FlipAPenny vs Down Round

FROM A PENNY TO A BILLION It starts with a single penny on the sidewalk. Pick it up and flip it into a fortune, with a borrowed phone... FlipAPenny is a trading game where every deal matters. Buy low, sell high, dodge scams, and hustle your way from garage sales to global empires. No two playthroughs feel the same: every trade, every opportunity is a choice that shapes your rise — or your downfall. THE HUSTLE You start with nothing but a lucky penny and a dream. Scour the marketplace for undervalued items, a scratched vinyl record, a dusty lamp, a broken watch. Buy them cheap, flip them for profit, and reinvest every cent. Learn the value of things. Learn who to trust. Learn when to walk away. Buy items that generate income or turn into collections. THE CLIMB As your cash grows, so does the world around you. New traders appear with bigger deals. Vintage cars, rare collectibles, fine art — the stakes climb fast. But so do the risks. Shady dealers will try to sell you fakes. Phishing scams land in your mailbox disguised as legitimate offers. A bad deal at the wrong time can set you back hard. THE EMPIRE Break into real estate. Play the stock market. Invest in startups. Acquire hotels, media companies, and sports teams. At the top, you're funding space missions, building hospitals, and leaving a legacy that spans the globe. The question is no longer "can I make money?" — it's "what do I do with all of it?" FEATURES Trade & Flip — Hundreds of unique items across six phases of progression, from penny junk to billion-dollar assets. Living Marketplace — Traders with distinct personalities, inventories, and motives. Some are honest. Some are not. Scams & Phishing — Not every deal is real. Spot the fakes before they spot your wallet. Real Estate — Buy land, develop properties, manage risk events, and sell for massive profit. Stock Market — Track tickers, react to breaking news, and time your trades. Secure trades with options. Art Collection — Build a curated gallery of masterworks from Warhol to Da Vinci. Events & Challenges — Respond to crises, seize opportunities, and make choices that affect your reputation and followers. Odd Jobs & Side Hustles — Earn extra cash between trades when you need a boost. Insurance & Disasters — Protect your assets or gamble that nothing goes wrong. Leaderboards — Compete globally across five categories: net worth, most active, fastest climber, newcomers, and perseverance. Five Languages — Fully localized in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. One penny. Six phases. Infinite ways to get rich — or go broke trying.

You raised the money. Now survive the people. Down Round is a swipe-card startup simulator. Every card is someone at your door — your co-founder, your CTO, a reporter, the investor who already owns a piece of you. Swipe left or right. Every answer you give moves four meters: Cash, Morale, Hype, Product. The catch is that all four kill you at both ends. Run out of cash and it's payroll day. Never spend a dollar you didn't have to, and the board finds someone braver. Zero hype and nobody writes about the shutdown. Maximum hype and somebody finally asks to see the numbers. SIX ROUNDS, GARAGE TO BELL 426 hand-written cards across The Garage, the Angel Round, Series A, Series B, Series C and the IPO. Ten endings. Only one of them rings the bell. PLAN THE ROUND, THEN SURVIVE IT Every round opens with a board planning meeting. Pick your terms — take the full round, a tight one, or none at all — then commit your budget to R&D, Growth, Revenue, People or Efficiency. Every track is a trade, not a bonus, and what you commit stays committed. Your burn and runway sit on screen all day, and every hire makes the burn heavier. Keep the board's trust and it forgives a near miss at review. Every round dilutes your stake, and how much you still own when the bell rings decides what kind of IPO it was. NO TWO RUNS THE SAME Pick one of 10 company types — AI, fintech, Web3, games, health tech, developer tools, marketplace, consumer app, enterprise SaaS, software agency — and one of 10 founders, then name the company yourself. Every pick deals its own private cards into the deck, so the run in front of you is never quite the last one. WHAT SURVIVES THE RUN 14 achievements, ten of them a permanent legacy bonus on every run after it — also on Game Center, alongside leaderboards for your take at the bell (all-time and weekly) and your longest run. A Hall of Fame holding your record and a gallery of endings to fill in. A run takes 10–20 minutes, and it saves in the middle when the day doesn't cooperate. BUILT BY HAND 55 original anime-style illustrations, and portraits that breathe, blink, and look let down the moment you lean toward the wrong answer. Every sound effect and every note of the score is synthesized on your device as it plays, darkening chapter by chapter — there is not one audio file in this app. FREE TO START, ONE PAYMENT TO FINISH The Garage and the Angel Round are free in full. The paywall appears only after you have passed your first board review — never after a loss, because being replaced is an ending too, and it belongs in your Hall of Fame like any other. All 10 company types and all 10 founders are free. Series A through the IPO unlocks with a single one-time purchase. Not a subscription. Bridge Loans are an optional consumable, and your first one in every run is free. One will pull a blown meter back from the edge, buy a board round you came up short on, pass on a card you would rather not answer, or cover a headhunter's fee to bring someone in early. You never need one to reach the bell. NO STRINGS No ads. No account. No tracking. No connection needed to play — the whole game runs on your device. Game Center is optional; sign in only if you want the leaderboards. Playable in English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Deutsch, Français, 日本語 and 한국어.