Comparison

MANDATE vs StateFlo

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

Head to head
About

MANDATE

Features
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MANDATE is a realist, hard-edged government simulation. Choose a nation, take office, and try to keep your mandate while the economy, approval, and stability tend to erode. - 3D globe to pick a playable nation - Cabinet with budgets, programs, and a bulletin - Crises and fiscal pressure that actually bite - Mandates up to 24 months (12 in the demo) UI chrome is available in many languages; event and program copy may still fall back to English or Italian depending on locale. The books matter: deficits and surpluses move debt, inflation, and approval. It is not unwinnable - on easier difficulties, governing well yields a clear victory - but without constant course corrections the system drifts worse on its own.

About

StateFlo

Lead a fictional nation, managing its economy, ministries, and regions. Make tough decisions on taxes, spending, and diplomacy to improve your country's standing. Navigate corruption and build businesses in this complex simulation game.

Highlights
  • Economic simulation
  • Ministry management
  • Regional and city control
  • Diplomacy and trade
  • Business and stock market
  • Corruption system
  • Player-to-player trading
Features
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Floria does not exist. Neither do its neighbours, its oceans or its cities. Every country, capital, agency and headline in StateFlo is invented for this game. What is real is the arithmetic: a treasury that empties, an inflation rate that answers to your key rate, and a population of thirty million that notices when the hospitals run out of money. You are the head of state. Nobody hands you a good situation. AN ECONOMY THAT ARGUES BACK Set VAT, income tax and profit tax and watch the curve bend the wrong way when you go too far. Move the key rate and see inflation, lending and the exchange rate move days later, not instantly. Borrow, refinance, default, or balance the books the slow way. Reserves, debt to GDP, trade balance and the currency rate are all live numbers, and all of them are connected. TWELVE MINISTRIES, ONE BUDGET Interior, public safety, health, education, infrastructure, economy, energy, digital, justice, youth and sport, foreign affairs, social policy. Each one has its own indicators, its own minister and its own opinion about the money. Fund one properly and another starts to fail. There is never enough for all twelve, and that is the game. REGIONS AND CITIES Twenty-four regions on a hand-drawn map, each with its own economy, mood and problems. Zoom into a city and manage it directly: districts, utilities, transport, construction. National projects like power plants, laboratories, and a space programme take real in-game months and cost real in-game money. CORRUPTION Officials skim. Files build up. You can raid, prosecute, or look the other way and keep the machine running. Every option has a price in approval, in revenue, or in both. The dossier system remembers what you chose. DIPLOMACY Trade agreements, foreign aid, accession tracks to a union and a defence pact. Relations with a hundred invented states shift with every deal you sign and every one you walk away from. BUSINESS AND THE PLATE MARKET Found companies, build factories, run a private bank, trade on the stock exchange. Register custom vehicle plates and trade them player-to-player in a live market with instant offers. FOUR LANGUAGES English, French, Ukrainian and Russian, the whole game, not just the menus. LEADERBOARD A global table ranks your term against everyone else's: economy, stability, reach. Medals for the milestones nobody reaches by accident. PRESIDENT'S CLUB (optional) A subscription unlocks three save profiles, unlimited companies and garage slots, custom plates and registrations, a gold frame on the leaderboard and the Patron medal. The game is complete without it. - President's Club Monthly: $7.99 per month - President's Club Yearly: $29.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://stateflo.net/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stateflo.net/privacy Everything in StateFlo is fiction. Any resemblance to a real country, government, institution or person is unintended.

Screenshots

MANDATE3 screens
StateFlo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: StateFlo at every 2 days against MANDATE's every 3 weeks. MANDATE's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MANDATE sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and StateFlo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MANDATE ships an update every 3 weeks, StateFlo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MANDATE versus StateFlo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMANDATEStateFlo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB215 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperParide Di LazzaroYuliia Shkurlei

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MANDATE

One-time3
  • Extended Mandate$1.99
  • Unlock Mandate$3.99
  • World Roster$3.99
2 purchases

StateFlo

Subscriptions2
  • President's Club — Monthly$7.991 Month
  • President's Club — Yearly$29.991 Year

Questions

Is MANDATE free?
MANDATE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StateFlo free?
StateFlo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MANDATE or StateFlo have ads?
Neither MANDATE nor StateFlo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MANDATE or StateFlo?
MANDATE ships an update every 3 weeks, and StateFlo every 2 days. Most recently, MANDATE was updated on November 10, 2026 and StateFlo on November 12, 2026.

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