System Design Tycoon
Simulation
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
System Design Tycoon is a learning game that helps you practise system design by building software architectures for real-world client contracts.
Start as an aspiring system designer and grow your career by accepting client jobs, reading requirements, choosing architecture components, linking them together, and submitting your design for scoring.
Each contract gives you a client request, objectives, budget, difficulty level, and business context. Your job is to design a solution that balances reliability, scalability, security, cost, and simplicity.
Build architectures using components such as users, web servers, app servers, databases, caches, queues, storage, APIs, and other system design building blocks. Connect components to show how traffic and data move through your system.
As you complete contracts, you earn money and experience, unlock harder work, improve your career level, access training, gain certifications, collect achievements, and climb the leaderboard.
System Design Tycoon is designed for learners, developers, students, and anyone who wants to understand how modern systems are designed in a practical and visual way.
Key features:
• Learn system design through gameplay
• Read client contract emails
• Build architecture diagrams
• Link components together
• Submit designs and receive scores
• Balance cost, reliability, scalability, and security
• Unlock career progress, training, and certifications
• Earn achievements and compare progress on the leaderboard
• Use the built-in How to Play guide to get started quickly
Whether you are preparing for interviews, learning backend architecture, or exploring how digital products are built, System Design Tycoon gives you a hands-on way to practise system design decisions.
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This update adds Certification Path Access as a one-time in-app purchase, allowing players to unlock advanced certification training and career Levels 4–10.
It also includes production email verification improvements for registration and password reset, plus minor wording and stability updates.
The developer, Jibrin Sadiq, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Jibrin Sadiq
- Size
- 42.2 MB
- Category
- Simulation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 13.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 13.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Infrequent
Contests
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Certification Path Access $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jibrin Sadiq