Property Tycoon: Skyline

You start with $150,000 and a desk at home. On the edge of town there is a tired little house nobody wants. Buy it, fix it up, and decide: rent it out, or sell it and do it again.

Property Tycoon is a business simulation in the spirit of the classic dev-studio tycoons, set in real estate. Grow from one house to a development firm, then to a corporate headquarters with your name on the skyline.

The home-office years are free to play. One in-app purchase, the full game, unlocks the storefront agency, the development firm, the corporate HQ and everything they open.

A STORY WITH A RIVAL
Harbor City. In 1979 Dot Marchetti built the tired little houses on the edge of town; in the '92 bust the bank took her company. Now she is 71, retired and not finished. She points you at the worst house on a decent street, one she built, and declares your kitchen table head office. Escrow the cat is the board. Across town Sterling Castellane, who owns half the skyline, tells the Harbor Ledger there is no room left for small builders. Chapter One, The Kitchen Table, is free: from one tired house to the edge of a real agency on Dot's old corner. So is the Kitchen Table League after it: Sterling's branch across the road and the Harbor Cup against it. Chapters Two to Four, up to the Skyline Commission, come with the full game. Pick Story or Sandbox when you start a company: Sandbox is the same city and economy with no cards or characters.

FLIP AND RENT
Buy homes on a living isometric city map. Every home has a condition, a quality and a market rent. Renovate to lift both, set each building's rent against the market, and watch tenants move in, pay and move out. Or list the place for sale and move on to the next one.

BUILD LIKE A DEVELOPER
Choose from ten blueprints, from single-family houses to skyscrapers and mixed-use towers with shops, offices and homes stacked floor by floor. Houses and duplexes are part of the free game; townhouses, apartment blocks and towers come with the full game. Pick the target market, split the effort across structure, interiors, amenities and efficiency, and choose the crew. When the scaffolding comes down, the market grades your building from 1 to 10 and tells you what buyers loved.

HIRE A TEAM
Architects, engineers, site managers, brokers, property managers and analysts. Idle staff generate research, busy staff level up, and overworked staff lose morale.

RESEARCH 39 UPGRADES
Unlock bigger renovations, new building types, auctions, better loans and more in the Research Lab. Commercial leasing, investors and every building past the duplex come with the full game.

WIN AUCTIONS
Bid against hidden rivals for bank sales, often below market value. Put down a deposit, watch the bids climb, and decide how far you will go.

SURVIVE THE MARKET
Booms and busts move demand and prices. Rates shift, storms damage buildings, and a celebrity tenant can make your name. Keep cash above zero: after a month in the red the creditors sell what covers the debt, and the bank restructures only once.

GROW UP
Level up from Newcomer to Legend, earn dozens of achievements (14 in Sandbox, 37 with the story, some of them in the full game's chapters), and move from a home office to a storefront agency, a development firm and a corporate HQ (full game). Three difficulty levels, a built-in advisor and a how-to-play guide.

The home-office years are free to play: buy, renovate, flip, rent, bid, hire your first employee, research and build houses and duplexes. One purchase unlocks the agency, the firm, the HQ and every building type, forever. No ads, no timers, no accounts, and the game plays offline. Your game stays on your phone.