Comparison

GOATINHO Gridiron vs Minimum Effort

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

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GOATINHO Gridiron

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SPIN YOUR WAY TO GLORY You're 18, it's draft night, and the only thing between you and the Hall of Fame is the wheel you build. BUILD YOUR WHEEL Every season you add slots — stats, combos, momentum. New slots dilute the old ones, so what you leave out matters as much as what you add. Trim the dead weight and the wheel starts paying you back. LIVE EVERY HIGH AND LOW Three spins a season. Touchdowns, injuries, headlines and hard choices. Your club sets a target and your role follows it: miss and you ride the bench, hit it and the club's signature slot starts landing for you. CHASE YOUR DREAM MOVE The transfer window opens with one question. Stay loyal, or risk it all for a bigger club and a smaller role? FROM PROSPECT TO SUPERSTAR 20 seasons, ages 18 to 37. A rival from your draft class rises with you season by season — pass them, or retire in their shadow. • Every run is seeded: same seed, same career, so you can share yours • Daily Career with streaks, and invite links to challenge friends • Career Museum: 43 badges, every past career, lifetime totals • Legend League: six difficulty tiers with score multipliers • Men's or women's career • Plays offline. No energy timers, no forced waits Build a career worth remembering.

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Minimum Effort

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You have a job. You do not want to do it. Minimum Effort is a satirical workplace strategy game. Every workday runs from 09:00 to 17:00, and everything you can do with those 480 minutes trades three things against each other: the time it saves you, the output it actually produces, and how conspicuous it makes you. The goal is not to be good at your job. It is to find the least amount of work that survives. HOW A DAY WORKS • Do the work, fake the work, or avoid it entirely. Looking busy covers part of a shortfall when the boss checks the deliverables. It never files the report. • The boss patrols the floor. When he walks past in the middle of something you get a couple of seconds to look busy . and less time the hotter you already are. • Repeat an act and it gets riskier every time. The fourth bathroom break is not the first bathroom break. • Colleagues talk. Each one has their own trust in you and their own doubts, and a rumour that crosses the floor twice reaches the boss's office from a direction you were not watching. THE PEOPLE Your accomplice will cover for you. The overachiever notices an unearned win. The snitch keeps a note of when people leave their desk. The gossip has already told two other people. You can chat, delegate your work, ask somebody to cover, genuinely help them . or put your name on their work, which they never forget. PROMOTIONS ARE A TRAP Every rung on the ladder pays more and expects more. Getting promoted is easy. Staying just competent enough not to be fired, one rung higher, with a bigger quota and the same amount of effort . that is the game. FIVE CAREERS - Corporate. Easy. Meetings, decks and a quarterly review nobody reads. - Startup. Chaotic. Twelve people, no structure, and everybody notices everything. - Consulting. Medium. Frameworks, workstreams, and never being the one with the answer. - Investment banking. Extreme. Enormous money, enormous work, and an associate who never leaves. - Home office. Nobody can see you and everything is measured. The green dot is your new boss and it cannot be charmed. Corporate and Startup are included. Consulting and Investment Banking are unlocked together by the Career Pack. Home Office is its own pack. Both are one purchase each, not a subscription, nothing recurring, and either one removes the advertising. THE ONLY SCORE THAT MATTERS Total money earned, divided by hours you actually worked. Retire at the top of a ladder having been paid for years and worked for weeks, and the number on your record board will say so. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account and no sign-in. Your careers are saved on your device and nothing about them leaves it. It does show advertising, which Google's ad kit loads over the network, and either pack removes it. Minimum Effort is a work of satire. The offices, the colleagues and the careers are invented, and nothing in it is advice about a real job. Recommendations for our other apps load online. Their views and taps are counted as daily totals, without personal profiles or user/device identifiers. See our privacy policy.

Screenshots

GOATINHO Gridiron4 screens
Minimum Effort4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GOATINHO Gridiron at every 2 weeks against Minimum Effort's every 3 weeks. GOATINHO Gridiron also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. GOATINHO Gridiron sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Minimum Effort sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GOATINHO Gridiron ships an update every 2 weeks, Minimum Effort every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
GOATINHO Gridiron versus Minimum Effort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGOATINHO GridironMinimum Effort
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkadir ozdenLevin David Schwab

In-app purchases

1 purchases

GOATINHO Gridiron

One-time1
  • goatinho gridiron pro$3.99
2 purchases

Minimum Effort

One-time2
  • Home Office Pack$3.99
  • Career Pack$3.99

Questions

Is GOATINHO Gridiron free?
GOATINHO Gridiron is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Minimum Effort free?
Minimum Effort is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GOATINHO Gridiron or Minimum Effort have ads?
Both GOATINHO Gridiron and Minimum Effort show ads.
Which is updated more often, GOATINHO Gridiron or Minimum Effort?
GOATINHO Gridiron ships an update every 2 weeks, and Minimum Effort every 3 weeks. Most recently, GOATINHO Gridiron was updated on October 29, 2026 and Minimum Effort on October 31, 2026.

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