Comparison

LegacyMGMT vs Startup Dev Story

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

Head to head
About

LegacyMGMT

Simulate a realistic life and build a multi-generational dynasty. Manage careers, investments, and family to create a lasting legacy. Choices have real consequences, impacting future generations.

Highlights
  • Realistic life simulation
  • Generational dynasty building
  • Career and financial management
  • Real estate and stock market investment
  • Family and relationship simulation
  • Dynamic world events
Features
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LegacyMGMT is a realism-first life and dynasty simulator. Finish school, build a career, invest, buy real estate, fall in love, and raise children. Then hand it all to an heir. When you die you do not start over, because the next generation takes the helm and the dynasty continues. How long can your family's name, and its fortune, last? • LIVE A FULL LIFE. Move through school, a career with real ladders, friendships, romance, marriage, and a family of your own. • BUILD WEALTH. Grow your money through salaries, savings, the stock market, retirement accounts, and a property empire. • A LIVING WORLD. Contend with inflation, shifting tax policy, a market that booms and busts, and a city government that moves on its own. • RISE IN TOWN. Build a reputation, give to local causes, endow a family foundation, and run for city council or mayor. • REAL CONSEQUENCES. The people you love drift away if you neglect them, hard living eventually catches up with you, and every choice you make compounds over a lifetime. • LEAVE A LEGACY. Wills, trusts, estate planning, and inheritance carry your empire across generations, and your family's reputation compounds so that a strong name gives every heir a head start. No two lives are the same. You might be born poor and claw your way up, or born wealthy and try not to squander it, but every choice is yours.

About

Startup Dev Story

Features
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Found your own software startup and grow it from a one-person garage hustle into a world-changing tech giant, one pixel at a time. Startup Dev Story is a cozy, fast-paced business simulation inspired by the management-sim classics. Hire developers, designers, and marketers, organize them into teams, and cook up products in the Lab by mixing a type, an audience, and secret ingredients. Discover powerful combos, ship them, and watch the subscribers (and the cash) roll in. But the tech world never sits still. Survive and thrive across shifting eras, the SaaS & Mobile Boom, Crypto Winter, the AI Revolution and beyond, each one reshaping what sells and who your rivals are. FEATURES • Hire & grow a team, level up staff, manage energy, loyalty and burnout, and promote your stars. • The Product Lab, combine type + audience + ingredients to discover hidden synergy recipes. • Ride the eras, adapt as the market transforms decade after decade. • Rivals & market, competitors ship their own products; trends rise and fall. • Research & perks, unlock new product types and kit out your office. • Three difficulties, from a gentle Learn-the-Ropes run to a brutal lean-runway challenge. • New Game+, bank a veteran co-founder and a cash head start for your next venture. • Multiple save slots, run parallel companies. • Handcrafted pixel art and a chiptune soundtrack, all generated with love. Free to play, supported by ads. No account required, your progress is saved on your device. Can you survive the burn, out-ship your rivals, and IPO your way to the singularity? Your startup story starts now.

Screenshots

LegacyMGMT4 screens
Startup Dev Story4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Startup Dev Story at none against LegacyMGMT's 1. LegacyMGMT's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. LegacyMGMT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Startup Dev Story asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LegacyMGMT ships an update weekly, Startup Dev Story every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LegacyMGMT versus Startup Dev Story: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLegacyMGMTStartup Dev Story
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB72 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRoyal Coast Media LLCJAIME RICHARD DAZA GUZMAN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LegacyMGMT

One-time1
  • Unlimited Legacies$1.99
None

Startup Dev Story

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LegacyMGMT free?
LegacyMGMT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Startup Dev Story free?
Startup Dev Story is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LegacyMGMT or Startup Dev Story have ads?
Both LegacyMGMT and Startup Dev Story show ads.
Which is updated more often, LegacyMGMT or Startup Dev Story?
LegacyMGMT ships an update weekly, and Startup Dev Story every 4 months. Most recently, LegacyMGMT was updated on October 22, 2026 and Startup Dev Story on October 22, 2026.

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