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Idle tycoon · Android

WardlineHospital Tycoon

Start with two rooms and a GP who has seen better days. Build the floors, open the wards, and turn a walk-in clinic into a hospital empire.

Wardline key art
Genre
Idle tycoon · management
Platform
Android · iOS soon
Price
Free, with optional purchases
Play
Portrait · one-handed
Connection
Not required

The game

A hospital you can actually read

Most idle games ask you to trust a number going up. Wardline shows you where the number comes from. Patients walk in, wait their turn, get treated, and pay at the door. Every dollar on screen came from someone you treated.

That makes the failure states legible too. Underbuild and the queues back up in front of you. Understaff and the rooms sit dark. Overspend on payroll and your rate goes red. Nothing is hidden behind an abstract score.

The Wardline hospital view with radiology, pharmacy, general practice and pathology rooms across several floors

Build

Every room earns its floor

Reception, pharmacy, general practice, pathology, radiology, then the machines that need a whole floor to themselves. Each room takes a share of the patients that walk through the door, and each one you add changes where the queue backs up next.

Floors unlock as the money grows. So do the departments that make the money grow faster.

The staffing screen showing a shortlist of locums available to hire for the general practice room

Staff

Staff are people, not upgrades

Locums, consultants, professors. You sign them off a shortlist that refreshes through the day, post them where they are needed, and send them on study leave to grow into the grades above.

They carry a wage while they do it. Payroll is a real line against your rate, so a hospital full of professors is not automatically a hospital that makes money.

The commendations screen listing claimable awards for rooms built, floors opened and staff employed

Prestige

The Royal Charter

When the money gets big enough, you retire the empire for honours. Every charter is engraved on the Record, and the flagship keeps its name over the door.

Nothing you did disappears when you reset. It becomes history.

Design

Built to respect your time

The commercial decisions were made once, up front, and they are not going to change on you later.

It runs while you are away

Come back to a payout, not a punishment. Nothing decays, nothing needs rescuing, and no queue has been quietly punishing you for going to work.

No ads on a timer

Full-screen ads appear only at natural breaks, and never during your first days. Rewarded video is always optional and always your choice.

Your save is portable

Back the whole thing up with a code and move phones in about ten seconds. No account, no sign-in, no server between you and your hospital.

One hand, no connection

Portrait, thumb-reachable, and playable with the aeroplane mode switch on.

Screens

From the hospital

Select any frame to enlarge.

Hospital floor view with several rooms and waiting patients
The radiology room panel showing seats, speed, waiting patients and upgrade cost
The build menu listing reception, pharmacy, general practice, pathology lab and radiology with their costs
Staffing screen with a shortlist of locums to hire
Commendations screen with claimable awards and reputation rewards