Comparison

Casting Call vs Silly Con Valley

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

Head to head
About

Casting Call

Features
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Run a chaotic movie casting office. Hire actors. Manage staff. Survive Hollywood drama. Casting Call is a strategic management collectible card game with press your luck mechanics inspired by Party House. Every decision has consequences. You’re in charge of a struggling casting office, starting with D-list actors and the pressure to assemble the perfect movie cast before the studio loses patience. Every casting session challenges you to balance talent, budget, and momentum as you acquire actors, hire staff, and react to unexpected drama. Push your luck too far and the production can spiral out of control. FEATURES • QuickCast — a daily casting challenge • Acquire actors with unique strengths and weaknesses • Hire staff to manage drama • Strategic, high-stakes decisions every run • Optional one-time purchase to remove ads Whether you’re chasing the perfect A-list cast or barely keeping the office together, Casting Call delivers tense decisions, satisfying wins, and “just one more casting” gameplay. Can you make the right calls before the production shuts down?

About

Silly Con Valley

This satirical simulation game lets you build a tech startup from scratch. Navigate the challenges of hiring, product development, and securing funding through card-based pitch battles. Survive the volatile startup world and aim for a billion-dollar valuation or face bankruptcy.

Highlights
  • Satirical CEO archetypes
  • Card-based pitch battles
  • Retro 90s OS aesthetic
  • Office and infrastructure upgrades
  • Startup milestone reviews
  • Company expansion and M&A
Features
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Welcome to Silly Con Valley — the satirical tech startup simulation where you build the next billion-dollar unicorn (or burn through seed capital in 4 weeks). Set in a sun-drenched, retro-warm California OS environment ("Silicon Dreams"), Silly Con Valley puts you in the CEO hot seat. Pick your archetype, generate a hilarious corporate mission, hire eccentric talent, build disruptive tech products, manage team morale, and negotiate brutal VC pitch battles. FEATURES • RETRO-WARM CALIFORNIA OS ("SILICON DREAMS") Immerse yourself in a vintage 90s-inspired desktop operating system aesthetic. Navigate your company through a tactile 5-tab dock, customizable retro wallpapers, and authentic system window modals. • 21 SATIRICAL CEO ARCHETYPES ACROSS 10 PRESTIGE TIERS Pick from 21 unique CEO archetypes across an expanded 10-tier prestige ladder — from base starters (The Visionary, The Hustler, The Engineer, The Influencer, The Bootstrapper, The Nepobaby, The Futurist, The Suit) to unlockable legends like The Growth Hacker, The Cult Leader, The Chaos Agent, and community icon Pex Luminen. Each archetype features distinct Action Points, custom card decks, and gameplay-altering perks. • PERMANENT ASCENSION PROTOCOL & DEEP PRESTIGE Turn exit victories into generational power! Cash in your IPO success for permanent Ascension perks that buff starting capital, reduce VC meeting cooldowns, expand specialist recruitment rosters, and discipline facility rent burn across all future companies. • TURBO FAST-FORWARD MODE Scale your game speed at your own pace. Toggle between 1.0x, 2.0x, and 5.0x Turbo execution modes to blaze through pitch animations and weekly resolution receipts without compromising simulation depth. • THE CEO'S STORY & UNIFIED FOUNDER'S JOURNAL Every founder has a memoir. Read your running chronological company history rendered in your CEO's unique satirical perspective, review lifetime financial charts, benchmark archetype playstyles, and generate exportable retrospective cards for sharing. • DYNAMIC MARKET TRENDS & PRODUCT LIFECYCLES V2.0 Ride the hype wave of AI Slop, Crypto Bros, Enterprise Bloat, and HealthTech. Keep your products competitive with Major Upgrade v2.0 releases, tackle technical debt with Maintenance Refactors, or gracefully Sunset obsolete software to salvage capital and reassign executive leads. • PITCH BATTLES & EXPLICIT FUNDING ROUNDS Navigate structured funding rounds from Pre-Seed to Series A, Series B, and Pre-IPO. Pitch finicky venture capitalists across London, New York, Hong Kong, and Sand Hill Road with cards, traction proofs, and strict term sheet equity transparency. • ACTIVE NEMESIS RIVALS & HOSTILE TAKEOVERS Competitors aren't passive numbers on a leaderboard. Rivals launch targeted market attacks, attempt talent poaches, and file IP lawsuits. Turn the tables by staging hostile takeovers against multi-billion-dollar competitors! • FORENSIC DECISION AUTOPSIES Insolvency is a learning opportunity. If your startup burns out, receive a detailed forensic decision autopsy breaking down the fatal turning point that doomed your runway. • DYNAMIC OFFICE UPGRADES & INFRASTRUCTURE Start in a humble garage and work your way up to a trendy Co-Working Space and a sprawling $250M Tech Campus! Watch candidate talent and operating burn scale with your office prestige. 100% OFFLINE-FIRST PLAY WITH ZERO MANDATORY PAYWALLS Build from garage to IPO completely free. No mandatory micro-transactions. No online requirement. Just pure, unfiltered startup satire.

Screenshots

Casting Call4 screens
Silly Con Valley4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Casting Call at every 3 days against Silly Con Valley's every 10 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Casting Call sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Silly Con Valley sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Casting Call ships an update every 3 days, Silly Con Valley every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Casting Call versus Silly Con Valley: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCasting CallSilly Con Valley
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size187 MB148 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJames NickersonMillennium Falck Enterprise Oy

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Casting Call

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
3 purchases

Silly Con Valley

One-time3
  • Nordic Tech Pack$1.99
  • Dot-Com Disaster DLC$2.99
  • Series A Premium$3.99

Questions

Is Casting Call free?
Casting Call is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Silly Con Valley free?
Silly Con Valley is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Casting Call or Silly Con Valley have ads?
Both Casting Call and Silly Con Valley show ads.
Which is updated more often, Casting Call or Silly Con Valley?
Casting Call ships an update every 3 days, and Silly Con Valley every 10 days. Most recently, Casting Call was updated on October 12, 2026 and Silly Con Valley on October 26, 2026.

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