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Press kit
Everything for coverage of The Auction House Simulator: facts, press release, logos, images from the game and the trailer.
Download
Press release, logos, key art, App Store images for iPhone and iPad and the trailer in 1080p, all in one ZIP file.
In short
In The Auction House Simulator, players run their own auction house: they appraise antiques at the counter, expose forgeries with the magnifier and bring the hammer down in the saleroom themselves. For iPhone and iPad, free, with no ads and no account.
Facts
- Title
- The Auction House Simulator (German: Der Auktionshaussimulator)
- Genre
- Business simulation
- Platforms
- iPhone and iPad, iOS 18 or later
- Languages
- English, German
- Price
- Free, with an optional tip jar that gives no advantage in the game. No ads, no account, plays offline.
- App Store
- apps.apple.com/app/id6809222422
- Developers
- Sascha Winkler and Timo Josten, Düsseldorf, Germany
The game
Every week new customers turn up at the counter with their finds. Treasure or trash? The magnifier searches each piece for clues for as long as the customer’s patience lasts. An appraisal brings clarity, though it can be wrong too. Then you buy outright or take the piece on consignment, and Will B. Heir & Son, the rivals across the road, have often made an offer already.
In the saleroom you run the sale yourself: paddles go up, the telephone rings, you choose the increment, warm up the room and bring the hammer down. In the workshop you lend a hand yourself, and your house grows with your reputation, in five tiers from backyard to palace.
Features
- Over a hundred pieces from twelve departments, plus rare unique pieces, all hand-drawn
- Magnifier game, appraisals that can be wrong, forgeries in circulation
- Outright purchase and consignment with haggling, a rival with offers of its own
- Live auction with bidders in the room and on the telephone, saleroom and weekly events
- Workshop with four restoration games
- Five house tiers, expansions, experts, bank loans, price archive
- Three difficulty levels, up to twelve houses side by side
- “Your house” widget, leaderboards and backup (optional)
Images and video
The press kit (ZIP) contains all images at full size: five scenes from the game without text (the palace by day and at night, the saleroom, the workshop and the bank), plus the ten App Store images for iPhone and iPad, the app icon at 1024 pixels and the trailer.
Usage
All images and the video may be used freely for coverage of The Auction House Simulator. Every piece, character and house is invented; Will B. Heir & Son and the Honest & Grabbe Bank exist only in the game.