The Auction House Simulator

Run your own auction house: appraise antiques at the counter, expose forgeries with the magnifier and bring the hammer down in the saleroom. Free, no ads, no account. Plays offline.

AT THE COUNTER Every week new customers turn up with their finds. Treasure or trash? Search each piece for clues with the magnifier for as long as your customer’s patience lasts. Get an appraisal, buy outright or take the piece on consignment. Some customers drive a hard bargain, and Will B. Heir & Son, the rivals across the road, have often made them an offer already.

THE CATALOGUE Set the opening bids, order the lots and save the best for last. Open too high and the room turns sceptical; open too low and you give money away.

THE SALEROOM Paddles go up, the telephone rings, the mood rises. You run the sale yourself: choose the increment, warm up the room, going once, going twice, sold. Bidders who love a piece bid more, and a unique piece gets the whole room going. Sometimes the press sits in the back row, sometimes a row breaks out in row 3.

THE WORKSHOP Not every piece reaches the counter in one piece. In the workshop you lend a hand: take off old varnish without rubbing through, piece broken china back together, retouch losses in the right shade, tighten loose screws and claws without overdoing it. Felix von Brushmore, your restorer, looks over your shoulder. Get it right and the value goes up.

YOUR HOUSE From backyard to palace: your house grows with your reputation, and so do the goods. Expand the saleroom and storage, open a coffee bar, hire experts who get better with every appraisal. When money runs short, the bank will lend you some. And anyone who looks into the workshop at night is in for a surprise.

THE TOWN Once your house is an insider tip, unfold the town map. Every day it shows new neighbours: the houses of other players, with their façades and shop windows. Admire what you like and recommend customers whose piece would do better next door. If it goes under the hammer there, the post brings your finder’s reward. Houses that are admired find flowers at the door and one more bidder in the room. With a friend code you bring friends into your neighbourhood for good.

FEATURES

• A hundred pieces from twelve departments, from pewter tankard to classic car, plus rare unique pieces, all hand-drawn with genuine signs of wear
• Magnifier game at the counter, appraisals that can be wrong, forgeries in circulation
• Outright purchase and consignment with haggling, and a rival with offers of its own
• Live auction with bidders in the room and on the telephone, saleroom events and weekly events
• Workshop with four restoration games: clean, glue, retouch, tighten
• Experts with their own departments who grow up to 30 points
• Five house tiers, expansions, bank loans, a price archive and a review after every sale
• The town: a new neighbourhood of other players’ real houses every day, with admiring, customer recommendations, finder’s rewards, house of the day and friend codes, no account needed
• Three difficulty levels and up to twelve houses side by side
• Leaderboards and automatic backup of your houses, both optional
• “Your house” widget for the Home Screen and Lock Screen
• For iPhone and iPad, with its own haptics in the saleroom
• In English and German
• No ads, no account; plays offline
• An optional tip jar, with no advantage in the game

Going once. Going twice. Hooked.