Bank Tycoon

Bank Tycoon is a 3D, turn-based strategy simulator played on a grid. You control a bank and a country's military, aiming to expand your influence through financial management or war. Your choices can bring shortages, a rebellious population and a falling bank share price, while natural disasters and conflicts affect trade partners and their economies.

Countries and finance

The world contains 20 countries with different dependencies, industries and roles. Your home country holds your Head Office and main bank. You manage finances and profits, create money for expansion and army funding, and handle costs per turn, including the expense of offices, wars and armies. Investments can help economies, while wars affect industries and economies. Events can present profitable opportunities or disasters that cost you money; for example, a flood in an agricultural country may cause food shortages.

The banking systems draw on real-life practices, including correspondent relationships between countries, credit creation, interest rates, debt management and Foreign Exchange accounts for money transfers. You can make decisions that affect your bank's share price, open offices abroad to unlock financial expansion strategies, and upgrade offices to build branch networks and run advertising campaigns that increase your market share.

The COO and your forces

You have one bank executive character, the Chief Operating Officer (COO). The COO manages the bank's finances, commands other characters and travels to countries to establish financial relationships. Travel puts the COO at risk of imprisonment or kidnapping, so you must protect them. You can command an army to invade countries or free an imprisoned executive, and use spies for industrial espionage and warfare.

Characters take turns, and each can move to a grid tile only on their turn. Friendly characters other than the COO spawn on request; each has a specific role, abilities and cost per move. Enemy soldiers move automatically on their turns and stay within their own country. When war is declared, they attack any unit in that country.

• COO: controls the bank and issues orders to other units.
• Soldiers: fight in countries where war has been declared.
• Medics: restore health to any unit.
• Spies: conduct industrial espionage and attack enemy units.
• Enemy soldiers: attack any unit in their country when war is declared.