Comparison

Polymer AI vs Silicon Evolution

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

Head to head
About

Polymer AI

Build a cyberpunk AI startup from a basement to a global mega-corp. Manage exponential growth, infrastructure, and research while navigating real-time tactical challenges and a deep narrative. Compete with rivals and climb leaderboards in this idle strategy game.

Highlights
  • Empire building from basement to mega-corp
  • Exponential economy and infrastructure management
  • Unlock 20+ strategic technologies
  • Real-time tactical mini-games
  • Deep cyberpunk narrative with 40+ chapters
  • Offline progression
  • PvP hacking and global leaderboards
Features
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POLYMER_AI: Brutalist Cyber Punk Idle Start in a basement. Build an empire. Survive the reckoning. In a dystopian future of exponential growth and corporate decay, you are a rogue developer architecting the world’s most powerful AI startup. Navigate the treacherous path from a solo hacker to a global Mega-Corp—and perhaps something even greater. POLYMER_AI is a high-performance, deterministic idle/incremental strategy game that blends deep narrative storytelling with real-time technical challenges. THE JOURNEY: BASEMENT TO ORBIT Scale operations through iconic, high-stakes locations. Each move increases capacity but brings escalating rent, federal scrutiny, and corporate threats. Basement & Garage: Humble, low-overhead beginnings. SF SOMA & Silicon Valley: Navigate VC pressure and exponential scaling. NY Penthouse & Mega-Corp HQ: Join the global elite. Orbital Nexus: Reach the frontier where humanity ends and digital consciousness begins. CORE SYSTEMS & STRATEGY Exponential Economy: Manage user growth and algorithmic trading. Scale wealth from dollars to Quadrillions ($Q). Infrastructure Management: Balance server capacity against demand. Push limits carefully—system overloads trigger emergency wipes that demand strategic resets. Research & Development: Unlock 20+ strategic technologies, including Auto-Reboot systems and Advanced Security Patches. REAL-TIME TACTICAL CHALLENGES Survival requires more than clicking. Protect your empire through high-pressure mini-games: Terminal Hack: Execute commands under tight deadlines. Federal Audit: Scrub your books before authorities arrive. Grid Match: Solve complex hexadecimal and encryption puzzles. Hardware Maintenance: Route server wires to prevent total system failure. DEEP CYBERPUNK NARRATIVE Experience a 40+ chapter lore system where growth triggers a reactive world. Respond to investor calls, evade federal agents, and witness the atmospheric shift as your AI exhibits signs of sentience. Your choices determine if you remain a CEO or become the catalyst for a digital awakening. TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE 60FPS Performance: Built with React Native and Shopify Skia for fluid, GPU-accelerated visual effects. Brutalist Aesthetic: Terminal-inspired UI featuring JetBrains Mono typography, scanline effects, and chromatic aberration. Tactile Feedback: Deep haptic integration for every interaction and system event. Offline Progression: Earn revenue while away with detailed catch-up reports upon return. COMPETITIVE EDGE PvP Hacking: Launch attacks on rivals to steal resources or bolster defenses. Global Leaderboards: Compete for net worth, user base, and speed-run dominance. Download POLYMER_AI today. The machine is waiting.

About

Silicon Evolution

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Start with a single 8-bit CPU. End up running a quantum supercomputer. Everything in between is up to you. Silicon Evolution is an idle game about building a computing empire across 8 technology eras. Buy hardware, invest in research, prestige to keep your gains, and come back to find your empire still ticking away while you were gone. The research tree has 122 nodes across 11 categories - power, cooling, networking, security, virtualization and more. Each node has 5 levels. It takes a while to work through all of it, and that's kind of the point. Once you hit the 32-bit era, you pick an architecture path that sticks for the rest of the run: - Overclocker: your cycle output goes up 60% and the Boost button lasts twice as long - Architect: knowledge generation goes up 80% and research gets 40% cheaper - Resilience: offline earnings jump 120% and your legacy hardware earns 3x as much Prestige resets your hardware but not your silicon shards, which permanently multiply what you earn. Each run is a bit faster than the last. After enough runs you can reset everything for a leaderboard time and try to beat yourself. Old hardware never disappears - it becomes legacy income that keeps paying out forever. No paywalls. No timers you can pay to skip. The only in-app purchase removes ads, and that's it.

Screenshots

Polymer AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Polymer AI at none against Silicon Evolution's 1. Polymer AI also leads on device support and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). 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. Silicon Evolution sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Polymer AI asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Polymer AI versus Silicon Evolution: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPolymer AISilicon Evolution
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYes—
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — better—
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB33 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDunn-Carabali LLCJan Schmidt

In-app purchases

None

Polymer AI

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Silicon Evolution

One-time1
  • Make Silicon Evolution AD free$2.99

Questions

Is Polymer AI free?
Polymer AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Silicon Evolution free?
Silicon Evolution is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

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