Comparison

SimSpedition vs Startup Tycoon

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

Head to head
About

SimSpedition

Features
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Baue dein eigenes Speditionsunternehmen auf und werde zur größten Transportfirma Deutschlands! SimSpedition ist ein Logistik-Managementspiel, in dem du eine Speditionsfirma gründest und ausbaust. Starte mit 500.000 € Startkapital, wähle deinen Firmensitz und beweise dein unternehmerisches Geschick. SPIELPRINZIP • Nimm Transportaufträge an und weise sie deinen Fahrern zu • Erweitere deinen Fuhrpark mit neuen Fahrzeugen • Stelle Fahrer ein und manage dein Team • Steigere den Bekanntheitsgrad deiner Firma • Überwache Finanzen und Kontostand in Echtzeit STARTE KLEIN, WACHSE GROSS Jede erfolgreiche Spedition beginnt mit dem ersten Auftrag. Plane klug, optimiere deine Routen und baue dein Unternehmen Schritt für Schritt aus. SIMSPEDITION PREMIUM Schalte exklusive Features frei: • Folgefahrten — weise Fahrern direkt einen Anschlussauftrag zu • Firmen- & CEO-Name jederzeit ändern • Individuelle Kennzeichen für jeden LKW in deiner Flotte ECHTZEIT-SPIELWELT Fahrten laufen in Echtzeit — plane voraus und komm regelmäßig zurück, um deine Flotte optimal einzusetzen. Kostenlos spielen. SimSpedition Premium optional als monatlich kündbares Abonnement erhältlich. Nutzungsbedingungen (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Startup Tycoon

Manage a software company from idea to exit. Hire developers, QA, and marketers to build and ship products. Balance payroll, shipping deadlines, and product quality to grow your valuation or face bankruptcy.

Highlights
  • Build and manage a software team
  • Develop and ship software products
  • Manage company finances and payroll
  • Research new technologies and upgrades
  • Grow office and server infrastructure
  • Achieve high valuations or face bankruptcy
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You have an idea, a laptop, and enough runway to last a few months. Startup Tycoon is a management sim about the unglamorous part of building a software company: making payroll, shipping on time, and choosing who to hire when you cannot really afford any of them. BUILD A TEAM THAT SHIPS Developers write code. QA kill bugs. Marketers bring users in. Every hire draws a salary whether they are working or not, and nobody is assigned automatically — an idle engineer costs you exactly as much as a busy one. SHIP SOFTWARE, EARN USERS Turn lines of code into products and launch them. Revenue only starts after you ship, so every week before launch is pure burn. Add features to raise your ceiling, or start something bigger. BUGS ARE NOT COSMETIC Ship with nobody testing and your product lands at one star. Ratings are a rolling verdict rather than a launch verdict, so a product you repair will recover — but leave it in the red too long and the store pulls it, taking its users and its reviews with it. RESEARCH THE NEXT TIER Move developers onto R&D to unlock better products and permanent upgrades. Every week spent on research is a week not spent on the thing you are trying to ship. That is the whole decision. GROW OR DIE Bigger offices seat more people. Bigger servers hold more users. Both bill you every month, and infrastructure takes a cut of everything you earn, so growth always costs you something. HIRE WHAT YOU CAN ATTRACT A three-person company does not get to interview leads. Grow your revenue and better candidates start taking your call — each one asking a salary fixed at the moment you hire them. SELL AND SCORE Cash out whenever you like. Your valuation is your score: cash on hand plus revenue, multiplied by how much your users actually liked what you built. Or run the balance negative for two months and lose the company instead. SELL, THEN START STRONGER Twenty products to build, and every sale of $250K or more earns prestige points. Spend them on 30 permanent upgrades across ten tiers, and every company you found after that starts ahead. LEADERBOARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS Seven global Game Center leaderboards: best sale, career sales, fastest million, longest-running company and more. Seventeen achievements to unlock. If someone passes you on a leaderboard, you get a notification. The only ads are the ones you choose to watch. No energy timers, no waiting to play. The clock runs only while the app is open, so nothing happens to your company behind your back.

Screenshots

SimSpedition4 screens
Startup Tycoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SimSpedition at none against Startup Tycoon's 3. SimSpedition also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Startup Tycoon sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. SimSpedition asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
SimSpedition versus Startup Tycoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimSpeditionStartup Tycoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB76 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNiklas KonigsFatih Kayan

In-app purchases

None

SimSpedition

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Startup Tycoon

One-time3
  • 50 Gems$0.99
  • 150 diamonds$1.99
  • 500 gems$2.99

Questions

Is SimSpedition free?
SimSpedition is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Startup Tycoon free?
Startup Tycoon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SimSpedition or Startup Tycoon have ads?
Startup Tycoon shows ads; SimSpedition does not.
Which is updated more often, SimSpedition or Startup Tycoon?
SimSpedition ships an update every 2 weeks, and Startup Tycoon every 2 weeks. Most recently, SimSpedition was updated on November 5, 2026 and Startup Tycoon on November 6, 2026.

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