Fire Inc vs Fire Captain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fire Inc
Build and manage your own fire station, train heroes, and dispatch emergency vehicles to combat fires and other crises. Collect equipment to aid in rescue missions and complete idle tasks for rewards in this simulation game.
- Build fire station departments
- Manage and train firefighters
- Dispatch fire trucks and rescue teams
- Complete rescue missions
- Collect firefighting equipment
- Idle task rewards
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Fight fires, rescue people and save lives, that’s what firefighters do! Fire Inc is all about building your own fire emergency HQ station! ◆ Build your fire station ◆ - Build several departments like a 911 emergency response, fire trucks, rescue teams etc. - Manage and train fire fighters heroes and other staff members. - Complete idle tasks for additional rewards. ◆ Send out firefighters ◆ - Send fire trucks, rescue teams, divers or helicopters to missions. - Map with several missions, like fires, car crashes and other emergencies. ◆ Collect and use equipment ◆ - Collect nozzles, helmets or axes to complete rescue missions easier. Try Fire Inc now and build your own emergency HQ to fight fires in your city!
Fire Captain
Lead a team of firefighters, doctors, and engineers in this casual strategy game. Build your base, recruit specialized personnel, and tackle exciting missions across various maps. Strategize your approach to overcome challenges and achieve success.
- Base building
- Hire firefighters, doctors, engineers
- Handle exciting missions
- Multiple maps and missions
- Recruit different heroes
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Fire Captain is a Casual Strategy game. In this game, you are acting as a fire captain, you build your base, hire more firefighters, doctor, engineers to work together to handle exciting missions! It offers: *Lots of different missions and maps *Many different heros
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fire Inc at 71% against Fire Captain's 26%. Fire Inc also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2). Fire Captain's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 16 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Fire Inc sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Fire Captain sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fire Inc holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 104 and 70 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Fire Inc's written reviews are positive against 26% of Fire Captain's.
Fire Inc ships an update every 16 months, Fire Captain weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fire Inc | Fire Captain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (104 ratings) — better | 4.2 (70 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 25.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | 70 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 533 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frank Slofstra | Fuzhou Lingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Fire Inc
Fire Captain
Bugs and requests
Fire Inc
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Fire Captain
Reported bugs
49 issues- Game stops at level 16
- Game will not load
- Maritime training drill rescue boat doesn't show up
- Boat unavailable in drill
- Helipad built but no aircraft
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- Unable to load boat in mission 15
- Video button for rewards doesn't work
- Game broken and closes app at level 17
- Stuck on first boat mission, click target off-screen
- Glitch in level 15
- Firefighters run through building instead of around
- Doctor goes to opposite side of building in level 6
- AI pathways cannot maneuver around building
- People walk through walls and get stuck
- Medic goes wrong trajectory and gets stuck
- Rescuer gets stuck in door frame in mission 14
- Second fire kills everyone by approaching it
- Cannot put fire out in level 14 without damage
- Cannot carry person in first room of level 14
- Stuck on level 11, character running in place exiting motel room
- Bed tracking issue, not going around to get asset
- Cannot access one of the assets in level 10
- Door in mission 14 in wrong place, units run in but not out
- Game bugs out at a certain point
- Shows close-up of firehouse but does nothing else
- Freezing at level 8, trucks don't come
- Game gets stuck a few levels after level 5 fix
- Game crashes and glitches after level 8
- Captain walks across bed instead of around and gets stuck on desk in level 5
- Captain glitches and walks on bed to get asset but can't get it in level 5
- Captain can't collect asset on mission 5 nightstand, gets stuck
- Asset in bedroom not letting player pick it up, glitched on bed in level 5
- Player gets stuck on invisible box at level 5
- Character gets stuck in level five trying to get asset by the bed on nightstand
- Bug prevents clearing of assets on level 5
- Stuck on level 5, get stuck on invisible barriers
- Captain character gets stuck on nightstand asset in level 5
- Firefighter gets stuck on bed trying to recover asset in mission 5
- Firefighter gets stuck retrieving assets by the bed in mission 5
- Firefighter climbs over bed and gets stuck in level 5
- Captain got stuck on bed in level 5
- Fireman get stuck trying to get money off dresser beside bed in level 5
- Glitch in level five, runs on bed then stands there
- Captain tries to recover asset in bedroom but gets stuck on bed in level 5
- Character keeps glitching and can't reach asset in level 4
- Cannot get one of the assets in the 5th mission
- Firefighters get stuck in invisible walls or run through walls in mission 5
- Captain gets stuck on bed trying to get money from bedside table in mission 5
- Lags and unable to complete missions
Requested features
4 requests- Make more levels
- Fix bugs before release
- Improve AI pathfinding
- More extinguishers for fires
In-app purchases
Fire Inc
- Small Gems Pack$0.99
- Fast Forward bonus$1.99
- Medium Gems Pack$3.99
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- Special level up offer$4.99
- Large Gems Pack$11.99
- Extra Large Gems Pack$24.99
Fire Captain
- A Couple of Gems$0.99
- New Player Package$1.99
- A Handful of Gems$2.99
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- ToolPackage$3.99
- Growth Rewards VIP$4.99
- A Pile of Gems$4.99
- VehiclePackage$8.99
- A Sack of Gems$9.99
- ToolPackageUsualPrice$12.99
- VehiclePackageUsualPrice$29.99
Questions
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