Industries vs The Provider
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Build industrial plants
- Produce and sell products
- Trade on world market
- Negotiate player contracts
- Manage regional factors
- Complete quests
- Customize residence
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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.
The Provider
Simulate a lifetime of financial and career decisions from age eighteen. Navigate job choices, investments, and business ventures to build wealth and a fulfilling life. Experience the consequences of your choices over hundreds of months.
- Simulate career progression
- Manage investments and finances
- Start and grow businesses
- Experience life events
- Make critical life choices
- Explore different states
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You are eighteen. You have two hundred dollars, no degree, and rent is due in thirty days. Or you have a trust fund, $800 a month for life, and a family that burns its people out by forty. You didn't pick. Nobody picks. That's where The Provider begins. From here you get one month at a time, about six hundred of them. Take the shift or take the class. Rent or buy. Pay down the card or put it in the index fund. Then you press End Month — the paycheck lands, the bills come out, and the receipt tells you exactly what your choices were worth. The receipt never flatters you. WORK YOUR WAY UP Start on the fast-food line at $12 an hour and climb. Or go to trade school at night and come out a licensed plumber with your name on the trucks. Or grind through medical school and spend a decade underwater before the money ever turns. Seventeen jobs, five trades, degrees from associate to master's, and licensing exams you can genuinely fail. MONEY THAT BEHAVES LIKE MONEY Index funds and individual stocks. A 401(k) with an employer match you'd be foolish to leave on the table and an early-withdrawal penalty that shows you the full damage before you confirm. Mortgages, refinancing, property taxes. Credit-card interest compounding against you roughly ten times faster than the market compounds for you. Crypto, if you're feeling brave. Two hundred a month from age eighteen is six figures by your mid-forties; start at thirty and you finish with barely half. The early dollars do the heavy lifting. That's the whole game. BUILD SOMETHING Fifteen kinds of business, from a $3,000 food cart to a craft brewery, a dental practice, a boutique hotel, a minor-league ball club. Hire people. Underpay them and watch them leave in the middle of a recession. Set prices, run marketing with honestly diminishing returns, survive inspections and the competitor across the street. Build a reputation until you earn a real brand — Beloved, Household Name, or Everywhere — each one a different bet. Then promote a veteran to manager and finally work ON the business instead of in it. Fair warning: ownership is a stress engine, heavier than most jobs. A LIFE, NOT A SPREADSHEET Ten states, each a genuinely different game. No income tax in Texas. Hurricanes in Florida — insure the house, seriously. California pays top of market and takes it back in rent. Ohio has the cheapest homes in the game and the most honest work. Around all of it: a partner, kids, friends who drift if you never call. Kids cost a fortune and are the best investment in the game — one in five has a business spark, and when they pitch you at sixteen, listen. Stress compounds into burnout. Pets pass. Some things you cannot buy your way out of. 51 SCENARIOS Fixed puzzles with medals to earn. Inherit a dying restaurant with a furious underpaid crew and six grand of debt. Build a company to $250,000 with no loans, no investors, no credit cards — every dollar of growth from a customer. Twenty rental doors. Dig out of an avalanche of debt. Raise two kids on one income and put them both through college. Gold, silver, bronze, and a clock running. THE ENDING YOU EARN You don't retire at an age. You retire when the money will outlast you. Then comes the accounting: net worth, dividends collected, children raised, people still close to you at the end — and a grade from D to S. Your best lives go up on the leaderboard. YOUR WORLD, YOUR RULES Turn off layoffs, hurricanes, medical emergencies, scams, gambling content, even inflation. Every hardship you remove cuts your final score, and customized runs are marked. The top of the board belongs to the hardest hand, played on Hard, with nothing switched off. Plus 100+ achievements, ten save slots, and a difficulty setting that's honest about what it's worth. No ads. No accounts. No internet required. Nothing ever leaves your phone. Fiction, not financial advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Provider at 5.0 against Industries's 3.2. The Provider also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 14) and ads (none vs shown). Industries's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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. Industries sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. The Provider asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Provider holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Industries has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Industries | The Provider |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| 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 | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 188 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Michel Vogt | Kevin Petersen |
Customer experience
Industries
The Provider
In-app purchases
Industries
- 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
The Provider
No in-app purchases








