Galaxy Genome vs Upload Simulator 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Galaxy Genome
Embark on an open-world sci-fi adventure as a space pilot. Explore a vast, scientifically accurate Milky Way, customize your ship, and choose your path as a trader, pirate, or explorer. Engage in combat, smuggling, and mining while following a compelling story or undertaking side missions.
- Open-world sci-fi space simulator
- Ship customization and upgrades
- Explore a 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy
- Free-form play with multiple roles
- Vibrant story and side quests
- Surface vehicles for planet exploration
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Galaxy Genome is an open world sci-fi space simulator. You'll be able to upgrade your ship and customize every component as you hunt, explore, fight, mine, smuggle, trade and survive in the cutthroat galaxy. Follow the main story or do side missions. This game gives you the ability to feel real space exploration. The entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic proportions. At the beginning of the game you are a pilot of a small ship. Financial struggle forces you to start transporting contraband. Certainly, it will lead to you being in trouble with the law someday. But at some point in your life you are forced to make a deal with the authorities of the system. And that is when your dangerous space adventure begins. Game Features: - Free-form play allows everyone to choose their own path, becoming an angry pirate, a peaceful trader, an explorer, a bounty hunter, or a mix between these roles. - More than 30 different and customizable ships. - The game has a vibrant story and side quests. - Surface vehicles to explore planets. - No classes or skill levels, strength is decided by ship equipment and player skill. - The vast 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy is based on real scientific principles. Around 2 billion star systems.
Upload Simulator 2
Simulate the process of uploading data to earn credits, upgrade your hardware, and research new technologies. Discover unique artifacts, craft modules, and customize your operating system with themes and wallpapers.
- GPU mining for credits
- Upgrade hardware setup
- Research new technologies
- Craft modules
- Customize OS with themes
- Discover unique artifacts
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Use your powerful GPU to mine credits and upgrade your setup even further! Get unique upgrades using your hard-gained reputation as an uploader! Use your uploaded data into the laboratory to research amazing new tech and boost your setup even more! Hack into the system and speed up your game with different abilities! Choose the format of your uploads for different outcomes! Find unique artifacts that grant you with different bonus effects! Collect resources to craft modules and modify your system! And customize your OS with different themes or even with the wallpaper of your choice!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Galaxy Genome at free against Upload Simulator 2's paid. Galaxy Genome also leads on ratings volume (116 vs 18). Upload Simulator 2's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Galaxy Genome costs $3.99 and Upload Simulator 2 $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Galaxy Genome against 4.4 for Upload Simulator 2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Galaxy Genome has 116 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Galaxy Genome's written reviews are positive against 80% of Upload Simulator 2's.
Galaxy Genome ships an update every 5 weeks, Upload Simulator 2 every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Galaxy Genome | Upload Simulator 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (116 ratings) | 4.4 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 116 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #198 — better | #199 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 125 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anton Skvortsov | EnigmaDev Studios |
Customer experience
Galaxy Genome
Upload Simulator 2
Bugs and requests
Galaxy Genome
Reported bugs
16 issues- Game crashes when accessing mission menu
- Game crashes when attempting warp jump with space station
- Chinese characters display as blocks
- Autopilot overshoots destinations
- Module list cannot be scrolled when modules are disabled
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- Mission rewards not calculating correctly with large fleets
- Debris accumulation causes crashes if staying in system too long
- Save files showing 0:00:00 playtime after crashes
- Loading screen freezes on M1 iPad Pro
- Virtual joystick not appearing in tutorial
- Game crashes on older devices (iPhone 6, iPhone 10)
- Landscape mode system menus remain in portrait orientation
- Reputation system bugs preventing mission acceptance
- Tutorial missions freezing and preventing progression
- Pathfinding algorithm fails on optimal routes
- Search function case-sensitive and returns only one result
Requested features
20 requests- Controller support (Xbox, Backbone)
- Multiplayer or co-op gameplay
- Ability to build and control space stations
- Fleet management improvements
- Save editing or money cheats for progression
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- Galaxy map resource search filter
- System naming and bookmarking features
- More engineers for ship upgrades
- Mod support on iOS
- Better tutorial with highlighted interactive elements
- Wiki or comprehensive in-game documentation
- Portrait mode option
- Reverse landscape mode
- Quick-link from missions to galaxy map
- Total light-years traveled tracker
- More ship variety, especially for factions
- Ability to disable ships and board them
- Station conquest mechanics
- Rank/reputation system with titles
- Faster travel or acceleration options
Upload Simulator 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Galaxy Genome
No in-app purchases
Upload Simulator 2
No in-app purchases
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