Comparison

Startup Simulator vs Startup Dev Story

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

Head to head
About

Startup Simulator

Features
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Sarup Simmulator : Inc. — The ultimate startup simulation game where you live the founder's journey. Start with nothing but ambition and a laptop in a garage. Make critical decisions that shape your company's destiny. Will you bootstrap your way to success, or chase venture funding? Every choice matters. Key Features: • Idle+Active Hybrid Gameplay — Grow your startup while you sleep, or actively manage campaigns and product launches for accelerated progress • Core Metrics Management — Balance Cash, Users, Code quality, and Hype as you scale from Seed round to Series A, Series B, and ultimate Unicorn status • Team Building & Hiring — Recruit engineers, designers, marketers, and CEOs to unlock new capabilities and scale faster • Strategic Campaigns — Launch marketing initiatives, pivot your product, and compete in brutal market conditions • Tech Stack Upgrades — Invest in better infrastructure, databases, and architecture to handle growth • Random Events System — Navigate viral moments, competitor attacks, server crashes, and surprising opportunities that test your leadership • Dark Mode Dashboard — Sleek, modern UI designed for late-night grinding and marathon gaming sessions • Multiple Victory Paths — Raise venture funding, achieve profitability, go public, or get acquired — your path to success is yours to define Gameplay Loop: Earn cash from users, hire team members to boost production, invest in upgrades to scale faster, survive random market shocks, and progressively unlock new mechanics as you grow. The deeper you play, the more complex and rewarding the strategy becomes. Why It's Fun: Experience the highs and lows of building a startup without the real financial risk. Learn how venture-backed companies actually work. Make bold decisions and see the consequences play out in real-time. Compete with friends and climb global leaderboards.

About

Startup Dev Story

Features
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Found your own software startup and grow it from a one-person garage hustle into a world-changing tech giant, one pixel at a time. Startup Dev Story is a cozy, fast-paced business simulation inspired by the management-sim classics. Hire developers, designers, and marketers, organize them into teams, and cook up products in the Lab by mixing a type, an audience, and secret ingredients. Discover powerful combos, ship them, and watch the subscribers (and the cash) roll in. But the tech world never sits still. Survive and thrive across shifting eras, the SaaS & Mobile Boom, Crypto Winter, the AI Revolution and beyond, each one reshaping what sells and who your rivals are. FEATURES • Hire & grow a team, level up staff, manage energy, loyalty and burnout, and promote your stars. • The Product Lab, combine type + audience + ingredients to discover hidden synergy recipes. • Ride the eras, adapt as the market transforms decade after decade. • Rivals & market, competitors ship their own products; trends rise and fall. • Research & perks, unlock new product types and kit out your office. • Three difficulties, from a gentle Learn-the-Ropes run to a brutal lean-runway challenge. • New Game+, bank a veteran co-founder and a cash head start for your next venture. • Multiple save slots, run parallel companies. • Handcrafted pixel art and a chiptune soundtrack, all generated with love. Free to play, supported by ads. No account required, your progress is saved on your device. Can you survive the burn, out-ship your rivals, and IPO your way to the singularity? Your startup story starts now.

Screenshots

Startup Simulator4 screens
Startup Dev Story4 screens

Verdict

The call

Startup Simulator and Startup Dev Story are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Startup Simulator versus Startup Dev Story: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStartup SimulatorStartup Dev Story
PriceFreeFree
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSiamSquared Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd.JAIME RICHARD DAZA GUZMAN

In-app purchases

None

Startup Simulator

No in-app purchases

None

Startup Dev Story

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Startup Simulator free?
Startup Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Startup Dev Story free?
Startup Dev Story is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Startup Simulator or Startup Dev Story have ads?
Both Startup Simulator and Startup Dev Story show ads.

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