New Game

When you start a new game via the "New Game" Button on the Home Screen you will be directed to an overview of **5 possible save file slots**.

If this is your first time, all slots will be empty.

If you already created a save file, you can find it here.

**Careful: Choosing an existing save file in this menu will overwrite your current progress on that file and start a new game.**

## Landlord Customization

Upon choosing a new game, you will be able to enter your name and choose an avatar.

*This is a purely cosmetic decision and has no impact on the gameplay.*

## Game Settings

In the next screen, you can set up your game experience.

You can choose between two distinct game modes, but also censor some features that might make you feel uncomfortable.

### Landlord

The default game mode, which can be a challenge sometimes. It requires more micromanagement, takes longer to progress, and expects a bit more grind-resistance on your end. But it is also the game as the developers intended it to be played. **Only in this game mode, you can unlock Achievements**.

### Creative

Offers several options to customize the game play experience to your liking.
This game mode does not unlock Achievements

#### Settings

Choose between existing presets and dive right into the creative game experience, or set up your own custom game.

* **Starting Money:** The further you pull the slider to the right, the more money you start with.
* **Job Payment Multiplier:** Applies a multiplier to the payment you get from a successful job.
* **Apartment work timescale:** Applies a multiplier to the time progression while being in the apartment screen (0x means no time progression).
* **Experience Multiplier:** Applies a multiplier to the overall gained experience.
* **Events frequency:** How often Events like earthquakes and similar would happen (0% means no events will happen | only applies to own Tenants).
* **Tenant requests frequency:** How often your own Tenants request renovations (0% means they are not even aware that you exist).
* **Uncle Tutorials:** Decide if you need Uncle Steve helping while playing, or not.
* **Tutorial Popups:** Decide if you want Tutorial Screens popping up while playing, or not.
* **Main Missions:** Decide if you want to progress in the main story, or just idle around on your own.
* **Passive Tenant Happiness falloff:** Decide if your Tenant's Happiness will drop over time, or if they stay happy forever and ever.
* **Property limit:** Decide if you want to have an 'owned property limit', or if you want to buy as many properties as you want.

## **About sandbox**

There is **no** full sandbox mode. The game does not provide a full sandbox mode, where you can just build apartments as much as you want. You still need to progress through the game and unlock item sets as usual.

**However:** You can set up your game in a way that you get fairly close to what you want:

* **Starting Money:** $50.000 ⇒ to get you a boost in the beginning
* **Job Payment Multiplier:** 300% ⇒ keep the money coming without much trouble
* **Apartment work timescale:** 0x ⇒ Idle around as much as you want and leave your game open while you do sth else, without having to fear time progression
* **Experience Multiplier:** 300% ⇒ The faster you gain experience, the faster you unlock all available items
* **Events frequency:** 0% ⇒ No earthquakes, no complaining tenants, no roaches or similar. Just blissful silence.
* **Tenant requests frequency:** 0% ⇒ Tell your Tenants to live in the place to build for them and keep their mouth shut. No annoying renovation requests!
* **Uncle Tutorials:** uncheck ⇒ You know how this game works, you don't need Uncle to explain it to you
* **Tutorial Popups:** uncheck ⇒ Stop bothering with popups and just play along
* **Main Missions:** uncheck ⇒ Who wants a story, when you can just build?
* **Passive Tenant Happiness falloff:** uncheck ⇒ As if we care for our Tenant's happiness... who needs them anyway?
* **Property limit:** uncheck ⇒ To be able to buy all properties at once! No need to be picky.

## Censor pests and drugs

In the Tenants, you will see roaches infesting a property and also have Tenants who are addicted to alcohol and behave accordingly. There are also some items connected to drugs and a renovation job that requires you to renovate a property with a drug spot.

If you do not want to see these things, you can censor them with these two options.

**Important Note about changing your Settings after Game Creation**

You can change the censorship settings of your save file even after creating the game.
This also works for accessing the sliders and options in creative mode.
 **You can not however switch between game modes, after creating the game.**