Comparison

Hobo Simulator vs Diamond District

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

Diamond District

Engage in a dynamic financial simulation within a fully realized operating system. Mine precious gems, craft luxury jewelry, and trade on a player-driven marketplace. Build your empire and reputation in a persistent, real-time economy.

Highlights
  • Mine diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires
  • Process raw stones into revealed gems
  • Design luxury jewelry with synergy scoring
  • Trade stocks and collect dividends
  • Player-powered marketplace for gems and jewelry
  • Build reputation and climb leaderboards
  • Run a lending operation
  • Publish news articles
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New phone. New York. Real players. Diamond District: Trade Tycoon runs inside GemOS - a fully simulated operating system set in New York's diamond district. Launch apps. Check widgets. Customize your homescreen. Every app inside GemOS is its own world, with its own economy and real players behind it. The market runs 24/7. It doesn't wait for you. ■ MINE THE SOURCE - Own operations across three regions. Hire workers, manage contracts, pull diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires out of the ground. ■ HUNT RARE GEMS - Process raw stones into revealed gems. Color, clarity, cut, origin, treatment, carat weight. The rarest combinations carry odds beyond 1 in a trillion. Most will never surface in the lifetime of the universe. ■ DESIGN LUXURY JEWELRY - Freeform crafting with real synergy scoring. Your best work gets featured in Gloss Magazine. ■ TRADE ON WINSTON RESERVE - Stocks tied to real in-game activity. Short before earnings. Collect dividends funded by actual player fees. ■ TRADE ON DBAY - The player-powered marketplace. Buy and sell gems, jewelry, and papers with real users in real time. ■ CLIMB THE HALL OF TAPE - Every trade is public. The best ones get immortalized. Your name on the board means something. ■ RUN YOUR OWN LENDING OPERATION - Set your own terms through LoanShark. ■ BUILD REPUTATION - Every trade, contract, and article published adds to a score that controls your access. ■ WRITE THE NEWS - Earn a press pass. Publish on DD News. Shareholders vote on what runs. ■ MAKE IT YOURS - Customize your GemOS homescreen with widgets, icon packs, and layouts. Premium themes available via in-app purchase. ■ COMPOUND YOUR EDGE - Mining feeds crafting. Crafting feeds the marketplace. Fees fund dividends. The players who last build loops, not just trades. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hobo Simulator4 screens
Diamond District4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Diamond District at weekly against Hobo Simulator's monthly. Diamond District also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (91% vs 82%). Hobo Simulator's advantage is ratings volume (2.8K vs 358) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.5). On price, ads, 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 Diamond District sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Diamond District holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hobo Simulator has 2.8K ratings behind it against 358, 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 91% of Diamond District's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hobo Simulator ships an update monthly, Diamond District weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hobo Simulator versus Diamond District: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHobo SimulatorDiamond District
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.8K ratings)4.8 (358 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews91.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.8K — better358
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB134 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperDenis TokarevDerek Kaplan

Customer experience

Hobo Simulator

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

Diamond District

All ratings355 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral0.8%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews174 reviews
Positive91.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.7%

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

Diamond District

From 358 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Satisfying gameplay
  • 🚀 Smooth and responsive
  • 💎 Immersive trading experience
  • 🎨 Clean and polished UI
  • 🔒 No ads

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🔍 Lack of content and features

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

Diamond District

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Repeating voicemail issue
  • UI overlapping issues during jewelry creation

Requested features

5 requests
  • Wholesale gem selling option
  • 3D view of inventory
  • More gems and companies
  • Ability to choose gems for requests
  • Improved gem storage and selling options

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
7 purchases

Diamond District

Subscriptions1
  • Terminal Pro$4.991 Month
One-time6
  • Whistle Feed Widget$1.99
  • Obsidian Relay$2.99
  • Premium Icon Themes$2.99
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  • Winston Pro$3.99
  • Founder Badge$4.99
  • The Atelier$9.99

Questions

Is Hobo Simulator free?
Hobo Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Diamond District free?
Diamond District is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hobo Simulator or Diamond District?
Diamond District is rated higher. Hobo Simulator averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while Diamond District averages 4.8 from 358 ratings.
Do Hobo Simulator or Diamond District have ads?
Neither Hobo Simulator nor Diamond District shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hobo Simulator or Diamond District?
Hobo Simulator ships an update monthly, and Diamond District weekly. Most recently, Hobo Simulator was updated on November 7, 2026 and Diamond District on November 8, 2026.

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