Build a lobby on the ground floor, then place offices or condos above. Give tenants a way up with stairs or an elevator. Rent, visits, and tips fill your coffers nightly.
Reach population milestones (300, 1000, 3000, 5000) to promote your tower. Each star tier unlocks new unit types and perks: 2★ save/load + -20% elevators; 3★ insurance; 4★ renovation + bonus car; 5★ prestige / cathedrals.
· Weather and seasons affect foot traffic. Storms crush visits, holidays (like Spring Festival) spike them.
· Events strike randomly: fires, outages, market swings. Fire stations and insurance soften the blow.
· Security units prevent nighttime crime losses within their coverage radius.
· Gardens, gyms, spas, parking boost satisfaction of nearby rentable units.
· Unit upgrades (click Identify) raise a unit to L2/L3 for +25%/+50% income.
· Loans (2★+) bridge cash crunches at 0.2%/day interest, up to $500k × stars.
· Quests reward objectives with bonus cash.
Space pause · 1/3/9 speed · Esc cancel · G jump to ground · T jump to top · M mini-map · Q quests · I this help · Ctrl-S/Ctrl-L save/load
Tower is a high-rise operations simulator. Design and run a 27-floor mixed-use tower: residential, commercial, services, mechanicals. Manage tenant satisfaction, elevator throughput, fire safety, and renovation cycles across 24 achievement-tracked challenges. The Tower.html prototype runs ~5,100 lines and is being packaged as a $2.99 Steam release ("SKYSTACK").
Place rooms on each of 27 floors — residential pays rent, commercial pays higher but needs foot traffic, services (laundry, gym, etc.) keep tenants happy. Elevators connect floors but must be sized to demand. Fire and renovation events test long-term planning.
Spiritually similar (both 27-floor high-rises) but original design and code. SimTower (1994) is the genre granddaddy.
Specific tenants whose requests drive choice events. Doing the right thing for them unlocks reputation; the wrong thing accelerates churn. Adds narrative depth on top of the systems sim.
SimTower used 100; Tower trims to 27 to keep the simulation tractable and focus on layout decisions per floor. The first 10 floors are typically commercial, mid-floors residential, top floors premium.
In progress as "SKYSTACK". Tauri-packaged desktop build, target $2.99. Browser playtest version is the canonical free version while the paid build matures.