Lucky Mayor vs Sumhow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Roguelike mayor simulation
- Citizen recruitment
- Business prosperity promotion
- Industrial chain development
- City transformation
- Strategic decision-making
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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!
Sumhow
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
| Parameter | Lucky Mayor | Sumhow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | feng hu | Timothy Palladino |
In-app purchases
Lucky Mayor
No in-app purchases
Sumhow
- 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









