Comparison

Payroll Dice vs Homeostasis

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

Head to head
About

Payroll Dice

Strategically manipulate dice rolls to score points and pay off debts. Build unique dice combinations with new faces and synergies to overcome challenges. Face a loan shark in boss rounds with random modifiers and test your skills in an endless mode.

Highlights
  • Strategic dice manipulation
  • Dice face customization
  • Synergy crafting
  • Boss rounds with modifiers
  • Unlockable dice sets
  • Endless mode
  • Bite-sized runs
Features
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CONTROL THE CHAOS This isn't a luck simulator. This is strategic dice manipulation. Throw your dice. Rotate each die to any visible face. Score to pay your debts. BUILD YOUR PERFECT DICE Spend pips in the shop after each roll. Add new faces, craft synergies, and build something that probably shouldn't work — until it does. Every decision compounds. Every run feels different. Grow to 6 dice and upgrade them into d12s. FACE THE LOAN SHARK Clear your debts and the shark himself shows up. He doesn't play fair. Boss rounds twist the rules with random modifiers. 8 DICE SETS TO UNLOCK Different starting faces, unique passive abilities, and entirely new combo potential — every unlocked die opens a fresh tactical rabbit hole. Over 100 Unique Dice Faces Rotate Dice to Control Your Luck 7 Unlockable Dice — each transforms how you play Boss Rounds with Random Modifiers Endless Mode — difficulty scales infinitely 15–30 Minute Runs — perfect bite-sized sessions True Roguelike — no permanent upgrades, pure skill Strategic Combo Crafting High Replayability NO SAFETY NETS. NO EXCUSES. No meta-progression. No permanent upgrades. Every run starts from zero. Build from blank dice to devastating combos in 10 rounds. Think you've figured it out? Endless Mode is waiting. Simple to learn. Impossible to master. Throw. Rotate. Score. Shop. Survive. Can you pay off the loan shark before he cashes in?

About

Homeostasis

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You are the operator of a single living cell — and everything is going wrong at once. Energy is crashing, a virus is hijacking your factories, corrosive rust is eating the engines, and the folding line is jammed. Fix one and another spikes. That tension is the game. Homeostasis is a portrait roguelike about holding a coupled, living machine in balance. Route your workers, fire emergency programs, queue production, power up the organelles that matter — and read the cell, because every crisis wants a different response. Stabilize the chaos, survive the cycle, then choose a mutation and do it again, harder. Death is the point. Each run goes deeper than the last. PILOT A LIVING CELL Seven organelles, six vital signs, all coupled. Mitochondria make energy but leak rust. Ribosomes build what you need but flood the folding line. Power the nucleus to auto-repair your weakest system. There's no single right answer — only trade-offs. SURVIVE ESCALATING, ENDLESS CRISES Viral takeovers, heat shock, starvation, oxidative stress, membrane breaches, DNA damage — telegraphed, then unleashed. Difficulty rises to a brutal climax, then settles into a sustainable plateau you can ride as far as your skill takes you. THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Real-Time — high-pressure, the clock never stops. • Tactical — auto-pauses each crisis so you can plan, then act. • Triage — turn-based rescue puzzles: stabilize a failing cell in as few moves as you can. EVOLVE & CRAFT YOUR BUILD Spend DNA in The Lab on gene-trait loadouts and one-shot field items — then anchor a run around a keystone that changes how you play: devour the virus for fuel, freeze time mid-crisis, sacrifice an organelle for a surge, win by ascending instead of surviving, or program your cell with standing rules and fight your own autopilot. COME BACK TOMORROW A new Daily Challenge every day, a ladder of in-game challenges to chase, Game Center leaderboards and achievements, and a one-tap shareable card for your best run. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just you, one cell, and the long fight against entropy. Can you keep it alive?

Screenshots

Payroll Dice4 screens
Homeostasis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Payroll Dice at #142 against Homeostasis's unranked. Payroll Dice also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Homeostasis's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Payroll Dice costs $4.99 and Homeostasis $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Payroll Dice ships an update every 6 days, Homeostasis every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Payroll Dice versus Homeostasis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPayroll DiceHomeostasis
Price$4.99$2.99 — better
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#142 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB12 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGeorge TimmsAlex Sheridan

In-app purchases

None

Payroll Dice

No in-app purchases

None

Homeostasis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Payroll Dice free?
Payroll Dice costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Homeostasis free?
Homeostasis costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Payroll Dice or Homeostasis have ads?
Neither Payroll Dice nor Homeostasis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Payroll Dice or Homeostasis?
Payroll Dice ships an update every 6 days, and Homeostasis every 9 days. Most recently, Payroll Dice was updated on October 28, 2026 and Homeostasis on October 25, 2026.

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