Real E$tate Empire is a charming sim/tycoon game in which, as you might expect, you buy houses, spruce them up, and flip them for profit. While intended primarily for the 'casual' game market (with the cartoony and brightly colored graphics this implies), it has a surprising degree of depth, and we suspect that the developer has done some real estate investing himself.
The developer, Lennard Feddersen, like many who contribute games to this site, is a refugee from the conventional game industry. With NES and PC games from major publishers to his credit, he's now working to make a living doing games that interest him.
Real E$tate Empire is, like most casual games, a hard game to lose--you have to imagine that it's set someplace like Southern California, where real estate prices have increased almost every year for decades. People living in, say, St. Louis, may simply find it depressing. But most should find it fun, and perhaps even educational to a degree.
The developer says:
Real E$tate Empire is a turn based game where you invest money to buy and renovate houses which you will then try to sell for a profit.
In the game you are playing against four computer controlled opponents and a high score system that tracks best overall scores as well as best historical scores to that point in the game. To win the game you must beat all four computer controlled opponents. Stronger players will also be interested in beating the world wide high score tables which are hosted on this site for all to see!
Watch for hot bargains, keep an eye on properties that have been on the market and might be picked up on the cheap, play to your strengths, take a fixer-upper and make it beautiful or grab something uptown and hang on as its value goes through the roof. Try your hand as a speculator and hope for a lucky break or earn your money the old fashioned way with elbow grease and sweat equity; it's all there to be had in Real E$tate Empire, the game that's part game, part simulator, all fun!
Find out if you have what it takes to be a real estate mogul in Real E$tate Empire - the exciting new game about buying, maintaining and selling real estate!
Work yourself up through the market by buying houses in the low end of the market, renovating and then selling them. Shop for bargains, build a balanced portfolio or concentrate on a specific market segment, it's all up to you as you build your real estate empire!
It's easy to get started in Real E$tate Empire, just choose your character's appearance, pick the profession that you think will best help you to prosper in the real estate market and away you go!
Manage your portfolio, invest wisely in new houses, spend prudently on repairs and the upgrades that you think will most improve your houses, price them well for the current economic conditions and you can build a Real E$tate Empire!
Town editing is now available to demo and registered users of Real E$tate Empire! Click here to download the data pack.