Empire_mobile vs OVH
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Empire_mobile
Engage in a turn-based strategy war game on a computer-generated map. Capture cities to produce units for offense and defense, aiming to eliminate your opponent. Games can be lengthy and saved across sessions.
- Turn-based strategy gameplay
- Computer-generated maps
- City capture and production
- Unit production (armies, fighters, ships)
- Exploration and tactical combat
- Save and resume games
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Empire is a strategy and tactics war game, pitting you against the computer. The game is played on a computer generated map that contains land areas, sea areas, and cities. The object of the game is to eliminate the opponent by capturing cities and destroying the enemy forces. Cities once captured have production capability, and can produce units such as armies, fighters, destroyers, submarines, or carriers for offense or defense. Of course, the computer is trying to crush your forces and take over the world, as are you. Early in the game, exploration is most predominant, followed later by planned offensives and holding actions, till eventual victory or defeat. Warning, typical games can take as long as ten hours, and some people find the game addictive. The program keeps the game state in a disk file, and a single game usually takes multiple computer sessions. Since you can store the game on some cloud service (e.g. iCloud) you may also continue a game with the Mac version of Empire (https://apps.apple.com/de/app/empire/id1287139467?mt=12) and vice versa. Special credit goes to the author of the original game, Walter Bright.
OVH
A minimalist real-time strategy game where you play as an alien organism. Build your hive and strategize to survive a hostile cosmos and overcome competitors for resources.
- Minimalist real-time strategy gameplay
- Alien organism survival
- Hive building mechanics
- Resource competition
- Strategic gameplay
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OVH is a minimalist real-time strategy game. Play as an alien organism struggling to survive a hostile cosmos. Build your hive and strategize to overcome competitors for scarce resources. Will you emerge victorious in the struggle for survival?
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Verdict
Empire_mobile and OVH both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of OVH's written reviews are positive against 67% of Empire_mobile's. Empire_mobile's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Empire_mobile against 4.0 for OVH. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Empire_mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of OVH's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Empire_mobile | OVH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frank-Peter Poschmann | Prismatic Squid |
Customer experience
Empire_mobile
OVH
In-app purchases
Empire_mobile
No in-app purchases
OVH
No in-app purchases
