3 requests- Continuation of the story in the next book
- More character customization options
- Improved performance and stability
CodeBastion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Samurai of Hyuga
- Chapters 5 through 14$4.99
CodeBastion
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Samurai of Hyuga free?
Is CodeBastion free?
Which has better reviews, Samurai of Hyuga or CodeBastion?
Do Samurai of Hyuga or CodeBastion have ads?
Which is updated more often, Samurai of Hyuga or CodeBastion?
Other comparisons















