Wall Street Tycoon
You start as an intern clicking SIGN on paperwork nobody reads. An hour later the SEC is at your door and you are deciding whether to bribe them. An incremental tycoon about how fast a small amount of money turns into a problem.
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6 itemsAbout the Game
You are an intern
You are an intern. There is a stack of paper and a button that says SIGN. You click it, a few dollars appear, and nobody explains what you signed.
Soon you pay someone else to do the signing and the number moves without you. Everyone knows this part of an idle game. It is not why you are still here in hour two. Eight tiers sit above the intern, ending at a central bank, and each copy costs 1.15 times the last, which is why hour one and hour ten feel like different games.
Hour two
There is a bull. He is the mascot and he is doing better than you. Sunglasses once you cross a million, a cigar at a hundred million, a Rolex at a billion, a crown at a trillion.
Five tickers reprice every four seconds. You are holding a Bitcoin position you keep promising yourself you will close at 90K. You will not. The price wanders between roughly 18K and 133K with pump and dump shocks on top, so the number you wanted was probably three minutes ago.
Then you find the YOLO button. 35% chance it multiplies your cash by eight, 65% chance it takes 30% off the top, fifteen second cooldown. You can do the math. Nobody does.
When the SEC shows up
The suspicion gauge fills as you earn, and much faster if you buy insider tips, which give x10 income for sixty seconds and are obviously, obviously worth it.
Then they raid you, and it becomes a fight. 100 HP each, four moves, honest percentages. Attack hits 90% for 15 to 25, the boring one that works. Charm lands 75%. Lawyers heal 25 at 95%. Bribery is a coin flip for 40 damage and costs 5% of your capital whether it connects or not.
Winner keeps everything. Loser drops 60% of their fortune. Or you reach prestige 5, move to Switzerland, and the SEC cannot reach you at all. I am told this is realistic.
Where it goes
Prestige spends your cash and pays you back in talent points plus a philosophy you keep forever: Wolf, Oracle, Elon, Banker, and they stack. Run that loop ten times and the IPO unlocks, a full reset for $50B, a permanent x10, and a mode called GLOBAL TYCOON.
Downstairs, a casino. Slots, European roulette with 37 sectors, blackjack where the dealer hits 17, six horses paying up to x40. You type your own bet. Sixteen research projects run on a real clock, thirty minutes to six hours, and keep going with the game closed. Nine luxury items (lambo, yacht, jet, island, rocket) change nothing except the view. I built them anyway and they are my favourite part of the game. There is a photo mode. Take him somewhere nice.
About the money
Made by one person in France. Buy it once and it is yours: no ads, no energy timers, no data collection, and it plays fully offline.
No microtransactions. There is a shop, but the only thing in it is bull skins, and you pay for those with money you earned in the game. I had a paid boost pack ready and cut it. A tycoon about greed does not need to reach into your wallet twice.
Six languages, and there is a demo. The Konami code works.
