Give your next idle world a monster-sized cast.
Gold and Goblins is a merge game about mining: combine goblins, smash rocks, clear the mine, move to the next one. Monster Country Idle Tycoon keeps the creature appeal and changes the job: you run a town of monster-owned businesses, follow a comic-strip story across 200+ episodes, and let automated shops earn while the app is closed. Free on iOS and Android.
From Kano Games, makers of Monster Country Idle Tycoon. Gold and Goblins' full store title is Gold and Goblins: Mining Games, by AppQuantum.
| What matters | Monster Country IdleOur game | Gold and Goblins |
|---|---|---|
| Your growing world | Silkwood, a town of monster-owned businesses: a hardware store, a bar, a bakery, a bat cave. New parts of town open episode by episode. | Goblin-operated mines. Clear one, unlock the next, explore new regions. |
| Main decisions | Which business gets the cash: buy customers for it, hit its customer bonus, automate it, move on. | Merge lower-level goblins into stronger ones, smash rocks, collect cards for bonuses. |
| Story | A comic-strip story told episode by episode: Rory the werewolf mayor, Frances the sheriff and a cast that keeps growing, with a joke every few panels. | Cute goblin miners who need your leadership; the listing describes merging, mining and cards. |
| Levels | 200+ episodes, each a new part of town with new businesses and monsters. New episodes arrive in regular updates. | New mines and regions to explore and clear. |
| Events and leaderboards | Weekly Main and Mini events, each with its own goals, rewards and a leaderboard: one global, one for your friends. | Special idle events with rewards, and sharing your progress with friends. |
| Choose it for | Monster characters, a town to grow and a story to follow while it earns. | Goblin merging and rock-clearing. |
| Price | Free to download. Optional in-app purchases and rewarded ads you choose to watch. | Free to download. Ads and in-app purchases. |
Based on both games' official store listings and Kano product information, checked September 21, 2026. The recommendation is ours. We have not independently play-tested Gold and Goblins.
Take over Silkwood, open a hardware store and buy customers for it. Then a bar, a bakery, a bat cave. Each business grows through new designs as it levels up, and finishing an episode opens a portal to a new part of town with new shops and new monsters to recruit. The decision each visit is which business gets the cash next.
Rory Thompson is the newly elected mayor and, after one unlucky jog past a portal, a werewolf. Frances McClane is the sheriff who came to investigate a town that should not exist and stayed to protect everyone in it. The story plays out in comic strips, episode by episode, across more than 200 episodes, and the cast has opinions about everything.
From the second episode you can automate a business. It asks for one of the town’s characters at a set level; once it is automated it keeps earning at the same rate while the app is closed. Collect in the morning, at lunch and before bed, reinvest, and move on at your own pace.
Read all on the App Store (1.3K ratings) or Google Play (4.7K reviews).
So cute! Other idle games are obviously franchises, but this one is so creative and unique that I feel like it was someone's passion project. No ads if you don't want them. Frequent engaging events. Great if you love spooky characters that aren't necessarily evil! I love the style and the sense of humor.
I love games like this and this one has big heart. Story-driven idle game with a good casual feel.
i saw an ad for this on instagram & i’m not gonna lie, werewolf main character was a huge pull for me. it’s very charming and the characters are written in really funny ways, much more than what i initially expected from an idle game. art is nice too, overall just a really solid game to open every now and then :]
I saw an ad for this and when I saw it was an idle game filled with spooky characters I had to try it! I love idle games but they usually get boring fast. Not this one! There’s storylines and fun comics throughout each level. I love the events as well. I’m also really competitive so it’s really great to have some competition in an idle game!
Verbatim player reviews from the stores, trimmed to the reviewer's own sentences. Names are shown as the reviewer wrote them.
Choose Monster Country Idle Tycoon if the goblins were the best part of Gold and Goblins and you want a world with more characters in it: a town of monster businesses, a comic-strip story across 200+ episodes, weekly events with leaderboards, and an economy that keeps earning while you are away.
A different creature-themed idle game, not a replacement for the merge loop. Choose Monster Country for the town, the cast and the story. If merging goblins and clearing rock is the part you like, this one does not do that.
No. Monster Country is about building and automating businesses in a monster town. There is no merging, no mine and no rock to clear. The shared appeal is a creature-filled world that grows; the daily decisions are about businesses, characters and story.
If the goblins and the growing world are what you enjoy, Monster Country gives you a town to build and a cast to follow: a werewolf mayor, a sheriff, a gorgon hairdresser, a witch chef, and more as the episodes go on. The story is told in comic strips between the business decisions.
Over 200, and more arrive in regular updates. Each episode is a new part of town with new businesses to open and new monsters to recruit. Customers and cash reset when you step through the portal; your characters, cards, Nanospiders, Dream Crystals and renovations carry over.
Yes, once a business is automated. From the second episode you can automate a business by having one of the town’s characters at a set level. From then on it keeps earning while the app is closed, and you collect the accumulated cash when you return.
Yes. Monster Country Idle Tycoon is free on the App Store and Google Play, with optional in-app purchases and rewarded ads you choose to watch. It is rated 13+ on the App Store and Everyone on Google Play. Use the store buttons on this page; they open the official listings.
Build your monster town, meet the residents and let the businesses earn while you sleep. Free on iPhone, iPad and Android.
It is a mobile game for iPhone, iPad and Android. Scan the code with your phone camera, or open the store page you need.
