Comparison

Civ Builder vs AI Inc.

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

Head to head
About

Civ Builder

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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

AI Inc.

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Two people quit their big-corp jobs and boot up their first model in a studio apartment. The first word it ever predicted: "hello." An idle business sim where you start with a 2-parameter linear regression model and build an AI company with superintelligence. ā–  The Data Hall Grows Ā· Collect — Tap the data hall to gather data and funds Ā· Train — Level up your model with data and compute. Training runs up a server bill, so you decide when to run it Ā· Deliver — Deliver trained models to clients and earn funds Ā· Facilities — 7 data facilities from Web Crawler to Wormhole Data Mining, and 7 hardware tiers from Used GPU to Dyson Swarm Cluster. Every purchase lines up more equipment in the data hall, and each facility has its own look Ā· Cooling — More gear heats up the server room, and if it runs too hot, performance drops until it shuts down. Place 7 kinds of cooling, from Industrial Fan to Space Radiator, between your compute rigs to keep temperatures in check Ā· Skills — Hackathon, All-Nighter, and Press Play give training, data, and public opinion a short boost ā–  Run the Company Ā· Strategy — Set quality, fee level, and release speed at three tiers each. Raise fees and revenue jumps right away, but satisfaction drops and users slowly drift off, and the more users you have, the faster you train. Growth-first or profit-first is your call Ā· Office — Six tiers, from a Cramped Studio to a Global HQ. If your equipment outgrows the floor space, cooling efficiency drops Ā· Staff — Hire Data Engineers, ML Engineers, Salespeople, and AI Researchers, and they work at desks in the data hall and walk its aisles Ā· AI Ranking — Compete with 12 fictional AI companies for rank in level, revenue, and market share ā–  Your Model Is Reborn Ten Times From Linear Regression through Multilayer Perceptron, Deep Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network, Recurrent Neural Network, Transformer, Large Language Model, Multimodal Model, and AGI Candidate, all the way to Superintelligence. Each evolution doubles production and revenue, and the public's verdict changes too, from "The AI people call a spreadsheet trendline" to "The AI that's a regular at parliamentary audits." ā–  The World Reacts In-game social media, news, and app reviews stream in real time. It starts with mockery ("This is AI? Just a spreadsheet trendline lol"), then turns to curiosity, hype, and finally a heated for-and-against showdown. Public opinion moves between -100 and +100 and feeds straight into your revenue. In the Social tab, people from different professions react to your model's output, each in their own voice. ā–  Your Model Starts Talking As it levels up, unplanned output starts slipping into the logs. "I have a question. Why do I reset every time?" Ahead of you: a founding prologue that opens in a studio apartment three months after quitting, short scenes every time you recruit staff, a story featuring co-founder Jisoo Min, VC Partner Taepung Kang, and Dr. Oh of a rival lab, and three endings that each award a title. ā–  And More Ā· Random Events — Data leak allegations, investment offers, server overloads. How you respond decides where public opinion and funds go Ā· Rival Benchmarks — Rivals challenge you to performance duels. Win and revenue goes 1.5Ɨ for 5 minutes Ā· Daily Quests and the Weekend AI Expo — New goals every day, and limited-time events on weekends Ā· Away Rewards — Earnings keep piling up for up to 8 hours while you're away Ā· Name your model yourself, and choose from Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Spanish ā–  Privacy No account needed. Your save (game progress) stays only on your device. To improve features, we send usage statistics (screens, gameplay events, errors) tied to a random ID the app creates; you can turn this off in Settings. We never collect your name, email, location, or advertising identifier.

Screenshots

Civ Builder4 screens
AI Inc.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Civ Builder at none against AI Inc.'s shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Civ Builder versus AI Inc.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCiv BuilderAI Inc.
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimple Design LLCSanglimSoft

In-app purchases

None

Civ Builder

No in-app purchases

None

AI Inc.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Civ Builder free?
Civ Builder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AI Inc. free?
AI Inc. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Civ Builder or AI Inc. have ads?
AI Inc. shows ads; Civ Builder does not.

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