Comparison

Gens vs Labberdash

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

Head to head
About

Gens

Experience a swipe-based life simulator that spans five generations, from Boomer to Gen Z. Make critical choices that impact wealth, health, and relationships, shaping your family's legacy through unique events and challenges.

Highlights
  • Swipe-based life simulation
  • Multi-generational gameplay
  • Build a family legacy
  • Unlock DNA cards and boosters
  • Survive risky events and mini-games
  • Upgrade lifestyle and room
Features
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Swipe through life, survive each generation, and build a legacy from Boomer to Gen Z. GENS is a swipe-based life simulator where every decision changes your story. Choose your path through money, career, love, health, status, family drama, risky opportunities, and unexpected setbacks. Start in the Boomer era and continue through Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. Each generation brings different events, pressures, culture, and survival challenges. MAKE LIFE CHOICES Swipe left or right on story cards. Your choices affect wealth, health, relationships, charisma, coolness, aura, and your future outcomes. BUILD A FAMILY LEGACY Your actions shape what carries into the next generation. Strong choices can create momentum. Bad choices can leave problems behind. USE BOOSTERS Unlock boosters to help recover, survive difficult moments, and push your story further when life gets chaotic. UNLOCK DNA CARDS Earn DNA cards based on how each generation lived. These cards can carry traits, boosts, and effects into the next part of your legacy. SURVIVE RISKY EVENTS Face mini-games, gambles, crisis moments, and surprise choices where one decision can change everything. UPGRADE YOUR ROOM Watch your lifestyle grow as your legacy improves, from humble beginnings to better rooms and stronger progress. REPLAY DIFFERENT LIVES Try new choices, discover different outcomes, and see how far your family story can go. GENS is free to play and includes optional rewarded ads. How far can your legacy survive? Download GENS and start your story today. Terms of Use: https://metatensor.net/gens/terms Privacy Policy: https://metatensor.net/gens/ppolicy Join Our Community: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GensApp TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gensapp

About

Labberdash

Features
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Somewhere behind the water heater, a closet is quietly becoming a datacenter. LabberDash is a comedic idle/tycoon game about secretly building an absurd homelab — one Raspberry Pi, one NAS, one suspiciously large Amazon box at a time — while keeping your spouse none the wiser. Think Papers, Please meets r/homelab. WATCH THE SUS METER Every loud fan, hot server, and unexplained package raises your spouse's suspicion. Let it climb too high and you'll face a Spouse Encounter — play your Alibi cards ("it's for work," "it's a tax write-off") to talk your way out before disaster hits. MANAGE A REAL POWER BUDGET Your circuit has real limits. Overload it and you'll trip the breaker, killing every server at once. Panel upgrades and a Solar tier raise your headroom — and quietly launder your habit while you're at it. BUILD AN ABSURD HARDWARE CATALOG Grow from a single Pi to a full rack: NAS storage, a media server, a crypto rig, a virtualization host, and more — each individually upgradeable, each with its own power draw, noise, and Sus cost. BALANCE THE HOUSE Not every purchase has to be LabberTech. DomestiTech gear — smart plugs, video doorbells, robot vacuums — lowers Sus and keeps the peace, if you're willing to spend Compute on looking responsible. No pay-to-win, no forced ads, no loot boxes — everything in LabberDash is earn-able through normal play. Optional in-app purchases and rewarded video ads are there if you want to speed things up, never because you have to. Can you go from one Pi to a full rack without ending up on the couch?

Screenshots

Gens4 screens
Labberdash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gens at none against Labberdash's 9. Labberdash's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and 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

Both are free to download. Labberdash sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Gens asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gens ships an update weekly, Labberdash every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gens versus Labberdash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGensLabberdash
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB66 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMetaTensorMARCUS JAMES CANTWELL

In-app purchases

None

Gens

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Labberdash

One-time9
  • 250 Compute$0.99
  • Bill Grant$0.99
  • Extended Warranty$0.99
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  • Subscription Manager$0.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Ad-Free unlock$2.99
  • 1,500 Compute$4.99
  • 3,500 Compute$9.99
  • 8,000 Compute$19.99

Questions

Is Gens free?
Gens is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Labberdash free?
Labberdash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gens or Labberdash have ads?
Both Gens and Labberdash show ads.
Which is updated more often, Gens or Labberdash?
Gens ships an update weekly, and Labberdash every 6 days. Most recently, Gens was updated on November 4, 2026 and Labberdash on October 31, 2026.

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