Comparison

PC Simulator vs Gosper

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

Head to head
About

PC Simulator

Assemble your own computer by buying components and putting them together. Learn how each part functions and how the entire system works in a first-person view. Test your creation and improve your assembly skills.

Highlights
  • Buy and assemble computer components
  • Test assembled computers
  • Improve assembly skills
  • Learn component functions
  • Understand computer operation
  • First-person building view
Features
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Buy components and assemble your computer! Game features ● Start the computer after assembly is complete. ● Improve the ability to assemble the computer. ● Understand the use of each component. ● Understand how the computer works. ● Build computer in first-person view. Game Highlights ● Improve the hands-on ability of your computer assembly, suitable for you who love to play with computers. ● You are able to buy the components and build your computer freely in the 3D world. ● It allows you to learn some basic knowledge of the computer while playing.

About

Gosper

Features
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In 1970, a mathematician named John Conway wrote three rules on a board: a cell with fewer than two neighbours dies of loneliness, one with more than three dies of crowding, and in an empty space with exactly three neighbours, a new cell is born. That is all. There are no other rules. And out of those three sentences come ships that cross the screen, guns that fire forever, clocks that beat in exact time, and structures that copy themselves. Nobody programmed them: they were in the rules all along. Gosper is a place to watch it happen. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Draw with your finger and press play. Zoom in, zoom out, change the speed, step one generation at a time. • Drop machines from the library: forty historical patterns, each with who discovered it, in what year, and what it does. Nothing invented — every one is checked by a test that verifies its period. • Change the rules. Besides Conway's original there are seven more: HighLife, which replicates itself; Seeds, which explodes; Day & Night, which is symmetric. • Save your universes and come back to them. • Share them with the community, and bring home other people's. • Duel against the machine. Two gardens side by side: you throw machines into its garden, it throws them into yours, and you win by leaving its garden with less than a quarter standing. Build your own deck from the library, from patterns you cut out of your own universe, or from the community. WHY IT IS FAST The engine is written in C++ and computes in blocks of bits, not cell by cell. A universe of a million cells runs at sixty frames per second on an iPhone. Cost depends on what is happening, not on the size of the world: a huge, nearly empty universe costs nothing. NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION No advertising, no analytics, no user profiling. Gosper Pro is a single optional purchase that adds five more themes, giant universes and unlimited saves. Nothing that is free gets cut back to push you into paying. EIGHT THEMES Neon on black, ink on paper, pure black and white, mossy greens, magma, ocean, the amber phosphor of an old monitor, and pastels. The name is for Bill Gosper, who in 1970 built the first glider gun and won the fifty dollars Conway offered to anyone who could prove such a thing could grow forever. That gun is still firing inside this app.

Screenshots

PC Simulator4 screens
Gosper3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Gosper at none against PC Simulator's shown. PC Simulator's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, in-app purchases 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. PC Simulator sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Gosper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PC Simulator versus Gosper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPC SimulatorGosper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (196 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings196 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 16 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYi Ming ChengIvan Andres Robles Rodriguez

Bugs and requests

PC Simulator

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Parts not staying in place during PC assembly
  • Bitcoin balance not updating correctly
  • Frequent crashes when building complex rigs

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more PC components like new GPUs, CPUs, and cases
  • Implement a PC selling/ordering system
  • Add more apps and functionality to the in-game PCs
  • Improve physics and part placement mechanics
  • Implement an auto-save feature

Gosper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

PC Simulator

One-time5
  • 50 BTC$0.99
  • 100 BTC$1.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
Show 2 more
  • 200 BTC$2.99
  • More Coin$3.99
1 purchases

Gosper

One-time1
  • Gosper Pro$3.99

Questions

Is PC Simulator free?
PC Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gosper free?
Gosper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PC Simulator or Gosper have ads?
PC Simulator shows ads; Gosper does not.

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