Broadsheets, telegrams and ticker tape. Fortunes ride on railways, steel and steam.
Coming soon to Google Play and the App Store
The Bull Run
Build a fortune. Pass it down. Outlast history.
Start with a little savings in 1850, 1929 or 2000 and play the stock market through two centuries of real history. Ride the railway boom, dodge the Crash, survive the dot-com bust, then hand everything you've built to your children, and theirs. How far can one family go?
📜 200 years of history
📈 1,006 companies
👪 Generations of one family
🚫 No forced ads
How it plays
One family. Two hundred years. Every boom and bust in between.
The Bull Run is part stock market, part life story. You make the money, then history tries to take it off you.
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Pick your moment. Any year from 1850 to 2000, in one of nine countries, each with its own stock exchange, currency and laws.
- 2
Play the market. Buy, sell and, when history invents it, short 1,006 companies through bubbles, panics and wars.
- 3
Live a life. Find work, study, fall in love, buy a home and pay your taxes. The rules of the day apply, for better and for worse.
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Pass it down. When your time is up, your heir inherits the lot, less death duties. The dynasty goes on until the line ends, or the world does.
Five eras
As the world changes, so does the game
The whole game dresses for its time: the fonts, the colours, the music and the way the news reaches you.
Broadcast
Wireless bulletins, typed letters and the long post-war boom.
Terminal
Green-screen newswires, fax machines and the first trading floors gone electronic.
Digital
Push alerts, social feeds and a market that never sleeps.
Sci-Fi
Holographic displays and a world your dynasty helped shape.
Each era arrives when the world's technology does, so no two games reach the future at quite the same moment.
Real history
Trade your way through the events that made and broke fortunes
Gold rushes, the Golden Spike, the Baring Crisis, the Oil Embargo, the Dot-Bomb: 149 events from the history books arrive close to when they really happened, and the game tells you when that was. History feels familiar, but never quite predictable.
- Every story in the voice of its age: a broadsheet, a wireless bulletin, a newswire flash, a push alert
- Big news stops the clock so you can react, or let it run
- Bonds, ETFs and short selling arrive as history invents them
The market
1,006 companies, nine exchanges, one familiar feeling
From the Chemin de Fer du Nordd to Hitachee Works and Razorfishy, every company is a gentle parody of a real one, with its own history, its own storylines and its own chance of going bust.
- Price charts back to the day a company listed
- Takeovers, scandals, stock splits and bankruptcies
- Foreign exchanges in their own currencies, from New York to Shanghai
- Analyst outlooks unlock as your education and experience grow
Life
Live a whole life, in its own time
Your character needs a job, a home and maybe someone to share them with. There are 37 careers and 36 qualifications, from telegraph operator to fund manager, and the rules are the rules of the day.
"Women can't get credit in their own name until 1975." The game won't pretend otherwise.
- Interviews, promotions, layoffs and job markets that rise and fall
- Courtship, marriage, children and, sometimes, divorce
- Homes, mortgages, rent and the taxman
Dynasty
Build something that outlives you
Climb from Clerk to Titan across eight ranks, each with a badge drawn for its era. Set goals for each generation, name your heir, and plan for the day the fortune changes hands.
- Inheritance, succession and death duties
- Influence: when you're rich enough, money opens boardroom doors, political ones, and even nudges history
- 53 achievements and a Hall of Fame for your greatest dynasties
The future isn't written
History is real until today. After that, it's up to you.
Past the present day the world branches. Space colonies, first contact, a peaceful age of plenty or a long dark: what your dynasty does with its wealth helps decide which.
The Concord
Humanity joins a galactic civilisation beyond scarcity. Your family is remembered for what it built.
The Commons
A peaceful world retires money and markets. What counts is the good your name did.
Dead Colonies
The off-world dream fails, and Earth turns inward to survive.
The Silence
Contact brings war, plague and despair, and civilisation breaks under the strain.
The Long Dark
One by one the exchanges close. Only real things keep their value.
Ways to play
A whole saga, or a quick challenge
Play for months, or for ten minutes on the bus. Time only moves when you say so.
The full story
Generation after generation until the line ends or the world does, or a single life where your score is what you leave behind.
16 moments in history
Survive the Crash, ride the Tokyo Bubble, keep your head in Weimar's hyperinflation. Hit the targets for stars to open new chapters.
Beat the market, every day
Five years around a real moment in history, with a new twist each day: an inheritance, a shoestring, home shares only. Everyone gets the same history, and you're scored against an investor who put every penny into the market. Keep your streak going, share your stars, and your main game stays safe in its own save.
No score, no endings
Play however you like. And if you're new, a ten-minute tutorial starts you in 1927 New York, just in time for the Crash.
Why you'll keep playing
Deep when you want it, gentle when you don't
Nine countries
The United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, Russia, France, the Netherlands and China, each with its own history, currency and tax laws.
Your pace
Move a month at a time with a tap, or let the years roll by at up to 12 times speed.
A soundtrack for every era
Music that changes with the times, and with the fate of the world. Set the music and sound levels to suit you.
No account needed
No sign-in, no cloud, no waiting. Your saves live on your phone and the game plays offline.
Ranks and records
Eight ranks, 53 achievements and a Hall of Fame for your best families.
Free and fair
Every mode is free. Watch an ad only if you choose to, for a helping hand like an angel investor, or go ad-free with a one-time Remove Ads upgrade.
A closer look
Across the eras
Real screens from the game. Scroll through two centuries.
Title screen
Print · Paris, 1900
The Paris Bourse
Broadcast · Britain, 1950
Terminal · Tokyo, 1984
Digital · 2010
Breaking news
The news feed
Sci-Fi · 2040
Sci-Fi · 2044
Scenarios
Coming soon
Your dynasty starts here
The Bull Run is coming to Google Play and the App Store. Free to play, with nothing you're ever required to buy or watch.