Hair Trigger vs Crown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hair Trigger
Step into the role of the US President to de-escalate global nuclear tensions. Negotiate with Russia, manage critical incidents, and use political influence to avert a worldwide nuclear disaster. Developed with expert input, this simulation challenges your leadership under pressure.
- Negotiate with Russia
- Manage nuclear close calls
- Use political clout
- Simulated White House advisors
- Prevent nuclear catastrophe
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You are the newly elected President of the United States. Your job: Take 1,700 nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert in the U.S. and Russia, to reduce the risk of nuclear Armageddon. Negotiate with Russia, manage real-life nuclear close calls, and use your political clout to prevent a global nuclear catastrophe. Developed with leading national security and nuclear experts, Hair Trigger takes you behind-the-scenes at the White House with a set of advisors giving sometimes-conflicting advice. Come and find out: Do you have what it takes to save the world?
Crown
Engage in a political simulation where you can create a party, rally support, and manipulate public opinion. Win votes through various means, from charity to scandal, but beware of the consequences of failure.
- Create political parties
- Hold rallies
- Manipulate social media
- Stir up scandals
- Launch charities
- Plot political assassinations
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Political Simulation Game! Create your own political party and challenge your rivals! Hold rallies, manipulate social media, and when necessary, stir up trouble with a few well-placed scandals. In the race for votes, anything goes! Want to win the public's favor? Donate to animal shelters, launch charities — or if you're feeling bold, even plot political assassinations. But be careful! Failure might cost you your reputation... or land you behind bars. Crown – Invest in politics, rise to power, earn reputation. Stir up the people if that's what it takes to win votes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hair Trigger at none against Crown's 1. Hair Trigger also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (41 vs 3). Crown's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 months). On price, rating 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. Crown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hair Trigger asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Hair Trigger against 4.0 for Crown. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hair Trigger has 41 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hair Trigger ships an update every 3 months, Crown every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hair Trigger | Crown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (41 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 320 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +17 |
| Developer | Simcoach Games | Mustafa Maden |
Customer experience
Hair Trigger
Crown
In-app purchases
Hair Trigger
No in-app purchases
Crown
- Premium$2.99
