Comparison

SKYBOUND vs Cold War Inc.

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

Head to head
About

SKYBOUND

Experience pure flight with no ads or timers. Explore a vast open world, take on paid contracts, and upgrade your aircraft. Enjoy smooth, immersive controls for relaxed or focused flying.

Highlights
  • No ads or timers
  • Massive open-world map
  • Paid flight contracts
  • Aircraft upgrades
  • Immersive flight controls
  • Progression-based gameplay
Features
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Welcome, Aviators! SKYBOUND: Flight Simulator is a pure flying experience — no ads, no timers, no gimmicks. Buy the game once and enjoy uninterrupted flight across a massive open-world map. Accept paid flight contracts, earn money, and upgrade your aircraft as you progress. Whether you’re cruising at altitude or lining up the perfect landing, SKYBOUND puts you in control. FEATURES • No Ads. Ever. • Large open-world map to explore • Accept paid flight contracts • Earn currency and upgrade your aircraft • Smooth, immersive flight controls • Progression-based gameplay • Designed for relaxed or focused flying This isn’t an arcade distraction — it’s a flight experience you can settle into.

About

Cold War Inc.

Features
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Two ideologies. One globe. Forty-four years to win. It is January 1947. You choose a side, Democracy or Communism, and the one country where your idea takes power first. From there it spreads: by radio and cinema, by cargo ship and railway, by student exchanges and party cells. Every month counts. In December 1991 whoever rules more countries wins the Cold War. You are not alone on the map. The rival superpower shows up within a year and plays by the same rules you do. It buys research, answers world events, funds campaigns and quietly builds cells inside your countries. Ignore it and you will watch your map turn. HOW IT PLAYS - Pick your side and your starting country: the Kremlin, the White House, or somewhere nobody expects - Spend funding on 45 upgrades across three branches: Export, Inside a Country, and the Ballot Box - Win elections with turnout, coalitions and observers, or seize power through protests and revolutions - Tap funding before it fades, disperse rival cells before they take root, shoot down enemy delegations if you dare - React to Cold War events: missile crises, jammed radio, the space race, Olympic boycotts, coups - Break through censorship, poverty, religion and isolation. Every country resists differently A REAL WORLD, NOT A BOARD 177 countries, each with its own population, wealth, regime, literacy and cities. Democracy grows where people are educated and connected. Communism grows where they are poor, rural and young. Air routes follow real economies, land borders follow real borders, ideas cross the sea where ships actually sail. Supporters appear on the cities where people really live. THREE DIFFICULTIES Normal plays fair. Brutal gives the rival more money and sharper eyes. Mega Brutal almost never misses. NO STRINGS Buy it once. No ads, no subscriptions, no energy timers, no accounts, no sign-up. Works completely offline. English and Russian. Cold War Inc. is a work of satire. Countries, ideologies and events here are game mechanics, not political statements.

Screenshots

SKYBOUND3 screens
Cold War Inc.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: SKYBOUND at 3 against Cold War Inc.'s 1. SKYBOUND also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Cold War Inc.'s advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99). 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

SKYBOUND costs $1.99 and Cold War Inc. $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
SKYBOUND versus Cold War Inc.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSKYBOUNDCold War Inc.
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size934 MB8 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperChristopher BonhamDmitry Volostnov

In-app purchases

None

SKYBOUND

No in-app purchases

None

Cold War Inc.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SKYBOUND free?
SKYBOUND costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cold War Inc. free?
Cold War Inc. costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SKYBOUND or Cold War Inc. have ads?
Neither SKYBOUND nor Cold War Inc. shows ads.

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