Comparison

CricSim vs Civic Forges

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

Head to head
About

CricSim

Features
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CricSim puts you in charge of a cricket team and lets you take it as far as you can. Pick a franchise in the Indian T20 League, or lead a nation on the world stage. Draft your squad, work out your best eleven, and find out whether your plan survives contact with match day. THREE FORMATS, PLAYED PROPERLY T20, ODI and Test cricket, each with its own rhythm. Test matches run over five days and three sessions, so you can declare, enforce the follow on, or dig in and save the draw. ODIs give you the powerplay and the death overs. T20 brings the impact sub and the super over. TWO WAYS TO BUILD A CAREER Take a franchise through a full league season, fourteen rounds and into the playoffs. Or manage a national side through a world tournament, or a bilateral series of one, three or five matches against a single rival. DRAFT THE SQUAD YOU WANT Start with the current squads, or open the mega draft and build yours from scratch. Want something bigger? Draft from pools of all time greats in T20, ODI or Test cricket. Then name your captain, your vice captain and your keeper. CALL EVERY BALL, OR NONE OF THEM Step into the match hub and run it yourself. Set the aggression, choose your bowler, decide who walks in after a wicket. Or hand it to the engine and come back for the scorecard. MAKE THE NAMES YOUR OWN Export the player list, rename anyone you like in a spreadsheet, and bring it back in. Your squad, your names. KEEP THE DYNASTY GOING Follow the table, watch your net run rate, pore over the season stats. Decide who to keep between seasons and who to let go. Then go again. No ads. No pay to win. Just cricket.

About

Civic Forges

Features
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Civic Forges is a city builder crossed with a life simulator. You draw the streets, zone the land, and run the services. Then you press Advance Year and face what leading that city does to the person behind the desk. BUILD THE CITY Draw roads, zone homes, shops, and industry beside them, and watch buildings rise from real demand. Plant green buffers to shield homes from pollution. Place police, fire, schools, clinics, parks, and transit, then fund them. Set taxes by zone. Paint districts and give each one a focus. Expand the city limits when you run out of land. LEAD THE PEOPLE Every household has an opinion. Approval rises and falls with coverage, crime, traffic, and pollution, and the election comes whether you are ready or not. Policies trade money for mood, growth for calm. LIVE THE LIFE Each year brings a personal decision: a book deal, a partner who wants more of your time, a health scare, a scandal. Your health, relationships, and reputation move with every choice, and they feed back into how the city treats you. FREE, AND ONLY THAT No ads. No in-app purchases. No account. No data collection. Your cities live on your device. A quiet, dark, deliberate strategy game for people who like to think about places.

Screenshots

CricSim4 screens
Civic Forges4 screens

Verdict

The call

CricSim and Civic Forges are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CricSim ships an update monthly, Civic Forges every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
CricSim versus Civic Forges: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCricSimCivic Forges
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS16.415.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size48 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAKSHAY RAJCHAEEUN HAN

In-app purchases

None

CricSim

No in-app purchases

None

Civic Forges

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CricSim free?
CricSim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Civic Forges free?
Civic Forges is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CricSim or Civic Forges have ads?
Neither CricSim nor Civic Forges shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CricSim or Civic Forges?
CricSim ships an update monthly, and Civic Forges every 3 weeks. Most recently, CricSim was updated on October 28, 2026 and Civic Forges on October 31, 2026.

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