Comparison

Industries vs Virtonomics

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

Head to head
About

Industries

Build and manage your own industrial empire, producing and selling a wide range of goods. Trade on a global market, negotiate contracts with other players, and strategically develop your production facilities. Complete quests for rewards and customize your personal residence with collected prestige items.

Highlights
  • Build industrial plants
  • Produce and sell products
  • Trade on world market
  • Negotiate player contracts
  • Manage regional factors
  • Complete quests
  • Customize residence
Features
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Create your own corporate empire, build complex industrial plants, expand and develop them to produce and sell countless products. You trade raw materials and products with your fellow players via the world market and sell finished products to local metropolises, shopping malls, jewelers, car manufacturers and many more. Here, supply and demand determine the price, so always keep a close eye on the market. Use the communication possibilities with other players to discuss your products with them and negotiate individual contracts. Use the influence of different regions and their factors to keep production speed, costs and maintenance in line with the product. Team up with other companies in a group to develop common strategies and advance your interests. From time to time, large corporations and states will approach all players in the form of quests and want to buy some material. If you deliver the necessary products, you will always be well rewarded. If you can deliver a lot, you can even get a special card, with which you can operate one of your industrial complexes much more profitably for a short time. At the end of the quest, the top-ranked player gets a rare and valuable prestige object. Use your accumulated wealth to design your residence according to your wishes and collect the rare prestige objects and store them safely in your vault. Create your empire, become an industrial magnate and dominate the world market! At en.wiki.industries-game.ch you will find a lot of information about the game that can help you at any time. In order to offer you the best possible gaming experience, we always welcome your feedback! Feel free to write us directly via in-game feedback.

About

Virtonomics

Engage in a deep multiplayer business simulation where you build and manage companies across various industries. Make strategic decisions about production, marketing, and finance to compete for market share and grow your virtual enterprise.

Highlights
  • Multiplayer business simulation
  • Economics and finance management
  • Entrepreneurship and strategy
  • Production and sales planning
  • Team and employee management
  • Non-linear open-world gameplay
Features
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Create your dream company and become a tycoon! If you are looking for a casual tycoon game with simple and obvious gameplay, Virtonomics is NOT for you. Please, find something else. Virtonomics is a multiplayer business simulation game about economics, management, entrepreneurship, competition, finance, marketing, sales, production, strategy, innovation, startup development, new technologies, scientific research, team and employee management, etc. For entrepreneurs and managers: Choose an industry and market, and create a virtual prototype of your company. Experiment with development strategies and business models. Find an effective strategy to grow your business! For students and startups: Start a business and learn how to manage a company in a highly competitive environment. Core management, strategy, operations, marketing, sales, finance, HR, manufacturing, supply chains, etc. For fans of tycoon games: Turn a small family business into a leading global corporation! Your main goal in this business game is to create an effective and successful global company. Players are building and managing their startups and big corporations in various industries while competing for market share. In the process of business development, each manager has to make important decisions every day. The best thing about Virtonomics is that players are able to witness the results of their business decisions much sooner than they would in real life. – How efficient is your team? – How effective is your marketing campaign? – Should you improve your managerial skills for better results? – Have you chosen the best partners possible? Players encounter these kinds of questions daily. By making the correct decisions at the right times, their business stands a chance at becoming the next economic powerhouse. Experience truly non-linear gameplay – Ever wondered what it’s like to manage a chain of retail stores or an oil refinery? – How about owning the biggest gym in Hong Kong? – The biggest agricultural farm in Argentina? – Perhaps you’d like to become the mayor of New York? Players aren’t limited to a single scenario or a preset number of choices that they can make in the game. The Virtonomics tycoon game provides an open-world, nonlinear environment for business-savvy people. The economic conditions that everyone is able to experience within Virtonomics are the result of choices made by every single player. In a true virtual economy, every participant matters. All players become a part of a rapidly growing economy and influence it with their actions. Each player receives virtual start-up capital. It’s completely up to each individual how much of their startup capital is going to be spent. Everyone has to come up with specific business goals and strategies to achieve them. Players can choose to create the most recognizable brand, build the highest-grossing company, produce the best quality products, or form a billion-dollar corporation; the possibilities are endless. Every player picks their own path and their final destination.

Screenshots

Industries4 screens
Virtonomics3 screens

Verdict

The call

Industries and Virtonomics both sit at 3.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 62% of Industries's written reviews are positive against 25% of Virtonomics's. Virtonomics's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 14). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Industries sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Virtonomics asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.2 for Industries against 3.3 for Virtonomics. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 8 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Industries's written reviews are positive against 25% of Virtonomics's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Industries versus Virtonomics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIndustriesVirtonomics
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (13 ratings)3.3 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.8% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better8
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.011.0
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB15 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMichel VogtSimformer Inc.

Customer experience

Industries

All ratings13 ratings
Positive53.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative46.2%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive61.8%
Neutral8.8%
Negative29.4%

Virtonomics

All ratings6 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Industries

One-time14
  • 800 diamonds$1.99
  • 2,000,000 money$1.99
  • Recycling (-25%)$1.99
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  • 500 diamonds & 800K money$1.99
  • Efficiency (200%)$3.99
  • Recycling (-50%)$3.99
  • 6,000,000 money$4.99
  • 5,000 diamonds$4.99
  • 12,000 diamonds$9.99
  • 15,000,000 money$9.99
  • 2K diamonds & 10M money$9.99
  • 6'000'000 money$19.99
  • 80,000,000 money$40.99
  • 10K diamonds & 100M money$49.99
None

Virtonomics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Industries free?
Industries is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Virtonomics free?
Virtonomics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Industries or Virtonomics?
Virtonomics is rated higher. Industries averages 3.2 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Virtonomics averages 3.3 from 8 ratings.
Do Industries or Virtonomics have ads?
Both Industries and Virtonomics show ads.

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