Silicon Evolution vs ISP Tycoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
ISP Tycoon
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Start with a few streets. Build the network an entire city depends on. ISP Tycoon is a hands-on business strategy simulation where you design and operate an internet provider cable by cable. Place poles and hubs, connect homes and businesses, choose copper or fiber, and turn growing demand into a profitable telecom network. Expansion creates opportunity—and pressure. A cheap route may save cash today but become tomorrow's bottleneck. Poor coverage costs customers. Congestion and outages hurt satisfaction and reputation. Every upgrade is a trade-off between capacity, reliability, and profit. BUILD THE NETWORK • Plan routes across streets, neighborhoods, and varied terrain. • Connect homes, shops, offices, and corporate customers. • Deploy copper, fiber, hubs, data centers, and high-capacity backbones. • Watch traffic move through the infrastructure you designed. RUN THE BUSINESS • Track cash, daily revenue, operating costs, customers, and reputation. • Invest where demand is growing and expand without overbuilding. • Add capacity before overloaded routes slow the entire operation. • Resolve support problems and protect service quality. MASTER 14 CAREER OPERATIONS Grow from your first neighborhood to Fiber Capital through 14 career maps. Adapt your strategy to dense cities, coasts, deserts, mountains, valleys, and islands. Each operation tests coverage, efficiency, quality, and financial control. BUILD WITHOUT LIMITS Take what you learned into Sandbox mode, design larger networks, optimize every route, and create the ISP you want. If you enjoy tycoon games, business management, logistics, city building, and network optimization, ISP Tycoon gives you a company where every cable matters. Start small. Connect every building. Can you scale the network without losing control? --- ISP Tycoon is a fictional single-player strategy and logistics simulation game for entertainment. It does not provide or facilitate real-world internet or telecom services.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ISP Tycoon at none against Silicon Evolution's 1. ISP Tycoon also leads on device support and iOS requirement (15.0 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
Both are free to download. Silicon Evolution sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ISP Tycoon asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Silicon Evolution | ISP Tycoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | — | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jan Schmidt | Daniel Souza do Vale |
In-app purchases
Silicon Evolution
- Make Silicon Evolution AD free$2.99
ISP Tycoon
No in-app purchases





