Digicity vs Down to Dust
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digicity
Build and manage a city from 1900 through different eras, facing challenges like pollution and demand. Visualize city data to understand growth and make informed decisions.
- Isometric city building simulation
- Zone residential, commercial, industrial areas
- Manage power, water, and transportation infrastructure
- Visualize city data layers (pollution, crime, etc.)
- Scenario mode with era-based rule changes
- Procedurally generated maps
- Undo functionality
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Start small. Think big. Build a city that feels like yours. Digicity is an isometric city builder for iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple silicon. Turn a randomly generated 128x128 landscape into connected neighbourhoods, busy industry and a city shaped by your decisions. CHOOSE HOW YOU PLAY Open Build is a free sandbox with every building tool and the whole map. No ads, energy meters or play timers. Saving requires a purchase. Scenario guides a new city through four historical eras, with goals and report cards as it develops. Era purchases unlock Scenario one era at a time; Ultimate includes them all. Everyone can preview 11 established challenge cities. Ultimate is required to start them, including the new recovery challenges The River That Burned and Aftershock. Take over a working city, tackle its problems and follow suggested approaches and live goals. BUILD A CONNECTED CITY Zone homes, shops and industry. Lay roads, tram lines, freight rail, power lines and water pipes. Connect residents to jobs, provide essential services and balance tax income against upkeep. Traffic, pollution, land value and demand shape what grows. BUILD ACROSS THE WATER Add rivers when founding a city. Connect the banks with low or high road bridges, extend local routes with secondary terminals and watch boats travel usable waterways. High bridges leave room for shipping; low bridges can block it. Inspect access and locate known blockages before planning your next crossing. CHOOSE YOUR CITY RULES With Ultimate, choose Standard, Relaxed or Custom rules before founding a Scenario city. Everyone can inspect the conditions. Decide which pressures apply, including pollution, fires and earthquakes. Rules stay fixed for that city. When enabled, river fires, earthquakes and aftershocks create new recovery problems. Review debris clearance costs before rebuilding. UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR CITY NEEDS Use data overlays, tile details and the city overview to explore population, finances, utilities and transport. In Scenario, choose transport priorities and emergency-service funding, compare city figures after policies take effect and pursue optional ambitions. Pause to plan or choose Normal, Fast or Fastest. SAVE AND RECOVER Saving and Ultimate are one-time purchases that include named saves and device-local autosaves. Without saving access, your city is lost if the app closes or the system terminates it. Autosave is on by default and keeps up to three recent recovery versions per city history. Force quitting can lose changes made after the last successful autosave. Ultimate includes saving, all Scenario eras, city rules and all 11 challenge cities. Purchases are not subscriptions and do not expire. Purchasing Saving or Ultimate supports future updates and continued development. PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch are available. Digicity follows a supported device language or falls back to English; choose another supported app language in Settings. We use AI for translations from English. They may contain mistakes; share suggestions through Translation feedback in the city menu. Play in landscape on iPhone, build on iPad or use a Mac with Apple silicon. No account or sign-in is required. https://digicitybuilder.app/privacy
Down to Dust
This game focuses on the satisfying chain reactions of structural collapses. Players identify weak points in buildings and trigger demolitions, then can save and rewatch their most impressive destruction sequences.
- Structural collapse physics
- Identify weak points
- Chain reaction demolitions
- Contract mode
- Sandbox mode
- Save and replay demolitions
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A strike to a support. A crack in the floor. And an entire wing of the building comes down. Down to Dust is a game about moments like these. Inspect structures, find weak points and set off chain collapses. Watch how one well-placed strike changes everything. Take on contracts that reward precision and efficiency, or experiment in Sandbox. Unlock new sites, try different approaches and beat your own records. Save your most spectacular demolitions and revisit them in replays. Change the camera angle, slow down the collapse and examine what happens frame by frame.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Down to Dust at none against Digicity's 6. Down to Dust also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). Digicity's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Digicity sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Down to Dust asks for nothing beyond the download.
Down to Dust holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Digicity has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Digicity ships an update every 9 days, Down to Dust every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digicity | Down to Dust |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 187 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A Secret Company, LLC | Roman Snitsariuk |
Customer experience
Digicity
Down to Dust
In-app purchases
Digicity
- Scenario: 1900-1930$1.99
- Scenario: 1930-1970$1.99
- Scenario: 1970-2010$1.99
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- Scenario: 2010 onword$1.99
- Save your cities$9.99
- Everything, forever$19.99
Down to Dust
No in-app purchases









