FC Architect vs Airline Director

You are handed a pot of money and one ambition: build a football club that climbs from the bottom of a real European pyramid all the way to the top flight. FOUND YOUR CLUB Name it. Name its ground. Design its crest, then design its home, away and third kits. Pick one of seven nations — England, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal or the Netherlands — and enter at the lowest fully professional division, where you face the real clubs that actually play there. THE PYRAMID IS REAL Every country's promotion and relegation rules are reproduced exactly as published, asymmetries and all: England's four-team play-offs, Germany's 16th-versus-3rd play-off, France's barrage, Italy's Serie B play-outs and 28-club Serie C bracket. Reserve sides hold their league position but can never be promoted — just as in the real game. THE CUPS TOO All seven national cups, each to its real format: who enters when, who hosts, one leg or two, extra time or straight to penalties. Your tie is played live or simulated; the rest of the competition plays out around you. Real prize money per round. PLAY THE MATCH, OR MANAGE IT Set your formation, mentality and tackling approach, and watch a projected scoreline respond to every change before you commit. Then resolve the match in one tap, or manage it live: a real-time clock, a speed bar, substitutions, and stoppage time that accrues while you are in the menus. Dithering on the touchline costs you, exactly as it should. A MATCH ENGINE TUNED TO REAL FOOTBALL The simulation is calibrated against seven seasons of real match data — not just the average scoreline, but the whole spread of results. And every league scores like itself: the Bundesliga outscores La Liga by the margin it really does, and a German second-division match genuinely outscores a Spanish first-division one. THE MONEY IS REAL TOO Each division carries real economics: broadcast deals, commercial income and gate receipts from your own stadium, set against wages, travel, matchday and admin costs. Wages eat a bigger share of turnover the further down you are, so the lower leagues structurally lose money and climbing genuinely matters. Losses draw on your personal fortune — and when that runs dry, the club is insolvent and the run is over. A SQUAD THAT LIVES Players age, grow toward their potential, and decline. Contracts run down and expire. Injuries, form and morale swing from week to week. Sign, sell and scout to hold a squad together, or watch your best player leave on a free because you were not paying attention. BUILD THE GROUND Capacity sets your gate, and it does not grow just because you were promoted. Commission an expansion at real construction costs and wait seasons for the seats to open. Add hospitality, sell the naming rights, upgrade the training facilities. Your stadium is drawn as a plan of the actual ground you have built, tier by tier. FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE THE DETAIL Real, current-season club lists. Real tiebreakers, resolved by each country's own rules. Fixtures built the way real leagues build them. Player nationalities, season scorer charts, form guides and a full fixture list. Plays offline, and a given save always replays the same way. Six tabs, one club, and a very long way up. UNLOCK THE FULL GAME Your first season is free to play. FC Architect Pro is a one-time purchase — not a subscription — that permanently unlocks unlimited seasons and every system. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase, and it restores on any device signed in to the same Apple Account. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://spikeatone.github.io/fc-architect/privacy.html

You take over a small airline. One week at a time, you turn it into a name that appears on departure boards. Lease your first jet or buy it outright. Fight for a slot pair at a major hub, or fly from an airport nobody has heard of. Open a route, set the fare, and find out on Sunday night whether you were right. WEEK BY WEEK Every turn is one week. Make your decisions, hit Advance Week, and read the report: who flew, what they paid, what it cost you, and how much you kept. Five minutes or fifty — the game waits. YOUR AIRLINE, YOUR CURRENCY An airline keeps its books where it is based. Start in Manchester and you report in pounds, in Amsterdam in euros, in Nairobi or Newark in dollars — down to the pence, cents and RASK on every route. EVERY NUMBER IS EXPLAINED No hidden dice. Every route shows its RASK, its CASK and the gap between them. If your load factor drops, the game tells you why: a rival added frequency, your punctuality slipped, or you priced yourself out. If you cannot explain a number, it is not doing its job. THE THREE THINGS YOU ARE ALWAYS SHORT OF Cash, because aircraft cost tens of millions and leases fall due whether anyone flew or not. Slots, because you need one at both ends and good airports have none to spare. Block hours, because every airframe has a ceiling and pushing past it breaks your punctuality, your maintenance and your crew. Every real decision in the game is a trade between those three. BUILD A FLEET Turboprops, narrowbodies, widebodies and ultra-long-range twins. Buy outright, finance it, or lease — each with a different shape of pain. Watch condition, book the heavy checks before they book themselves, and reconfigure the cabin when the market moves. RUN A NETWORK Sixty-plus airports and hundreds of city pairs. Set frequency, assign the aircraft, price three cabins by hand or hold a position against the market and let revenue management do it. Declare a base and watch two routes start feeding each other. THE OFFICE Hire a chief executive, a network planner, a head of engineering. Sign catering and ground handling contracts — cheap costs you something that is not money. Take on debt, raise equity, float the airline. Buy a rival if you can afford one. CLIMB THE LADDER Eight tiers, from Air Taxi to Global Network Carrier, each gated on rating, reputation, fleet, network and net worth. Around 150 rival carriers hold the ranks above and below you. At the end of every 52-week year, a graded season review from the board, the passengers and the crew. Open-ended. No win condition, no timers, no ads. Three save slots. Play it for an afternoon or for four in-game decades. Airline Director is a work of fiction. Airlines, aircraft and market conditions in the game are invented or simplified for play, and nothing in it is aviation, business or financial advice.