TheBigLeagues vs Second Unit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TheBigLeagues
Build a business empire from scratch by acquiring businesses, managing sports teams, trading stocks, and pursuing a political career. Your ventures generate revenue even when you're offline, allowing for empire growth at your own pace.
- Build and grow diverse businesses
- Manage football and basketball clubs
- Engage in stock market trading
- Pursue a political career
- Offline revenue generation
- Skill tree specialization
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BigLeagues is a business tycoon game where you build an empire from scratch buying businesses, managing sports clubs, trading stocks, and climbing the political ladder. Buy and grow businesses Start with a small shop and work your way up. Restaurants, tech startups, retail chains, each business earns revenue that keeps flowing even when you're not playing. Manage your football club Take charge of a real squad with player ratings, formations, and tactics. Scout youth prospects, sign players on the transfer market, and compete across league tiers. Win promotions, lift trophies, and build a dynasty. Play the stock market Buy low, sell high. Trade stocks, deal in options, and short sell if you've got the nerve. The market moves every tick, time it right and you'll make a fortune. Enter politics Run campaigns, hold rallies, and climb from City Councillor all the way to President. Higher ranks boost your entire empire's revenue, but corruption is always tempting. Your empire, your pace BigLeagues is designed to be played in short sessions. Your businesses earn while you're away, so there's always something waiting when you come back. Start a tech company Start as a unknown start up raise all the way to a unicorn company. Additionally: • 150+ football clubs across 10 leagues • Full squad management with youth academy • Basketball team management • Stock market with real-time price movement • Political career from citizen to president • Skill trees to specialize your playstyle • 3 languages: English, French, Turkish
Second Unit
Manage a film studio from humble beginnings to a major player in this single-player simulation. Navigate the complexities of production, marketing, and release while balancing critical acclaim and commercial success. Make strategic decisions over five in-game years to achieve one of six possible endings.
- Film studio management
- Multi-stage production pipeline
- Detailed critic and audience scoring
- Release calendar strategy
- Franchise building
- Talent and institution management
- Offline play
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Second Unit is a single-player film studio management simulation. You start with a rented office, a modest credit line, and nobody returning your calls — and you have five in-game years to turn that into something. When the run ends, you're a major, absorbed by one, or in liquidation. THE PARALLEL PIPELINE Run two to five pictures through a seven-stage production pipeline at once — development, greenlight, pre-production, shooting, post, marketing, release. Slate capacity and cash runway are the only limits. There's no energy bar to wait out. TWO SCORES, NO BLACK BOX Every finished picture gets a critic score and an audience score, and the Post-Release Report itemizes exactly what earned each point. Nothing about how a film's quality is decided is hidden from you. THE RELEASE CALENDAR Six rival studios each hunt a different season, and they've been claiming the good weeks for years before you got there. Every release date is a decision made against a board that's already half full. PRESTIGE VS. CLOUT Chasing critical prestige costs you commercial clout, and vice versa — where the two land after five years decides which of six possible endings your studio reaches. FRANCHISES, TALENT, AND INSTITUTIONS Build a franchise off a hit and manage the upkeep and audience fatigue that come with it. Cast real talent with real availability windows. Keep the trades, the guilds, and the exhibitor circuit on your side — or don't. FULLY OFFLINE Second Unit runs entirely on your device. No account, no server, and no internet connection required to play. Idle progress is computed honestly from real elapsed time, never a background timer. Every studio, film, talent, and award depicted is entirely fictional, generated by the game. Any resemblance to real people, studios, or works is coincidental. Optional one-time purchases in the Front Office add content packs and a full unlock — never anything that makes your studio better at making pictures.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Second Unit at weekly against TheBigLeagues's every 4 months. Second Unit also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. TheBigLeagues sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Second Unit sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TheBigLeagues against 5.0 for Second Unit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
TheBigLeagues ships an update every 4 months, Second Unit weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TheBigLeagues | Second Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emre Yenen | Mehmet Efe Aytas |
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In-app purchases
TheBigLeagues
- Supporter Pack — Instant Rewards$2.99
Second Unit
- Franchise Pack$1.99
- Grindhouse Pack$1.99
- Awards Pack$1.99
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- International Pack$1.99
- All Access$3.99
- Full Unlock$5.99
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