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From a park bench to a mansion

Rags to Riches

A 3D life sim that starts you with $20 and a park bench. How fast can you get rich?

  • Life sim strategy
  • Solo or shared multiplayer city
  • Desktop and mobile browsers
  • Playable now

About the game

Every week gives you 100 time units.

You wake up broke in the park with twenty dollars to your name. Rags to Riches is a browser life sim about the climb: get a job, keep yourself fed, pay the rent, go back to school, and work your way from fry cook at O'King to CEO of ACME Factory.

Time is the real currency. Every week gives you 100 time units, and getting around the 3D city costs them. The free bus pass eats your week. A limousine barely touches it. Money buys your time back, and that is the whole game.

You've made it when everything is true at once: the CEO job, the mansion, the limo, every item in the shops, and wealth, education, happiness and health all maxed out. Play solo or in a shared multiplayer city.

What's inside

Features

01

A living 3D city

Procedural streets, traffic, 26 businesses and a fly-anywhere camera.

02

78 jobs

From a $25-a-week fry cook to a $1,500-a-week CEO, with promotions along the way.

03

Ten homes

A $10 shelter to a $1,000 mansion. Miss six weeks of rent and it's back to the bench.

04

60 university courses

A full prerequisite chain that unlocks better jobs and bigger paychecks.

05

Stocks, loans and a bank

Play the market, borrow against your future, or just stash it away.

06

The Daily Rags

A weekly newspaper that writes up your week, with sales, surges and city news that change prices.

Dev diary

From the blog

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Rags to RichesOctober 19, 2026 · 2 min read Dev diary: Rags to Riches, where time is the real currency Building a life sim around one idea, that money buys your time back. A 3D city, 78 jobs, ten homes, a stock market and a newspaper that writes up your week.

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