Comparison

Samurai of Hyuga vs CodeBastion

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

Head to head
About

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?

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Idle clicker and incremental progression
  • Resource and citizen management
  • Deep skill tree with research
  • Expeditions and exploration
  • Timed defense challenges
  • Offline progress
Features
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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

Samurai of Hyuga4 screens
CodeBastion4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Samurai of Hyuga sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Samurai of Hyuga ships an update every 13 months, CodeBastion every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Samurai of Hyuga versus CodeBastion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSamurai of HyugaCodeBastion
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (161 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings161 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB40 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCGines Ortiz

Customer experience

Samurai of Hyuga

All ratings161 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews122 reviews
Positive85.2%
Neutral6.6%
Negative8.2%

CodeBastion

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

1 purchases

Samurai of Hyuga

One-time1
  • Chapters 5 through 14$4.99
None

CodeBastion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Samurai of Hyuga free?
Samurai of Hyuga is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CodeBastion free?
CodeBastion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Samurai of Hyuga or CodeBastion?
CodeBastion is rated higher. Samurai of Hyuga averages 4.8 out of 5 from 161 ratings, while CodeBastion averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Samurai of Hyuga or CodeBastion have ads?
Samurai of Hyuga shows ads; CodeBastion does not.
Which is updated more often, Samurai of Hyuga or CodeBastion?
Samurai of Hyuga ships an update every 13 months, and CodeBastion every 2 weeks. Most recently, Samurai of Hyuga was updated on October 24, 2026 and CodeBastion on October 24, 2026.

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