Silicon vs Streampire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silicon
Build a tech empire from a garage to a global scale by designing, manufacturing, and selling innovative devices. Compete with rivals, manage your factory, and research new technologies to dominate the market. This premium simulation game offers deep customization and strategic gameplay.
- Design custom tech products
- Build and manage a 3D factory
- Time market launches and trends
- Compete with AI rivals
- Play the stock market
- Research new technologies
- Build and manage a team
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Build a tech company from a one-room garage to a global empire — one device at a time. Silicon is a premium business simulation and tycoon game. You don't just watch numbers tick — 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 — chip, display, battery, materials, camera array, finish and color — 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 — 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 — so every launch teaches you something. MAKE ENEMIES Race a dozen fictional rivals up the live industry leaderboard. One becomes your arch-rival — 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 — 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 — each with its own taste and market size — 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 — 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 — 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/
Streampire
Build your own streaming service from scratch. Produce original content, license popular movies, and compete with rivals to become the ultimate streaming mogul. Make critical business decisions to grow your empire and earn your place in history.
- Produce original movies and series
- License blockbuster movie catalogs
- Compete with rival streaming platforms
- Manage business operations and finances
- Expand into global markets
- Make strategic business decisions
- Playable offline
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Netflix wasn't built in a day. Yours will take about a week of your life — we're sorry in advance. Streampire is a premium streaming-empire tycoon: you found your own streaming service, produce original movies and series, license blockbuster catalogs, and fight four ruthless rival platforms for every subscriber on the planet. PRODUCE ORIGINALS LIKE A REAL SHOWRUNNER • Develop scripts across 12+ genres — thrillers, sci-fi, horror, romance and more • Hire writers, directors and stars, each with their own strengths, egos and price tags • Set the budget by department, pick binge drop or weekly episodes, and hold your breath on premiere night • Build franchises: renew your hits, sign season options early, end a saga with a planned finale — or milk it one season too long RUN THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE BINGE • License movie packages from 14 studios — negotiate terms, market by market • Set your subscription price per territory: cheap spreads fast, expensive earns more per head • Expand across 8 world markets, each with its own tastes, purchasing power and pain threshold • Take loans, raise funding rounds, survive the board — or get fired trying OUTPLAY FOUR RIVAL PLATFORMS • Living competitors with distinct strategies: prestige, budget, family, tech • License auctions — when a hot package drops, you won't be the only one bidding • Weekly charts, market share and industry news that react to everything you do EARN YOUR PLACE IN HISTORY • Scandals, awards season, milestone records and 45+ tough decisions • Win the Binge Awards — or get roasted by the trade press • Reach 100 million subscribers and hold the throne for a full year to win. Then keep ruling in endless mode. PREMIUM, LIKE THE OLD DAYS • Pay once, own it forever • No ads. No in-app purchases. No energy timers. • Fully playable offline — perfect for flights, commutes and "one more week" at 2 a.m. • Localized in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and Italian Your rivals are already producing. Found your service, greenlight your first original, and show the world what it should binge next.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Streampire at 73% against Silicon's 0%. Streampire also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Silicon's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On 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
Silicon is free to download; Streampire costs $2.99 up front. Silicon sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Streampire asks for nothing beyond the download.
Streampire holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Silicon's written reviews are positive against 73% of Streampire's.
Silicon ships an update every 8 days, Streampire every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Silicon | Streampire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Isac Molin | Carsten Vauth |
Customer experience
Silicon
Streampire
In-app purchases
Silicon
- Silicon Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Silicon Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Creative Mode$2.99
- Silicon Pro Lifetime$29.99
Streampire
No in-app purchases








