Comparison

SimCity BuildIt vs RummGo

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

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About

SimCity BuildIt

Design and build a bustling city metropolis, managing resources, citizen happiness, and urban challenges like traffic and pollution. Trade with other players, compete in city wars, and unlock unique landmarks and regional styles to create your dream city.

Highlights
  • Design and build city metropolis
  • Manage citizen happiness and services
  • Solve urban challenges like traffic
  • Trade with other players
  • Compete in Club Wars and contests
  • Unlock landmarks and regional styles
  • Build and customize train networks
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Includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items. Welcome, Mayor, to the city builder and simulator! Be the hero of your very own city metropolis. This is the city-building game to design and create a beautiful, bustling town or metropolis. Every decision is yours as your city simulation grows larger and more intricate. You need to make smart building choices as a city builder to keep your citizens happy and your skyline growing. Then build, trade, chat, compete, and join clubs with fellow city-building Mayors. The city game that lets you build your city, your way! BRING YOUR CITY METROPOLIS TO LIFE Build your metropolis with skyscrapers, parks, bridges, and much more! Place buildings strategically to keep your taxes flowing and your city growing. Solve real-life city-building challenges like traffic and pollution. Provide your town and city services like power plants and police departments. Strategize, build and keep traffic moving with grand avenues and streetcars in this fun city builder and simulator. PUT YOUR IMAGINATION AND CITY ON THE MAP The possibilities are endless in this town and city-building simulator! A worldwide city game, build Tokyo-, London-, or Paris-style neighborhoods, and unlock exclusive city landmarks like the Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty. Make building rewarding and discover new technologies with the Future Cities while getting athletic with sports stadiums to become a pro city builder. Build and decorate your town or city with rivers, lakes, forests, and expand along the beach or mountain slopes. Unlock your city-builder strategies with new geographic regions for your metropolis, such as the Sunny Isles or Frosty Fjords, each with a unique architectural style. The city-building game where there’s always something new and different to make your city simulation unique. BUILD AND BATTLE YOUR WAY TO VICTORY The city-building game that lets you defend your city metropolis against monsters or compete against other mayors in Club Wars. Plot winning city-builder strategies with your Club mates and declare war on other cities. Once the battle simulation is on, unleash crazy disasters like the Disco Twister and Plant Monster on your opponents. Earn valuable rewards to use in battle, in building or to improve your city. In addition, take on other players in the Contest of Mayors, where you can complete weekly challenges and climb the League ranks toward the top of this city game. BUILD A BETTER CITY WITH TRAINS The city-building game to improve as a city builder with unlockable and upgradeable trains. Discover new trains and train stations for your dream metropolis! Build, expand and customize your rail network to fit your unique city simulation. BUILD, CONNECT AND TEAM UP Join a Mayor’s Club to trade city supplies with other members who love and chat about city-building strategies and available resources. Collaborate with other town and city builders to help someone complete their personal vision as well as get support to complete yours. Build big, work together, lead other Mayors, and watch your city simulation come to life in this city-building game and simulator! ___ Important Consumer Information. This app: Requires a persistent Internet connection (network fees may apply). Requires acceptance of EA’s Privacy & Cookie Policy and User Agreement. Includes in-game advertising. Contains direct links to the Internet and social networking sites intended for an audience over 13. The app uses Game Center. Log out of Game Center before installation if you don’t want to share your game play with friends. User Agreement: http://terms.ea.com Privacy and Cookie Policy: http://privacy.ea.com Visit https://help.ea.com/en/ for assistance or inquiries. EA may retire online features after 30 days’ notice posted on www.ea.com/service-updates.

About

RummGo

Experience authentic Indian rummy with a focus on strategic gameplay. Play with friends or strangers, track every round's details, and customize game rules. Offers practice modes and tournaments for varied play.

Highlights
  • Authentic Indian rummy gameplay
  • Detailed round and match recaps
  • Play with friends via codes
  • Play against strangers
  • Practice mode with bots
  • Customizable game rules
  • Scheduled tournaments
Features
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RummGo is Indian rummy — thirteen cards, two sequences, at least one of them pure — built to be played on a phone without being simplified for one. A HAND THAT PLAYS LIKE A HAND Drag cards into groups with a finger. The table never tells you what a card is worth, whether your hand is ready, or which cards are wild — knowing that is the game, and an app that does it for you is playing instead of you. EVERY ROUND IS ACCOUNTED FOR The moment a round ends you see what it cost you and what it cost everybody else, hand by hand. At the end of a match there is a full recap: every round's points, your melds against the table's, who packed and when, and how your rating moved. No round is a number that appears from nowhere. THREE WAYS TO SIT DOWN · Play with friends — a four-digit code to hand out. No accounts to add, no invitations to accept; they type the code and they are at your table. · Play a stranger — take a seat and start. · Practice — three bots, no clock, nothing at stake. Leave mid-hand and come back tomorrow; the table will be where you left it. TOURNAMENTS Scheduled events with a bracket, a check-in, and a table that plays a full match to an outright winner. No shortened games: a hand limit changes how you pack, and a tournament that changes the game is not the game. THE RULES ARE YOURS Pool 100, pool 200, or a points game. Set the turn clock, the time bank, what a pack costs before and after you have acted, how many decks, and whether a player knocked out early can buy back in. Every table says its own rules on the way in. PLAYS ON iPAD The same game, drawn for the screen it is on. No money changes hands anywhere in RummGo. There is nothing to buy, nothing to win but the match, and no way to deposit or withdraw anything.copy

Screenshots

SimCity BuildIt4 screens
RummGo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: RummGo at 100% against SimCity BuildIt's 50%. RummGo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). SimCity BuildIt's advantage is ratings volume (88K vs 1) and chart position (#77 vs unranked). On price 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. SimCity BuildIt sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. RummGo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RummGo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimCity BuildIt has 88K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of SimCity BuildIt's written reviews are positive against 100% of RummGo's.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
SimCity BuildIt versus RummGo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimCity BuildItRummGo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (88K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews49.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings88K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#77 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size350 MB38 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperElectronic ArtsAlec Salzman

Customer experience

SimCity BuildIt

All ratings86,883 ratings
Positive77.2%
Neutral6.9%
Negative15.9%
Written reviews11,106 reviews
Positive49.5%
Neutral9.9%
Negative40.6%

RummGo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

SimCity BuildIt

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Cars phasing through trains
  • Inconsistent traffic patterns
  • Disappearing delivery trucks
  • Frequent crashes and connection issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add city layout editor
  • Allow raising/lowering train tracks
  • Improve free-to-play experience
  • Introduce search function for trade depot
  • Add option to disable construction bubbles

RummGo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

SimCity BuildIt

One-time10
  • Small Daily SimCash$0.99
  • Pocketful of SimCash 3$1.99
  • Premium Vu Pass Level I$2.99
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  • Pocketful of SimCash$4.99
  • Premium Vu Pass Level II$5.99
  • Premium Mayor's Pass +$8.99
  • Little Stack of SimCash$9.99
  • Nice Pile of SimCash$19.99
  • Briefcase of SimCash$34.99
  • Big Sack of SimCash$49.99
None

RummGo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SimCity BuildIt free?
SimCity BuildIt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RummGo free?
RummGo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SimCity BuildIt or RummGo?
RummGo is rated higher. SimCity BuildIt averages 4.1 out of 5 from 88K ratings, while RummGo averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do SimCity BuildIt or RummGo have ads?
SimCity BuildIt shows ads; RummGo does not.

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