Towerworks

Welcome to Towerworks

Your first tower is run-down and you're already in debt. Grab a mop. Towerworks is a cozy management sim about the buildings you own and every person inside them.

Fix it up

Mop the floors. Fix what's broken. Take a hammer to the old rooms. Shine a torch down the halls to keep trouble away. Floor by floor, it comes back to life.

Build it up

Drag a box over a finished floor and fill it with apartments, offices and shops, or something fancier like a gym or a penthouse. Drag past the roof and new stories go up, crane and hard-hat crew included.

Move them in

The front wall is off, so you see it all. Movers haul boxes up in the lift, the furniture pops into place, and a couple sneaks up to the roof garden for the sunset.

Keep it running

Tenants bring rent. They also bring mess, and every one of them wants the lift in the morning rush. Keep the floors clean and the queues short, or they grumble and pay less.

Hire staff when you can afford it

Until then, you're the cleaner, the handyman and security. When the rent finally covers a wage, your first cleaner starts and you wonder how you ever managed. Add maintenance and security, and send them where they're needed. At night, a guard walks the floors by torchlight.

A manager when you can't keep up

"Technician to floor 1, please." A manager runs it all and calls out every job as it happens. Your first tower can look after itself.

Another tower when you're ready

Zoom out to the town and see what's for sale. Build fresh on an empty plot, or snap up another run-down tower, nurse it back to health and sell it on for a tidy profit. Sometimes a buyer comes knocking first.

Short of cash? The bank will lend you more, for a price.

A town of your own

The light warms into sunset, the windows come on across town, and a rain shower thins out the shoppers.

Easy on the loans

It looks cozy, but the sim can be unforgiving. Borrow too much and the bank starts selling your towers for you, and one sale can set off the next.

Did someone say earthquake? Better get insurance. If you can afford it.