Glider Tycoon

About

Glider Tycoon is a cozy, hand-drawn 2D glider game that lives in its own browser tab.

Launch a humble paper-sketch glider off a cantilevered platform, pitch to find lift, and glide as far as you can. Every 50 meters earns you cash — bank it and spend it on 25 upgrades that visibly change how your aircraft looks and flies.

HOW TO PLAY
• →  Launch
• Space (hold) — climb; release to settle into a smooth, level glide
• ↓  — dive (handy for dropping down to thread the boost-gate rings)
• A  — autopilot (once you unlock it)

A REAL (BUT FRIENDLY) FLIGHT MODEL
Under the cartoon is an honest point-mass flight sim: a wing with a true angle of incidence, speed-stable trim that seeks a cruise speed and levels off, stalls you can actually recover from, and a glide ratio that genuinely improves as you upgrade. Skill matters — fly clean and you go far.

25 UPGRADES, FROM SUCKY TO JET-POWERED
Carbon-fiber wings and fuselage, an aero kit, boost gates you physically fly through, a CMO and CFO for income, propeller → turboprop → VLJ jet engines, fuel tanks, landing gear, an air-density sensor, autopilot, a CIO advisor, an upper launch platform, and finally an aircraft carrier that spawns at your best distance. Buy them in any order — the bonuses stack.

FEATURES
• 25 stacking upgrades, each with a visible change to your glider
• Skill-based flying: thread literal boost-gate rings for a big speed burst
• Live gauges: sliding speed tape, distance, altitude, fuel, and IAS/GS
• A Top-25 personal-best leaderboard, saved locally
• Share your best flight straight to X and Bluesky
• Charming legal-pad / sketchbook art style

No account. No ads. No tracking. Your progress is saved locally in your browser.
The in-game currency is fake and has no real-world value.