Hippo Profession vs Idle City Builder Tycoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hippo Profession
Explore a variety of construction vehicles and machines. Operate harvesters, diggers, and robot welders in this engaging building simulation game. Discover how these powerful tools work and put them to use.
- Operate construction vehicles
- Learn about building machines
- Engaging simulation gameplay
- Variety of tools like harvesters and diggers
- Robot welder functionality
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Welcome to the world of building machines and mechanisms! There are a lot of interesting and useful machines in my garage. And today you will get to know a lot about them! Do you want to try harvester for timber harvesting or to work with a digger? Or maybe robot welder? Come over then. Building machines get bored without any job.
Idle City Builder Tycoon
Build a city from the ground up, brick by brick. Construct houses, factories, and more, then furnish and decorate them. Expand your settlement into a prosperous metropolis.
- Build houses brick by brick
- Furnish and decorate buildings
- Construct factories, marinas, and shops
- Grow a settlement into a metropolis
- Expand city economy
- Beautiful game graphics
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Start building a whole city brick by brick now! Dig out a foundation pit for the house, build walls and a roof, insert windows and doors, and equip the surrounding area. Yes! In our game, you can build houses brick by brick from the roof foundation. And not only at home - build factories, fountains, marinas, shops! In our game, you can not only build houses, but also equip them! Put furniture, hang pictures on the walls, and plant trees and flowers outside the houses. Having built one house, go to the next and watch how the whole city grows out of all the built buildings. Try to build up the entire island and create a huge prosperous metropolis out of a modest settlement. Expand the economy of your city to build even more new large buildings. Speed up construction to build buildings faster. The main features of the game: - Building a whole house brick by brick from start to finish - Simultaneous construction of several houses - Creation of a whole city from all built houses - Beautiful game graphics and nice background music Our game is still at the very beginning of its development, so new interesting buildings and new game mechanics will be added in the near future. We really hope you enjoy our game and look forward to your comments and suggestions for the further development of the game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Idle City Builder Tycoon at 4.6 against Hippo Profession's 3.0. Idle City Builder Tycoon also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 30 months) and ratings volume (30 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Hippo Profession sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Idle City Builder Tycoon sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Idle City Builder Tycoon holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle City Builder Tycoon has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hippo Profession ships an update every 30 months, Idle City Builder Tycoon every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hippo Profession | Idle City Builder Tycoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | CLEAR INVEST LTD | Anatoly Kochergin |
Customer experience
Hippo Profession
Idle City Builder Tycoon
In-app purchases
Hippo Profession
- No ADS$1.99
Idle City Builder Tycoon
- 10 Diamonds$0.99
- 120 Diamonds$8.99
- 1400 Diamonds$89.99
Questions
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