Silicon vs StateFlo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Silicon
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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/
StateFlo
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Floria does not exist. Neither do its neighbours, its oceans or its cities. Every country, capital, agency and headline in StateFlo is invented for this game. What is real is the arithmetic: a treasury that empties, an inflation rate that answers to your key rate, and a population of thirty million that notices when the hospitals run out of money. You are the head of state. Nobody hands you a good situation. AN ECONOMY THAT ARGUES BACK Set VAT, income tax and profit tax and watch the curve bend the wrong way when you go too far. Move the key rate and see inflation, lending and the exchange rate move days later, not instantly. Borrow, refinance, default, or balance the books the slow way. Reserves, debt to GDP, trade balance and the currency rate are all live numbers, and all of them are connected. TWELVE MINISTRIES, ONE BUDGET Interior, public safety, health, education, infrastructure, economy, energy, digital, justice, youth and sport, foreign affairs, social policy. Each one has its own indicators, its own minister and its own opinion about the money. Fund one properly and another starts to fail. There is never enough for all twelve, and that is the game. REGIONS AND CITIES Twenty-four regions on a hand-drawn map, each with its own economy, mood and problems. Zoom into a city and manage it directly: districts, utilities, transport, construction. National projects like power plants, laboratories, and a space programme take real in-game months and cost real in-game money. CORRUPTION Officials skim. Files build up. You can raid, prosecute, or look the other way and keep the machine running. Every option has a price in approval, in revenue, or in both. The dossier system remembers what you chose. DIPLOMACY Trade agreements, foreign aid, accession tracks to a union and a defence pact. Relations with a hundred invented states shift with every deal you sign and every one you walk away from. BUSINESS AND THE PLATE MARKET Found companies, build factories, run a private bank, trade on the stock exchange. Register custom vehicle plates and trade them player-to-player in a live market with instant offers. FOUR LANGUAGES English, French, Ukrainian and Russian, the whole game, not just the menus. LEADERBOARD A global table ranks your term against everyone else's: economy, stability, reach. Medals for the milestones nobody reaches by accident. PRESIDENT'S CLUB (optional) A subscription unlocks three save profiles, unlimited companies and garage slots, custom plates and registrations, a gold frame on the leaderboard and the Patron medal. The game is complete without it. - President's Club Monthly: $7.99 per month - President's Club Yearly: $29.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://stateflo.stateflo.workers.dev/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stateflo.stateflo.workers.dev/privacy Everything in StateFlo is fiction. Any resemblance to a real country, government, institution or person is unintended.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: StateFlo at daily against Silicon's every 8 days. Silicon's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Silicon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and StateFlo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Silicon ships an update every 8 days, StateFlo daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Silicon | StateFlo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Daily โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Isac Molin | Yuliia Shkurlei |
In-app purchases
Silicon
- Creative Mode$2.99
StateFlo
- President's Club โ Monthly$7.991 Month
- President's Club โ Yearly$29.991 Year
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