Comparison

Data Center Tycoon™ vs Starfall Colony

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

Head to head
About

Data Center Tycoon™

Build a global data center empire from a single rack. Manage hardware, mine cryptocurrencies, and fulfill client contracts. Engage in strategic battles and research permanent upgrades to learn real-world data center concepts.

Highlights
  • Build and manage data center infrastructure
  • Rack real hardware and monitor power/cooling
  • Mine and trade cryptocurrencies
  • Fulfill client contracts
  • Engage in strategic DC Wars
  • Research permanent upgrades
  • Learn real data center concepts
Features
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Data Center Tycoon™ Data Center Tycoon is a strategy game where you start with one rack in a garage and build it into a global infrastructure empire. Rack real hardware. Seat 1U edge nodes, 4U tensor boxes, and 8U quantum chassis, and watch your power draw and cooling headroom as you grow. Mine three coins and cash out on the Exchange. Route your hash between RAC, PKT, and QBT and decide when to sell. Land client contracts that pay out while you build. Bronze, Silver, and Gold clients with real CP and GPU requirements. Duel rival operators in DC Wars. Pick a posture, read the intel, and take their cash. Then take on six campaign bosses and a 4v4 bot arena. Collect every machine in the Hall of Firsts, research permanent upgrades, and acquire companies that survive your IPO. Built by a network engineer. Everything in the game maps to a real data center concept, so you learn while you play. Sign in to sync your progress and access packs already linked to your account. Privacy Policy: https://dctycoon.net/privacy/dctycoon Terms of Service: https://dctycoon.net/terms

About

Starfall Colony

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Build a future among the stars. Start with a Solar Array and grow your outpost into Starfall Colony. Collect ore, hire managers and turn a handful of buildings into an automated settlement. Invest in research, send your crew on expeditions and decide when to begin a new colony with lasting stardust bonuses. BUILD AND AUTOMATE Develop eight facilities, from the Ice Extractor and Habitat Dome to the Fusion Reactor, Terraformer and Quantum Relay. Plan timed upgrades, reach production milestones and put managers in charge of earning ore while you focus on your next project. RESEARCH AND PROTECT Advance nine research disciplines to improve output, extend offline earnings and unlock frontier technology. Install defenses against asteroid impacts and solar radiation, then repair damaged buildings to restore their production. EXPLORE THREE WORLDS Choose a balanced home, an ore-rich frontier or a world suited to research. Send expeditions for supplies or science, collect nine journal discoveries and follow the six-chapter First Settlers campaign. Your choices shape its ending. CHOOSE YOUR COLONY'S DIRECTION Select Balanced, Industrial, Scientific or Explorer specialisations for your next colony. Build and commission five stages of the Space Elevator, Orbital Habitat and Planetary Shield. Prestige turns your current colony's progress into Stardust for stronger future beginnings. MAKE PROGRESS AT YOUR PACE Automated buildings and your lab keep earning while you are away, within your offline capacity. Claim daily supplies, complete rotating contracts and work toward weekly medals without an uninterrupted daily streak. Earn Voyager Teal through weekly goals, or preview optional cosmetic themes on your own buildings. SEE YOUR SETTLEMENT IN 3D OR 2D Orbit and zoom around the 3D colony, watch its cargo ship and rotating planet, or switch to the 2D view. Both views show the same colony and progress. KEEP YOUR COLONY WITH ICLOUD Play with local autosaves, or enable optional private iCloud saving with Apple-managed encryption. Verified purchase history lets remaining supplies and protection follow the same cloud colony. Cloud saving requires an Apple Account, connectivity and the in-app consent requirements; optional cloud saving is limited to ages 16 and up. All buildings, research and progression systems can be reached without in-app purchases. Optional purchases offer supplies, permanent production benefits, timed protection and cosmetic themes. No subscriptions, advertising or third-party analytics SDKs. The stars are waiting. What will your next colony become?

Screenshots

Data Center Tycoon™4 screens
Starfall Colony4 screens

Verdict

The call

Data Center Tycoon™ and Starfall Colony 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 · 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. Data Center Tycoon™ sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Starfall Colony sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Data Center Tycoon™ versus Starfall Colony: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterData Center Tycoon™Starfall Colony
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB17 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperBennie BoysenMarius Muntean

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Data Center Tycoon™

Subscriptions2
  • Operator Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Operator Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
One-time4
  • Cash Stack$4.99
  • Cash Trunk$9.99
  • Cash Vault$19.99
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  • $99.99 cash pack$99.99
10 purchases

Starfall Colony

One-time10
  • Fleet Shield 10%$1.99
  • Ore Cache$1.99
  • Research Cache$2.99
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  • Aurora Lights$2.99
  • Ember Skies$2.99
  • Fleet Shield 25%$3.99
  • Pioneer Bundle$3.99
  • Science Charter$4.99
  • Ore Freighter$4.99
  • Founder Pack$5.99

Questions

Is Data Center Tycoon™ free?
Data Center Tycoon™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Starfall Colony free?
Starfall Colony is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Data Center Tycoon™ or Starfall Colony have ads?
Neither Data Center Tycoon™ nor Starfall Colony shows ads.

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