kdice vs Silicon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
kdice
Engage in a Risk-like multiplayer strategy game with quick 5-10 minute matches or multi-game tournaments. Compete monthly for the highest score in this dice-based strategy challenge.
- Risk-like strategy gameplay
- Monthly high score competition
- Quick 5-10 minute matches
- Hourly multi-game tournaments
- Multiplayer strategy
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Join kdice, a monthly competition where you play a Risk like strategy game (based on Dicewars). Players compete for the highest score before the month ends. Play the simple 5-10 minute multiplayer games or one of the hourly multi-game tournaments.
Silicon
Build a tech empire from a garage to a global scale by designing, manufacturing, and selling innovative devices. Compete with rivals, manage your factory, and research new technologies to dominate the market. This premium simulation game offers deep customization and strategic gameplay.
- Design custom tech products
- Build and manage a 3D factory
- Time market launches and trends
- Compete with AI rivals
- Play the stock market
- Research new technologies
- Build and manage a team
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Build a tech company from a one-room garage to a global empire — one device at a time. Silicon is a premium business simulation and tycoon game. You don't just watch numbers tick — you DESIGN the products, BUILD the factory that makes them, and RUN the company that sells them. Found a startup, ship something great, crush your rivals, take it public, and rule the industry. DESIGN EVERY DEVICE Customize phones, tablets, laptops, consoles, monitors and AR glasses from the inside out — chip, display, battery, materials, camera array, finish and color — and watch each one render live in a crisp vector preview. Every choice moves your cost, your margin, and how the market reacts. Form matters too: a striking design sells. BUILD A REAL FACTORY Factory Mode is a living 3D production line you build yourself. Lay conveyor belts, place and upgrade machines, and wire the floor so it builds faster — each device needs the right machines (a phone wants a screen bonder, a laptop a chassis mill). Decorate with props and painted walls, expand the building, and take Side Order commissions to keep the line busy between launches. TIME THE MARKET Consumer taste shifts week by week. Read the trend, price it right, pick the campaign that fits your budget, and find your launch window. The game always tells you WHY a product won or flopped — so every launch teaches you something. MAKE ENEMIES Race a dozen fictional rivals up the live industry leaderboard. One becomes your arch-rival — a living nemesis you clash with again and again. When a rival strikes your category, duel their device head-to-head and answer back. Every year the Silicon Awards judge every launch across Device of the Year, Design and Value — sweep the ceremony or build a grudge. PLAY THE MARKET Trade rival shares, buy a board seat for insider intel, take a controlling stake for a discounted hostile takeover, or acquire a rival outright to absorb its brand, fans and patents. Then take your own company public and beat Wall Street's quarterly earnings expectations. GO GLOBAL License new regions — each with its own taste and market size — then weather regional events: booms to ride, tariffs to answer, and rival surges to defend your standing. RESEARCH THE FRONTIER Develop a deep tech tree over time on a live progress ring — queue your next breakthroughs, commit to research doctrines that give your products identity, and chase Eureka flashes of insight for a jackpot. BUILD A TEAM AND HQ Hire engineers, designers and marketers — each with a specialty, a trait and a mood that moves their output. Senior staff grow into mentors and masters. Watch your real-time 3D headquarters fill with life from garage to campus. FREE TO PLAY. NO DARK PATTERNS. No ads. No timers. No energy. No currencies. No loot boxes. Design devices, read the market and grow your company through the Garage and Growth eras for free, with a fresh seeded challenge every day, fully offline. SILICON PRO An optional subscription opens the rest of the industry: the Platform and AI eras, every scenario, New Game+ and Ascension, the Platform Division, Creative Mode, the Vault and the Device Museum, and the Time Machine that rewinds your company to any of the last five quarters. Monthly or yearly with a free trial, or buy it once with Pro Lifetime. Nothing you can buy changes the simulation in your favour. Found your company. Ship something great. Run the industry. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wrexist.github.io/Silicon-Tech-Tycoon/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: kdice at 75% against Silicon's 0%. kdice also leads on rating (3.5 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Silicon's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 months). On price, ads, 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. kdice sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Silicon sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
kdice holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of kdice's written reviews are positive against 0% of Silicon's.
kdice ships an update every 6 months, Silicon every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | kdice | Silicon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (6 ratings) — better | 2.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Dewsbury | Isac Molin |
Customer experience
kdice
Silicon
In-app purchases
kdice
- 2,500$4.99
Silicon
- Silicon Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Silicon Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Creative Mode$2.99
- Silicon Pro Lifetime$29.99









