Hydrothermal Lite vs Paradise City
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hydrothermal Lite
Build and manage a space colony, defend it from alien invaders, and expand your territory. Balance your budget, pass laws, and allocate resources to keep your colony thriving. Develop a strong army to fend off attacks and enjoy countless hours of addictive gameplay.
- Space colony city building
- Alien invasion defense
- Colony layout control
- Budget and law management
- Army building and management
- Over 50 unique buildings
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Hydrothermal is a city building game where you create a space colony and ward off alien invaders. Control every aspect of your colony's layout, including zoning, building placement, and terrain features, all with the ability to conquer more land for expansion. Adjust the city details by balancing the budget, passing/repealing laws, and allocating extra resources into six areas using the balance of powers screen. Don't forget to build and manage an army though, aliens attack from time to time! Hydrothermal's addicting gameplay and a classic 2D with over 50 unique buildings, Hydrothermal will keep you entertained for countless hours. Make sure to check out Nuclear Nova's golf game simulator, GL Golf and GL Golf Lite. GL Golf is a 3D golfing game for the casual gamer. With a realistic physics system and great simple graphics, you and up to four players can golf twenty+ unique courses for countless hours. Also make sure to check out Nuclear Nova's new golf game, Rocket Golf and Rocket Golf Lite. Rocket Golf gives golfing a new twist with its 2D gameplay and clean 3D graphics. Challenge yourself to 36 unique holes over two courses. Rocket Golf provides accurate game physics while maintaining an arcade feel.
Paradise City
Design and build your dream city on a tropical island. Start with farmland and expand to a bustling metropolis, managing resorts and buildings to keep citizens happy and maximize profits. Playable online and offline.
- Design dream city on tropical island
- Build resorts and buildings
- Manage citizen happiness for profits
- Playable online and offline
- Unlock 9 island paradises
- Over 200 buildings and farms
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Design your own dream city on this exotic and tropic island paradise! Looking for a highly addictive city building game with awesome graphics on a tropical island? The City Island: Paradise Sim game is the best escape for you! Your goal is to build a beautiful metropolis on this paridise of islands, just starting with some farm land on an exotic island bay. Build it your way, starting with a little village, adding lots of resorts and buildings and grow your own city island! The City Island: Paradise Sim building game is a free city builder that makes you feel like a mayor of a big city or the resort owner on an island paradise. This game is playable offline and online so you can always play this amazing resort tycoon game with a tropical island twist. City Island: Paradise Sim - Build your own city offline game This highly addictive game is developed by Sparkling Society, well known for its other city building games such as the City Island sim games played by over 75 million players worldwide. When starting Paradice City Island Sim you will start small on an empty island and step by step from a simple town, to a village you will build your own amazing town city and eventually a metropolis. There are different kinds of tropical islands with their own surfaces. However, there are also more challenging islands with snow, desert, wood, and so on. It is very important to keep your citizens happy. When your citizens aren't happy, you will not get the 100% profits of the commercial buildings. - Online & Offline playable - Tropical Paradise setting - Seaside Hotel & Resort game - Your virtual tycoon game - Highly addictive in a good way :) - This farm & building game is playable for the entire family, a real family game - Build your own tropic paradice city island escape - 9 different islands paradises and 200+ buildings and farms to unlock - Awesome graphics - Expand your town along the beaches - Free family game with fun for all ages
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paradise City at 4.6 against Hydrothermal Lite's 4.0. Paradise City also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 40%) and ratings volume (839 vs 2). Hydrothermal Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price 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
Both are free to download. Paradise City sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Hydrothermal Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Paradise City holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paradise City has 839 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Hydrothermal Lite's written reviews are positive against 80% of Paradise City's.
| Parameter | Hydrothermal Lite | Paradise City |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (839 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 79.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 839 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 months |
| Ads | — | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nuclear Nova Software | Sparkling Society Games B.V. |
Customer experience
Hydrothermal Lite
Paradise City
Bugs and requests
Hydrothermal Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Paradise City
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes and freezes
- Issues with double rewards from videos
- Incorrect level progression
Requested features
5 requests- Automatic profit collection
- More building and decoration options
- Ability to sell or store buildings
- Easier way to unlock new islands
- More in-game rewards and bonuses
In-app purchases
Hydrothermal Lite
No in-app purchases
Paradise City
- 1,250,000 cash$2.99
- 25 gold$2.99
- 2,000,000 Cash$4.99
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- 50 Gold$4.99
- 3,000,000 cash$5.99
- 65 gold2 variants$5.99
- 130 gold (SALE)$5.99
- 8,000,000 Cash$14.99
- 200 Gold$14.99
Questions
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