Comparison

Hobo Simulator vs Mobiles Tycoon

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hobo Simulator

Embark on a rags-to-riches journey, starting as a homeless individual. Engage in various street activities to earn money, build businesses, and climb the social ladder. Manage your health and happiness to survive and thrive in this random, life-simulation game.

Highlights
  • Earn money through street activities
  • Start businesses and startups
  • Manage health, happiness, and satiety
  • Randomly generated events
  • Compete with friends
  • Purchase immortality pill
Features
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• Get drunk and achieve the maximum popularity! • Search for coins on the streets, wash cars, get into street fights, rob strangers and banks! • Open your office or found your own startup! • Make the most money in the shortest time! Compete with your friends! Almost every event in this game happens randomly. Every move equals one day. Every day your health, happiness and satiety decrease. If your health, happiness or satiety will drop to zero, you have 7 days to improve the situation, otherwise you will die. Every year you will celebrate your birthday and get presents. Every day you have a chance to find empty bottles and then sell them. Sooner or later you will die from old age. To avoid that, you can buy an immortality pill. Note that it DOES NOT protect you from dying from hunger, sickness, unhappiness or poverty.

About

Mobiles Tycoon

Manage a company and develop your own smartphones and tablets from scratch. Research new technologies, upgrade your facilities, and hire employees to compete in the market. Make strategic investments to grow your business and dominate the mobile industry.

Highlights
  • Create smartphones and tablets
  • Develop operating systems and processors
  • Research new technologies
  • Manage company and employees
  • Upgrade office and factory
  • Detailed company statistics
  • Interactive operating systems
Features
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Mobiles Tycoon is a brand new game about creating your mobile devices: smartphones and tablets. In the game you have to manage your company and develop your devices (smartphones and tablets), operating systems and processors. Research new technologies, upgrade your office and your factory, hire the best employees, invest in marketing, or save money and buy one of the computer giants! Mobiles Tycoon gives you almost complete freedom of action. Create smartpones and tablets from scratch by selecting the desired characteristics and design. The game has a lot of features that are not found in other games of this genre, such as Smartphones Tycoon or Devices Tycoon: detailed statistics of your company and products, intelligent algorithms for evaluating products and behavior of companies, interactive operating systems created by the player that you can test. Also in the game there are: * 3000+ technologies for research * Challenging mode for fans of economic strategies * Smart behavior of competitors, automatic development and release of products * The ability to run the OS on your gaming smartphone * 10 levels of office improvement with beautiful 3D models * Many ways to invest your money, including buying companies, marketing, paid employee search * Many smartphone designs * Cloud synchronization Mobiles Tycoon is a business simulator game that is worth your attention and is a serious player among economic strategies. You can always ask your question, suggest an idea, communicate with developers and other players and become part of the game community by logging into discord or telegram: https://discord.gg/enyUgzB4Ab https://t.me/insignis_g Have a good game!

Screenshots

Hobo Simulator4 screens
Mobiles Tycoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hobo Simulator at 4.5 against Mobiles Tycoon's 3.9. Hobo Simulator also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (82% vs 50%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hobo Simulator sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Mobiles Tycoon sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hobo Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hobo Simulator has 2.8K ratings behind it against 108, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Hobo Simulator's written reviews are positive against 50% of Mobiles Tycoon's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hobo Simulator versus Mobiles Tycoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHobo SimulatorMobiles Tycoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.8K ratings) — better3.9 (108 ratings)
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews — better49.8% of reviews
Number of ratings2.8K — better108
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB367 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDenis TokarevALEXANDR VLADIMIR NAUMOV, IE

Customer experience

Hobo Simulator

All ratings2,742 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews616 reviews
Positive82.0%
Neutral6.8%
Negative11.2%

Mobiles Tycoon

All ratings107 ratings
Positive75.7%
Neutral1.9%
Negative22.4%
Written reviews209 reviews
Positive49.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative42.6%

User reviews

Hobo Simulator

From 2.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and addictive game
  • 💡 Unique concept
  • 🚀 No ads
  • 🚀 Low power consumption

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitchy save system
  • 🐛 Unclear mechanics and lack of tutorial
  • 🐛 Overly harsh random events
  • 🐛 Difficulty progressing early on

Mobiles Tycoon

From 108 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great game
  • 🚀 Decent game mechanics
  • 💡 Potential for more device types

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs preventing game progress
  • 🔑 Excessive monetization through ads
  • 🔍 Unclear pricing and progression

Bugs and requests

Hobo Simulator

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Incorrect deduction amounts for bodyguard and lawyer
  • Inability to survive on disability for too long

Requested features

4 requests
  • Calendar and calendar events
  • More variety in jobs and content
  • Notification for impending death
  • Rebirth/prestige system

Mobiles Tycoon

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unable to select language
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Issues with creating company name

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to compare devices
  • Reputation system with suppliers
  • More end-game content

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Hobo Simulator

One-time6
  • The Immortality Pill$0.99
  • Pack 1$0.99
  • Pack 2$1.99
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  • Pack 3$3.99
  • Pack 4$6.99
  • Pack 5$9.99
6 purchases

Mobiles Tycoon

One-time6
  • 100 gems$0.99
  • 200 gems$1.99
  • 500 gems$2.99
Show 3 more
  • Time acceleration$3.99
  • Premium$4.99
  • Sandbox$7.99

Questions

Is Hobo Simulator free?
Hobo Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mobiles Tycoon free?
Mobiles Tycoon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hobo Simulator or Mobiles Tycoon?
Hobo Simulator is rated higher. Hobo Simulator averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while Mobiles Tycoon averages 3.9 from 108 ratings.
Do Hobo Simulator or Mobiles Tycoon have ads?
Mobiles Tycoon shows ads; Hobo Simulator does not.
Which is updated more often, Hobo Simulator or Mobiles Tycoon?
Hobo Simulator ships an update monthly, and Mobiles Tycoon monthly. Most recently, Hobo Simulator was updated on November 3, 2026 and Mobiles Tycoon on November 4, 2026.

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