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About the game

CRE Tycoon is a free browser game about commercial real estate. You start as a rookie broker with $100,000 and play a 10-year career one month at a time: you open your own firm, win listings, find buildings for clients, collect commission cheques, then buy buildings of your own, run them up, refinance them and sell them for the windfall, racing rival investors to be #1 in the city. It is built for a phone: play a few months at a time, and it plays on a desktop too. It is made by HulaGames, an independent game studio in San Diego, and was designed by a real estate professional with a background in property management and commercial brokerage.

Fact sheet

Title
CRE Tycoon
Genre
Business simulation / tycoon, about commercial real estate
Platform
Web browser, on phone and desktop. No download or install.
Price
Free. No ads, no in-game purchases.
Career length
120 months (10 years), played at your own pace
Buildings
275
Districts
4: Downtown South, Midtown, Port District, Uptown
Ranks
14, from Rookie to City Legend
Starting cash
$100,000
Saves
On the player's device; sign-in is optional and only for the global leaderboard
Developer
HulaGames, San Diego, California
Play
play.cretycoon.com
Contact
hulagames.com/contact

Features

  • A 10-year career of 120 months, starting with naming your own firm, and a race against rival investors to be #1 in the city.
  • Two ways to earn: commission cheques as a broker, and rent, refinances and sales as an owner.
  • 275 buildings in 4 districts, across multifamily, retail, office and industrial, including 21 landmarks.
  • Real deal steps: an offer ladder for clients, a Deal Sheet that shows what you put in and what you get back, loans from a bank, hard money or private lenders, escrow that can fail, refinancing and selling.
  • Business plans as a ladder from Fix-Up to Redevelop, and 6 upgrade tracks per building that open as you go.
  • A market that moves: loan rates change, districts rise and fall, and rival investors buy the bargains you pass up.
  • Prospecting as quick games of chance: scratch-off tickets and a slot machine, with premium leads and the odd whale.
  • 14 ranks from Rookie to City Legend, each with a full-screen promotion; features earned by doing arrive as unlock cards.
  • Career paths with Bronze, Silver, Gold and Osmium crests, a team to hire, trophies and missions.
  • Big moments worth sharing: the Skyline Herald front page, the keys, sale cheques, and a yearly Wrapped.
  • An optional global leaderboard. Everything else works without an account.

Screenshots

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Phone screen: a commission cheque made out to the player, stamped PAID.
A commission cheque
Phone screen: the Open your firm screen, with the player's name and firm filled in and the firm's sign lettered above.
Open your firm
Phone screen: a cold call played as a scratch-off ticket on the Pipeline tab, revealing a premium lead.
Prospecting: cold calls
Phone screen: a buyer client's offer choices, Lowball, Fair and Full ask, each with its odds and commission.
The offer ladder
Phone screen: the Deal Sheet for a building: what you put in, what it pays you a month, the seller's likely answer and the loan choices.
The Deal Sheet
Phone screen: the keys to a newly bought building, handed over at month end.
The keys
Phone screen: a building's page with the hold-or-sell line, the business plan ladder, and the current plan's stage and steps.
Running a building
Phone screen: a building's upgrade tracks, some paid in actions and some in cash, with one still locked.
Upgrade tracks
Phone screen: the Skyline Herald front page that opens a month-end reveal when the month makes the news.
The Skyline Herald
Phone screen: the promotion stage, with the new rank's crest, nameplate and the new thing it opens.
The promotion stage
Phone screen: a rare unlock card being revealed, with what it opens and why.
An unlock card
Phone screen: a career path level-up, with the new crest and title for an asset type.
Career paths
Phone screen: the team sheet, with staff to hire for more listings and buyer clients.
Your team
Phone screen: a sale cheque for one of the player's buildings, showing the cash banked and the profit.
The sale
Phone screen: the first page of the player's year, wrapped, ready to share.
Year Wrapped
Phone screen: the career-complete screen with the final net worth, the personal best, and buttons to see the career wrapped and share it.
The end of a career
Desktop screen: the Desk with the month's cards and the side rail beside them.
Desktop layout

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Contact

For interviews, review questions or anything not on this page, use the HulaGames contact page. More about who makes the game is on the About page, and recent changes are on What's new.

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