Comparison

Factory Control Inc. vs Hammurabi

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

Head to head
About

Factory Control Inc.

Design and build complex production lines, manage resources, and trade goods to become the top factory owner. Research new technologies and optimize your assembly lines for maximum efficiency and profit.

Highlights
  • Design production lines
  • Produce and sell goods
  • Manage raw materials
  • Research new items and buildings
  • Optimize assembly lines
  • Copy-paste building function
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Get ready to build the ultimate factory and dominate the trading market. Starting from scratch, you'll design production lines, produce goods, and sell them in the market to climb the ranks and earn trade points. With 12 different building types, transport belts, robotic arms, power generators, and more, you'll have everything you need to create the perfect factory. Shop raw materials from the market, maintain a stock of raw materials, and get loans from the bank when you need extra cash to expand your empire. But that's not all - you'll also need to research and unlock new items and building types and figure out the most efficient assembly lines. Use the copy-paste function to build faster, and multiply your factory production quickly. Your objectives are clear: become the ultimate factory by achieving top rank in the trading market, completing all research, and completing the final task. With addictive gameplay, stunning top-down graphics, and intuitive controls, this is the ultimate factory-building and trading experience!

About

Hammurabi

Manage an ancient kingdom's land, grain, and people over a ten-year reign. Make critical decisions about buying/selling land, feeding citizens, and planting harvests. Face unpredictable events like rats and plague, and rule wisely to be remembered or face impeachment.

Highlights
  • Manage land, grain, and people
  • Buy or sell farmland
  • Feed citizens from granary
  • Plant next year's harvest
  • Authentic CRT terminal look
  • Local high scores
  • In-app history lesson
Features
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Before there were graphics. Before there was color. There was a blinking cursor, a glowing screen, and one simple question: how many acres will you plant this year? Hamurabi puts you at the helm of ancient Sumeria for a ten-year reign, rendered exactly the way computing felt back in the early days — green (or amber) phosphor text scrolling up a CRT screen, sitting right there on a desk, waiting for your command. Each year, you'll manage your kingdom's land, grain, and people: • Buy or sell acres of farmland • Feed your citizens from the granary • Plant next year's harvest Nothing is guaranteed. Rats can raid your stores. Plague can sweep through your population. A bad harvest can leave you scrambling. Rule wisely for ten years and history remembers you well. Rule poorly, and you'll be impeached on the spot. THE HISTORY BEHIND THE GAME Hamurabi is a tribute to one of the oldest computer games still played today. It began in the late 1960s as "The Sumer Game," built for an early mainframe, and was soon reshaped by Doug Dyment into a short, sharp game called Hamurabi. In 1973, David H. Ahl translated it into BASIC and printed it in his book 101 BASIC Computer Games — one of the best-selling computing books of the decade. Because the full source code sat right there on the page, an entire generation typed it in by hand on their own home computers, making Hamurabi one of the very first resource-management games millions of people ever played. Its fingerprints are all over SimCity, Civilization, and every "build and manage" game that followed. WHAT'S IN THE APP • An authentic CRT terminal look — scanlines, phosphor glow, and a real boot-up sequence • Choose green or amber, just like the old monitors • Local high scores, with your ruler rating from Impeached to Fantastic • A full in-app history lesson — on the game itself, and on the real King Hammurabi the name comes from • Ambient background music while you rule No accounts, no logins, no busywork. Just you, ten years, and a kingdom that lives or dies by your decisions. Can you rule as wisely as the real Hammurabi — or will you go down as a National Fink?

Screenshots

Factory Control Inc.4 screens
Hammurabi3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hammurabi at none against Factory Control Inc.'s 1. Hammurabi also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Factory Control Inc.'s advantage is ratings volume (211 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads 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. Factory Control Inc. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hammurabi asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hammurabi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Factory Control Inc. has 211 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Factory Control Inc.'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Hammurabi's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Factory Control Inc. versus Hammurabi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFactory Control Inc.Hammurabi
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (211 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings211 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermukesh patelKen Boone

Customer experience

Factory Control Inc.

All ratings154 ratings
Positive90.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews97 reviews
Positive85.6%
Neutral7.2%
Negative7.2%

Hammurabi

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Factory Control Inc.

One-time1
  • Remove Ads.$1.99
None

Hammurabi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Factory Control Inc. free?
Factory Control Inc. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hammurabi free?
Hammurabi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Factory Control Inc. or Hammurabi?
Hammurabi is rated higher. Factory Control Inc. averages 4.6 out of 5 from 211 ratings, while Hammurabi averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Factory Control Inc. or Hammurabi have ads?
Both Factory Control Inc. and Hammurabi show ads.

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