Comparison

CyberSecurity Tycoon vs ColdWire

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

Head to head
About

CyberSecurity Tycoon

Build a global cybersecurity empire from a small room. Recruit hackers, unlock technologies, and manage your company through contracts and strategic decisions. Compete in global events and defend against attacks to dominate the cyber world.

Highlights
  • Recruit and manage skilled hackers
  • Accept contracts and earn money
  • Unlock technologies in R&D
  • Expand office and grow team
  • Compete in CyberCup
  • Defend against cyber attacks
  • Participate in global Cyber Wars
Features
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Start from a small room and build a global cybersecurity empire. The game is free to play at the beginning, allowing you to discover the core mechanics, manage your first hackers, and complete initial contracts. After progressing to a certain point, continued gameplay requires unlocking the full version. Recruit hackers, unlock technologies, and dominate the cyber world. Manage your own cybersecurity company in a deep tycoon simulation. Accept contracts, grow your team, and make strategic decisions to expand your business. Features Recruit and manage skilled hackers Accept contracts and earn money Unlock technologies in the R&D tree Expand your office and grow your team Compete in the CyberCup Face rival companies in B2B contracts Trade on the Black Market (crypto & mystery boxes) Lead major operations Defend against cyber attacks (SOC system) Participate in global Cyber Wars Available in multiple languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese & Russian Can you build the ultimate cybersecurity empire? EULA & Policies By using this application, you agree to the End User License Agreement (EULA) and the Privacy Policy. The full version of the game is available through a one-time purchase after the initial free gameplay period. EULA link: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ColdWire

Engage in a strategic cyber-heist experience on a hostile global grid. Scout targets, bypass security, and disconnect before being traced. Upgrade your operation, take on contracts, and compete with other players in asynchronous PvP raids.

Highlights
  • Terminal-noir cyber-heist strategy
  • Global grid exploration and target scouting
  • Layered security breaching mechanics
  • Operation and tool upgrades
  • Asynchronous PvP raids and defense building
  • Crew system and season leaderboards
  • Daily and live-ops content
Features
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You are an operator on a global grid. Somebody pays you to get into a machine you have no business being inside, take the one thing they asked for, and leave nothing behind that says you were there. Every connection starts a countdown. ROUTE IN Bounce through relays scattered across the world map. More hops and harder relays buy you time. A direct connection is fast and puts your own address in their log. BREACH UNDER TRACE Crack the security stack layer by layer while the trace climbs toward you. Recon first and you learn what you are walking into: how many walls, how hard, and which two have a gap a bypass kit can slip through. Go in blind and you find out the expensive way. Deep systems want more than a password. Mint a one time code from their own token seed, or ride a session somebody else already authenticated. Plant a toolkit beside their seeds and that machine hands you a code every visit for five hours. TAKE IT AND GO Read the files. Copy the archive, drain the vault, rewrite the record, plant the payload. Then overwrite the access log, because the line it keeps has your address on it, and disconnect before the trace finds home. THE WORK Jobs come from sixteen clients who all want different things and say so in their own voice. A grade fixed before a scholarship review. A record scrubbed a week before an immigration interview. A charge filed against somebody who never earned it. A company whose real machine does not face the internet, reachable only through the gateway you have to read properly first. Or the one job where nobody breaks in at all: a client was hit last week and cannot tell you how. They hand you credentials. Read their access log, find the intruder among a dozen honest connections, name the service that should never have been exposed, and say which file went out of the door. WHAT YOU LEARN ON THE WAY Real services on real ports. A field manual that fills itself in as you meet each one, in plain language. Firewall rules, address ranges, jump hosts, second factors, why a log matters. By the third job you will know what 5432 is without anyone telling you. OTHER OPERATORS Build a subnet of walls, honeypots and tarpits, because other players raid your credits while you sleep. Scout them first, take thirty percent on a clean breach, and watch the replay. Join a crew and climb a season. Free to play. Server authoritative. No ads.

Screenshots

CyberSecurity Tycoon4 screens
ColdWire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ColdWire at none against CyberSecurity Tycoon's 1. ColdWire also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CyberSecurity Tycoon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ColdWire asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CyberSecurity Tycoon ships an update every 5 weeks, ColdWire every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CyberSecurity Tycoon versus ColdWire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCyberSecurity TycoonColdWire
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB79 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developereytan taiebOlamide Olufade

Customer experience

CyberSecurity Tycoon

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ColdWire

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CyberSecurity Tycoon

One-time1
  • Cybersecurity Tycoon - Full Game$4.99
None

ColdWire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CyberSecurity Tycoon free?
CyberSecurity Tycoon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ColdWire free?
ColdWire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CyberSecurity Tycoon or ColdWire have ads?
Neither CyberSecurity Tycoon nor ColdWire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CyberSecurity Tycoon or ColdWire?
CyberSecurity Tycoon ships an update every 5 weeks, and ColdWire every 10 days. Most recently, CyberSecurity Tycoon was updated on October 8, 2026 and ColdWire on October 12, 2026.

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