Comparison

Lucky Mayor vs Sumhow

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

Head to head
About

Lucky Mayor

Lead a city as its mayor in this roguelike simulation. Recruit citizens, foster business growth, and build an industrial chain to satisfy population needs. Strategically develop your city into a prosperous metropolis and earn the admiration of its people.

Highlights
  • Roguelike mayor simulation
  • Citizen recruitment
  • Business prosperity promotion
  • Industrial chain development
  • City transformation
  • Strategic decision-making
Features
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In this roguelike mayor simulation game, you will become the leader of a city, taking on the role of mayor. Your task is to recruit citizens, promote business prosperity, and build a comprehensive industrial chain to meet the diverse needs of the population. Through wise planning and decision-making, transform your city into a thriving supercity that citizens take pride in, and become their admired leader!

About

Sumhow

Features
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Somebody left you a calculator. Most of the keys are gone. Sumhow hands you a target and a handful of surviving keys, and asks you to make the number anyway. Three, plus and times are enough to get started. Then the machine starts changing the rules on you. HOW IT PLAYS • Every unit has a par: the fewest presses it can possibly be done in. Match it for three stars. • The machine resolves left to right, with no order of operations. On this unit, 3 + 4 × 2 is 14. • Undo and Clear are free, so experiment. There are no timers, no lives and no fail state. TEN CHAPTERS, ONE RULE EACH Roots, where √ only lands on whole numbers. Echo, where equals repeats the last operation. Decay, where the × key dies after two uses. Stutter, Memory, Wraparound, The Toll, Below Zero, Blind. And Word Mode: ninety-six trivia questions whose answers you spell by typing the number that reads as the word when the screen is upside down. The first four chapters are free. Each of the ten that follow is a single purchase, or earn it: every unit in a chapter at three stars pays for the next one in gold. HINTS THAT COST SOMETHING A nudge shows your next press. A route shows the whole solution. Both cost gold and cap the stars you can earn on that unit, so a hint is a choice, not a shortcut. SKINS Wear the calculator you want. Forty-three skins in seven packs, from leopard print to a synthwave sunset, tried on before you buy. THE QUIET PART The unit reacts to certain numbers. None of them are listed. Scratch mode is a fully working calculator with no target; that is where you go looking. Find enough and a chapter opens that is not for sale. No ads. No account. No energy meter. Just a calculator with a problem, and you.

Screenshots

Lucky Mayor4 screens
Sumhow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sumhow at Free against Lucky Mayor's $3.99. Lucky Mayor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sumhow is free to download; Lucky Mayor costs $3.99 up front. Sumhow sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Lucky Mayor asks for nothing beyond the download.

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Lucky Mayor versus Sumhow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLucky MayorSumhow
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB16 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developerfeng huTimothy Palladino

In-app purchases

None

Lucky Mayor

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Sumhow

One-time10
  • Skins: Café$1.99
  • Desk skin pack$1.99
  • 80s skin pack$1.99
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  • Night Shift skin pack$1.99
  • Seaside skin pack$1.99
  • Wild skin pack$1.99
  • Sweet Shop skin pack$1.99
  • Chapter 8: The Toll$4.99
  • Chapter 7: Word Mode$4.99
  • Chapter 6: Wraparound$4.99

Questions

Is Lucky Mayor free?
Lucky Mayor costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sumhow free?
Sumhow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lucky Mayor or Sumhow have ads?
Neither Lucky Mayor nor Sumhow shows ads.

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