Municipality Tycoon

You are the mayor of Clifton. Every other week the city council meets in chambers. Developers pitch projects from a coffee shop to a billion-dollar data center. Residents line up at the podium. Your own council argues over every condition you attach.

Approve a project and it moves through permitting, construction and operation, and things go wrong or right: unpermitted wells, contaminated water, blackouts, water main breaks, but also new parks, roads and donations. Set the tax rate and fund your departments. Take a council member to lunch. Hear the city attorney's advice, and decide whether to trust it. Resist the lobbyist's envelope, or don't, and hope it never leaks.

Play a quick 12-week term in about an hour, or the full 52-week term. There is no single right way to run a city, only trade-offs you have to live with.

**Features**

- Council meetings with a mayor, five council members, citizens at the podium, and staff comments from Zoning and the Fire Marshal

- Randomized conditions for every project, with good options, developer-friendly traps and uncertain wildcards

- Dozens of project incidents, each with its own set of responses, and 16 city-wide crises

- A real budget: property tax, four departments, bonds and deficits

- Council relationships, story arcs, and developers who remember how you treated them

- Bribes that can leak, recall elections, and a city that grows with your decisions

- Autosaves every week