Farm Life Simulator vs The Provider
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Farm Life Simulator
Guide your family through six generations of farming, making choices that impact your agricultural dynasty's legacy. Build wealth and land, master historical market shifts, and prepare for catastrophic events. Rewrite American agricultural history from your own homestead.
- Generational family progression
- Land acquisition and expansion
- Stock market simulation
- Historical event preparedness
- Procedurally generated world
- VoiceOver support
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Will your farming dynasty be remembered as a pioneer of the soil, building an agriculture tycoon empire of wealth and land through the centuries? Or will your family farm collapse into foreclosure, ruined by devastating dust storms, market crashes, and failed harvests? It's up to you to decide the fate of your farming dynasty! The Story Begins with the founding homesteaders of your family in 1776—marry, raise heirs, and pass down six generations of farming talent to secure your legacy across 250 years of American history. MAKE CHOICES! --- Guide your family through six generations, inheriting unique traits like Grit, Agronomy, Neighborliness, and Brawn to build a lasting legacy. --- Buy, trade, and expand your land from the Tidewater to the Central Valley, harvesting rich yields of corn, cattle, cotton, and citrus. --- Trade shares in plow works, grain trusts, and seed companies, or rise as the CEO of your own player-founded agribusiness empire. --- Petition secretive rural orders like The Grange, perform ancient harvest rituals, and earn your place among thirteen legendary rival dynasties. MASTER THE HARVEST OF TIME! --- Amass fortunes for your dynasty by using your knowledge of history to predict crop price shifts, market crashes, and agricultural booms. --- Prepare your family farm for catastrophic events like locust swarms, black blizzards, penny auctions, and sudden rate hikes. --- Know your agricultural history, or be doomed to watch your fields wither! LEARN HISTORY — AND RE-WRITE IT! --- Play in a procedurally-generated world inspired by real events, figures, and American agricultural history from 1776 to 2026. --- Alter the course of history with your dynamic farming decisions and unique homesteading choices. --- Discover the deep history of America's most powerful agrarian dynasties. --- Frequent harvest-fresh content updates. --- Playable via VoiceOver—farmers of all abilities are welcome to tend the land! --- Relive and re-write history from your own family farm! Build your Farm Life Simulator today! Free to Play! Privacy Policy: https://www.worldordergame.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
The Provider
Simulate a lifetime of financial and career decisions from age eighteen. Navigate job choices, investments, and business ventures to build wealth and a fulfilling life. Experience the consequences of your choices over hundreds of months.
- Simulate career progression
- Manage investments and finances
- Start and grow businesses
- Experience life events
- Make critical life choices
- Explore different states
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You are eighteen. You have two hundred dollars, no degree, and rent is due in thirty days. Or you have a trust fund, $800 a month for life, and a family that burns its people out by forty. You didn't pick. Nobody picks. That's where The Provider begins. From here you get one month at a time, about six hundred of them. Take the shift or take the class. Rent or buy. Pay down the card or put it in the index fund. Then you press End Month — the paycheck lands, the bills come out, and the receipt tells you exactly what your choices were worth. The receipt never flatters you. WORK YOUR WAY UP Start on the fast-food line at $12 an hour and climb. Or go to trade school at night and come out a licensed plumber with your name on the trucks. Or grind through medical school and spend a decade underwater before the money ever turns. Seventeen jobs, five trades, degrees from associate to master's, and licensing exams you can genuinely fail. MONEY THAT BEHAVES LIKE MONEY Index funds and individual stocks. A 401(k) with an employer match you'd be foolish to leave on the table and an early-withdrawal penalty that shows you the full damage before you confirm. Mortgages, refinancing, property taxes. Credit-card interest compounding against you roughly ten times faster than the market compounds for you. Crypto, if you're feeling brave. Two hundred a month from age eighteen is six figures by your mid-forties; start at thirty and you finish with barely half. The early dollars do the heavy lifting. That's the whole game. BUILD SOMETHING Fifteen kinds of business, from a $3,000 food cart to a craft brewery, a dental practice, a boutique hotel, a minor-league ball club. Hire people. Underpay them and watch them leave in the middle of a recession. Set prices, run marketing with honestly diminishing returns, survive inspections and the competitor across the street. Build a reputation until you earn a real brand — Beloved, Household Name, or Everywhere — each one a different bet. Then promote a veteran to manager and finally work ON the business instead of in it. Fair warning: ownership is a stress engine, heavier than most jobs. A LIFE, NOT A SPREADSHEET Ten states, each a genuinely different game. No income tax in Texas. Hurricanes in Florida — insure the house, seriously. California pays top of market and takes it back in rent. Ohio has the cheapest homes in the game and the most honest work. Around all of it: a partner, kids, friends who drift if you never call. Kids cost a fortune and are the best investment in the game — one in five has a business spark, and when they pitch you at sixteen, listen. Stress compounds into burnout. Pets pass. Some things you cannot buy your way out of. 51 SCENARIOS Fixed puzzles with medals to earn. Inherit a dying restaurant with a furious underpaid crew and six grand of debt. Build a company to $250,000 with no loans, no investors, no credit cards — every dollar of growth from a customer. Twenty rental doors. Dig out of an avalanche of debt. Raise two kids on one income and put them both through college. Gold, silver, bronze, and a clock running. THE ENDING YOU EARN You don't retire at an age. You retire when the money will outlast you. Then comes the accounting: net worth, dividends collected, children raised, people still close to you at the end — and a grade from D to S. Your best lives go up on the leaderboard. YOUR WORLD, YOUR RULES Turn off layoffs, hurricanes, medical emergencies, scams, gambling content, even inflation. Every hardship you remove cuts your final score, and customized runs are marked. The top of the board belongs to the hardest hand, played on Hard, with nothing switched off. Plus 100+ achievements, ten save slots, and a difficulty setting that's honest about what it's worth. No ads. No accounts. No internet required. Nothing ever leaves your phone. Fiction, not financial advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Provider at none against Farm Life Simulator's 9. The Provider also leads on ratings volume (3 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. Farm Life Simulator sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. The Provider asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Farm Life Simulator against 5.0 for The Provider. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Farm Life Simulator | The Provider |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hermetic Ventures LLC | Kevin Petersen |
In-app purchases
Farm Life Simulator
- God Mode, 1 month$1.991 Month
- Elite Mode, 1 month$1.991 Month
- God and Elite Mode, 1 month$2.991 Month
- 100 Gold Coins$0.99
- 500 (+100 bonus) Gold Coins$4.99
- 1,000 Gold Coins$9.99
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- 2000 (+600 bonus) Gold Coins$19.99
- 4000 (+1400 bonus) Gold Coins$39.99
- 8000 (+2000 bonus) Gold Coins$79.99
The Provider
No in-app purchases
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