Percolate: Business Tycoon

One café in Lisbon. Ten cities waiting. One empire to build. Percolate is a business tycoon, strategy and management simulation game about growing a company one decision at a time. Start with a single café and expand into eight trades across ten European and American cities. Every week you decide where to open, what to sell, what to charge, whom to hire and how to fund the next step. You set the pace. The clock starts paused: speed it up, or stop it and plan everything calmly. Any event that needs your decision stops time until you answer, and the game stays paused until you press Play. No avatar to walk around: you run the whole company from the city map and your management screens. Eight trades, eight ways to make money • Cafés: kiosk, café, drive-through or flagship, with your own drink recipes and roastery. • Bakeries: you choose what the ovens bake; whatever doesn't sell is wasted. • Minimarkets: range, shelves, checkouts and shoplifting security. • Restaurants: kitchen, dining room and service set how many covers you serve. • Hotels: rooms over several floors, rates and bookings. • Gyms: members sign up on their own, drawn by price, equipment and quality. • Electronics: products that age and give way to new generations. • Boutiques: collections, seasons and sizes. Unlock new trades at the Business School: pay for a course from company cash and it completes by itself in a few game weeks. On supported devices, staff and customers move around live 3D interiors. Ten cities, ten markets Lisbon, Krakow, Lyon, Rome, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, London and New York each have their own isometric map with districts, landmarks, rivers and parks, from the Tagus to the Statue of Liberty. Rents, wages, prices and footfall change from city to city, and a better address never guarantees a profit. New cities open up as you grow and pay their entry fee. Find the right premises Filter the premises on offer by floor area before you commit. A built-in guide explains why a new shop usually starts in the red. Run a company, not just shops Hire managers and executives, delegate city by city, run warehouses and a delivery fleet, and order from a network of producers. Loans, taxes and full accounts keep score; company money stays separate from your own. A world that pushes back Rival chains cut prices, poach your managers and can be bought out. Booms and slumps, city laws and elections, strikes and inspections that demand a decision, and a monthly newspaper that reports it all. Profit is never guaranteed. Beyond the shops Trade shares, take your company public, buy a football club and invest at the yearly startup fair. When the time comes, retire your founder and give your next career a small head start. Make it yours: 20 characters (10 women, 10 men), your company's logo and colours, four difficulty levels and five scenarios. Free for the first 5 game years Every career is free to play for its first five game years: 260 game weeks. Then the clock stops until you buy the Full game, a single one-time purchase. It lets you play on past year five, adds unlimited producer trips and the complete Founder's Archive, and covers all your careers. Your careers stay saved either way, and you can still view and export them. Optional one-time extras: the Livery & Signage Studio (colour schemes for your company sign on the management screens, cosmetic only) and a Career Slots pack (+4 slots: five careers at once instead of one). No ads, no subscription, no energy timers, no in-game currency. Purchases go through Google Play, which shows each price in your currency. Coming later The Expansions menu announces four optional expansions: a bank, a hairdresser, a night club and a prison. None is available yet, and no dates are promised. Single player, no account, six languages. Feedback: [email protected] Your first café is waiting in Lisbon.