Comparison

Mars47 vs Autonomous Civilization

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

Head to head
About

Mars47

Design, build, and manage a thriving space program from the ground up. Research new technologies, construct facilities, and launch rockets and satellites into orbit. Experience dynamic operations with weather events and a living coastal spaceport environment.

Highlights
  • Build and expand your spaceport
  • Research new technologies
  • Test and launch rockets
  • Manage logistics and services
  • Complete campaign objectives
  • Experience dynamic weather events
Features
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Build your own spaceport. Research new technology, test rockets and take satellites into orbit. In Mars47: Spaceport, an empty stretch of desert coast becomes a growing space program. Plan your base, connect its essential services and follow each mission from the first building to the launchpad. Every expansion brings new opportunities and new decisions. YOUR BASE, YOUR PLAN Build assembly halls, research facilities, launch infrastructure and the services that keep them running. Balance power, staffing and your budget, then decide which facility will move your program forward. RESEARCH THAT SHAPES YOUR PROGRAM Unlock technologies across energy, propulsion and orbital systems. Turn individual breakthroughs into a connected space program and improve rocket reliability through research. FROM ASSEMBLY TO LIFTOFF Prepare flight hardware, run engine tests and bring rockets to the launchpad. Follow your missions from ground operations to flight. LOGISTICS THAT CONNECT EVERYTHING Plan roads, transport routes, port facilities and fuel supply. Keep production and research moving as your base grows. SATELLITES AND MISSIONS Work through campaign objectives, expand your orbital capabilities and view deployed satellites and active mission objects around Earth. A LIVING COASTAL SPACEPORT Weather events and thunderstorms accompany daily operations. Watch infrastructure, industry and crew activity bring your spaceport to life. BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Play with an interface adapted for iPhone and iPad. Open your base and start your own space program!

About

Autonomous Civilization

Features
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The automation age has begun. Your civilization is not ready. Choose the United States, European Union, China, or Japan and guide it from 2026 to 2051 through a period of extraordinary technological and social change. Autonomous Civilization is a systems-driven strategy game about turning innovation into durable prosperity. Research artificial intelligence, build autonomous freight networks, secure critical industries, strengthen the electricity grid, negotiate international agreements, and help society absorb the disruption. Every solution moves the bottleneck. Faster automation can raise productivity while displacing workers. Reshoring can strengthen supply chains while driving up costs. Clean energy can cut emissions while straining the grid. Trade restrictions can protect one industry and weaken three others. MAKE CABINET-LEVEL DECISIONS Choose a limited set of policies every six-month turn. Commit fiscal resources and political capital, then watch immediate, delayed, and unintended consequences unfold. LEAD FOUR DISTINCT CIVILIZATIONS Each playable bloc has its own institutions, industrial strengths, demographic pressures, political constraints, and viable route to victory. BUILD THE PHYSICAL AUTOMATION ECONOMY Develop AI, autonomous systems, smart infrastructure, robotics, and social adaptation. Research alone is not enough: regulation, manufacturing, public trust, and infrastructure determine whether technology actually delivers. NAVIGATE A LIVING WORLD Respond to market corrections, strikes, cyberattacks, climate damage, supply shortages, pandemics, migration pressures, elections, and industrial breakthroughs. Rival blocs pursue visible strategies and react to the same changing world. SHAPE TRADE AND DIPLOMACY Form standards alliances, climate accords, mineral partnerships, and AI safety agreementsโ€”or use tariffs and export controls to slow a competitor. WIN MORE THAN AN ECONOMY Civilization Score measures prosperity, social cohesion, sustainability, technological capability, and strategic resilience. Raw GDP or maximum automation alone cannot secure victory. Designed natively for iPhone and iPad, Autonomous Civilization includes touch-first navigation, multiple local save slots, deterministic campaign seeds, reduced-motion support, an interactive tutorial, a permanent Field Manual, and transparent explanations for changing statistics. No accounts. No advertising. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Campaign data stays on your device.

Screenshots

Mars474 screens
Autonomous Civilization4 screens

Verdict

The call

Mars47 and Autonomous Civilization are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Mars47 versus Autonomous Civilization: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMars47Autonomous Civilization
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews33.3% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size629 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBENJAMIN HEIDGERTom Hestas

In-app purchases

None

Mars47

No in-app purchases

None

Autonomous Civilization

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mars47 free?
Mars47 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Autonomous Civilization free?
Autonomous Civilization is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mars47 or Autonomous Civilization have ads?
Neither Mars47 nor Autonomous Civilization shows ads.

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