Thirsty Empire vs CEO Tycoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thirsty Empire
Build a business empire from humble beginnings on the San Antonio Riverwalk. Grow from a street vendor to a billionaire by investing in various businesses and real estate across the city. Experience a rags-to-riches journey with strategic economic choices.
- Rags-to-riches climb with 8 wealth tiers
- Explore real San Antonio locations
- Engage in a hustle economy with savings, crypto, and loans
- Save and resume empire progress
- Street-smart guide with full voice narration
- Deterministic and replayable game runs
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You're broke, standing on the San Antonio Riverwalk with nothing but hustle. Thirsty Empire is a fast, addictive tycoon game about clawing your way from busker to billionaire across real San Antonio. Start with a single frozen-drink cart. Flip it into a bar. Then a candy shop, an e-bike store, real estate, the casino floor - until you own the whole city. FEATURES - Rags-to-riches climb: 8 wealth tiers from Broke to Run the City - Real San Antonio: Riverwalk, Southtown, downtown landmarks - A hustle economy: savings, crypto, casino, property, loans - Save and resume your empire anytime - A street-smart guide who talks you through every move (full voice) - Deterministic, replayable runs: chase your best score No timers nagging you. No pay-to-win. Just you, the city, and the grind. How fast can you run the city?
CEO Tycoon
Make critical business decisions as a CEO in this pixel-art simulation game. Manage cash, board trust, and team morale across various industries. Your choices impact the company's fate, and getting fired is just the start of a new career.
- Decision-based gameplay
- Manage four key metrics
- Multiple industries to run
- Dynamic company visuals
- Collectible achievement posters
- Unlockable CEO characters
- Customizable office and HQ
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Everyone thinks they could run a company. Here's your chance to find out — usually in under ten minutes. CEO Tycoon: Don't Get Fired is a pixel-art decision game about the job everybody assumes they'd be good at. Every day drops a stack of memos on your desk, and none of them have a clean answer. Pick fast. The board is watching the same four numbers you are. A DAY AT THE TOP - Read the memo, pick a side. There's rarely a right answer, only a bill that arrives later. - Four numbers judge everything you do: cash, board trust, team morale and the stock price. - Every call comes with a receipt, so you see exactly what it cost. - When you close the day, the market closes with it. Even a quiet day costs money. - Duck a decision and it doesn't go away. It comes back older, and it brings friends. FOUR INDUSTRIES, FOUR KINDS OF TROUBLE Run a tech startup, an airline, a restaurant or a drug company. Burn rates and breaches, grounded fleets and unions, health inspectors and one viral review, clinical trials and pricing scandals. Same rules, very different disasters. A COMPANY WITH A PULSE Walk the headquarters floor and watch your decisions show up in the room. When morale and results are good, desks fill up. When they slide, people drift to the lobby. THE BOARD REMEMBERS Lose their trust and you're walked out with a cardboard box. Burn through the cash and the company folds around you. Either way you get the post-mortem: how many days you lasted, and the decision that finished you. IT'S A CAREER, NOT A RUN Getting fired isn't the end — it's a line on your record. Every company hands you a mandate with real targets: reach the deadline with the cash, the trust and the morale to show for it. Hit them and the badge is permanent. Miss them and your contract quietly ends. Then two new companies land on the table, and you choose whose mess to inherit. MAKE IT. FRAME IT. Earn thirty collectible achievement posters, from your first call to the Triple Crown, and hang your favorite on the corner-office wall. RUN IT YOUR WAY - Eleven executives to be, from a steady owl to a wolf nobody has ever asked to repeat itself. - Your CEO's face changes with the quarter. So do the four animals on the board. - Want a new face at the top? Hire a new CEO with company cash, or for free after every mandate you complete. - Build out the corner office with desk pieces you arrange yourself, and staff the HQ floor with new hires. - 8-bit art throughout, and a synthwave soundtrack that shifts when the pressure does. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Unfold it and the memo sits right beside your desk, with the HQ floor and your office side by side. Fold it and the same day carries on on the outer screen, mid-decision. Portrait or landscape, the game follows you. NO ADS. NO TIMERS. NO ENERGY BARS. Optional cosmetic packs are permanent, one-time purchases, and not one of them touches the game. The entire career is playable without spending anything. Requires an internet connection — your career lives on the server, so it survives closing the app. Sign in with Apple, optionally, and it survives a new phone too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thirsty Empire at none against CEO Tycoon's 10. Thirsty Empire also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). CEO Tycoon's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. CEO Tycoon sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Thirsty Empire asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Thirsty Empire against 5.0 for CEO Tycoon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Thirsty Empire ships an update every 3 weeks, CEO Tycoon weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thirsty Empire | CEO Tycoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Joel Panchevre | Rummenige Baron |
In-app purchases
Thirsty Empire
No in-app purchases
CEO Tycoon
- Golden Parachute$0.99
- New Hires$2.99
- Back Office$3.99
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- Front Office$3.99
- Hollywood Studio$4.99
- Fashion House$4.99
- Sports Franchise$4.99
- Crypto Exchange$4.99
- Members Only Office$6.99
- All Industries$12.99









