CEO Simulator vs CEO Tycoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CEO Simulator
Experience the thrilling journey of building a startup from the ground up. Make critical decisions about hiring, product development, and funding, facing challenges like investor negotiations and corporate rivalry. Every choice impacts your company's future in this interactive business simulation.
- Interactive story-driven decisions
- Startup business management
- Investor negotiation
- Team hiring and management
- Corporate rivalry simulation
- Branching narrative paths
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You spent three years at Titan building someone else's ideas. Then you pitched one of your own, and your boss killed it in a conference room. So you quit, maxed out three credit cards, and started a company in your mother's garage. Eleven months later, Titan walked onto a stadium stage with your slides. CEO is an interactive story where every decision costs money and every dollar has to come from somewhere. Choose where your company lives, who you hire, what you build and what you charge for it. Read resumes, negotiate salaries, and hand work to your team in a living office that grows as you do. Pick your investors carefully, because the fine print on a term sheet can take the company away from you two chapters later. The story follows the real arc of a startup. Launch a beta with a hundred thousand dollars and an old laptop. Put a price on the door and watch your first payday land, or not. Take the seed money and read what you gave up for it. Get sued by Titan, hire a lawyer you can afford, and take the stand in a federal courtroom where every word is on the record. Testify before the Senate. Raise a Series A and find out what it means to own less than half of something you built. Survive the free copycat, the poaching calls, the merger offer and the live television interview opposite the man who stole your idea. Then come the scandal, the boardroom fight for your job, a factory on the other side of the world, and the last decision: go public, sell to Titan, or stay private. Your choices carry forward. The data you trained on in the garage decides whether the publishers come for you. The investor you took decides who tries to fire you. The engineer you hired decides who Titan tries to hire away. Nothing is a fail screen, but everything is remembered. Between the decisions, the company keeps running. Users sign up, revenue comes in, rent and payroll go out, and when the balance can't cover the month, the team gets paid before the story moves on. Timers mark the work that takes time, from the first training run to the migration that moves the whole company onto new machines. A cast with its own agendas: a former CFO who tells you when you're making a mistake, a reporter who calls when things go wrong, a judge who has read the internet's opinion of your model, and a rival who says your name on stage in front of forty thousand people. Nine chapters, from the garage to the stock exchange. CEO Club is an optional subscription that removes waits and ads, adds ten percent to your revenue and new users, and pays you daily cash. It is not required to finish the story. Terms of Use: https://moreclues.com/terms
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 rating: CEO Tycoon at 5.0 against CEO Simulator's 4.5. CEO Tycoon also leads on ads (none vs shown). CEO Simulator's advantage is ratings volume (157 vs 1) and chart position (#142 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. CEO Simulator sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and CEO Tycoon sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CEO Tycoon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CEO Simulator has 157 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CEO Simulator ships an update every 5 days, CEO Tycoon weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CEO Simulator | CEO Tycoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (157 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 3.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 157 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #142 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 349 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | More Clues LLC | Rummenige Baron |
Customer experience
CEO Simulator
CEO Tycoon
In-app purchases
CEO Simulator
- CEO Club Weekly$4.997 Days
- Succession$4.997 Days
- CEO Club Yearly$39.991 Year
- Petty Cash$2.99
- Angel Check$4.99
- Bridge Round$9.99
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- Growth Fund$19.99
- Founder's Vault$29.99
- Board Bonus$29.99
- Golden Parachute$49.99
CEO Tycoon
- Golden Parachute$0.99
- New Hires$2.99
- Back Office$3.99
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- Front Office$3.99
- Hollywood Studio$4.99
- Fashion House$4.99
- Sports Franchise$4.99
- Crypto Exchange$4.99
- Members Only Office$6.99
- All Industries$12.99









