Silicon Evolution vs Torque
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silicon Evolution
Build a computing empire from an 8-bit CPU to a quantum supercomputer. Invest in research, upgrade hardware, and prestige to accelerate your progress through technology eras. Enjoy idle gameplay with persistent legacy income.
- Build a computing empire
- 8 technology eras
- Invest in research
- Prestige system
- Legacy hardware income
- Multiple architecture paths
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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.
Torque
Build increasingly complex gearboxes from a single gear to massive industrial projects. Progress through six distinct engineering eras, unlock new materials, and automate your factory. Enjoy offline progress and a no pay-to-win model with optional ads for boosts.
- Build complex gearboxes
- Six distinct engineering eras
- Real engineering principles
- Materials lab with alloys
- Factory automation
- Offline progress
- Optional rewarded ads
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One gear. One crank. Many orders of magnitude. In Torque you build gearboxes: first at the workbench, then in the workshop, your own factory, the test center, a whole industrial group and finally megaprojects like a tunnel boring machine or a Mars rover. And when it's all done, you hand the company to the next generation. Every gear ratio loads the motor, every stage runs in, and each era ends with a new prestige layer. • Seven eras – everything unlocks step by step • Real engineering: worm gears, planetary gears, differentials, CVTs, strain wave gears • Materials lab with real alloys: bronze, brass, Invar, Hastelloy … • Endless endgame: heirlooms, a family endowment with compound interest and a portrait gallery of your dynasty • Active at first, automated later – with foremen, plant manager, supervisory board and family council • Offline progress, 100+ achievements and many secret ones • In English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Japanese • Dark mode, choice of number notation • No pay-to-win: ads only if you choose – for 4 hours of double speed For everyone who loves big numbers – and gears.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Torque at none against Silicon Evolution's 1. Torque also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). Silicon Evolution's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). 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. Torque asks for nothing beyond the download.
Silicon Evolution holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Torque has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Silicon Evolution | Torque |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | — | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | — | iPhone — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jan Schmidt | Pascal Dohmeier |
In-app purchases
Silicon Evolution
- Make Silicon Evolution AD free$2.99
Torque
No in-app purchases








