Bit City vs Builderment
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bit City
Develop a small town into a bustling metropolis in this idle city-building simulation. Earn profits, invest in upgrades, and unlock new buildings and vehicles to expand your urban landscape. Customize your city with famous landmarks.
- City building simulation
- Idle gameplay
- Profit collection
- Upgrade investments
- Unlock new buildings
- Vehicle collection
- Landmark customization
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Build your own Bit City! Start from a tiny town and grow to a thriving metropolis in this city building idle game from the creators of Tiny Tower. Collect profits and invest in upgrades that keep your city growing. Fill your city with new types of cars, planes and ships. Unlock cool new buildings, including famous landmarks to customize the look of your city. What are you waiting for? Start building YOUR own Bit City now!
Builderment
Build and automate complex production lines on an alien planet. Harvest resources, craft items, and research new technologies to send goods back to Earth. Expand your factories and optimize your resource extraction.
- Build factories on a massive scale
- Automate item crafting
- Use conveyor belts for transport
- Research new technologies
- Harvest diverse resources
- Expand production lines
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Builderment is a factory building game at heart. It’s all about crafting and automation. You start by harvesting resources and crafting items in factories. Use those crafted items to research new technology and recipes to craft ever more complex items. Earth has run out of resources... You have been sent to a distant planet to extract its infinite resources and craft items to send back to Earth. You'll need to establish a base on this planet to build factories and production lines to automate the assembly of items. Features * Build factories on a massive scale * Use conveyor belts to transport items between factories * Craft dozens of unique items * Research technology to build more advanced buildings * Expand to harvest every resource on the map
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Verdict
Bit City and Builderment both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 87% of Builderment's written reviews are positive against 79% of Bit City's. Builderment also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Bit City sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Builderment sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Bit City against 4.6 for Builderment. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8.5K and 3.3K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Bit City's written reviews are positive against 87% of Builderment's.
Bit City ships an update every 2 months, Builderment every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Bit City | Builderment |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8.5K ratings) | 4.6 (3.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.8% of reviews | 87.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.5K — better | 3.3K |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 288 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NimbleBit LLC | Builderment LLC |
Customer experience
Bit City
Builderment
User reviews
Bit City
From 8.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to play
- 🚀 Addictive gameplay
- 💎 Great for casual time-wasting
- 🎨 Charming pixel art style
Room to improve
- 🕰️ Slow progression and repetitive gameplay
- 🔀 Inability to rotate buildings
- 🤑 Expensive special buildings
- 🤔 Prestige feature not as beneficial as expected
Builderment
From 3.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Addictive and engaging gameplay
- 👍 No ads or pay-to-win mechanics
- 🚀 Smooth performance and optimization
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- 🚀 Efficient conveyor belt and resource management
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- ⏱️ Slow progression and research times
- 🔌 Game stops when app is closed
- 🧠 Lack of end-game content and replayability
Bugs and requests
Bit City
Reported bugs
3 issues- Prestige feature not working as intended
- Occasional crashes and progress loss
- Ads sometimes freeze the app
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to rotate buildings
- Option to choose building types
- Ability to visit and upgrade past cities
- More city themes and building variety
- Collect all vehicle earnings at once
Builderment
Reported bugs
3 issues- Disappearing resources when moving storage
- Conveyor belt pathing issues and clipping
- Inconsistent resource production rates
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to run the game in the background
- Multiple research labs for parallel progression
- More varied and customizable map layouts
- Conveyor belt color-coding or labeling
- Overflow and smart splitter mechanics
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- Prestige mode or new game+ options
In-app purchases
Bit City
- Pension Pig$2.99
- Stack of Bux$4.99
- Infinite Double Time$4.99
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- Bag of Bux$9.99
- Vault of Bux$19.99
Builderment
- Pile of Gems$2.99
- Pile of Gems$4.99
- Bunch of Gems$6.99
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- Bunch of Gems$9.99
- Sack of Gems2 variants$19.99
- Advanced World Settings$19.99
- Chest of Gems$29.99
- Chest of Gems$39.99
- Vault of Gems$79.99
