Dev Tycoon vs Peers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dev Tycoon
Build a software company from the ground up. Hire a team, develop SaaS products, and manage your finances to achieve success or face collapse. A simulation game focused on business strategy.
- Start a software company
- Hire developers and marketers
- Create SaaS products
- Gain customers and revenue
- Manage company finances
- Business simulation gameplay
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Start with $50,000 and a dream. In Dev Tycoon, you play as a 25-year-old founder building a software company from scratch. Hire developers and marketers, create SaaS products, gain customers, and watch your revenue grow, or watch it all collapse if you run out of cash!
Peers
Build a global chocolate empire from a single shop. Source ingredients, develop recipes, expand to new cities, and outsmart competitors in a dynamic market. Experience decades of gameplay with branching storylines and romantic arcs.
- Decades-long careers
- Market simulation
- Acquire competitors
- Reputation dynamics
- Romantic arcs
- Inbox-driven storytelling
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You are a young chocolatier with one shop and a dream. Source cocoa, perfect recipes, and build an empire across fifteen cities, from Pittsburgh row houses to Tokyo flagships to a townhouse in Paris with a blue door. Peers is a tycoon simulation with real stories inside it. Every city hides a season: people to meet, choices that stick, and endings that become short films scored with original music. In Paris you help a student director make his movie and decide how it ends. In New York you rebuild a block that can't be bought, only backed. Some stories are never announced anywhere. You find them, or you hear about them from someone who did. The business runs deep and the clock is honest. Weeks pass, markets move, rivals undercut you, reputations compound. Open shops, run factories, throw the biggest rave ever, sign wholesale deals, take your company public, buy the buildings your empire works in, and spin the globe to book your next flight. FEATURES • Fifteen cities with hand-illustrated maps, from Bermuda's pink sand to Montmartre's stairs • Story seasons with branching choices, original soundtracks, and films you shape yourself • A full economy: production, retail, R&D, stocks, IPOs, acquisitions, real estate • Chocolate raves, festivals, racing leagues, a museum of your own history, a headquarters with its own computer • Weekly progression across decades; your founder ages with the company • No ads, no in-app purchases, no data collection Build the biggest chocolate company on earth, or stay small and know everyone's name. Both are endings. The dynasty is yours to define.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Peers at 4.4 against Dev Tycoon's 3.8. Peers also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days) and ratings volume (22 vs 4). Dev Tycoon's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Peers holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Peers has 22 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Dev Tycoon ships an update every 6 days, Peers every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Dev Tycoon | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.4 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 1.8 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Orkun Orbay | Yanki Saplan |
In-app purchases
Dev Tycoon
No in-app purchases
Peers
No in-app purchases







