Comparison

StateFlo vs Paper Skin

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

Head to head
About

StateFlo

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

Highlights
  • Economic simulation with dynamic tax and interest rates
  • Manage twelve distinct ministries with competing needs
  • Develop regions and cities with infrastructure projects
  • Combat corruption with various enforcement options
  • Engage in international diplomacy and trade
  • Build businesses and trade on a stock exchange
  • Player-to-player custom vehicle plate market
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.

About

Paper Skin

Features
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There’s a paper token on the desk. You drag back, let go, and it does whatever physics feels like doing that throw. Rulers send it off at a stupid angle. Cups eat it. Fans shove it. Sticky notes slow it down right when you thought you had it. The target is usually right there, which somehow makes it worse. I’m the guy in the corner. I’ll look proud when it lands and a bit crushed when it doesn’t. That’s the whole bit. Studio Desk is the warmup. Creative Desk brings the fan and the eraser. Neon Desk cuts your flicks and starts moving the furniture. 24 levels, all in the app, no account, nothing to sign up for. If you finish that and still want a later shift, Night Desk is eight more layouts. One unlock. The free campaign doesn’t hide levels behind it. Stars are for clean throws. Replay if you want them. Or don’t. The token isn’t going anywhere.

Screenshots

StateFlo4 screens
Paper Skin4 screens

Verdict

The call

StateFlo and Paper Skin are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. StateFlo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Paper Skin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
StateFlo versus Paper Skin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStateFloPaper Skin
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB55 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperYuliia ShkurleiRONALD LERCHE

In-app purchases

2 purchases

StateFlo

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

Paper Skin

One-time1
  • Night Desk$2.99

Questions

Is StateFlo free?
StateFlo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paper Skin free?
Paper Skin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StateFlo or Paper Skin have ads?
Neither StateFlo nor Paper Skin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StateFlo or Paper Skin?
StateFlo ships an update every 2 days, and Paper Skin every 2 days. Most recently, StateFlo was updated on October 26, 2026 and Paper Skin on October 26, 2026.

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