Hello all,
found this on Applevis and am playing it now and having a ball.
I used to play Virtonomics but some of the interface wasn't friendly with my screenreader and we all also know that most AR games are not accessible on IOS. I have found one though that is.
Landlord Tycoon is a business simulation game where you use virtual money to buy virtual copies of real businesses and points of interest in your area. There is also a thing for buying land but I don't have access to that yet at my level.
The Map in the game is not accessible, but things are in a list mode when you go to buy and do things that is, though sometimes it reads tables strangely. For example, when you go to buy something as you swipe it says "Price" then "expected profit" and then the next two swipes reveal those numbers, rather than "price" ($X" and then "Expected Profit" and "$Y"
Even so, the game is quick to update and make changes when you bring them up to them and what I have found so far in the way of confusing layout and stuff is very easy to adapt to and I've been able to do everything I've wanted.
Right now I've been buying a pizza joint in my neighborhood, but as you level and can deal with more max cash and buy more expensive things, you can do things like buy cities, and even countries. The #1 player in the world owns the entirety of the Isle of Mann.
The game is a bit of a money pit though as you need to use "coins" to upgrade your properties and buy skills, and you also can use these "coins" to slow down wait times on certain things. You can get up to 10 per day by watching ads. These ads aren't usually accessible (some are) but just watch the entire commercial, close the app and come back and you'll get your 2 coins from the ad. You also can get a lot of coins just by leveling up (which you do by getting enough value in property past certain thresholds) and these get more generous as you get to higher levels.
You'll start slow, but if you keep at it you can get literally to own cities and even large amounts of money from entire countries if you keep at it. But like me, you'll probably have to start small by buying bits of a fast food joint or something a little bit at a time.
but thought I would share this with you. I don't know if the land buy thing is accessible as it is in beta and I'm not allowed to use it until I am level 10 and I'm only level 4 right now but I'll get back to you once I know.
The augmented reality part is that you only have access to buy things in most instances when you are within a certain distance of them, determined by your level and if you have purchased upgrades to extend it. For me last time I checked it was about the nearest 50 properties.
Also, I've found a lot of times you can only buy properties from the list when they are open. For example the Papa John's I am buying into is open late morning but is not open at 8 AM so I can't buy more shares in it before about 10 or 11 in the morning when it actually opened up. This confused me for a time so thought I would share it with you.
Try it out and let me know what you think.