Open now · By request
Broke to Broker playtest
by The Capitalist
Start at 22 with $3,000, a rented room and an empty calendar. Win clients, close sales, post videos that find buyers for years, buy homes of your own, maybe found an agency. A real estate career sim about the one thing money can't buy back: your time.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Nov 4, 2026
- Planned release
- Nov 2026
- Developer
- The Capitalist
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Broke to Broker playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Broke to Broker playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Broke to Broker was made with the help of Claude, an AI assistant by Anthropic. It helped write the code, the in-game text and the illustrations, which are vector drawings written as code rather than images from an image generator. Every system, character and line was directed, reviewed and edited by the developer. The game does not generate any AI content while you play.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About Broke to Broker
Your week is the game
Plan your week in half-hour blocks: discovery calls, viewings, negotiations, area research, the gym, an evening with your partner. Then let time run. Clients reschedule, a viewing falls through, a seller calls at nine at night. Every hour you give to one thing comes out of another.
Every client has a story
A relocating dad asks for a sea view, but what he really needs is his daughter's school in Hillside. A retired couple can't manage stairs and can't buy until their own flat sells. Ask the right questions, build a shortlist, tell them the flat sits above a loud bar or don't, and argue the price across the table. Even then a survey, a low valuation, cold feet or a higher bid can sink the deal at the last step.
Find clients, or get them to find you
- Call your old friends and past clients, send postcards to one neighbourhood, knock on doors, cold-call expired listings.
- Go to business breakfasts and charity galas, join a referral circle, trade clients with a mortgage broker and a family lawyer.
- Post on TikTak, Instagrem and YouTobe. A clip blows up and is gone in two days; a good long video can bring you buyers for years.
Win listings from named rivals
Pitch sellers against Victor Crane, who works for half the fee, Helen Marsh, who has known every owner in Old Town for thirty years, and Jayden Price, who promises everyone ten percent more. Price the home honestly or tell the owner what they want to hear, stage it, run open houses, and cut the price when the market cools.
Your career, your way
- Join a big network or a small local agency, earn a promotion, or go independent and keep 90% of every fee.
- Grow your name from Newcomer to Worldwide: a better car, a watch, an invitation to the yacht club, a slot on city TV.
- Found your own agency. Hire agents who hustle, flake or quietly run a side business, move from the kitchen table to a flagship on the Promenade, then sell the company.
Money that works while you sleep
Buy your first home on a mortgage, rent out flats, hire a property manager, flip a fixer-upper, refinance when rates drop. The market runs through booms and slumps, and every district moves at its own pace.
A life, not just a job
- Your energy is a phone battery, and the gym makes it bigger. Run it flat too often and you burn out.
- Your partner, your best friend and your mum all want your evenings. Say no too often and they stop asking.
- Retire any time from 35. Your life is scored on what you own, how early you stopped, the name you made and the people still close to you.
From the game's Steam page.
