Comparison

Hacker Sim vs National Dominance

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

Head to head
About

Hacker Sim

Build a digital empire through strategic hacking, trading, and mining. Manage your "Heat" level, complete contracts, and upgrade your rig. Features a new story mode where you battle a cyber threat.

Highlights
  • Story Mode with branching objectives
  • Multi-stage hacking mechanics
  • Real-time Heat management system
  • Simulated cryptocurrency market trading
  • In-game crypto mining
  • Botnet building and management
  • Hardware and skill upgrades
Features
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Your rig is humming. The target is live. One clean breach and the Blacknet pays out. Hacker Sim is a layered hacking strategy game — not a tapper. Run live multi-stage breaches, upgrade your rig, trade a simulated crypto market, and keep your Trace low enough to stay invisible. Your operation keeps earning while you're away. RUN LIVE BREACHES Recon. Penetrate. Escalate. Extract. Cleanup. Every stage shifts your odds, payout, and Trace exposure. Push deeper for a bigger score, or abort before the grid lights up. MANAGE TRACE Every action leaves a signal. Let Trace climb and targets harden, success rates fall, and the net closes in. Cool down, lay low, and choose your moment to strike again. BUILD YOUR RIG Upgrade CPU, RAM, GPU, storage, network, and cooling. Better hardware means faster breaches, higher success rates, and stronger mining output. EARN WHILE YOU'RE AWAY Mining rigs and botnets keep working when the app is closed. Come back to stacked earnings, finished research, and a cache waiting to be claimed. TRADE THE BLACKNET Track a simulated crypto market with live price movement, volatility, and portfolio value — then unlock the Trading Desk to buy, sell, and ride the swings. COMPLETE CONTRACTS Time-boxed contract work with escalating rewards and streaks. Operator Pass members unlock the Operator Contract Board with higher-value objectives. RESEARCH NEW CAPABILITIES Develop your Research Lab to unlock new methods, skills, and permanent advantages for breaching, mining, and staying hidden. CLAIM DAILY CACHES Log in daily to build your streak and collect escalating rewards. Operator Pass unlocks a second Daily Cache Lane every day. PLAY STORY MODE Step into Aegis Sentinel's SOC in Circuit Breakers — a narrative cyber thriller where you triage threats, investigate incidents, and battle The Choir across episodic missions with branching choices. COMPETE AND PROGRESS • Earn cash, reputation, achievements, and titles • Climb Game Center leaderboards • Long-term progression that respects your time OPERATOR PASS Full Blacknet membership: the Trading Desk, Operator Contract Board, a second Daily Cache Lane, Circuit Breakers access, extra operation capacity, an extra research queue, and no ads on sponsored rewards. IMPORTANT Hacker Sim is a strategy simulation game. It does not teach, enable, or encourage real hacking. All hacking, crypto, malware, botnet, and market systems are fictional and simulated for entertainment only. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

National Dominance

Lead any of 196 nations from regional power to global superpower through deep economic management, intricate diplomacy, and strategic warfare. Survive global crises and engage in espionage to achieve victory through economic ascendancy or conquest.

Highlights
  • Deep economic simulation
  • Global trade and diplomacy
  • Espionage and intelligence operations
  • Real-time warfare with diverse forces
  • Dynamic world events and crises
  • Multiple victory conditions
Features
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National Dominance puts the whole world in your hands. Pick any of 196 real nations and rise from regional player to global superpower. RUN A DEEP ECONOMY Set tax and spending, fund five ministries down to their departments, and manage debt, inflation, a sovereign wealth fund, bond markets and a credit rating. Trade real commodities along living supply routes, and squeeze rivals by choking the goods and chokepoints they depend on. PLAY THE WORLD Forge trade pacts and alliances, levy tariffs, rally sanctions coalitions, broker peace as a Trusted Broker, or found your own bloc with dues and a shared army. Every nation has opinions, grievances and ambitions, and they will gang up on whoever leads. GO DARK Build a black-budget intelligence service, arm deniable proxy armies, and run espionage, bribery, sabotage and rumor campaigns. Unleash a proxy war while keeping your hands clean. The AI plays the same dirty game right back. WAGE WAR YOUR WAY Raise real armies across ground, air and naval forces and march them to war. Battles are decided by Risk-style dice weighted for technology, air superiority and terrain, so superpowers hit hard while entrenched defenders and guerrilla fighters bleed invaders dry. Casualties are real and thin both your army and your population. Mobilize for total war, launch your own offensives, climb an escalation ladder from cyber strikes to nuclear options, then occupy, install puppets, or fully annex the conquered. SURVIVE A LIVING WORLD Seasonal disasters, climate, global pandemics, refugee crises and weaponized migration all test your resilience. Respond, insure, and rebuild stronger. TWO PATHS TO VICTORY Win by Ascendancy: grow faster than anyone over a 10, 25, 50 or 100 year mission, so even a tiny nation can topple the giants. Or win by conquest: build a war machine and subjugate every rival great power. Then keep playing forever in endless mode. Chase 100 achievements, climb the global leaderboards, and prove you can rule the world. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hacker Sim4 screens
National Dominance4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hacker Sim and National Dominance both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 87% of National Dominance's written reviews are positive against 50% of Hacker Sim's. National Dominance also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks). Hacker Sim's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Hacker Sim sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and National Dominance sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hacker Sim holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 38 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Hacker Sim's written reviews are positive against 87% of National Dominance's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hacker Sim ships an update every 5 weeks, National Dominance every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Hacker Sim versus National Dominance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHacker SimNational Dominance
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (17 ratings) — better4.4 (38 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews87.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1738 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB79 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJOBEE DEVELOPMENTS LTDBrian Solomon

Customer experience

Hacker Sim

All ratings17 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral17.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

National Dominance

All ratings36 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive87.1%
Neutral9.7%
Negative3.2%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Hacker Sim

Subscriptions2
  • Operator Pass Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Operator Pass Annual$39.991 Year
One-time8
  • Extra Streak Freeze$0.99
  • Recovery Kit$2.99
  • Field Kit$3.99
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  • Black Budget Cache$4.99
  • Research Boost Bundle$4.99
  • Crypto Stash (Medium)$5.99
  • Circuit Breakers Forever$6.99
  • Lifetime Operator License$14.99
10 purchases

National Dominance

Subscriptions1
  • Dominance Pass (Monthly)$4.991 Month
One-time9
  • Cold War World$1.99
  • Post-Collapse 2100$1.99
  • Orbital Age 2045$1.99
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  • Statecraft$2.99
  • Ironman$2.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Custom Start$4.99
  • Statecraft Bundle$9.99
  • All-Access Pass$49.99

Questions

Is Hacker Sim free?
Hacker Sim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is National Dominance free?
National Dominance is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hacker Sim or National Dominance?
Hacker Sim is rated higher. Hacker Sim averages 4.6 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while National Dominance averages 4.4 from 38 ratings.
Do Hacker Sim or National Dominance have ads?
Both Hacker Sim and National Dominance show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hacker Sim or National Dominance?
Hacker Sim ships an update every 5 weeks, and National Dominance every 5 days. Most recently, Hacker Sim was updated on November 5, 2026 and National Dominance on November 10, 2026.

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