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Tarmac Tycoon — available now on iPhone

Build your airline one terminal at a time.

Tarmac Tycoon is a character-driven airline management game with a hand-drawn 1990s cartoon soul. Hire the staff, court the press, climb from a single gate to a global hub.

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Flagship title
▲ Single-player · Free to play · No pay-to-win

Every great airline starts with one stubborn dreamer.

You inherit a leaky terminal and a skeleton crew. Six rooms — the office, the bank, the agency, the press room, the tarmac, and the sky bar — are where every decision plays out, narrated by a cast of staff who have opinions about all of them.

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  • A hand-authored cast: Hedda Marsh, Mr. Sterling, Colette, Rex Quill and Big Tomas all push back when you're wrong.
  • Outmaneuver three rivals — Vera Valeska, Sterling Gold and Pip Nimbus — for routes, gates and headlines.
  • Cartoon cel-style art and a jazzy, hand-built soundtrack.
  • Compare runs against ghosts and leaderboards without ever needing to be online.
In-game concourse — storefronts for the bank, travel agency, newsstand and sky bar, with a departures board overhead
The concourse — where every airline empire begins.
The studio

We make games with a pulse, not a spreadsheet.

Quadratic Studios is a small independent team building games where the systems are deep but the characters are why you stay.

We'd rather ship one game people quote back to us than ten they forget. Tarmac Tycoon is the first. It won't be the last.

A1

Character first

Numbers move the game; people make you care which way they move.

A2

Respect your time

Free to play, single-player, no dark patterns or pay-to-win — purchases are cosmetic or remove ads, never an edge.

A3

Made by hand

Authored dialogue, drawn frames, composed music. Craft you can feel.

Player support

Stuck at the gate? We can help.

Which devices does Tarmac Tycoon support?+
Tarmac Tycoon runs on iPhone and is played in landscape. Check the App Store listing for the current minimum iOS version and storage requirements.
Does it need an internet connection?+
No. Tarmac Tycoon is fully single-player and plays offline — you can run your whole airline with no connection. An internet connection is only used to load ads.
I lost my progress — can I get it back?+
Reach out with your device model and roughly when you last played, and we'll walk you through restoring your save. Email us using the button below.
Are there in-app purchases or ads?+
Tarmac Tycoon is free to play. Optional purchases add cosmetic extras (custom liveries and office decor) or a one-time Founder's Edition that removes ads — never anything that affects gameplay or the leaderboard. Ads are limited and gentle: an optional one you can choose to watch for arcade tokens, plus a single ad after the in-game newspaper every other night later in the game. The Founder's Edition removes ads entirely.
I found a bug. Where do I report it?+
Send us a note with the steps that triggered it and a screenshot if you have one. The more specific, the faster we can fix it.
Will there be more content?+
Yes — we're actively working on new staff, events and routes. Follow along for update notes.
Still need a hand? Email support@quadratic-digital.com — we read every message.
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