CITY EMPIRE
Real Estate Developer Tycoon
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
The sequel to BUILD EMPIRE - now you are the client. Acquire land, build, lease up and choose when to sell. Ride the rate cycle from small-town realtor to world No.1.
From a small-town realtor to the world's largest real-estate group.
CITY EMPIRE is a turn-based management sim about running a real estate developer - the sequel to BUILD EMPIRE, and this time you hire the contractor. Acquire, build, lease, sell, and climb to No.1 in the world by assets under management.
■ How it plays
1. Acquire - read the seller's situation, negotiate, and buy listings and land
2. Develop - choose what to build, award the job to a contractor, reach completion
3. Operate - fill the space and let rental income build up month after month
4. Exit - sell, hold, or move it into your own fund. Timing the market is the game
■ Features
- Fully turn-based. Nothing moves until you press "Next month".
- One formula drives every price: value = NOI / cap rate. You raise the NOI; the market sets the cap rate.
- Rates and the economy move in cycles. Prices fall as well as rise.
- From a used condo unit to apartments, condos for sale, logistics, hotels and city-center offices, with 6 exterior designs
- Contractors differ in specialty, track record, temperament and quality. Pick lowest-price or best-value bidding.
- Sites have traits: buried obstacles you only find by surveying or digging, deadline handovers, quirky sellers
- Every seller has a situation. Read it and make your offer.
- Borrowing grows up to non-recourse. Four banks, a main bank, credit crunches, and exchange rates that move in phases
- Land tenders, merging lots, land-for-floors exchange, coin parking, rebuilds
- Sell condos unit by unit; fees continue after sell-out
- Property events: move-outs, complaints, change orders. Your answer changes the outcome.
- Typhoons, floods and earthquakes, and insurance to match
- Redevelopment, block development, and beyond No.1: new towns, sea cities and spaceports
- District plans (new stations, universities, international events) move land and rents; rival towers compete
- Old unrenovated buildings look dated, so renovation pays
- Funds and REITs, group companies, overseas, IPO and shares
- M&A by negotiation, with counter-bids. Keep firms as subsidiaries, or buy into other industries.
- A board of directors, labor unions and annual wage talks
- Deposits and key money when tenants sign
- Stage 6: vice-president portfolios, national projects, flagship towers in New York and Singapore
- After No.1, rivals chase you and upstarts surge. How long can you hold the throne?
- ZEB green buildings, staff qualifications, official land prices by place name, and real tax rules
- A monthly report down to depreciation, tax and cash flow, free for all
- Your properties glow vermilion on a city that changes with season and weather
- A world ranking of about 220 companies, plus Game Center. Pay and HR work just as in BUILD EMPIRE.
- Achievements, 3 save slots, iCloud sync. Japanese and English.
- Bulk actions, a goal checklist per stage, and a home screen that shows your next step
■ Pricing
Free to play all the way through, with a banner ad. You can reach Stage 6 and world No.1 without paying.
The one-time Premium (Deep mode) purchase removes ads and opens up finer control over decisions you already make. It does not give better listings or better loans.
- Tenants - rent per unit, condo prices by floor, free rent, countering lease terms, deposit and key-money months, insurance options
- Planning - the B variant of each exterior design
- Management - property managers, contractors, energy retrofits, overseas buyers
- Pay and HR - pay and bonus by grade, benefits design, qualification support
- Banks and stocks - loan negotiations; investing in shares
- Funds - private fund terms; timing and size of REIT offerings
- Listed company - payout ratio, forecasts, shareholders' meeting, takeover defenses
- Group companies - subsidiary pay and dividends
- Overseas - an FX hedge per region
No subscription. One payment, yours for good.
Build your empire.
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Version 1.1 — a major update
■ Beyond world #1
・New STAGE6 ventures: executive vice-president portfolios, national-project tenders, flagship towers in New York and Singapore, and sea and spaceport cities after you reach world #1
・After you reach #1, top rivals chase you, and fast-rising upstarts appear
・You're notified when you lose or retake the #1 spot, and your longest reign is recorded
■ Deeper management
・M&A is now a negotiation. Rivals merge with each other, you can keep acquired firms as subsidiaries, and appoint their presidents
・Board of directors: big decisions go to a vote (you can push them through)
・Cross-industry M&A: buy or ally with general contractors, design firms, trust banks and more (6 industries)
・Labor unions and annual wage talks
・Security deposits and key money (market rates by property type; Premium lets you set the months per property)
■ Properties and the city
・Contractor traits: compare specialties, track records, temperament and quality. Choose lowest-price or best-value bidding, or give a past contractor a negotiated contract
・Property traits: site history and buried obstacles (survey before you build?), seller quirks, deadline handovers
・District events: announced new stations, redevelopments, universities and international events, plus competing supply from rival towers
・Old unrenovated buildings now look dated, so renovation pays off more
・Exchange rates now move in phases and show as "$1 = ¥…". A weak yen draws higher bids from foreign investors
・Choose from 6 exterior designs when planning, plus 200+ new property illustrations
■ Easier to play
・Bulk actions: tenders, seismic retrofits and insurance. Repeated notices in the monthly report are grouped
・A checklist of small goals for each stage
・Celebrations for promotions, reaching #1 and other milestones, and a refreshed look
・Selling the same way over and over now lowers prices, so more paths to victory pay off
Plus many bug fixes and balance adjustments.
The developer, koichi hashimoto, 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
- koichi hashimoto
- Size
- 49.2 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium (Deep mode) $5.99
- Copyright
- © KH.App

