Rip Them Off

Lozange Lab

Message from the board

Key features

Awards and recognition

About this game

Rip Them Off is a minimalistic new puzzle game of economic management and tower defense. The Board needs its profit, and it’s up to you to line the streets with shops the masses can’t resist. Choose your locations, pick your stores and earn enough to advance up the corporate ladder with its increasingly difficult challenges!

Message from the board

Welcome [New Hire Name Here]. We’re proud¹ to have you as the newest member² of our [Product Name Here] sales team. Here at [Subsidiary Company Name Here] we’re passionately committed to [Vague Passionate Commitment Here] and we know you are too³.

Here at [Company Name] we’re all about giving the people what they want, and what they want is [Product Name] (the ad boys have seen to that!⁴).

As a valuable member of our [Company] family⁵ this is where you come in.

¹ Any assertion of pride is purely performative and does not reflect the Board’s opinion of individual employees
² Unless otherwise stated new employees shall be referred to as “Office Drone”
³ Please see Standard Employee Contract section 11b Subsection 12: “Your New Personal Opinions”
⁴ Any suggestion of consumer manipulation by [Company Name] advertising practices is purely hypothetical
⁵ [Company Name] is a registered corporation and not a familial unit. Please see Employee Contract section 154a, “Knowing Your {Lack Of} Rights”

Choose
Maximizing profit and satisfying the board will require planning. In each city, utilize suspiciously* empty locations and create an inescapable maze of retail opportunities the masses simply won’t be able to refuse!
*not suspicious at all

Spend
Those stores aren’t gonna build themselves*! Make sure to prioritize your earning potential by managing your budget: buy the right stores in the right locations at the right price.
*Self-building stores coming in [Unobtainable Release Date Here]!

Earn
Once you build it, they will come. And keep coming! But it’ll take more than one location to satisfy the Board’s exponential profiteering*. Combine locations and store types to really take them for all they’re worth and open up exciting new opportunities around the world!
*Year on year growth is currently set at a more-than-reasonable 3015%

Key features

✔️ An innovative new type of game: Combining puzzle mechanics with tower defense games, Rip Them Off is a new breed of challenge, easy to pick up but hard to master.
✔️ Gorgeous design: Evoke your inner Mad Man with 1950s inspired music and graphics.
✔️ Addictive gameplay: Each new city provides an increasingly devilish challenge. Can you make it all the way to the biggest metropoles?
Challenge your friends: Who’s the best rip off merchant? Compete against your friends and/or rivals with the leaderboard feature to find out who comes out on top.
✔️ Map of the Moment: Hone your capitalistic edge post-launch with Map of the Moment, showcasing revamped versions of your favorite maps with fun modifiers to keep you on your toes.
✔️ Go fast or slow: Control the flow of time to make sure your strategies unfold with perfection.

Choose your location, choose your stores, give the people what they want. And of course, don’t forget to…

RIP
THEM
OFF !

Awards and recognition

⭐ "TIGA Games Industry Awards 2021" Finalist for best simulation game
⭐ “Pocket Gamer Awards 2021” Finalist for the most innovative game
⭐ "TIGA Games Industry Awards 2020" Finalist for best puzzle game & best strategy game
⭐ "GDC Summer 2020" Artwork selected at GDC Artists gallery

Ratings and reviews

It's an interesting story concept, and I think with some UI/QoL changes, could be more fun. It's a game with the same spirit as tower defense or lemmings in that you're placing an entity to affect a steady stream of identical ai figures. The issue I have is that it's far too much trial and error to be fun. The tutorial explains a little bit, but not enough about the mechanics. I'll stick around a bit through the growing pains to see if it gets updated, but it's kind of lacking right now.

I installed after reading all the bad reviews.. it's really not as bad as what everyone is saying here... I actually think it's a nice tight little strategy game. You need to place buildings in economic order to build cash and expand fast enough to beat the levels. There is an element of needing to see levels before beating them, but the game has tools that support it. You can rewind single rounds, and see your current score vs your personal best to see if you're pacing better. Great Game.

Great music, interesting design, but for a puzzle game it's really unintuitive. You have to balance the speed of customer entrance vs the speed of stores where they go to shop. But you lack the stats of customer entrance vs shopping rate to make any form of strategy (what entrance to match with what store). So most of the time it's trail and error where you have no clue what you're doing and you lose the level.

What’s new

Minor update