Start $1M in the red and claw your way from broke to boss! Upgrade your mining gear through 100 levels, unlock 11 metals, and rise from Coal to Platinum.
Six figures underwater and the phone won't stop buzzing. That's day one. Broke to Boss: Idle Tycoon drops you at -$1,000,000 and dares you to dig out, one ore chunk, one job, one business at a time.
Most idle tycoons start you at zero and let you build up. This one starts you in the hole. Every tap, every job payout, every dollar you route into a business is a step back from the edge, and the game never lets you forget how close you came to losing everything: partner, kids, parents, friends, house, car. Win them all back as your balance climbs.
WHAT YOU DO
Tap the mining refinery to turn ore into cash. Run timed jobs for steady payouts. Draw opportunity cards for one-off contracts. Buy and upgrade businesses that earn while you sleep. Trade stocks, hire a manager, and watch the panic-red debt screen turn into a dense, glowing portfolio.
KEY FEATURES
- Mining Refinery: a physics-based tap chamber where ore splits and funnels into real cash
- 5 Repeatable Jobs: timed work loops with payouts, XP, and bonus reward cards
- Opportunity Deck: rotating one-off contracts unique to each of 34 districts
- 124 Businesses: from parking crews and food stands to freight yards and finance floors
- 30 Parody Stocks: buy low, sell high, or let your manager trade small positions for you
- 315 Status Collectibles: 105 cars, 105 properties, 105 paintings to unlock and flex
- Life Quest: win back your partner, kids, parents, friends, house, and car
- Crisis Events: three-choice modals that test your cash and your reputation
- Manager Automation: hire someone to run your loops and trade stocks while you're away
- Rewarded Boosts: double payouts, ore boosts, cooldown clears, and bill shields
PROGRESSION THAT ACTUALLY MEANS SOMETHING
Cross six debt milestones from -$950K down to $0, then keep going. Unlock 34 districts, from Stabilize and the Streets all the way to Legacy Network, as your net worth climbs from negative six figures to hundreds of trillions. Reputation compounds your income. Every business has its own upgrade path. Nothing here is filler.
Broke to Boss is built for players who want their idle game to have real stakes: a starting number that hurts, a debt clock that keeps ticking, and a payoff that actually feels earned. No forced ads with VIP Pass. No pretending the climb was easy.
The debt doesn't idle.
Neither should you.
Start broke.
Finish as the boss!
I’ve been playing for around 2 days and almost completed the businesses section but cannot progress any further as the stocks have to be purchased 1 by 1 making them basically obsolete as the most expensive stocks costing around £1000 it would take me years of tapping to get anything helpful. Also add a pay off loan button, try smooth out the lag cos I’m playing in iPhone 15pro and it’s lagging… and also add button that scrolls to the nearest business yoy haven’t max upgraded yet because the business list is very big
Needs work
sam112245
The disaster incoming tab happens way too often and costs way too much it shouldn’t cost 4 million to pay for a school trip or help family out and it’s sets your progress back way too far. If you haven’t watched an ad in a few minutes one is just forced onto you which is incredibly annoying and will eventually effect game retention with people downloading it getting an ad forced on them and then deleting it, ads should be a voluntary watch like if they want to top their money up slightly proportional to their daily earnings. Instead the creator should play around with tax where you pay it yourself and it’s not forced onto you instead it should be you should pay your tax or your income stops or watch an ad to avoid paying it. There’s lots of ways to improve this game this review is just a couple big hints if this stuff doesn’t change soon I will be uninstalling it.
Developer Response
Thanks for the detailed feedback. I understand how disaster costs and forced ads can make progress feel unfair. I’m reviewing the balance around events, income, and ad frequency carefully. Your tax idea is helpful too. Miguel
Needs work
KyleAird
Takes far too long to scroll through all the menus. Get rid of the mining mechanic, serves 0 purpose.Make sure that the manual businesses menu is static, on the swiping tasks i tend to always end up swiping up or down through the menu. Perks, missions, rewards, work cards should be their own menu rather than in the work menu.Bad news events shouldn’t scale as badly as they do.The “Biz” menu should have two sub-menus for owned and um-owned as well as allowing you to filter for un purchased upgrades so that i don’t have to scroll past 50 fully upgraded businesses to find one that isn’t upgraded.Also, business upgrades shouldn’t scale operations cost with income you can pour hundreds of thousands into a business for the earnings to cost ratio still to be 1:2. Would also be cool to see a dividend mechanic where owning stocks produces a very small amount of passive income.Also add a button to pay off a loan, i’m currently paying like 1K a day for a $1 loan that i can’t use, so a button to pay it off would be good
Developer Response
Hi KyleAird, thanks for the detailed feedback. I hear your concerns about menu scrolling, swipe conflicts, business filters, upgrade balance, events, mining, loans, and dividends. This is very helpful for improving the game. Miguel
Lagging
MIDNIIGHTTT
The concept of the game is really good, I enjoy it. But it really needs a good update to remove the lag because it makes it nearly unplayable
Developer Response
Thanks for enjoying the concept. I’m sorry the lag is making it hard to play. Please contact b2b-support@infinitygames.io with your device details so we can investigate it properly. Miguel
Build a mining empire from Coal to Platinum!
Mining has a whole new upgrade path, with more progression and rewards to chase.
• Upgrade your gear through 100 levels
• Unlock 11 metals, from Coal and Iron to Gold and Platinum
• Discover larger ore as your mining gear matures
• Buy and sell stocks in bulk with a new quantity picker
• Jump from comeback alerts straight to ready chests, rewards and business opportunities
Fixes: Honest Work progression, smoother mining audio, clearer balance and leaderboard displays, improved route scrolling and better layouts across more phone sizes.
Update now and dig your way to the top!
Version 1.7.2
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Provider
INFINITY GAMES, LDA
Size
171.8 MB
Category
Simulation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
