Ozymandias vs SpaceCorp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ozymandias
Experience the thrill of building a Bronze Age empire in a streamlined 4X strategy game. Expand your territory, develop cities, and raise armies. Unique victory conditions and abstracted combat ensure fast-paced, strategic gameplay.
- Streamlined 4X gameplay
- Abstracted combat system
- Hand-painted historical maps
- Random and custom victory conditions
- AI that doesn't cheat
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Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format. At the dawn of history, Bronze Age kings built the first empires. Strategize their rise to power in a uniquely streamlined 4X. Expand your borders, build cities in tactical locations then raise armies to defend them. Each turn, you receive opportunities but must choose only one. Random victory conditions make every game different; custom victory conditions support different styles of play. DISTILLED DESIGN - Focus on strategy over tactics, we’ve stripped the busywork out of 4X gameplay. - Combat abstracted into an innovative Power system, you only move armies and fleets. HISTORICAL MAPS - Hand-painted maps charting Bronze Ages around the world. - Each empire's trait and start location bring a unique set of challenges. EASY TO LEARN - The tutorial is a short story campaign about explorer, Gertrude Bell. - Climb the difficulty ladder against our AI, which never cheats to compete.
SpaceCorp
Lead humanity's expansion into space, building bases, mining resources, and exploring distant star systems. This turn-based strategy game offers a complete sci-fi experience playable in under an hour, featuring a card-driven system and various game modes.
- Build bases on Moon and Mars
- Survey Saturn's rings
- Explore Europa's oceans
- Send generational colony ships
- Card-driven hand management
- Multiple game modes
- Three distinct eras of play
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Lead mankind's exploration into outer space! Build bases on the Moon and Mars, survey the rings of Saturn, explore the vast oceans of Europa, and send generational Colony ships to Alpha Centauri and beyond, all in one sitting! SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD is a fast-playing, turn-based, sci-fi strategy game, playable in 60 minutes or less! Using a clever card-driven, hand-management system, SpaceCorp plays in under 60 minutes, and has many exciting game modes, from playing against aggressive AI's to playing against a devious, hand-crafted, card-driven automa. It also includes optional era situation cards to add additional variety. Do you have what it takes to lead mankind into the future? ------------------------------- In SpaceCorp, the player explores and develops outer space over three eras. The player controls an Earth-based enterprise seeking profit by driving the expansion of humanity into the Solar System and nearby stars. In SpaceCorp you can … - Assemble a spaceport at a Lagrange Point. - Launch an exploration mission to Mars. - Mine asteroids. - Earn profit from exotic resources discovered on the Jovian moons. - Discover microbial life in the subsurface oceans of Charon. - Decode exo-DNA to develop radiation resistant human pioneers. - Undertake a mission to Alpha Centauri in a generation ship. - Break through technological barriers to achieve faster-than-light travel. - Establish a colony in the Tau Ceti star system. - Each of the three eras is played on a different map: - The first era, Mariners, covers exploration and development out to Mars. - In Planeteers, players settle the outer solar system. - In Starfarers, players send missions to nearby star systems and establish interstellar colonies. ------------------------------- SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD is a digital adaptation of the award-winning board game by the same name released in 2018 by John Butterfield and GMT Games. It was nominated for the "2018 Golden Elephant Award" on Board Game Geek, along with Root and Brass: Birmingham. Other award winners on Board Game Geek include Terraforming Mars, Twilight Imperium, Star Wars: Rebellion, and Dune: Imperium. As a fast-playing, tight strategy game, SpaceCorp is perfect for players looking to get their strategy game fix in short time frames. ------------------------------- SpaceCorp: Ventures is an expansion for SpaceCorp under development, and planned for release in Fall of 2025. In SpaceCorp: Ventures, players will be able to play as any one of 14 different rival corporations, each with their own powers, abilities, and motivations, leading to very dynamic games and ever changing strategies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ozymandias at 4.5 against SpaceCorp's 4.1. Ozymandias also leads on price ($3.99 vs $6.99) and chart position (#65 vs #195). SpaceCorp's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and review sentiment (72% vs 62%). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Ozymandias costs $3.99 and SpaceCorp $6.99 up front. Ozymandias sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and SpaceCorp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ozymandias holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 23 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of Ozymandias's written reviews are positive against 72% of SpaceCorp's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ozymandias ships an update every 2 weeks, SpaceCorp weekly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Ozymandias | SpaceCorp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (22 ratings) — better | 4.1 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews | 72.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #65 — better | #195 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 493 MB | 341 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Goblinz Studio SAS | Logix Interactive LLC |
Customer experience
Ozymandias
SpaceCorp
User reviews
Ozymandias
From 22 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and engaging 4X gameplay
- 🚀 Quick and efficient game sessions
- 💎 Great value for the price
- 💡 Well-balanced strategy mechanics
- 📱 Excellent port for mobile devices
Room to improve
- 📱 UI too small for iPhone
- 🧐 Font size difficult to read
- 🔄 Game can become repetitive
- 📉 Steep learning curve for new players
- 📱 Unplayable on smaller iPhones
SpaceCorp
From 23 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent implementation of board game
- 🎮 Challenging mechanics with many ways to win/lose
- 🎶 Excellent soundtrack that enhances the experience
- 💰 Great value for the price
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes when starting the game
- 🤔 Tutorial could be more complete
- 🔍 Difficulty navigating the board and using pinch-to-zoom
Bugs and requests
Ozymandias
Reported bugs
10 issues- Crashes frequently, especially late game
- Save progress lost after crashes
- Game crashes when saving
- Game restarts to beginning after crash
- UI elements too small
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- Font unadjustable and unreadable
- Does not support both landscape orientations
- iPad orientation issues
- Screen does not rotate
- Crashes randomly, progress lost
Requested features
10 requests- More objective cards
- More maps
- PvP mode on mobile
- Cloud Saves / iCloud saves
- Multiplayer option
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- Fix iPad orientation / autorotate
- Support both landscape orientations
- Zoom feature for map
- Tooltip for combat strength
- Demo with actual gameplay
SpaceCorp
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes when starting the game
- Tutorial doesn't work consistently
Requested features
2 requests- Online multiplayer
- Improved tutorial experience
In-app purchases
Ozymandias
- The World$0.99
- The Andes$0.99
- Sahara Desert$0.99
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- Indonesia$0.99
- Mesoamerica$0.99
- Aegean Sea$0.99
- Indus Valley$0.99
- Near East$0.99
- All Maps$3.99
SpaceCorp
- Ventures Expansion$4.99








