Solve the Outbreak vs BROKE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solve the Outbreak
Become a Disease Detective and solve simulated outbreaks by analyzing clues and data. Make critical decisions to contain diseases and save lives, earning badges and climbing ranks. Learn about real-world disease investigation in an engaging, game-like experience.
- Solve simulated outbreaks
- Analyze clues and data
- Make critical decisions
- Earn badges and ranks
- Learn about diseases
- Challenge friends
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get clues and analyze data to solve the outbreak and save lives! In this fun app, you get to be a Disease Detective. Do you quarantine the village? Interview people who are sick? Run more lab tests? The better your answers, the higher your score - and the quicker you’ll climb the ranks to become a decorated Disease Detective. In level 1, you’ll start as a Trainee and earn badges by solving scenarios — with the goal of earning the top rank: Disease Detective. Unlock Level 2 by mastering all the 12 outbreaks of Level 1. Then earn honors by solving new and more challenging scenarios. Earn recognitions like Surveillance and Treatment Honors. New outbreaks happen every day and CDC's Disease Detectives are on the front lines — working 24/7 to save lives and protect people. When a new outbreak occurs, Disease Detectives are sent in to figure out how the outbreak started before it spreads further. In this app, you'll also: • Learn about diseases and outbreaks in an engaging way. • See how CDC's Disease Detectives save lives around the world. • Have the option to post your scores on Facebook or Twitter and challenge your friends to play!
BROKE
Experience the challenges of poverty through a realistic simulation. Make critical life decisions as various characters facing financial hardship, dealing with simulated communications that reflect the stress of limited resources.
- Multiple character scenarios
- Realistic decision-making
- Simulated communication updates
- Stress simulation
- Educational gameplay
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Play Broke as a new college grad, a person experiencing homelessness, a rural farmer, an older adult, a migrant, or someone experiencing suburban poverty. Receive texts, emails, and news updates that force you to make real-life decisions in rapid-fire succession, simulating the brain-drain that comes from the stress of high-stakes decisions and not enough money to make ends meet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Solve the Outbreak at every 5 months against BROKE's every 31 months. BROKE's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BROKE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Solve the Outbreak's written reviews are positive against 100% of BROKE's.
Solve the Outbreak ships an update every 5 months, BROKE every 31 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Solve the Outbreak | BROKE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (61 ratings) | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 31 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 258 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Centers For Disease Control and Prevention | Broke the Game, Inc. |
Customer experience
Solve the Outbreak
BROKE
Bugs and requests
Solve the Outbreak
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when attempting to reset scores in settings
- Old scores and progress remain after reset attempt
- Accidental question selection due to bottom screen placement
Requested features
10 requests- Add more outbreak cases and scenarios
- Create harder difficulty levels for advanced players
- Include visual aids and images for better understanding
- Add background music and sound effects
- Implement branching storylines with different outcomes
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- Create Level 3 with more complex cases
- Add ability for users to create custom outbreaks
- Improve text size and readability on smaller screens
- Release app on iPhone in addition to iPad
- Include more historical and special plague scenarios
BROKE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Solve the Outbreak
No in-app purchases
BROKE
No in-app purchases
Questions
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