Comparison

Hobo Simulator vs StageStar

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

StageStar

Become a music superstar in this immersive artist simulator. Create your artist, write hit songs, interact with fans and rivals, and embark on world tours to achieve global fame. Experience the drama and excitement of the music industry.

Highlights
  • Create your dream artist
  • Automated Albums system
  • AI-generated social media posts
  • Interact with other artists
  • Build and manage fanbase
  • Compete and collaborate with rivals
  • Go on world tours
Features
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Build your dream music career and become a global superstar in StageStar, a music artist simulator where every release, decision, rivalry, and career move shapes your rise to fame. Create your own artist and start from the beginning. Release singles and albums, build a loyal fanbase, climb the charts, go on world tours, interact with other artists, and turn your name into a music empire. Whether you want to become a pop star, rapper, singer, underground artist, or industry icon, your career is yours to control. • CREATE YOUR ARTIST Design your artist, choose your sound, and build a career from the ground up. • RELEASE MUSIC Write and release singles, albums, live albums, soundtracks, and career-defining eras. Use Automated Albums to keep your discography growing. • CLIMB THE CHARTS Compete for the biggest positions, grow your streams and sales, earn loyal listeners, and chase worldwide success. • BUILD YOUR FANBASE Gain fans across your career, deal with haters, grow your fame, and experience the chaos that comes with becoming a superstar. • LIVE THE SOCIAL MEDIA DRAMA Post and interact with fans and artists through dynamic social moments. Start conversations, react to other artists, and watch the industry respond to your choices. • COLLABORATE OR START BEEF Build relationships with other artists, become friends, create collaborations, compete with rivals, or turn a disagreement into a full-blown feud. • RELEASE DISS TRACKS Take your rivalries into the studio, release diss tracks, receive responses, and let the fans decide who won. • GO ON TOUR Plan tours, perform around the world, build setlists, earn money, and grow your career beyond streaming. • BUILD YOUR MUSIC EMPIRE Earn money, grow your influence, manage your career, create your own record label, work with other artists, and expand your place in the industry. • CREATE YOUR OWN STORY No two careers have to be the same. Become a chart-dominating superstar, an underground favorite, a controversial celebrity, an industry mogul, or anything in between. StageStar is more than a music simulator. It is your own music industry universe filled with strategy, creativity, competition, fame, relationships, and drama. From your first song to your biggest stadium tour, your stage is waiting.

Screenshots

Hobo Simulator4 screens
StageStar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hobo Simulator at 4.5 against StageStar's 3.9. Hobo Simulator also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (82% vs 59%). StageStar's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly) and chart position (#47 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hobo Simulator sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and StageStar sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. 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 2.7K ratings behind it against 127, 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 59% of StageStar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hobo Simulator ships an update monthly, StageStar every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Hobo Simulator versus StageStar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHobo SimulatorStageStar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.7K ratings) — better3.9 (127 ratings)
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews — better58.5% of reviews
Number of ratings2.7K — better127
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#47 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB154 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperDenis TokarevEdmond Szabo

Customer experience

Hobo Simulator

All ratings2,742 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews615 reviews
Positive82.0%
Neutral6.8%
Negative11.2%

StageStar

All ratings127 ratings
Positive67.7%
Neutral11.8%
Negative20.5%
Written reviews398 reviews
Positive58.5%
Neutral17.1%
Negative24.4%

User reviews

Hobo Simulator

From 2.7K 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

StageStar

From 127 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Beautiful UI
  • 🚀 Smooth animations
  • 🚀 Fast loading times
  • 👍 Easy to navigate
  • 👍 Love StarTok

Room to improve

  • 🐛 It takes forever to load
  • 🐛 StarTok has too much influence on song performance

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

StageStar

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • StarTube doesn't seem to be working
  • Buggy

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add more genres like folk, punk, metal
  • Make it harder to gain traction and get big success quickly
  • Add flop eras
  • Add more streaming platforms
  • Improve tour options and make them last more than 1 year
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  • Add diss tracks
  • Add awards like Grammys and Brits
  • Improve chart stability
  • Allow artists to own a record label
  • Add more realistic features

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
9 purchases

StageStar

Subscriptions2
  • StageStar+ (Monthly)$6.991 Month
  • StageStar+ (Annual)$49.991 Year
One-time7
  • Demo Fund$0.99
  • Studio Fund$2.49
  • Campaign Fund$4.99
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  • Gift StageStar+ (Annual)$6.99
  • Tour Fund$9.99
  • Era Fund$19.99
  • Gift StageStar+ (Monthly)$39.99

Questions

Is Hobo Simulator free?
Hobo Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StageStar free?
StageStar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hobo Simulator or StageStar?
Hobo Simulator is rated higher. Hobo Simulator averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while StageStar averages 3.9 from 127 ratings.
Do Hobo Simulator or StageStar have ads?
StageStar shows ads; Hobo Simulator does not.
Which is updated more often, Hobo Simulator or StageStar?
Hobo Simulator ships an update monthly, and StageStar every 9 days. Most recently, Hobo Simulator was updated on October 18, 2026 and StageStar on October 19, 2026.

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