Comparison

Silicon vs Singularity

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

Head to head
About

Silicon

Features
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Build a tech company from a one-room garage to a global empire โ€” one device at a time. Silicon is a premium business simulation and tycoon game. You don't just watch numbers tick โ€” you DESIGN the products, BUILD the factory that makes them, and RUN the company that sells them. Found a startup, ship something great, crush your rivals, take it public, and rule the industry. DESIGN EVERY DEVICE Customize phones, tablets, laptops, consoles, monitors and AR glasses from the inside out โ€” chip, display, battery, materials, camera array, finish and color โ€” and watch each one render live in a crisp vector preview. Every choice moves your cost, your margin, and how the market reacts. Form matters too: a striking design sells. BUILD A REAL FACTORY Factory Mode is a living 3D production line you build yourself. Lay conveyor belts, place and upgrade machines, and wire the floor so it builds faster โ€” each device needs the right machines (a phone wants a screen bonder, a laptop a chassis mill). Decorate with props and painted walls, expand the building, and take Side Order commissions to keep the line busy between launches. TIME THE MARKET Consumer taste shifts week by week. Read the trend, price it right, pick the campaign that fits your budget, and find your launch window. The game always tells you WHY a product won or flopped โ€” so every launch teaches you something. MAKE ENEMIES Race a dozen fictional rivals up the live industry leaderboard. One becomes your arch-rival โ€” a living nemesis you clash with again and again. When a rival strikes your category, duel their device head-to-head and answer back. Every year the Silicon Awards judge every launch across Device of the Year, Design and Value โ€” sweep the ceremony or build a grudge. PLAY THE MARKET Trade rival shares, buy a board seat for insider intel, take a controlling stake for a discounted hostile takeover, or acquire a rival outright to absorb its brand, fans and patents. Then take your own company public and beat Wall Street's quarterly earnings expectations. GO GLOBAL License new regions โ€” each with its own taste and market size โ€” then weather regional events: booms to ride, tariffs to answer, and rival surges to defend your standing. RESEARCH THE FRONTIER Develop a deep tech tree over time on a live progress ring โ€” queue your next breakthroughs, commit to research doctrines that give your products identity, and chase Eureka flashes of insight for a jackpot. BUILD A TEAM AND HQ Hire engineers, designers and marketers โ€” each with a specialty, a trait and a mood that moves their output. Senior staff grow into mentors and masters. Watch your real-time 3D headquarters fill with life from garage to campus. FREE TO PLAY. NO DARK PATTERNS. No ads. No timers. No energy. No currencies. No loot boxes. Design devices, read the market and grow your company through the Garage and Growth eras for free, with a fresh seeded challenge every day, fully offline. SILICON PRO An optional subscription opens the rest of the industry: the Platform and AI eras, every scenario, New Game+ and Ascension, the Platform Division, Creative Mode, the Vault and the Device Museum, and the Time Machine that rewinds your company to any of the last five quarters. Monthly or yearly with a free trial, or buy it once with Pro Lifetime. Nothing you can buy changes the simulation in your favour. Found your company. Ship something great. Run the industry. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wrexist.github.io/Silicon-Tech-Tycoon/privacy/

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Singularity

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You run an AI lab. The goal is simple and impossible: reach superintelligence first. Singularity is a turn-based strategy game about the race to build AGI. Every quarter you choose what to research, what to ship, who to hire, and how to handle rivals racing you to the same prize. Push too fast and your AI slips out of alignment. Play it safe and someone else gets there first. TWO WAYS TO PLAY - Classic - a deep campaign across five eras, from the first breakthroughs to the singularity. - Race - a ~15-minute roguelite sprint for one-more-run sessions. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Climb a branching research tree: Language, Vision, Agents, Data, Safety, Security - Build and upgrade products that fund the next breakthrough - Hire researchers, developers, and PMs and put them where they matter - Outmaneuver rival labs, or sabotage them before they sabotage you - Build the superintelligence, then face the moment it wakes up SIX FOUNDERS, SIX PLAYSTYLES A prodigy, a showman, an architect, a mogul, a saboteur, a sentinel - each bends the game a different way. Every decision compounds. Alignment is never a number you can see, only a gamble you take at the end. There are many ways to win, and more ways to doom everyone. No ads. No timers. A one-time optional unlock for the full founder roster. The race is waiting.

Screenshots

Silicon4 screens
Singularity4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Silicon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Singularity sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Silicon versus Singularity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSiliconSingularity
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size16 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIsac MolinBehrooz Zakeri

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Silicon

One-time1
  • Creative Mode$2.99
1 purchases

Singularity

One-time1
  • Singularity Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Silicon free?
Silicon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Singularity free?
Singularity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Silicon or Singularity have ads?
Neither Silicon nor Singularity shows ads.

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