Tiny Pharaoh vs Neolysium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Pharaoh
Build a thriving city in Ancient Egypt in this real-time strategy game. Construct various buildings to manage resources and achieve monumental goals like pyramids and the Sphinx. Compete with others through weekly challenges and an online leaderboard.
- Real-time strategy gameplay
- Over 25 unique buildings
- 6 resource types
- 10+ scenarios with distinct goals
- Weekly generated challenges
- Online leaderboard
- Retro pixel art design
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▣ FREE REAL-TIME STRATEGY Tiny Pharaoh is a real-time strategy game set in Ancient Egypt. Become the master builder and turn the meadow into a city with a functional economy. Build houses, farms, mines, sawmills, and much more. Accumulate resources and achieve significant goals, such as building pyramids, the Great Sphinx, and many other famous buildings! Pharaoh awaits your service! ▣ GAME FEATURES - Free real-time strategy - More than 25 different buildings that generate 6 types of resources - Over 10 scenarios with distinct goals - Weekly generated challenges - Online leaderboard - Daily and weekly quests - Available in English, Spanish, German, Russian, and Czech ▣ GENERATED TILE BASED MAPS Each scenario map is divided into 100 tiles, where each tile can support a different building. Each building produces varying amounts of resources. Discover all the tiles, choose your building strategy, and achieve your goal as quickly as possible. ▣ RETRO PIXEL DESIGN Experience the beauty of Ancient Egypt translated into distinctive old-school pixel art graphics and chiptune music, all inspired by retro video games! ▣ ONLINE LEADERBOARD Compare your results with those of other players on the online leaderboard and become the fastest builder in all of Egypt! ▣ WEEKLY CHALLENGES Strive to be the best builder of the week! Compete in exclusive weekly scenarios and outperform your competitors.
Neolysium
This strategy card game challenges players to build a thriving environment and generate energy. It focuses on decision-making and strategic creativity with positive, non-violent gameplay. Enjoy a pure gaming experience with no ads or data collection.
- Strategic card play
- Environment building
- Energy generation
- Decision making
- Non-violent gameplay
- No ads
- No personal data collection
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Welcome to Neolysium the strategy card game for building a better world. Each hand is a new challenge to create a thriving environment that generates abundant energy. The game will test your decision making skills and strategic creativity while promoting a positive non-violent gameplay suitable for all ages. The game has no ads, does not collect any personal information, and is built solely for your enjoyment. How to play You start the game with 4 cards in hand and 10 spaces to play cards. Each turn you will draw a card from the deck and choose to either play a card to build your environment or discard. The objective is to maximize the amount of energy your environment produces. The game is over when you have used all of your playable spaces or your deck has run out of cards. Cards have attributes that can produce energy, create play spaces, add more cards to your deck, and other abilities to be discovered. Certain cards require other cards to be played first so having an understanding of your deck is important for developing an effective strategy. Every turn is a critical decision in managing spaces, card count, and energy output.
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The clearest difference is ads: Neolysium at none against Tiny Pharaoh's shown. Neolysium also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Tiny Pharaoh's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tiny Pharaoh holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Tiny Pharaoh's written reviews are positive against 71% of Neolysium's.
Tiny Pharaoh ships an update every 3 days, Neolysium every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Pharaoh | Neolysium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | 4.2 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Andrysek | Samuel Anderson |
Customer experience
Tiny Pharaoh
Neolysium
In-app purchases
Tiny Pharaoh
No in-app purchases
Neolysium
No in-app purchases
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