Ethos Idle vs Tower Sim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ethos Idle
Guide humanity's progress from its earliest discoveries to the distant future. Manage your tribe's choices, develop over 200 unique ideas, and explore the world. Advance your civilization, unlock bonuses, and enjoy a single-player, offline experience with optional ads.
- Develop over 200 historic ideas
- Explore and exploit the world
- Manage tribe choices
- Unlock exploration bonuses and synergies
- Prestige mechanic upgrades
- Customizable challenge scenarios
- Offline single-player experience
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Chart the progess of Humanity through the ages, and guide their every discovery from the moment they kindle the first fire to the far future. Develop over 200 unique ideas across three different flavours of thought. Help your people to conquer or make peace with their enemies, explore and exploit the world, and develop projects to meet their needs. Manage your tribe's choices to squeeze out more strength, or sit back and idle as your clan develop on their own. Advance as far as you can take your people, and then collect bonuses to improve future runs. Select varied challenges that change the way the game plays, and combine these challenges to create your own unique scenarios with big rewards. Features: - Over 200 historic ideas to develop, across 3 flavours of thought - Dozens of exploration bonuses and synergies to unlock and exploit - Permanently power up your civilisation with prestige mechanic upgrades - Combine varied challenge conditions to create your own scenarios with powerful rewards - Optional, out-of-the-way ads won't interrupt your experience - A completely offline, single player experience - All game content is accessible for free
Tower Sim
Design and manage a towering skyscraper, from offices to penthouses. Master elevator logistics and keep diverse tenants happy amidst dynamic events and a day/night cycle. Balance your budget to grow your building into a five-star landmark.
- Complex simulation and budget management
- Elevator logistics and tenant stress prevention
- Diverse tenant types with unique needs
- Dynamic day/night cycle
- Challenging events and emergencies
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Reach for the Sky in the Ultimate Tower Simulation! Become the architect and manager of a world-class skyscraper. From humble offices to luxury penthouses and bustling shopping malls, every floor is yours to design. But building is only half the battle—can you keep your tenants happy? KEY FEATURES: Complex Simulation: Balance your budget as you grow from a one-star building to a five-star landmark. Vertical Logistics: Master the art of elevator management. Design shafts and program cars to minimize wait times and prevent tenant stress. Diverse Tenants: Build offices, condos, restaurants, and retail shops—each with unique needs and peak hours. Dynamic Day/Night Cycle: Watch your tower come to life as the sun sets and the city lights flicker on. Challenging Events: Handle everything from VIP visits to unexpected emergencies that put your management skills to the test. Do you have what it takes to manage a vertical city? Download now and start building!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ethos Idle at 4.8 against Tower Sim's 4.0. Ethos Idle also leads on ratings volume (239 vs 1). Tower Sim's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Ethos Idle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tower Sim sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ethos Idle holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ethos Idle has 239 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Ethos Idle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tower Sim's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ethos Idle ships an update fortnightly, Tower Sim every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ethos Idle | Tower Sim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (239 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 239 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Graham Goldstein | Christian Puell |
Customer experience
Ethos Idle
Tower Sim
Bugs and requests
Ethos Idle
Reported bugs
2 issues- RNG for challenges is unfair and unfun
- Unlocking buffs for inaccessible technologies
Requested features
2 requests- Option to remove ads entirely
- Clarification on prestige warp gain multipliers
Tower Sim
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ethos Idle
- x2 Speed$6.99
Tower Sim
- Basic Access$0.99
- 100.000 Budget$0.99
- 250.000 Budget$1.99
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- Advance Access$2.99
- Pro Access$4.99
- All Access$9.99









