Founder’s Plot vs CEO Tycoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Founder’s Plot
Build a thriving apple business from a single tree. Grow various apple types, process them into value-added products like juice and jam, and sell at the weekend farmers market. Manage costs, upgrade equipment, and build your brand to expand your orchard and reach.
- Plant and grow various apple tree types
- Process apples into 8 different food products
- Sell products at a weekend farmers market
- Manage orchard conditions and pests
- Upgrade processing equipment
- Build and brand your business
- Experience real-world seasons
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Start with one apple tree. Build your own food business. Founder's Plot: Orchard Tycoon is an orchard business simulator where your decisions shape your profits. Grow apples, invest in processing equipment, create valuable food products, and sell them at the weekend farmers market. Eight apples sell for $3.20 raw. Process them into juice and they can be worth several times more. Choose what to produce, manage your costs, and reinvest your earnings to grow your business. GROW YOUR ORCHARD • Plant Fuji trees and unlock Honeycrisp as your orchard grows • Water and compost your trees to improve soil quality and harvest more Grade A apples • Clear new plots and grow each tree from sapling to full harvest • Manage frost, heat waves and pests with protective upgrades PROCESS AND SELL • Unlock the Processing Shed and make 8 products: Fresh-Pressed Juice, Applesauce, Apple Butter, Pie Filling, Sparkling Cider, Apple Cider Vinegar, Dried Apple Rings and Apple Jam • Upgrade your processing equipment as your business grows • Choose which apple grades go into production and which finished products to save for the market • Find profitable ways to turn your harvest into higher-value products THE WEEKEND FARMERS MARKET • Rent a table on Saturdays and Sundays and sell to visiting shoppers • Review demand forecasts and real weather conditions before market day • Build your reputation, earn loyalty bonuses, and attract attention from a wholesale scout or food blogger • Grow from a cottage stand to a full vendor booth BUILD YOUR BRAND • Name your business and design your product labels • Earn 30 achievements as you progress • Experience seasons that follow the real calendar PLAY YOUR WAY • No forced ads. Rewarded advertisements are optional. • Speed up most timers with optional ads or Founder Coins • Progress without making purchases • Use the Getting Started guide to learn your first harvest, sale, and juice production FOUNDING FARMERS The first 500 players earn a permanent Founding Farmer badge. Founder's Plot is free to play with optional in-app purchases. An internet connection is required. Questions or feedback? Email support@longwatchentertainment.com
CEO Tycoon
Make critical business decisions as a CEO in this pixel-art simulation game. Manage cash, board trust, and team morale across various industries. Your choices impact the company's fate, and getting fired is just the start of a new career.
- Decision-based gameplay
- Manage four key metrics
- Multiple industries to run
- Dynamic company visuals
- Collectible achievement posters
- Unlockable CEO characters
- Customizable office and HQ
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Everyone thinks they could run a company. Here's your chance to find out — usually in under ten minutes. CEO Tycoon: Don't Get Fired is a pixel-art decision game about the job everybody assumes they'd be good at. Every day drops a stack of memos on your desk, and none of them have a clean answer. Pick fast. The board is watching the same four numbers you are. A DAY AT THE TOP - Read the memo, pick a side. There's rarely a right answer, only a bill that arrives later. - Four numbers judge everything you do: cash, board trust, team morale and the stock price. - Every call comes with a receipt, so you see exactly what it cost. - When you close the day, the market closes with it. Even a quiet day costs money. - Duck a decision and it doesn't go away. It comes back older, and it brings friends. FOUR INDUSTRIES, FOUR KINDS OF TROUBLE Run a tech startup, an airline, a restaurant or a drug company. Burn rates and breaches, grounded fleets and unions, health inspectors and one viral review, clinical trials and pricing scandals. Same rules, very different disasters. A COMPANY WITH A PULSE Walk the headquarters floor and watch your decisions show up in the room. When morale and results are good, desks fill up. When they slide, people drift to the lobby. THE BOARD REMEMBERS Lose their trust and you're walked out with a cardboard box. Burn through the cash and the company folds around you. Either way you get the post-mortem: how many days you lasted, and the decision that finished you. IT'S A CAREER, NOT A RUN Getting fired isn't the end — it's a line on your record. Every company hands you a mandate with real targets: reach the deadline with the cash, the trust and the morale to show for it. Hit them and the badge is permanent. Miss them and your contract quietly ends. Then two new companies land on the table, and you choose whose mess to inherit. MAKE IT. FRAME IT. Earn thirty collectible achievement posters, from your first call to the Triple Crown, and hang your favorite on the corner-office wall. RUN IT YOUR WAY - Eleven executives to be, from a steady owl to a wolf nobody has ever asked to repeat itself. - Your CEO's face changes with the quarter. So do the four animals on the board. - Want a new face at the top? Hire a new CEO with company cash, or for free after every mandate you complete. - Build out the corner office with desk pieces you arrange yourself, and staff the HQ floor with new hires. - 8-bit art throughout, and a synthwave soundtrack that shifts when the pressure does. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Unfold it and the memo sits right beside your desk, with the HQ floor and your office side by side. Fold it and the same day carries on on the outer screen, mid-decision. Portrait or landscape, the game follows you. NO ADS. NO TIMERS. NO ENERGY BARS. Optional cosmetic packs are permanent, one-time purchases, and not one of them touches the game. The entire career is playable without spending anything. Requires an internet connection — your career lives on the server, so it survives closing the app. Sign in with Apple, optionally, and it survives a new phone too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CEO Tycoon at none against Founder’s Plot's shown. Founder’s Plot's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Founder’s Plot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CEO Tycoon sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Founder’s Plot against 5.0 for CEO Tycoon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 15, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Founder’s Plot | CEO Tycoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Long Watch LLC | Rummenige Baron |
Customer experience
Founder’s Plot
CEO Tycoon
In-app purchases
Founder’s Plot
- Small Coin Pack$0.99
CEO Tycoon
- Golden Parachute$0.99
- New Hires$2.99
- Back Office$3.99
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- Hollywood Studio$4.99
- Fashion House$4.99
- Sports Franchise$4.99
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- Members Only Office$6.99
- All Industries$12.99









