Free simulation and tycoon games

What are simulation and tycoon games

In a tycoon game you run a small business and watch it grow. You decide what to build, what to charge and where to spend the day's coins, and then the day plays out in front of you. Customers arrive, react to what you have made and leave happy or grumpy, and the ledger at the end tells you exactly how it went. The fun is in the small adjustments: a cheaper price, one more bin, a better room for a fussy guest, and a business that slowly gets busier.

The simulation and tycoon games on Kiloo are relaxed. Each one is about a single kind of place, from a lemonade stand to a ski resort, and most show their customers' wishes or thoughts so you can see what they want. They share a shape: twenty goals or milestones to work through, in most of them a ledger or a daily panel of every coin in and out, and an endless Sandbox when you want to build without a goal. There are no waiting timers, and you can pause whenever you like.

Tycoon games to start with

Lemonade Lane is the simplest way in. Each morning you set the lemons, sugar, ice, price and number of jugs, check the forecast, and watch the street walk up and tell you in speech bubbles whether it was too sour, too dear or just right. Plant Nursery is just as gentle: you sow seed trays, keep the benches watered, pot on the seedlings and sell flowers to customers who show a wish in a bubble.

If you like looking after people, Hotel Haven has guests stepping off the bus wanting a sea view, a quiet room or the pool, and you match each one to the right room. Theme Park Planner starts with a path and a carousel and ends with a coaster you lay piece by piece, while you keep the guests fed, rested and smiling. Museum Curator has you bidding at a weekly auction, funding digs for dinosaur bones and theming your halls, and Ski Resort lets you drag lifts up the mountain and pistes back down, graded from green to black.

For something busier, Airport Tower puts you in the control tower: you land each plane, park it at a gate, fuel and board it, and launch it before its departure time. Delivery Depot has you dragging parcels onto vans and picking a route around the traffic, and Movie Studio walks you from pitch and casting to the premiere. Power Grid is the most technical, with cables from turbines, solar farms and a dam to seven towns, and a frequency gauge to keep in the green.

Controls, speed and saving

Every tycoon game here works on desktop, tablet and phone. With a mouse you click or drag: drag a slider in Lemonade Lane, drag parcels onto vans in Delivery Depot, drag a guest onto a room in Hotel Haven, drag lifts and pistes in Ski Resort. On a touch screen you tap and drag in the same way and pinch to zoom where there is a map. The arrow keys and Enter work as an alternative in most of them, P pauses and M mutes.

You can speed the day up when nothing needs you, with F in Lemonade Lane, Theme Park Planner and Museum Curator, the number keys in Hotel Haven and Delivery Depot, or S in Power Grid. Several let you skip straight to the next morning or week. Your business is kept in the browser you play in, so you can close the tab and pick up where you left off on the same device.

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