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Tycoon City: New York cover art

Tycoon City: New York

Deep Red Games Ltd. · Atari · 2008-03-12

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 24, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Here's your chance to make it big in the Big Apple... New York City, the city that never sleeps! Go for broke building your own Manhattan empire, creating and customizing over 100 types of major businesses: run a hot nightclub, oversee a media conglomerate, open a lucrative Broadway theater - the choices are endless.

4
playing now
43%
positive of 289 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
73/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.49
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Tycoon City: New York is a 2006 city-building game that was developed by Deep Red Games and published by Atari. The game first released on February 21, 2006, and players are tasked with developing New York City, specifically the island of Manhattan. Players are asked to build many of the city's most recognizable landmarks such as the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and the United Nations Headquarters.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 53% of 6,714 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 289 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.49-85%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.49-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.90 at IndieGala Store (2015-11-27) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 15 of 25 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$15.82$1.392015-01-012026-08-252015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-06-18 — best price $15.822015-11-02 — best price $9.992016-03-04 — best price $9.992016-06-24 — best price $13.362016-10-24 — best price $2.492017-01-10 — best price $9.992017-04-20 — best price $2.492017-10-24 — best price $9.992018-01-01 — best price $9.992018-05-22 — best price $9.992018-08-30 — best price $2.492018-12-01 — best price $9.992019-02-25 — best price $9.992019-05-20 — best price $9.992019-08-30 — best price $2.502019-11-21 — best price $2.492020-01-20 — best price $2.492020-04-06 — best price $2.492020-06-23 — best price $2.492020-09-16 — best price $2.502020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-03-01 — best price $2.492021-05-18 — best price $9.992021-08-19 — best price $9.992021-11-30 — best price $9.992022-02-05 — best price $9.992022-05-28 — best price $9.992023-09-04 — best price $3.992024-10-21 — best price $3.492025-07-10 — best price $9.992026-03-28 — best price $1.992026-08-25 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

ManagementSimulationCity Builder

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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