Knight Commander vs CTMayor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Knight Commander
Lead a new tribe, manage resources, and build your empire. Customize your people, craft items, and engage in trade and combat. Survive disasters and complete quests to grow your strength.
- Resource gathering and building
- Item crafting and selling
- Tribe customization
- Quest completion
- Combat against AI opponents
- Disaster survival
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You are the leader of a brand new tribe. Look after your people by giving them food and letting them sleep. You can customize their gender and name to make it personal i.e. send Uncle Bob down the mines. Tell them to gather resources and build buildings and craft items to make your empire stronger. Sell your items for gold and further strengthen your empire by buying services from the shop.(No In-App Purchases required) Equip them with weapons that you have made. Complete quests for gold. fight with computer opponents. Survive disasters such as fire, flood and the clowns! Features: Over 150 items to make which include gravy,swords and sheds. High level of customization possible. Rich sound effects. Dynamic in game economy. Intuitive design. Lovely music. A perfect way to waste some time. Fully Voice over compatible. 100% imagination 0% graphics. Any and all feedback very welcome. @2018
CTMayor
Engage in three unique city simulation experiences: govern an ancient Roman province, manage a modern metropolis with zoning and infrastructure, or build a sprawling 20th-century transport network. Each mode offers distinct challenges and objectives for aspiring city builders.
- Ancient Rome city-building
- Modern city management
- Transport network simulation
- Disaster and unrest response
- Economic balancing
- Infrastructure development
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CTMayor offers three distinct simulation modes, each focusing on a different era and style of city management: • Ancient Rome Mode Rule as a provincial governor of the Roman Empire. Plan and grow prosperous cities, satisfy citizens’ needs, and respond to disasters, divine unrest, and hostile forces. Inspired by classic Roman city-building simulations. • Classic City Mode Design and manage a modern city by zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, building infrastructure, and collecting taxes to support expansion. Maintain quality of life, balance the economy, and monitor environmental health to prevent decline or bankruptcy. Inspired by early city-building classics. • Transport Company Mode Create and operate a comprehensive transport network using trucks, buses, trains, aircraft, and ships. Connect towns and industries, deliver cargo efficiently, and reinvest profits to expand your network. Spanning 1950–2050, your objective is to achieve the highest performance rating. For information about how the app works and how your data is handled, please review our policies: Service Terms: https://drwjf.github.io/ctm/ctm-terms.html Privacy Policy: https://drwjf.github.io/ctm/ctm-privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CTMayor at Free against Knight Commander's $1.99. Knight Commander's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume 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
CTMayor is free to download; Knight Commander costs $1.99 up front. CTMayor sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per year. Knight Commander asks for nothing beyond the download.
Knight Commander holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 63 and 41 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Knight Commander's written reviews are positive against 47% of CTMayor's.
Knight Commander ships an update every 6 days, CTMayor every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Knight Commander | CTMayor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (63 ratings) — better | 3.8 (41 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.7% of reviews — better | 46.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 41 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 384 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Sturt | Jianfeng Wu |
Customer experience
Knight Commander
CTMayor
User reviews
Knight Commander
From 63 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Accessible for VoiceOver users
- 🎮 Addictive and fun gameplay
- ✨ Great resource management
- 🔊 Good in-game sounds
- 🔄 Frequent updates
Room to improve
- ❓ Unclear item/building uses
- 📉 Some features feel incomplete
- 🎨 Art and sound quality questioned
- 🤔 Confusing for new players
- 📱 UI cut off on certain devices
CTMayor
From 41 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Faithful recreation of classic games
- 👍 Enjoyable city simulation
- 👍 Good approximation of originals
- 👍 Fun to play
- 👍 Great for kids' strategy
Room to improve
- 🐛 Ads block menu/buttons
- 🐛 Barely playable due to ads
- 🐛 Mouse cursor offset
- 🐛 Extremely slow and crashing
- 🐛 Lagging and unplayable
Bugs and requests
Knight Commander
Reported bugs
47 issues- Bug when tapping character to send to task
- Text cut off on iPhone XS Max
- Cannot create things manually
- Screen freezes and app closes during battle
- Game crashes when clicking resources button
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- Bug when building multiple sheds
- Bug with team auto-assign menu
- Upgrade amounts not increasing correctly
- Cannot add new person when gold is met
- Shop options disappear
- Game crashes when opening
- Feed all button not working
- Automation crashes game
- App keeps crashing after iOS update
- Inventory crashes game
- Quests fail even with items
- Sell price drops to 1 gold
- Energy increase closes app, resets tribe
- Cannot find resource screen
- Automation crashes game
- App crashes several times
- Game closes when inventory is clicked
- Game crashes when opening inventory
- Game closes when trying to open it
- Game crashes when trying to use automation
- Game crashes after last update
- Game closes when inventory is clicked
- Bug with team auto-assign menu
- Upgrade amounts not increasing correctly
- Cannot add new person when gold is met
- Shop options disappear
- Game crashes when opening
- Feed all button not working
- Automation crashes game
- App keeps crashing after iOS update
- Inventory crashes game
- Quests fail even with items
- Sell price drops to 1 gold
- Energy increase closes app, resets tribe
- Cannot find resource screen
- Automation crashes game
- App crashes several times
- Game closes when inventory is clicked
- Game crashes when opening inventory
- Game closes when trying to open it
- Game crashes when trying to use automation
- Game crashes after last update
Requested features
27 requests- Add more updates and complications
- Add more features and tasks
- Expand with children or prisoners of war
- Add romance option for characters
- Allow visiting hospitalized characters
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- Add more music tracks
- Add a guide or chat room
- Add a VoiceOver tutorial
- Add a tutorial for sighted players
- Ability to use three-finger swipe for options
- Add ability to grow cocoa beans and make chocolate
- Ability to make cakes and pies
- Add more sounds for building and crafting
- Allow spending mana on other things
- Ability to get married
- Add more descriptions for items and buildings
- Make the war system clearer
- Balance CPU energy levels
- Ability to listen to original and new soundtracks
- Add more content and contracts
- Add more resources and tasks
- Allow manual creation of items
- Add more sounds for building and crafting
- Improve tutorial comprehensiveness
- Clarify diamond usage
- Add more descriptions for items and buildings
- Ability to assign weapons to multiple people on iPad
CTMayor
Reported bugs
13 issues- Ads block menu
- Ads block building buttons
- Mouse cursor offset
- Game crashes
- Game lags
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- Unable to quit game
- Power not working
- Budget screen sliders have no effect
- Game not saving progress
- Police and fire systems not covering city
- Pollution levels too high
- Game progression is too slow
- Directional menu for tracks is confusing
Requested features
16 requests- Auto budget on city simulator
- Add AI and multiplayer
- Add sandbox mode
- Add colony survival mode
- Add trams
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- Add more airplane and train options
- Add bonus buildings (casinos, parks, etc.)
- Add street view mode
- Add rescue center
- Improve graphics and settings
- Add download/temp download feature for GRFS
- Make all directions for trains/roads possible
- Add zoom in and zoom out feature
- Make time fluid (speed up/pause)
- Add headquarters for police stations
- Translate comments from other languages
In-app purchases
Knight Commander
No in-app purchases
CTMayor
- Sponsorship Yearly$0.991 Year
