Rip Them Off is a minimalistic new puzzle game of economic management and tower defense.
The Board needs its profit, and it’s up to you to line the streets with shops the masses can’t resist. Choose your locations, pick your stores and earn enough to advance up the corporate ladder with its increasingly difficult challenges!
-- PRESS --
• Pocket Gamer's Top 25 best tower defense games for iPhone and iPad
• "With a gorgeous visual aesthetic, a jazzy soundtrack, and smart puzzle-play, it's hard to find too much fault with Rip Them Off" - Pocket Tactics
• "With a minimalist 1960s art style, a capitalist-sceptic theme, and jazzy soundtrack it’s got style" - Metro.co.uk
• "Rip Them Off features a beautiful, minimalistic aesthetic” - The Gamer
• "Coupled with the lovely 1950s aesthetic it's definitely a game worth keeping an eye on.” - Pocket Gamer
-- AWARDS --
• “Pocket Gamer Awards 2021” Finalist for the most innovative game
• "TIGA Games Industry Awards 2020" Finalist for best puzzle game, best strategy game & game of the year
• "GDC Summer 2020" Artwork selected at GDC Artists gallery
--- Message from the Board: ---
Welcome [New Hire Name Here]. We’re proud¹ to have you as the newest member² of our [Product Name Here] sales team. Here at [Subsidiary Company Name Here] we’re passionately committed to [Vague Passionate Commitment Here] and we know you are too³.
Here at [Company Name] we’re all about giving the people what they want, and what they want is [Product Name] (the ad boys have seen to that!⁴).
As a valuable member of our [Company] family⁵ this is where you come in.
¹ Any assertion of pride is purely performative and does not reflect the Board’s opinion of individual employees
² Unless otherwise stated new employees shall be referred to as “Office Drone”
³ Please see Standard Employee Contract section 11b Subsection 12: “Your New Personal Opinions”
⁴ Any suggestion of consumer manipulation by [Company Name] advertising practices is purely hypothetical
⁵ [Company Name] is a registered corporation and not a familial unit. Please see Employee Contract section 154a, “Knowing Your {Lack Of} Rights”
-- Choose
Maximising profit and satisfying the board will require planning. In each city, utilise suspiciously* empty locations and create an inescapable maze of retail opportunities the masses simply won’t be able to refuse!
*not suspicious at all
-- Spend
Those stores aren’t gonna build themselves*! Make sure to prioritise your earning potential by managing your budget: buy the right stores in the right locations at the right price.
*Self-building stores coming in [Unobtainable Release Date Here]!
-- Earn
Once you build it, they will come. And keep coming! But it’ll take more than one location to satisfy the Board’s exponential profiteering*. Combine locations and store types to really take them for all they’re worth and open up exciting new opportunities around the world!
*Year on year growth is currently set at a more-than-reasonable 3015%
--- FEATURES ---
- An innovative new type of game: Combining puzzle mechanics with tower defence games, Rip Them Off is a new breed of challenge, easy to pick up but hard to master.
- Gorgeous design: Evoke your inner Mad Man with 1950s inspired music and graphics.
- Addictive gameplay: Each new city provides an increasingly devilish challenge. Can you make it all the way to the biggest metropoles?
- Challenge your friends: Who’s the best rip off merchant? Compete against your friends and/or rivals with the leaderboard feature to find out who comes out on top.
- Map of the Moment: Hone your capitalistic edge post-launch with Map of the Moment, showcasing revamped versions of your favourite maps with fun modifiers to keep you on your toes.
- Go fast or slow: Control the flow of time to make sure your strategies unfold with perfection.
- iCloud sync
Choose your location, choose your stores, give the people what they want. And of course, don’t forget to…
RIP
THEM
OFF
Game directions are minimal, which is maybe the intention? It’s very vague how to succeed other than trial and error. There is a lot of data to analyze but it’s presented poorly and up to the player to figure out how to advantage it. Trial and error seems to work just as well. The main advice I have for the creators is KILL THE INTRO. Having to wait through what seems like eons for the game to load is ridiculous when it’s such a simple game, it shouldn’t need that much time. Also, the game reset several times and I had to replay the tutorial (super slow and annoying) and the first couple levels multiple times.I was drawn in by the idea but so far have been disappointed by the execution. The Board is interviewing new programmers!
Update: Does not load, constant crash
Flyinjack
2018 iPad Pro will not load. Crashes at launch.Deleted old version. New version installed and working. I’ll update after having some time with the game.
Developer Response
Update: Glad to know it's working for you now!Initial answer: Sorry to read you're having a problem launching the game. Can you please send us an email at support@lozange-lab.com with your configuration (iOS version) and what is displayed when the crash occur. Can you also please try with the latest version? Thank you.
A clever tower defense game
AnnoyedButNotHungry
This is a stylistic tower defense-style game with humorous writing and jazzy music. You build stores to attract shoppers with the goal to make them spend all their money before leaving town. It seems simple enough, but many maps take careful planning and/or desperate trial & error. Sometimes a few small tweaks will put you over the “win” threshold, but other times you have to go back to the drawing board and start from scratch. They have built-in tips to help you figure it out, but it’s more fun to try and figure it out on your own. Excellent game, check it out!
Developer Response
Thank you for your review. Glad you like it! :-)
Great time management puzzle game
Suivette
Almost a minimalist puzzle with funny writing text and a learning curve. Once you figure out the pace of the “Dupes” and the capacity and speed of the stores, you got it!
- Whether you say ‘color’ or ‘colour’ we’ve got you covered: you can now choose between UK English and US English.
- Unity engine vulnerability has been patched for improved security.
Version 1.6.7
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