Fareline: Airline Roguelike

Fareline is a roguelike strategy game about running an airline, one quarter at a time. You start at a home airport with your first routes and a small cash box. Every quarter the owner sets a cash target. Meet it and the surplus goes into the box. Miss it and the box pays the difference. If the box falls below zero, the airline is bankrupt and the run is over. A full run is five years: 25 quarters. How a quarter works • Every line you open flies every month, for the rest of the run. • After each month you are dealt a hand of cards: new lines, new bases, bigger planes and more flights. Take up to three. • New lines and bases are negotiated. Your leverage meets the airport's ask. A refusal leaves goodwill, so the next talk there is easier. • One fare covers the whole network. Its dial runs from MAX LOYALTY, which builds all the loyalty your network can, to MAX REVENUE, the fare that earns the most over the rest of the quarter. Both ends are worked out again every month, and every step between trades one for the other. Loyal cities talk about bases and raise your leverage. • Each month's revenue is passengers × fare × MULT. When the quarter closes, the total is read against the target. The shop Between quarters, spend cash on perks that reward a way of flying: a strong home hub, many bases, far-flung routes, short hops, loyal cities, a matched fleet, cash in hand. Perks from the same family pay a set bonus together. A rare NEGATIVE perk takes no slot at all. On harder levels some perks arrive ETERNAL and can never be sold, and lessors offer short and wet leases. Rarely, a TAKEOVER BID offers a choice of legendary perks. Boss quarters The last quarter of every year is a boss quarter. FUEL SPIKE cuts what every fare earns. NIGHT CURFEW caps how often a line can fly. THE COVENANT freezes your cash box, so a miss ends the run. There are 27 bosses, and year five closes with one of three finals: OPEN SKIES, CORPORATE RAIDER or ATC STRIKE. Five levels TAILWIND, CALM, CROSSWIND, HEADWIND and WINDSHEAR. Each level keeps the rules of the levels below it and adds its own. 160 airports Home airports on seven continents, each graded from EASY to IMPOSSIBLE by its slots and markets. Ranked runs start with TAILWIND in Europe and open level by level, continent by continent: 35 squares in all. Daily Challenge One airport and one seed a day, the same for every player. One ranked attempt at each level, with a board for each. Ranked and Daily runs post to world, continent and airport boards, which need an internet connection. MILES, achievements and the Hangar Every quarter you clear in a ranked or Daily run earns MILES, a finished run earns more, and 58 achievements pay MILES too. Spend them in the Hangar on colours, emblem frames, marks and liveries for your airline. Nothing you buy or earn changes a ranked or Daily score. Freeplay Pick any airport, level and seed, and set the run up your way: no bankruptcy, more or less cash, a lower or higher target, bosses on or off, the final, flying past year five or playing a quarter again. Workshop upgrades, bought with MILES, work in Freeplay only. Freeplay never posts to the boards. Your airline Give your airline a name, a code of up to three letters, an emblem, colours and a livery. It flies every run, on your map and on the boards. When a run ends, save a poster of your network. The map and the sound A globe you can turn and zoom, with day and night as they are right now, city lights and your own aircraft flying every line on its timetable. Twelve aircraft types, from a 19-seat turboprop to a 575-seat double-deck jet. Seven lounge music themes, from late-night jazz to bossa nova, played live by the game and darker in a boss quarter. Play your way No account needed. Sign in with Google to keep your progress on every device, or play in your browser at fareline.live. A run plays without a connection. Nothing in the game is sold for money.