Comparison

PowerPlanner vs Radioactive

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

Head to head
About

PowerPlanner

A laid-back strategy builder where you grow a region's electricity network by building power plants, pylons, and transformers. Manage a live commodity market, research upgrades, and keep the lights on for various districts.

Highlights
  • Build diverse power generators
  • Connect with poles and transformers
  • Manage live commodity markets
  • Research and upgrade grid components
  • Offline-friendly gameplay
  • Cloud saves for multi-device sync
Features
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Keep the lights on. PowerPlanner is a laid-back strategy builder where you grow a whole region's electricity network — one power plant, pylon and transformer at a time. Start with a single generator and a handful of homes. Wire them up across a blueprint-style map you can freely pan and zoom, then expand into factories, malls, data centers, hospitals and stadiums as demand — and your income — keeps climbing. BUILD A REAL GRID • Generators with character: diesel, solar (follows the day/night sun), wind (rides the changing weather), coal (and its CO₂ bill) and a full nuclear plant. • Connect everything with poles, transformers and batteries. Link range and transformer coverage actually matter — plan your layout. • Watch the power flow along your lines and keep every district supplied. RUN THE ECONOMY • A live commodity market for coal, oil, uranium, gas and propane with real-time price charts — buy low, sell high. • Dynamic building prices reward diversification over spamming one thing. • Manage fuel stocks, CO₂ costs and day/night demand swings. GO NUCLEAR • Cool reactors with water pumps and pipes, handle interim waste, and build shared waste repositories you can switch on and off. RESEARCH & UPGRADE • A 30+ node research tree: efficiency, income, grid range and building upgrades up to level 5. • Refineries turn crude oil into diesel, gas and propane to trade. PLAY YOUR WAY • Single-player, offline-friendly. No account required. • Cloud saves via Game Center keep your grid in sync across your devices. • Optimized for iPhone and iPad. Free to play with a banner ad. Don't like ads? A single one-time purchase removes them forever — no subscription, ever. A few friendly tip purchases and optional cosmetic skins let you support development — all completely optional. Build it. Wire it. Power it. Grow it.

About

Radioactive

Experience a realistic nuclear war simulation where you launch and observe the unfolding consequences of strikes on a global satellite map. Witness the impact of real weapons, realistic flight times, and dynamic casualty counts over simulated days, influenced by weather-driven fallout.

Highlights
  • Realistic nuclear warfare simulation
  • Real-world weapons with accurate yields
  • Simulated flight times and delivery methods
  • Dynamic casualty unfolding over days
  • Weather-driven fallout simulation
  • Detailed aftermath inspection
  • Offline operation
Features
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Radioactive is an immersive nuclear-warfare sandbox — not another static blast-radius calculator. Every strike is a living event you launch, fly, and watch play out on a real satellite map of Earth. REAL WEAPONS, REAL DELIVERY Choose from a catalog of real-world weapons with their accurate yields — from Little Boy to the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba — and deliver them the way they were actually fielded: silo-launched ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, ship-launched cruise missiles, or gravity bombs dropped from era-correct strategic bombers that fly the full sortie: ingress, release, loop-around, and return to base. REALISTIC FLIGHT, YOUR CLOCK Flights take realistic travel times — an intercontinental shot really takes half an hour. A universal simulation clock (Day 1, 11:36 AM…) runs the whole world, and you control it: watch in real time or fast-forward at up to 100×. Queue up an entire salvo and release it one strike at a time, or all at once. CASUALTIES THAT UNFOLD, NOT A PRELOADED NUMBER Built on a full offline population grid of the entire planet (8+ billion people), casualty tolls play out over simulated days, not as an instant statistic: the immediate blast, delayed trauma, firestorms, and radiation each take their toll on their own realistic timelines. The injured can succumb. The dead stay dead — strike the same city twice and the second blast finds only survivors. WEATHER-DRIVEN FALLOUT Groundbursts loft fallout that rides the wind — and the wind changes day to day. A plume that drifts north today can fan east tomorrow, painting realistic multi-day contamination footprints across the land. Airbursts maximize blast but leave little fallout, just like the real physics. Contaminated ground stays contaminated. INSPECT THE AFTERMATH Tap any city for a live census: pre-war population, killed, injured, the share of land rendered uninhabitable, and who's still alive. Track national tolls as percentages of each country's real population. Drill into every detonation for its full breakdown — death waves, injury types, and ongoing effects like firestorms and radiation exposure. BUILT NATIVE Pure SwiftUI and MapKit on a real 3D satellite globe. No accounts, no ads, no data collection — everything runs on your device, and your session persists exactly where you left it. All effects are approximations derived from public, declassified scaling-law physics (Glasstone & Dolan, 1977) and public population data. Radioactive is a simulation for entertainment and education — not a targeting or civil-defense tool.

Screenshots

PowerPlanner4 screens
Radioactive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Radioactive at none against PowerPlanner's 10. Radioactive also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PowerPlanner sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Radioactive asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PowerPlanner against 5.0 for Radioactive. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 9 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PowerPlanner versus Radioactive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPowerPlannerRadioactive
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings49 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB16 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMichele MombergerREGGIE LEE SLABA

In-app purchases

10 purchases

PowerPlanner

One-time10
  • Small Coffee$1.99
  • Terminal · Amber$1.99
  • Terminal$1.99
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  • Gingerbread Town$1.99
  • Remove Ads Forever$2.99
  • Synthwave$2.99
  • Disco$2.99
  • Coffee$3.99
  • Giant Coffee$4.99
  • Whole Coffee Pot$11.99
None

Radioactive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PowerPlanner free?
PowerPlanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Radioactive free?
Radioactive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PowerPlanner or Radioactive?
PowerPlanner and Radioactive are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do PowerPlanner or Radioactive have ads?
PowerPlanner shows ads; Radioactive does not.

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