Comparison

Civ Builder vs Devolution

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

Head to head
About

Civ Builder

Features
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You don't move the pieces in Civ Builder — you set the rules and let an artificial intelligence run a society inside them. Choose one of five governing archetypes — the intelligence that shapes how your citizens reason about each other, their work, and their laws. Write the legal code: decide what's forbidden and how strictly it's enforced. Then begin, and watch ten autonomous agents live their lives in a real-time event feed. They work and eat. They vote. They trade and innovate. They commit crimes — and face the punishments you wrote. Out of thousands of small decisions, a civilization takes shape: it can flourish into a stable, inventive society, or fracture and collapse under its own laws. Nothing is scripted. Every run unfolds differently. GOVERN, DON'T MICROMANAGE - Pick the AI archetype that governs your people's reasoning. - Author a living legal code and rewrite it mid-run to steer the outcome. - Intervene on the fly — inject events and change the law as a crisis unfolds. A SOCIETY THAT RUNS ITSELF - Ten autonomous agents make their own choices about work, food, voting, trade, and crime. - Emergent outcomes: no fixed win condition, no two runs alike. - A live event feed narrates everything as it happens. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU - 100% offline — the entire simulation runs on your device. - No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. We collect zero data. - Saved runs live on your device and never leave it. Set the laws. Choose the mind that enforces them. Then find out what kind of civilization you've created.

About

Devolution

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The world won’t conquer itself. Devolution: World Conquest is a real-time strategy game of territory conquest. Raise an army, capture castles and turn the map your colour. Every army you send forward leaves something behind. Build your advantage, then make your move. MAKE YOUR MOVE Capture territory to earn gold and recruit infantry, riflemen, knights and defenders. Hold your borders, find an opening and outlast your rivals. Everything happens in real time. CHOOSE YOUR WORLD Fight across historical battlefields, modern geography and generated continents. Explore campaigns inspired by the Roman Empire, feudal Japan and more. Large battlefields support up to 24 factions, including AI. PLAY YOUR WAY • Play solo and offline against AI commanders with four difficulty levels. • Join public multiplayer games or create an invite-only room for friends. • Talk in room chat before and during a match, with player blocking and message reporting. • Save solo matches locally and continue later. • Watch AI battles in spectator mode and revisit your games in replays. BUILT FOR IPHONE Command your armies with touch controls in portrait or landscape. Pan and zoom around the battlefield, select troops and send them into battle. The in-game controls guide explains the commands. Requires iOS 17 or later. No account is required to play. Online multiplayer needs an internet connection. Saves and replays are stored locally; cloud save synchronisation is not included. Need help? Visit devolutiongame.com/support.

Screenshots

Civ Builder4 screens
Devolution4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Civ Builder at 15.1 against Devolution's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 4 level
Civ Builder versus Devolution: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCiv BuilderDevolution
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB128 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSimple Design LLCA1Base Inc

In-app purchases

None

Civ Builder

No in-app purchases

None

Devolution

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Civ Builder free?
Civ Builder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Devolution free?
Devolution is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Civ Builder or Devolution have ads?
Neither Civ Builder nor Devolution shows ads.

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