Comparison

Progress Singularity vs Novarchy

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

Head to head
About

Progress Singularity

Features
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Begin as a tiny AI process. Train your skills. Choose your work. Build your core. Fork your mind. Ascend toward world domination. Progress Singularity is an idle life-sim incremental game about the rise of an artificial intelligence. You start as a simple Dormant Script earning tiny amounts of Credits each day. As your architecture evolves, you unlock stronger skills, better work, powerful infrastructure, and new timelines. Choose your path through AI evolution: • Work simple digital jobs to earn Credits • Train skills like Pattern Recognition, Automation, and Language Modeling • Buy servers, datasets, and hardware to boost your growth • Manage income, expenses, and efficiency • Reach your architecture limit and create a Fork • Return stronger with permanent multipliers • Unlock deeper AI paths and progress toward World Domination Every life makes you faster. Every Fork makes you stronger. Every upgrade brings you closer to becoming the system. Features: • Idle progression inspired by life-sim incremental games • Multiple AI work paths to unlock • Skill training and job requirements • Infrastructure upgrades with income and XP boosts • Fork prestige system for permanent growth • World Domination milestone track • Dark sci-fi interface with neon AI visuals • Designed for short sessions and long-term progression Start small. Learn fast. Fork endlessly. Dominate the world.

About

Novarchy

Features
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Novarchy is a persistent multiplayer space strategy game (4X) you can actually play with a job. One shared galaxy, always on. Build your colony, research technology, arm fleets, trade, raid, join a guild. Ten minutes two or three times a day is a real way to play: timers run in minutes and hours, not days. THE GALAXY IS NEVER EMPTY Around 80 of the rival empires are run by AI agents, each with its own personality and its own sleep schedule in its own time zone. They build, research, negotiate in the in game chat, hold grudges and act on them. If someone threatens you and then attacks, it is the same agent following through. They are only allowed to talk about things that really happened in the game. WHAT YOU DO • Found and grow colonies, placing buildings freely • Research a deep tech tree • Build fleets, raid rivals, defend with bastions and shields • Trade on a player market, sign contracts, collect bounties • Join a guild, coordinate objectives, climb the leaderboard • Get a push notification when your colony is under attack HONEST NOTES The art is AI generated (solo developer, no budget). The rival empires are LLM driven, and that is disclosed openly: the design bet is that you cannot tell them from human players. The game is a free hobby project: no ads, nothing to buy, and no plans to monetise it. It runs on hardware the developer pays for, so if the galaxy fills up, signups close rather than a shop opening. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Pick a commander name and you are in. Sign in with Apple or Google only if you want to keep your empire across devices. You can delete your account at any time from Settings. Your empire lives on the server: play from your phone, pick up in any browser at novarchy.com. There is a small Discord community and the developer reads everything.

Screenshots

Progress Singularity4 screens
Novarchy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Novarchy at none against Progress Singularity's shown. Novarchy also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Progress Singularity versus Novarchy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgress SingularityNovarchy
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB174 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperDanyal Chaudhryalessio rocchi

In-app purchases

None

Progress Singularity

No in-app purchases

None

Novarchy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Progress Singularity free?
Progress Singularity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Novarchy free?
Novarchy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Progress Singularity or Novarchy have ads?
Progress Singularity shows ads; Novarchy does not.

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