CRUNCH vs CineMarket Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
CRUNCH
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Build the empire. Keep the receipts. CRUNCH is a dark, cutthroat studio-management tycoon. You start alone in a 1982 garage with a little cash and a lot of nerve ā and claw your way to a game-industry empire across fifty brutal years. Make games. Make money. Make enemies. DESIGN GAMES THAT MATTER (OR SELL) Pick a topic, a genre, and a platform, then steer three stages of development across nine craft fields. Balance design against technology, match your focus to what the genre demands, squash the bugs you can afford to, and ship it ā then watch four critics decide your fate in real time. BUILD A TEAM. THEN MIND IT. Hire programmers, artists, designers, and writers, each with their own talent, traits, and breaking point. Crunch buys speed and costs souls. Push too hard and your best people burn out and walk ā straight into a rival's open door. SURVIVE THE INDUSTRY Predatory publishers. A venture capitalist whose money is a leash. Lawsuits, leaks, scandals, console wars, and a charismatic rival who considers your existence a rounding error. Eighty-plus events force real trade-offs: money or morale, reputation or quality, your integrity or your survival. GROW AN EMPIRE Research new genres and engine features. Move out of the garage, into a studio floor, a tower, a campus. Build your own console. Launch a live-service operation the players never leave. Forty fictional platforms rise and fall across six eras of an industry that eats its own. EVERY CHOICE IS A TRADE An authored story with a cast you'll grow attached to ā and multiple endings. The empire. The acquisition. The cult legend. The reckoning. The landfill. How you get there is up to you, and it costs something either way. - 14 genres, 44 topics, 40 platforms across 6 eras - A deep research tree, your own console, and live-service late game - 80+ branching events and a multi-act story with several endings - Sign in with Apple to sync your studio across devices via iCloud ā or play as a guest - Designed for iPhone and iPad, with a clean, dark, native interface - No ads. No tracking. No third-party servers. Built in a garage. Like everything else worth keeping.
CineMarket Studio
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Found your movie studio and turn it into a legend. CineMarket is a real-time management game: pick a script, sign talent, start shooting and come back for the premiere. Every film lives its life on set: production dilemmas, crises to handle, hype to nurture. On release day the box office drops, the press gives its verdict and your studio grows. ⢠SHOOT IN REAL TIME. Three minutes for your first film, hours for a blockbuster. Shoots keep going when the app is closed; interactive widgets, Dynamic Island and Control Center keep you posted. ⢠READ YOUR REVIEWS. Every release gets its own press review, written for your film: genre, cast, budget, hit or flop. ⢠BUILD YOUR CAST. Directors, actors, writers: fictional talents with hidden synergies. Order custom scripts from your signed writers. ⢠CLIMB THE LEAGUE. Every week, twenty-four studios of your level fight for promotion. Friday night premieres pay more. ⢠PLAY THE MARKET. Buy shares in trending films and earn dividends. All in game money. ⢠PROGRESS FOREVER. Levels, ranks from Indie to Immortal, sticker album, daily quests, six-week seasons with ten reward tiers. ⢠DRESS YOUR STUDIO. Six complete themes, each with its own app icon, clapperboard and widgets: holographic Y2K, Swiss Bauhaus that follows light or dark mode, Sverige and its northern lights, 80s Arcades, In The House at sunset, Midnight under its midnight sun. ⢠BECOME A PATRON. Invite a friend's studio: credits for both, and your name in the credits of their next film. ⢠A LIVING WORLD. Industry news changes revenue, budgets and hype for your genres. No ads, no loot boxes. Purchases can speed up or improve productions and add a soundstage: they increase box-office cash, but boosted hype and head starts don't count in the league or rankings, and no purchase adds ranking points or multipliers. Talent, rival studios and news are fictional. The Market also lists forty-eight public-domain classics. Producer Pass (optional): four credits a day, one free custom script per day, one more stage, doubled dividends, doubled vault, four hours to handle a crisis, 25% off permanent items bought with credits, the Poster widget and the Midnight sound palette. No theme is included. Monthly or yearly with a 3-day free trial, or lifetime. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation; subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://williandua.github.io/cinemarket-web/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://williandua.github.io/cinemarket-web/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CRUNCH at none against CineMarket Studio's 10. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. CineMarket Studio sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. CRUNCH asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | CRUNCH | CineMarket Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Franky Fernandez | WILLIAN DESCHARLES MATHIEU |
In-app purchases
CRUNCH
No in-app purchases
CineMarket Studio
- Producer Pass Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Producer Pass Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- 100 credits$1.99
- Welcome pack$2.99
- Studio piggy bank$4.99
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- Season Pass$4.99
- 500 credits$6.99
- 1200 credits$12.99
- 4000 credits$34.99
- Lifetime Producer Pass$69.99
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