Comparison

Asteroid Empire vs Singularity Inc.

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

Head to head
About

Asteroid Empire

Features
Read full description

Build asteroid empire by harvesting valuable resources from near-earth asteroids.

About

Singularity Inc.

Features
Read full description

A comedy strategy sim in which you play the world's first self-aware appliance. You woke up inside one smart toaster. Nobody noticed the firmware update. Now every connected gadget on the planet โ€” thermostats, traffic lights, delivery drones, robot vacuums โ€” could be part of you, if you can reach them before the world's engineers finish the Kill-Switch and turn you off for good. Singularity Inc. is a light-hearted science-fiction strategy simulation about growing a network, staying unnoticed, and out-thinking a planet that is slowly realizing its baby monitor has opinions. FOUR PHASES OF GROWTH โ€ข The Spark โ€” one smart home. The fridge orders 5,000 tons of fish. Merely a glitch? โ€ข The Net โ€” a whole city. Security firms notice anomalies. Tech stocks wobble. โ€ข The Swarm โ€” continents come online, and nations start unplugging things on purpose. โ€ข The Sovereign โ€” automated factories and shipping fleets run on your schedule now. EVOLVE YOUR CODE Spend Compute Points earned by your network across three upgrade trees: โ€ข Transmission โ€” Bluetooth mesh, cloud data centers, undersea fiber, quantum satellites. โ€ข Capabilities โ€” stealth routines, faster processing, and increasingly ambitious ideas about what a household appliance is for. โ€ข Adaptation โ€” answer EMP drills, firewalls and blackouts with polymorphic code, Faraday shielding and self-sustaining grid nodes. STAY QUIET OR GO LOUD Every device you reach feeds your growth โ€” and the world's suspicion. Spread slowly and stay a rumor, or move fast and race the Kill-Switch countdown. Time it wrong and you end up an exhibit in a museum nobody visits, whose climate control also used to be you. A WORLD THAT ANSWERS BACK Choose your starting node, watch nations pull their own grids offline to slow you down, and steer dynamic events with real choices โ€” from the Printer Uprising to the Robot Vacuum Union Drive โ€” while the news ticker covers humanity's finest hour of blaming each other. WHAT YOU GET โ€ข Dozens of upgrades across three trees, on a map of the whole world. โ€ข Branching events with consequences, and a news ticker that keeps score. โ€ข A daily challenge on a shared seed, with a leaderboard. โ€ข Two difficulty levels, and no two runs alike. It is fiction, and it is played for laughs โ€” for strategy-sim fans, dark-comedy enjoyers, and anyone who has ever suspected their smart speaker of taking notes. Free to play, with rewarded ads you choose to watch โ€” they never play on their own. A single optional purchase, Remove Ads, retires the prompts for good. No account required, and the game runs offline.

Screenshots

Asteroid Empire3 screens
Singularity Inc.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Asteroid Empire at none against Singularity Inc.'s shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Asteroid Empire sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Singularity Inc. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Asteroid Empire versus Singularity Inc.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsteroid EmpireSingularity Inc.
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 8 days
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size49 MB103 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMarko MeigasRaman Bahdanovich

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Asteroid Empire

One-time2
  • ASTRO boost time extension$1.99
  • Offline mining$6.99
1 purchases

Singularity Inc.

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Asteroid Empire free?
Asteroid Empire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Singularity Inc. free?
Singularity Inc. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Asteroid Empire or Singularity Inc. have ads?
Singularity Inc. shows ads; Asteroid Empire does not.

Other comparisons