Comparison

Countryballs vs StateFlo

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

Head to head
About

Countryballs

Lead your chosen Countryball to global domination by conquering or influencing nations. Upgrade your economy, manage assets, and decide whether to wage war or spread your faith to achieve total world control. This strategy game blends idle mechanics with humor and historical absurdity.

Highlights
  • Control 195 unique Countryballs
  • Upgrade real-time income and economy
  • Balance war, influence, and diplomacy
  • Unique Countryball personalities
  • Humorous global events
  • Idle mechanics with strategy
Features
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Global Domination – Ball-Style The world is divided, and it's up to you to redraw the map. Step into the round shoes of your favorite Countryball and embark on the ultimate mission: conquer and unify all 195 countries. Whether through brute force or slick diplomacy, it's time to roll your way to victory. Income Per Second – Build Your Power In Countryballs: Power Protocol, time is literally money. Your income grows every second. Upgrade your industries, boost trade, and manage global assets to fuel your expansion. The more countries you control, the more your economy explodes. Smart decisions lead to total domination. War or Influence – You Decide There’s more than one way to rule the world: Conquer with Force Train cartoony armies, deploy tanks, jets, submarines, and missile systems—and when diplomacy fails, drop the nukes. Dominate the battlefield with over-the-top firepower, all wrapped in classic Countryball humor. Control with Influence Spread your faith across borders and watch nations fall under your spiritual charm. Use religion as a tool of power—win hearts, shift ideologies, and unify the world without firing a single shot. Your Goal: Total World Control No peace treaties. No second chances. Only one Countryball can become the supreme global ruler. Will you win by fear, friendship, or sheer strategy? A Strategy Game That Doesn’t Take Itself Too Seriously Countryballs: Power Protocol blends grand strategy with idle mechanics, packed with humor, history, and global absurdity. It's world conquest where even the smallest Countryball can redraw the map—with enough upgrades and audacity. Features: Control over 195 unique Countryballs Upgrade your real-time income and economy Balance war, influence, and diplomacy Each Countryball has a distinct look and national personality—no customization needed Laugh (or cry) as global events spiral into madness Built for strategy fans and meme lovers alike Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

StateFlo

Lead a fictional nation, managing its economy, ministries, and regions. Make tough decisions on budgets, taxes, and corruption to improve your country's standing. Engage in diplomacy and build businesses in this complex simulation game.

Highlights
  • Economic simulation with dynamic tax and interest rates
  • Manage twelve distinct ministries with competing needs
  • Develop regions and cities with infrastructure projects
  • Combat corruption with various enforcement options
  • Engage in international diplomacy and trade
  • Build businesses and trade on a stock exchange
  • Player-to-player custom vehicle plate market
Features
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Floria does not exist. Neither do its neighbours, its oceans or its cities. Every country, capital, agency and headline in StateFlo is invented for this game. What is real is the arithmetic: a treasury that empties, an inflation rate that answers to your key rate, and a population of thirty million that notices when the hospitals run out of money. You are the head of state. Nobody hands you a good situation. AN ECONOMY THAT ARGUES BACK Set VAT, income tax and profit tax and watch the curve bend the wrong way when you go too far. Move the key rate and see inflation, lending and the exchange rate move days later, not instantly. Borrow, refinance, default, or balance the books the slow way. Reserves, debt to GDP, trade balance and the currency rate are all live numbers, and all of them are connected. TWELVE MINISTRIES, ONE BUDGET Interior, public safety, health, education, infrastructure, economy, energy, digital, justice, youth and sport, foreign affairs, social policy. Each one has its own indicators, its own minister and its own opinion about the money. Fund one properly and another starts to fail. There is never enough for all twelve, and that is the game. REGIONS AND CITIES Twenty-four regions on a hand-drawn map, each with its own economy, mood and problems. Zoom into a city and manage it directly: districts, utilities, transport, construction. National projects like power plants, laboratories, and a space programme take real in-game months and cost real in-game money. CORRUPTION Officials skim. Files build up. You can raid, prosecute, or look the other way and keep the machine running. Every option has a price in approval, in revenue, or in both. The dossier system remembers what you chose. DIPLOMACY Trade agreements, foreign aid, accession tracks to a union and a defence pact. Relations with a hundred invented states shift with every deal you sign and every one you walk away from. BUSINESS AND THE PLATE MARKET Found companies, build factories, run a private bank, trade on the stock exchange. Register custom vehicle plates and trade them player-to-player in a live market with instant offers. FOUR LANGUAGES English, French, Ukrainian and Russian, the whole game, not just the menus. LEADERBOARD A global table ranks your term against everyone else's: economy, stability, reach. Medals for the milestones nobody reaches by accident. PRESIDENT'S CLUB (optional) A subscription unlocks three save profiles, unlimited companies and garage slots, custom plates and registrations, a gold frame on the leaderboard and the Patron medal. The game is complete without it. - President's Club Monthly: $7.99 per month - President's Club Yearly: $29.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://stateflo.net/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stateflo.net/privacy Everything in StateFlo is fiction. Any resemblance to a real country, government, institution or person is unintended.

Screenshots

Countryballs4 screens
StateFlo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: StateFlo at 75% against Countryballs's 26%. StateFlo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ads (none vs shown). Countryballs's advantage is ratings volume (906 vs 13) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countryballs sells 20 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and StateFlo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

StateFlo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countryballs has 906 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Countryballs's written reviews are positive against 75% of StateFlo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countryballs ships an update daily, StateFlo every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Countryballs versus StateFlo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountryballsStateFlo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (906 ratings)5.0 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.3% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings906 — better13
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size669 MB178 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMAD PIXELYuliia Shkurlei

Customer experience

Countryballs

All ratings732 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews171 reviews
Positive26.3%
Neutral14.6%
Negative59.1%

StateFlo

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

20 purchases

Countryballs

Subscriptions5
  • Manager VIP$9.991 Month
  • No Ads VIP$9.991 Month
  • Trade and Explore VIP$9.991 Month
Show 2 more
  • Resources VIP$9.991 Month
  • Idle VIP$9.991 Month
One-time15
  • 5 min of income$0.99
  • Manager Chest Common$2.99
  • 20 tickets$4.99
Show 12 more
  • 50 min of income$4.99
  • Manager Chest Epic$4.99
  • 50 tickets$9.99
  • Books 250$9.99
  • NoAds$9.99
  • Premium$9.99
  • Starter Pack$9.99
  • 120 min of income$9.99
  • Legendary Manager$9.99
  • Special Manager$14.99
  • Manager Chest Legendary$14.99
  • 15 hours of income$49.99
2 purchases

StateFlo

Subscriptions2
  • President's Club — Monthly$7.991 Month
  • President's Club — Yearly$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Countryballs free?
Countryballs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StateFlo free?
StateFlo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countryballs or StateFlo?
StateFlo is rated higher. Countryballs averages 4.5 out of 5 from 906 ratings, while StateFlo averages 5.0 from 13 ratings.
Do Countryballs or StateFlo have ads?
Countryballs shows ads; StateFlo does not.
Which is updated more often, Countryballs or StateFlo?
Countryballs ships an update daily, and StateFlo every 2 days. Most recently, Countryballs was updated on October 25, 2026 and StateFlo on October 25, 2026.

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