Fire Captain vs Genius Inc.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fire Captain
Lead a team of firefighters, doctors, and engineers in this casual strategy game. Build your base, recruit specialized personnel, and tackle exciting missions across various maps. Strategize your approach to overcome challenges and achieve success.
- Base building
- Hire firefighters, doctors, engineers
- Handle exciting missions
- Multiple maps and missions
- Recruit different heroes
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Fire Captain is a Casual Strategy game. In this game, you are acting as a fire captain, you build your base, hire more firefighters, doctor, engineers to work together to handle exciting missions! It offers: *Lots of different missions and maps *Many different heros
Genius Inc.
Nurture a growing population by upgrading your facility and unlocking new life phases. Raise babies to become geniuses and manage your community's development. This simulation game focuses on growth and advancement.
- Grow your population
- Upgrade your facility
- Unlock new life phases
- Raise babies to be geniuses
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-Grow your population! -Upgrade your facility! -Unlock new life phases! -Raise babies to be geniuses!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fire Captain at 4.2 against Genius Inc.'s 3.6. Fire Captain also leads on ratings volume (70 vs 8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Genius Inc.'s advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 26%) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Fire Captain sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Genius Inc. sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fire Captain holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fire Captain has 70 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of Fire Captain's written reviews are positive against 67% of Genius Inc.'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fire Captain ships an update weekly, Genius Inc. every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fire Captain | Genius Inc. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (70 ratings) — better | 3.6 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.9% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 533 MB | 179 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fuzhou Lingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. | UDO GAMES OYUN YAZILIM ANONIM SIRKETI |
Customer experience
Fire Captain
Genius Inc.
Bugs and requests
Fire Captain
Reported bugs
49 issues- Game stops at level 16
- Game will not load
- Maritime training drill rescue boat doesn't show up
- Boat unavailable in drill
- Helipad built but no aircraft
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- Unable to load boat in mission 15
- Video button for rewards doesn't work
- Game broken and closes app at level 17
- Stuck on first boat mission, click target off-screen
- Glitch in level 15
- Firefighters run through building instead of around
- Doctor goes to opposite side of building in level 6
- AI pathways cannot maneuver around building
- People walk through walls and get stuck
- Medic goes wrong trajectory and gets stuck
- Rescuer gets stuck in door frame in mission 14
- Second fire kills everyone by approaching it
- Cannot put fire out in level 14 without damage
- Cannot carry person in first room of level 14
- Stuck on level 11, character running in place exiting motel room
- Bed tracking issue, not going around to get asset
- Cannot access one of the assets in level 10
- Door in mission 14 in wrong place, units run in but not out
- Game bugs out at a certain point
- Shows close-up of firehouse but does nothing else
- Freezing at level 8, trucks don't come
- Game gets stuck a few levels after level 5 fix
- Game crashes and glitches after level 8
- Captain walks across bed instead of around and gets stuck on desk in level 5
- Captain glitches and walks on bed to get asset but can't get it in level 5
- Captain can't collect asset on mission 5 nightstand, gets stuck
- Asset in bedroom not letting player pick it up, glitched on bed in level 5
- Player gets stuck on invisible box at level 5
- Character gets stuck in level five trying to get asset by the bed on nightstand
- Bug prevents clearing of assets on level 5
- Stuck on level 5, get stuck on invisible barriers
- Captain character gets stuck on nightstand asset in level 5
- Firefighter gets stuck on bed trying to recover asset in mission 5
- Firefighter gets stuck retrieving assets by the bed in mission 5
- Firefighter climbs over bed and gets stuck in level 5
- Captain got stuck on bed in level 5
- Fireman get stuck trying to get money off dresser beside bed in level 5
- Glitch in level five, runs on bed then stands there
- Captain tries to recover asset in bedroom but gets stuck on bed in level 5
- Character keeps glitching and can't reach asset in level 4
- Cannot get one of the assets in the 5th mission
- Firefighters get stuck in invisible walls or run through walls in mission 5
- Captain gets stuck on bed trying to get money from bedside table in mission 5
- Lags and unable to complete missions
Requested features
4 requests- Make more levels
- Fix bugs before release
- Improve AI pathfinding
- More extinguishers for fires
Genius Inc.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fire Captain
- A Couple of Gems$0.99
- New Player Package$1.99
- A Handful of Gems$2.99
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- ToolPackage$3.99
- Growth Rewards VIP$4.99
- A Pile of Gems$4.99
- VehiclePackage$8.99
- A Sack of Gems$9.99
- ToolPackageUsualPrice$12.99
- VehiclePackageUsualPrice$29.99
Genius Inc.
- Legendary Pack$0.99
- 100 Gem$1.99
- No Ads$2.99
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- Legendary Packs x5$2.99
- 300 Gem$3.99
- 1000 Gem$4.99
Questions
Is Fire Captain free?
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Do Fire Captain or Genius Inc. have ads?
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