Pawn Shop Boss vs Mars Base Tycoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pawn Shop Boss
Manage your own pawn shop, inspecting items, negotiating deals, and making strategic business decisions. Grow your business by upgrading your shop, hiring staff, and completing quests to become the ultimate pawn shop boss.
- Buy, sell, and pawn items
- Inspect deals and negotiate
- Manage shop inventory and space
- Upgrade shop and hire staff
- Complete quests and build reputation
- Multiple language support
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Pawn Shop Boss puts you behind the counter of a busy pawn shop. Inspect items, negotiate with customers, buy low, sell high, and offer pawn loans. Every day brings new deals, rare objects, quests, and business decisions. Grow your shop by managing cash, diamonds, storage, showroom space, security, staff, and licenses. Complete quests, build your reputation, and discover black market opportunities. Features: • Buy, sell, and pawn a variety of items • Inspect risky deals before making an offer • Negotiate with customers and build lasting relationships • Manage storage, showroom inventory, and auctions • Upgrade your shop, hire staff, and acquire licenses • Complete quests and increase your prestige • Choose Turkish, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Brazilian Portuguese in Settings Every offer matters. Make smart deals and become the boss of your pawn shop.
Mars Base Tycoon
Build and manage a food business on the red planet. Serve hungry colonists, earn coins, and upgrade your shop from a small counter to a thriving Martian restaurant. Enjoy casual tycoon gameplay in short, engaging sessions.
- Run a food shop on Mars
- Serve colonists and grow customer flow
- Earn coins from orders
- Upgrade store, tools, and service speed
- Expand from a small counter
- Enjoy simple tycoon progression
- Build a food empire in a sci-fi colony
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Build the first great food shop on Mars. Mars Base Tycoon is a casual tycoon game about starting small on the red planet and growing a busy food business for hungry colonists. Serve customers, earn coins, upgrade your shop, and turn a simple counter into the most popular place in the colony. Start with a modest stand inside a dusty base. Every order helps you improve your kitchen, speed up service, unlock better equipment, and expand your operation. Keep the line moving, collect profits, and decide what to upgrade next as your Martian restaurant grows step by step. This is a relaxed management game built for short mobile sessions. Jump in, serve a few customers, make meaningful progress, and come back later to keep building. The fun comes from watching a tiny space shop become a thriving business in an unusual world. Features: - Run a food shop on Mars - Serve colonists and grow your customer flow - Earn coins from each order - Upgrade your store, tools, and service speed - Expand from a small counter into a successful Martian business - Enjoy simple tycoon progression in quick sessions - Build a cozy food empire inside a sci-fi colony If you like shop management, upgrade games, restaurant games, or casual tycoon games, Mars Base Tycoon gives you a fresh setting with easy goals and steady progress. The red planet is hungry. Open the counter, serve the colony, and grow your Mars food empire one upgrade at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mars Base Tycoon at none against Pawn Shop Boss's 3. Mars Base Tycoon also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 days) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Pawn Shop Boss sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Mars Base Tycoon asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pawn Shop Boss against 5.0 for Mars Base Tycoon. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mars Base Tycoon has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pawn Shop Boss ships an update every 3 days, Mars Base Tycoon daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pawn Shop Boss | Mars Base Tycoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 205 MB | 184 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Berkay Ozkaya | namwon heo |
Customer experience
Pawn Shop Boss
Mars Base Tycoon
In-app purchases
Pawn Shop Boss
- 10 Diamonds$1.49
- 100 Diamonds$11.99
- 1000 Diamonds$89.99
Mars Base Tycoon
No in-app purchases
Questions
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