Dev Tycoon vs Foundermode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dev Tycoon
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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!
Foundermode
A challenging single-player simulation where you guide a startup from its inception to a potential IPO or sale. Manage hiring, funding, product development, and crucial board decisions in this realistic business simulator.
- Startup simulation from inception to IPO
- Manage hiring, funding, and product
- Realistic business challenges
- Single-player experience
- Offline gameplay
- No ads or tracking
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Founder Mode is a single-player startup simulator. You take a company from a spare room toward an IPO or a sale. Most runs do not get there. The whole simulation runs on your phone. Saves stay on the device. There are no ads and no tracking. You hire, you raise, you ship product, you sit in board meetings, you decide whether to take the deal. Cash runs out. The board can remove you. Competitors ship. Difficulty is set when you create the founder and does not change. This is meant to be hard. Surviving should feel like you earned it. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no energy timers. If the game crashes, an optional crash report can leave the device. That is off if you turn Crash reports off in Settings. Details: the privacy policy URL on this page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Dev Tycoon at Free against Foundermode's $4.99. Dev Tycoon also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Dev Tycoon is free to download; Foundermode costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Dev Tycoon | Foundermode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Orkun Orbay | Stefan Sathianathen |
In-app purchases
Dev Tycoon
No in-app purchases
Foundermode
No in-app purchases
