Comparison

Startup Empire vs Doom Loop

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

Head to head
About

Startup Empire

Build a tech startup from humble beginnings to a billion-dollar empire. Hire talent, raise funding, develop products, and take your company public. Compete with strategic decisions and daily quests to become the ultimate business tycoon.

Highlights
  • Build a startup from garage to empire
  • Choose from 8 tech sectors
  • Hire developers, designers, marketers
  • Raise funding from Angel to Series C
  • Go public and earn Prestige bonuses
  • Compete on global leaderboards
  • Daily quests and rewards
Features
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Ever dreamed of turning a garage idea into a billion-dollar unicorn? Found your startup, ship your product, hire a dream team and grow from bootstrap to IPO — one funding round at a time. BUILD YOUR PRODUCT • Develop features, squash bugs and keep stability high • Launch when you're ready and watch the users pour in • Invest in research for permanent upgrades HIRE A DREAM TEAM • Developers, designers, marketers, managers and star talent • Level them up, give raises and keep morale high • Managers automate bug fixing and reward collecting RAISE FUNDING & GO PUBLIC • Pitch investors from Angel round to Series C • Watch your valuation climb and protect your equity • Ring the bell at IPO, cash out your equity and start the next venture stronger COMPETE & PROGRESS • Race rival startups in your sector • Daily quests, login streaks, achievements and a season pass • Game Center leaderboards: valuation, users, earnings, prestige • Decision events: acquisition offers, talent poaching, viral campaigns — your call PLAY YOUR WAY • True idle progress: your company keeps earning while you're away • Prestige system: every IPO makes your next run faster and richer • Track your empire with live charts Download now and start building your Startup Empire — the next unicorn is yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://evatlasapp.com/startupempire/privacy

About

Doom Loop

Features
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China, 2029. Industrial automation is accelerating while households save, property weakness erodes local revenue, the population contracts, and external controls target the technologies expected to carry the next growth model. Doom Loop: China is a political-economic strategy game about governing the difficult transition from investment and export-led scale toward household security, productive automation, and sustainable provincial finance. Every six months, choose national programmes, start multi-turn transition projects, and follow their consequences across eight distinct provincial systems. Coastal technology hubs, old industrial provinces, inland growth corridors, lower-tier cities, migrant households, and ageing counties do not experience the same policy in the same way. FEATURES • Play twenty six-month turns from 2029 through 2038 • Manage eight provincial systems with distinct industries, fiscal exposure, trust, and implementation strain • Choose twelve major programmes covering worker security, consumption, property completion, local debt, technology, trade, algorithms, and demographics • Build six multi-turn national projects with prerequisites and only two delivery slots • Track research, regulation, industrial deployment, and social readiness • Manage hidden-liability recognition, household confidence, employment, national coordination, and external standing • Watch automation lose productivity and create extra displacement when capability outruns social or institutional readiness • Face dynamic consequences from the United States, Europe, emerging-market partners, capital markets, and commodity exporters • Reach one of four national outcomes in 2038 • Play entirely offline with no account, advertising, subscription, or in-app purchase Can China turn industrial capability into household security before local balance sheets, demographics, and external pressure close the window? Doom Loop: China is a fictional strategy simulation. It is not a prediction, political endorsement, or source of professional advice.

Screenshots

Startup Empire4 screens
Doom Loop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Doom Loop at none against Startup Empire's 11. Doom Loop also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Startup Empire sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Doom Loop asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 5 level
Startup Empire versus Doom Loop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStartup EmpireDoom Loop
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMustafa KandemirTom Hestas

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Startup Empire

Subscriptions1
  • Advisor$4.991 Month
One-time10
  • Starter Pack$0.99
  • Seed Fund$0.99
  • Founder Starter Pack$2.99
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  • Angel Round$2.99
  • Founder Pack$4.99
  • Unicorn Pack$9.99
  • Series A$9.99
  • Mogul Pack$19.99
  • Series B$19.99
  • Billionaire Pack$49.99
None

Doom Loop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Startup Empire free?
Startup Empire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Doom Loop free?
Doom Loop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Startup Empire or Doom Loop have ads?
Startup Empire shows ads; Doom Loop does not.

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