Imagine you're a bank executive, managing finances and creating strategies to dominate the world. Is that enough? What if you also had control of a country's army and could declare war and invade countries?
In Bank Tycoon you have both financial and military control but with great power comes responsibility. Will you risk shortages in your country, a rebellious population and a falling bank share price as you embark on a journey of global domination?
Bank Tycoon is a 3D turn-based simulator on a grid where the gameplay focuses on the tactics and strategies needed to take over countries through financial management or war.
- The world is made up of 20 countries that have differing dependencies, industries and roles
- Your home country has your Head Office and main bank
- You have 1 bank executive character, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) who :
- manages finances
- commands characters and travels to countries to create financial relationships
- is at risk of imprisonment or kidnapping when travelling
- You have an army to command, to free an imprisoned executive or invade countries
- Your decisions and natural disasters have consequences for trade partners :
- A natural disaster like a flood in an agricultural based country may cause food shortages
- Your investments help economies
- Wars impact industries and economies
- Open offices in countries to unlock strategies for financial expansion
- Make decisions that influence your bank's share price
- Manage costs per turn as offices, wars and armies are expensive
- Create relationships and offices in other countries
- Tactically move characters across the grid and into countries
- Protect the COO
- Manage finances and profits as war and office expansions are expensive
- Monitor events for profitable opportunities and disasters that may cost you money
- Create money for expansion and to fund your army
- Upgrade offices to create branch networks and Ad campaigns to increase your market share
- Control your armies and provide tactics as they invade and attack countries
- Use spies for industrial espionage and war
- Every character has a turn and can be moved to a grid tile only on their turn
- Enemy soldiers move automatically on their turn and only inside their country
- All friendly characters except the Chief Operating Officer (COO) spawn on request
- Characters have specific roles, abilities and costs per move
- COO - controls the bank and issues orders to other units
- Soldiers - fight in countries where war is declared
- Medics - can restore health to any unit
- Spies - perform industrial espionage and attack enemy units
- Enemy Soldiers - attack any unit in their country if war is declared
Bank Tycoon is based on real life banking practices for credit management and international banking :
- Correspondent relationships between countries
- Credit creation, interest rates and debt management
- Foreign Exchange accounts for money transfers