Comparison

Asset King vs The Provider

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

Head to head
About

Asset King

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Do you have what it takes to become the ultimate Asset King? Start your journey with a humble Lemonade Stand and grow into a multi-trillion dollar business empire! Manage your companies, invest in luxury real estate, and live the boss life you’ve always dreamed of. FEATURES: BUILD YOUR EMPIRE From Taxi Stands to Oil Refineries, manage 10+ different businesses. automate your workflow and earn idle cash even when you are offline! REAL ESTATE COLLECTION This is not just about business. It's about ASSETS! Buy Studio Apartments, Luxury Villas, Skyscrapers, and even your own Private Island. Watch your Net Worth skyrocket. PRESTIGE & LUXURY Collect prestige points to permanently boost your income. Buy luxury items like Sports Cars, Jets, and Designer Suits to show off your status. BE THE KING Compete with yourself to reach the highest level. Can you unlock the Private Island and become the richest tycoon in the world? Download Asset King now and start building your legacy! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/assetking

About

The Provider

Simulate a lifetime of financial and career decisions from age eighteen. Navigate job choices, investments, and business ventures to build wealth and a fulfilling life. Experience the consequences of your choices over hundreds of months.

Highlights
  • Simulate career progression
  • Manage investments and finances
  • Start and grow businesses
  • Experience life events
  • Make critical life choices
  • Explore different states
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You are eighteen. You have two hundred dollars, no degree, and rent is due in thirty days. Or you have a trust fund, $800 a month for life, and a family that burns its people out by forty. You didn't pick. Nobody picks. That's where The Provider begins. From here you get one month at a time, about six hundred of them. Take the shift or take the class. Rent or buy. Pay down the card or put it in the index fund. Then you press End Month — the paycheck lands, the bills come out, and the receipt tells you exactly what your choices were worth. The receipt never flatters you. WORK YOUR WAY UP Start on the fast-food line at $12 an hour and climb. Or go to trade school at night and come out a licensed plumber with your name on the trucks. Or grind through medical school and spend a decade underwater before the money ever turns. Seventeen jobs, five trades, degrees from associate to master's, and licensing exams you can genuinely fail. MONEY THAT BEHAVES LIKE MONEY Index funds and individual stocks. A 401(k) with an employer match you'd be foolish to leave on the table and an early-withdrawal penalty that shows you the full damage before you confirm. Mortgages, refinancing, property taxes. Credit-card interest compounding against you roughly ten times faster than the market compounds for you. Crypto, if you're feeling brave. Two hundred a month from age eighteen is six figures by your mid-forties; start at thirty and you finish with barely half. The early dollars do the heavy lifting. That's the whole game. BUILD SOMETHING Fifteen kinds of business, from a $3,000 food cart to a craft brewery, a dental practice, a boutique hotel, a minor-league ball club. Hire people. Underpay them and watch them leave in the middle of a recession. Set prices, run marketing with honestly diminishing returns, survive inspections and the competitor across the street. Build a reputation until you earn a real brand — Beloved, Household Name, or Everywhere — each one a different bet. Then promote a veteran to manager and finally work ON the business instead of in it. Fair warning: ownership is a stress engine, heavier than most jobs. A LIFE, NOT A SPREADSHEET Ten states, each a genuinely different game. No income tax in Texas. Hurricanes in Florida — insure the house, seriously. California pays top of market and takes it back in rent. Ohio has the cheapest homes in the game and the most honest work. Around all of it: a partner, kids, friends who drift if you never call. Kids cost a fortune and are the best investment in the game — one in five has a business spark, and when they pitch you at sixteen, listen. Stress compounds into burnout. Pets pass. Some things you cannot buy your way out of. 51 SCENARIOS Fixed puzzles with medals to earn. Inherit a dying restaurant with a furious underpaid crew and six grand of debt. Build a company to $250,000 with no loans, no investors, no credit cards — every dollar of growth from a customer. Twenty rental doors. Dig out of an avalanche of debt. Raise two kids on one income and put them both through college. Gold, silver, bronze, and a clock running. THE ENDING YOU EARN You don't retire at an age. You retire when the money will outlast you. Then comes the accounting: net worth, dividends collected, children raised, people still close to you at the end — and a grade from D to S. Your best lives go up on the leaderboard. YOUR WORLD, YOUR RULES Turn off layoffs, hurricanes, medical emergencies, scams, gambling content, even inflation. Every hardship you remove cuts your final score, and customized runs are marked. The top of the board belongs to the hardest hand, played on Hard, with nothing switched off. Plus 100+ achievements, ten save slots, and a difficulty setting that's honest about what it's worth. No ads. No accounts. No internet required. Nothing ever leaves your phone. Fiction, not financial advice.

Screenshots

Asset King3 screens
The Provider4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Provider at none against Asset King's 3. The Provider also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). Asset King's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price 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. Asset King sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. The Provider asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Asset King ships an update every 2 days, The Provider every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Asset King versus The Provider: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsset KingThe Provider
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperEmirhan SERINKevin Petersen

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Asset King

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly VIP$1.997 Days
  • Monthly VIP$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime VIP$14.99
None

The Provider

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Asset King free?
Asset King is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Provider free?
The Provider is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Asset King or The Provider have ads?
Asset King shows ads; The Provider does not.
Which is updated more often, Asset King or The Provider?
Asset King ships an update every 2 days, and The Provider every 2 months. Most recently, Asset King was updated on October 30, 2026 and The Provider on November 6, 2026.

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