Silicon Evolution vs Idle AI Lab

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.

Idle AI Lab is an incremental game about growing a tiny research lab into an AI powerhouse, one tap, one agent, one model at a time. Start by generating Compute by hand. Train your first agent and it earns for you. Gather Data, run training, and reveal your first model. Serve it to clients, unlock research, and push toward your first Breakthrough, which resets your lab with permanent bonuses so the next run goes further. WHAT YOU DO • Train agents that earn Compute and Data, and give each type a job. • Buy upgrades that show exactly what they change before you spend. • Run training, reveal models, and deploy them to clients. • Research new capabilities and unlock the Company, hardware and the model Registry. • Publish a Breakthrough to reset with lasting advantages. THE DATA PIPELINE A merge board inside the game: stations spawn pieces, matching pieces merge up, and everything feeds the Corpus, which levels up and pays you Data. Feed cravings, open crates, level up stations, spend Patents. MADE FOR SHORT SESSIONS Your lab keeps producing while the app is closed (up to 8 hours; more with Night Shift). Come back, collect, decide, and go. FAIR BY DESIGN • Free to play. Optional rewarded ads and purchases; nothing is gated behind them. • Your progress backs up to the cloud automatically. Link with Apple to carry it to another device. • Credits you earn or buy stay on your account through resets. Numbers grow, systems unfold, and the next decision is always in view.