ISP Tycoon vs TV Studio Sim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
TV Studio Sim
Manage every aspect of a TV network, from creating original series and hiring talent to launching shows and building a legacy. Make critical decisions to ensure your dramas become phenomena or face cancellation.
- Create original TV series
- Hire and manage talent
- Develop scripts and handle production
- Launch ad campaigns
- Track ratings and fan reactions
- Build a network legacy
- Customize network branding
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You just founded a TV network. One office, one idea, and a lot to prove. TV Studio Sim puts you in charge of every decision behind the shows people can’t stop talking about. Develop the series, hire the talent, pick the premiere date and watch the ratings roll in week by week. Will your drama become a phenomenon, or get cancelled after one season? MAKE THE SHOWS • Create original series across drama, comedy, sci-fi, procedurals, reality and limited series, each with its own theme, from crime and romance to horror, westerns and space. • Bid against rival networks for hot pitches on the Rights Market. • Hire showrunners, directors and actors, every one with their own stats, strengths and potential. • Run the writers’ room. Bring in a script doctor, buy extra weeks or pay for rewrites on set to sharpen the script. • Handle the drama behind the scenes: on-set incidents, rival poaching attempts and tough calls that change your season. LAUNCH THEM RIGHT • Pick the perfect premiere week and design a poster for every season. • Buy ad campaigns to build hype before episode one. • Follow every episode’s viewers, ratings and revenue as the season airs. • Read the headlines and the fan reactions on The Wire. Is your show trending? BUILD A LEGACY • Renew your hits, cancel your flops, or give a fan favourite its final season. • Watch your talent grow with every season they work for you. • Sign streaming deals, or launch your very own streaming service. • Compete at the Golden Remotes, TV’s biggest night, and fill your trophy shelf. • Raise your network’s prestige and outshine your rivals year after year. MAKE IT YOURS • Name your network and design its logo. • Choose your difficulty, from a relaxed start to a cutthroat climb. • Unlock achievements as your empire grows. • Light and dark mode. From your first pilot to the top of the ratings: how big can your network get?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: TV Studio Sim at none against ISP Tycoon's shown. TV Studio Sim also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). ISP Tycoon's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ISP Tycoon ships an update every 5 days, TV Studio Sim every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ISP Tycoon | TV Studio Sim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 307 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Souza do Vale | Blummy Studios LLC |
In-app purchases
ISP Tycoon
No in-app purchases
TV Studio Sim
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do ISP Tycoon or TV Studio Sim have ads?
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