Glider Tycoon

A cozy, sketch-style 2D glider game: launch, pitch, and glide for distance, then earn 25 upgrades up to a jet.

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.