Comparison

Bitmap Bay vs CyberCityTrading

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

Head to head
About

Bitmap Bay

Embark on a retro pirate adventure with a handcrafted pixel art world. Engage in skillful cannon battles, face legendary captains, and recruit your crew in this roguelite experience. Enjoy endless replayability with a full save system, playable completely offline.

Highlights
  • Handmade pixel art
  • Challenge legendary pirates
  • Endlessly replayable voyages
  • Skillful cannon battles
  • Recruit your crew
  • Full save and load system
Features
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"A bold new retro take... quite the intriguing one" – Pocket Gamer. Welcome to Bitmap Bay - a pixel-art pirate adventure. Explore the low-res high seas, build your legacy, and test your cannon-firing reflexes against legendary historical captains. • Authentic Pixel Art: A charming, low-res retro world created by an artist. • Legendary Pirates: Challenge over 40 real historical captains, each with unique, hand-drawn portraits. • Tactical Cannon Battles: Combat is simple to learn but hard to master. Time your shots perfectly to claim victory. • Recruit Your Crew: Hire a loyal crew of sailors, specialists, and scoundrels. • Endlessly Replayable: Encounter a wide range of random events – duels, storms, thieves, and mysteries. • Premium Experience: Playable completely offline with zero ads and zero in-app purchases. About the Developer: Bitmap Bay is the creation of Grandom Games, the solo dev studio of a visual artist and designer. It is built with a passion for classic retro gaming and offered as a true premium mobile experience.

About

CyberCityTrading

Features
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You're a lone trader in a galaxy of cyberpunk city-states, each with its own economy, factions, and secrets. Buy low, sell high, dodge pirates, and outmanoeuvre rival traders who are working the same routes — and you won't even see them coming until it's too late. Cyber City Trading is a turn-based trading simulator inspired by classics like FTL and No Man's Sky, designed from the ground up for iPhone. A galaxy that hides its secrets. Most cities start shrouded in darkness. Explore to uncover new markets, anomalies, and one-time discovery events. Be the first trader to reach an undiscovered city and earn a permanent Founding Merchant discount. Markets that fight back. Prices shift every turn based on supply, demand, events, and the invisible hand of rival NPC traders. A Corporate War can spike weapons prices overnight. A Drug Ban can wipe out your cargo's value. Adapt or go broke. Rivals you have to find. Enemy traders aren't marked on your map. You'll feel their impact — depleted stock, crashed prices — before you ever meet them. Build a dossier on each rival as you cross paths, and decide whether to compete, undercut, or avoid. Your ship, your edge. Upgrade your cargo hold, engines, armour, and stealth systems. Fuel is finite — plan expeditions carefully or risk being stranded between cities. Cities that grow with you. Invest in infrastructure and watch an Outpost evolve into a Town, then an Industrial Hub, then a Megacity — unlocking new industries and exports at every stage. Key features: — Turn-based strategy built for mobile: deep but never overwhelming — Fog of war exploration across a procedurally connected galaxy map — Dynamic economy simulation across every city — Rival traders with hidden AI behaviour and market impact — Random events: corporate wars, embargoes, food shortages, black market crackdowns — Ship upgrades and fuel-based expedition planning — NPC contacts who sell intel, tip you off, and offer exclusive deals — Cyberpunk aesthetic with glitched data, neon UI, and dense atmosphere — Autosave every turn, pick up exactly where you left off Every run is different. Every route is a risk. How far will you push before the galaxy pushes back?

Screenshots

Bitmap Bay4 screens
CyberCityTrading4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CyberCityTrading at Free against Bitmap Bay's $0.99. CyberCityTrading also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). Bitmap Bay's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ads and in-app purchases 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

CyberCityTrading is free to download; Bitmap Bay costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bitmap Bay ships an update every 4 days, CyberCityTrading daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bitmap Bay versus CyberCityTrading: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBitmap BayCyberCityTrading
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB46 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperNICHOLAS GENTRYDavid Bawcutt

In-app purchases

None

Bitmap Bay

No in-app purchases

None

CyberCityTrading

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bitmap Bay free?
Bitmap Bay costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CyberCityTrading free?
CyberCityTrading is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bitmap Bay or CyberCityTrading have ads?
Neither Bitmap Bay nor CyberCityTrading shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bitmap Bay or CyberCityTrading?
Bitmap Bay ships an update every 4 days, and CyberCityTrading daily. Most recently, Bitmap Bay was updated on November 5, 2026 and CyberCityTrading on October 31, 2026.

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