# Buyout (A Strategy Game) — Build. Invest. Merge.

> Strategy game about building companies, investing, and merging on a grid. (iPhone/iPad app by Jordan Yeats.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/buyout-a-strategy-game/id6799784739 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jordan Yeats](https://appshunter.io/developer/6799784741)
- Category: Games, Simulation, Strategy
- Price: Free
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 3 App Store ratings · 1 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 46 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-04
- Data updated: 2026-10-07
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/buyout-a-strategy-game/id6799784739/reviews.md

## What is Buyout (A Strategy Game)?

The market opens with an empty grid. By the closing bell, every tile on the board belongs to somebody — and the largest fortune wins.

Buyout is a strategy game about building companies and taking them over, told as a broadsheet newspaper. Place a tile, build a startup, and buy shares while they're cheap. When two companies touch, the bigger one swallows the smaller — and the front page tells the story: who got paid, who got wiped out, and who saw it coming.

EVERY SHARE IS A FIGHT FOR THE BONUS
When a company is taken over, its top shareholder collects a majority bonus and the runner-up collects a smaller one. Hold a company alone and you collect both. Every merger is really a fight over those seats — holding one share more than a rival can be worth six figures.

SELL, CONVERT, OR HOLD YOUR NERVE
After every takeover, your defunct shares must go somewhere. Take the cash. Convert into the survivor and stay in the majority race. Or hold worthless paper, betting the name gets re-founded. The market always asks; you always have to answer.

THE MERGER DECK
Twenty-seven cards can turn a clean deal sideways: regulators delay it, boards block it, golden parachutes open, activist investors come calling. Tune the deck in settings — or turn it off for a pure game.

FOUR KINDS OF RIVAL
From the casual desk to the Shark — an AI that simulates thousands of futures before it moves. Play solo against up to five rivals in any mix, or setup two human players and pass the device for a friendly competition.

LEARN IT IN SEVEN LESSONS
An interactive tutorial teaches the whole game — placement, founding, majorities, mergers, settlement, and the closing bell — in a few minutes.

THE LEDGER KEEPS SCORE
Career stats, win rates against every kind of rival, and a page of honors to earn. Best finishes are remembered.

MADE LIKE A NEWSPAPER
Playfair headlines, ink rules, and graph paper. Designed for iPhone and iPad — the iPad gets a full two-column trading desk.

STRAIGHT DEALING
Fully offline gameplay. No accounts. No analytics of our own. Your saves, stats, and player names never leave your device. The free edition shows the occasional ad between games; one purchase removes them forever.

The desk is yours.

## Key features

- Build companies and invest in shares
- Execute mergers to swallow rivals
- Compete for majority bonuses
- Interactive tutorial
- AI and local multiplayer
- Offline gameplay

## Is Buyout (A Strategy Game) safe?

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## Is Buyout (A Strategy Game) legit?

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## Recent user reviews (1 of 1)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/buyout-a-strategy-game/id6799784739/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Strategically Addictive

*2026-09-21*

So much fun to play a game like this one and feel like I’m learning and getting better along the way. Fun to change the settings to make it harder and/or different. Thanks for putting this out here, Jordan!

## Frequently asked questions about Buyout (A Strategy Game)

### What is Buyout?

Buyout is a strategy game focused on building companies, investing in shares, and executing mergers to gain market dominance. It's designed to be played offline and offers both AI and local multiplayer options.

### How do I play Buyout?

The game involves placing tiles to build startups, buying shares, and strategically merging companies. An interactive tutorial teaches the core mechanics, including placement, founding, majorities, mergers, and settlement.

### Does Buyout have ads?

Yes, the free edition of Buyout shows occasional ads between games. These advertisements can be permanently removed with a single in-app purchase.

### Can I play Buyout offline?

Yes, Buyout offers fully offline gameplay. No accounts are required, and your saves, stats, and player names remain on your device.

### What devices does Buyout support?

Buyout is designed for both iPhone and iPad. The iPad version offers a full two-column trading desk for an enhanced experience.

### How does the merger mechanic work in Buyout?

When two companies touch, the larger one swallows the smaller. The top shareholder of the swallowed company receives a majority bonus, and the runner-up gets a smaller bonus. Holding a company alone allows you to collect both bonuses.

### What are the AI opponents like in Buyout?

Buyout features AI rivals ranging from casual to 'Shark,' which simulates thousands of futures before making a move. You can play solo against up to five AI rivals.

### How often is Buyout updated?

The latest version of Buyout is 1.3.2, which was last updated on September 11, 2026. Updates typically bring improvements and new content to the game.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.0 — 2026-09-26

THE BOARD TAKES THE WHOLE PAGE
On iPad the grid sat in one corner with half the sheet left blank, no larger than it was on a phone. It now takes the space it is given: the tiles grow with the screen, and held sideways the floor and the trading desk sit across the page from one another.

TURN THE PAPER ANY WAY YOU LIKE
Every screen reads in both orientations. On iPad the paper keeps its place in Split View and Slide Over instead of demanding the whole display, and it redraws at whatever size it is handed.

MADE FOR IPHONE DUO
Opened, the fold divides the paper the way a broadsheet divides — the board on one side of the hinge, the floor and the market listings on the other. Closed, it is the same paper at a smaller size.

SAFE FROM TAKEOVER, SAID PLAINLY
A company beyond takeover was ruled off with a heavy border around its tiles. It is now stamped across the block instead. The state belongs to the company, not to the tiles it happens to stand on, and the mark now says so.

THE LEADERBOARDS ARE ONE TAP AWAY
The Record went three taps deep to reach a global table. It now opens straight onto one, with your friends' table a tap from there.

THE TRAINING DESK TELLS THE TRUTH
Lesson one said a tile may be placed anywhere. It may not, and the lesson now says what actually stops you. The lessons on majorities and on settlement have been rewritten to say what a bonus is worth in dollars, why converting is worth doing, and what holding defunct paper pays if the name never comes back.

FOUR RIVALS, FOUR DIFFERENT PLAYERS
Greedy and Sharp were the same desk under two names — over four hundred games neither could beat the other. Greedy now plays the board and never the register, and the gap between them is real. The Shark, meanwhile, has stopped handing rivals a bonus on its way past.

### 1.3.2 — 2026-09-11

Last time to fix the sponsorship bugs?

### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-10

Bugs, all the bugs. Smash them, squash them. Put them in a stew. 

And, fixed a few quality of life things. 

And, our sponsors will be happier now. And, so will you now that the game doesn't break with commercials.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-09

- Some bug squashing
- Now, a word from our sponsors.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-07

Deck packs — Standard / Easy / Hard / Custom, with every card's rule and flavour text in the Back Office. Honors on Standard + Hard (or deck off); leaderboards on Standard only.

Nothing vanishes — shares in an acquired company used to disappear from the ledger entirely. They now sit in the drawer where you can see them.

Closed deals report shareholder value — dollars per share, instead of just the survivor's new size.

A tie no longer robs second place — the one your screenshot caught. Two tied for majority took both bonuses; second place got nothing despite holding 5 shares.

Game Center sign-in works — it was hanging forever at cold launch.

Plus: squashed a bug or two

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