Comparison

Genethics vs 4 Seats

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

Head to head
About

Genethics

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Genethics hires you as a temporal agent. Every contract is written live, just for you: its story, its characters, its artwork, its soundtrack. No other agent will ever play it. Your mission: travel into the past and steer history through impossible choices. Each contract drops you into a real era, from antiquity to the near future. Read the situation, talk to the people who lived it, then decide. Every card is a fork, and every choice ripples forward. There are no clean answers, only consequences you have to own. Build your reputation, earn credits, and equip artifacts that bend the odds in your favor. Trade them with other agents on the open market, reforge their powers, and climb the leaderboard. Will you protect the timeline, or rewrite it in your image? Genethics is free to start. Become a full agent to unlock the full archive of contracts.

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4 Seats

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4 Seats: The Last Engine Fade The world has collapsed. Your only hope is a rusty car with four seats, a dwindling fuel tank, and the absolute will to survive. In ""4 Seats: The Last Engine Fade"", you lead a group of survivors through a desolate pixel-art wasteland where every mile costs resources, and every encounter could be your last. How far can you go before the engine finally fades? Key Features: The Road is Unforgiving Navigate a grid-based map filled with ruins, abandoned diners, and deadly hazards. Plan your route carefully. You must weigh the risks of exploring unknown tiles against the constant drain on your fuel, vehicle durability, and party's condition. Crucial Resource Management Survival is a game of numbers. Scavenge for food, clean water, fuel, and medical supplies. But beware: your vehicle has a strict weight limit. Overload your inventory, and your car will break down, leaving you defenseless. You must constantly decide what to keep and what to leave behind. Who Gets the 4 Seats? Throughout your journey, you will encounter various survivors—soldiers, programmers, pharmacists, mechanics, and ordinary citizens. Each profession brings unique survival skills and stat bonuses to your party. But your car only holds four people. You must make agonizing decisions about who joins your crew and who is left to the wasteland. Narrative-Driven Encounters Face brutal moral dilemmas through rich, text-based events. Will you risk a trap to save a crying child? Will you share your precious water with a dying stranger? Every choice has immediate and lasting consequences that shape your journey. High-Stakes Crises When cornered by infected hordes or hostile scavengers, you must calculate the odds. Use your party's combined combat power to fight, or choose to sprint away—risking the loss of your hard-earned loot. The engine is sputtering. The infected are closing in. Can you keep the car moving, or will you succumb to the wasteland? Start your engine and face the end of the world.

Screenshots

Genethics4 screens
4 Seats3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 4 Seats at none against Genethics's 10. Genethics's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Genethics sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. 4 Seats asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Genethics ships an update daily, 4 Seats every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Genethics versus 4 Seats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGenethics4 Seats
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB133 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperBENOIT PICHONwoongkyum kim

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Genethics

One-time10
  • Small credit pack$1.99
  • Small ether pack$1.99
  • Random Quantic Vectors$1.99
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  • Targeted Quantic Vectors$1.99
  • Medium credit pack$4.99
  • Medium ether pack$4.99
  • Large credit pack$9.99
  • Large ether pack$9.99
  • Huge credit pack$19.99
  • Huge ether pack$19.99
None

4 Seats

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Genethics free?
Genethics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 4 Seats free?
4 Seats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Genethics or 4 Seats have ads?
4 Seats shows ads; Genethics does not.
Which is updated more often, Genethics or 4 Seats?
Genethics ships an update daily, and 4 Seats every 2 weeks. Most recently, Genethics was updated on October 6, 2026 and 4 Seats on October 8, 2026.

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