Open Beta · Browser Game

LeasingRun

Run an aircraft leasing company through a full market cycle.

A turn-based simulation game. Buy commercial jets, place them on lease, borrow against the fleet, and grow equity. No real money, no real aircraft — just real consequences.

NIGHT OPS · STAND B09 Generic commercial jet on a dark ramp surrounded by lessor HUD panels
FL 360 · HDG 087 EQUITY ▲ $42.6M
The loop

Three moves. Twelve quarters. One market cycle.

Every turn comes down to the same brutal question a real lessor asks: is this metal earning, or is it bleeding?

01

Buy the metal

Acquire jets at the right point in the cycle. Pay too much at the top and the residual will haunt you for twelve years.

02

Place the lease

Win the placement against the right airline at the right rate factor. Read the fine print — the security package is the whole game.

03

Survive the cycle

Manage maintenance reserves and debt while a downturn hammers demand. Your first redelivery will hurt. Plan for it.

Inside the cockpit

What a turn actually looks like.

Real captures from the live beta. The interface is the game: dense, legible, terminal-grade.

FLEET BOARD
Mid-game fleet board: seven aircraft, a trough market, and an 85% loan-to-value gauge
Fleet boardSHOT 01
LEASE OFFER
Lease agreement: term sheet with rate, term, return condition and the deposit trade-off
Lease offer — read the fine printSHOT 02
Q06 SETTLEMENT
Quarter settlement in the downturn: a repossession, a credit loss, and a negative quarter
The downturn hitsSHOT 03
SCORECARD
End-of-run verdict: final equity, book quality and the lessons named
Endgame scorecardSHOT 04
For the desk

Real enough to argue about.

Built on the mechanics that actually move a lessor's book: maintenance reserves, redelivery conditions, lease rate factors, end-of-lease compensation, and counterparty credit risk.

If you've ever fought over a return-condition clause, you'll recognize the trade-offs. The numbers are abstracted on purpose — enough fidelity to teach the intuition, not enough to model your actual portfolio.

// Yes, we know LRFs aren't really flat. Argue with us in the beta.

Maintenance reserves Redelivery conditions Lease rate factor Credit risk Residual value Debt covenants
Lease · MSN 4471 · 12Y Modeled
Monthly rent$310,000
Lease rate factor0.74%
MR balance$4.2M ▲
Lessee creditB+ · watch
Redelivery gap−$1.8M est.
Net book value$38.9M
For the curious

You'll accidentally learn something.

No tutorial lectures. You learn why lessors both love and fear the cycle by living one — and you find out exactly where the money leaks the hard way, by watching it leak.

Play three runs and you'll be explaining sale-leasebacks at dinner. We apologize in advance to your friends.

// It's a side effect, not a syllabus.

Maintenance reserveswhere it leaks

Underestimate the shop visit and the reserve won't cover it.

Redelivery conditionswhere it leaks

The aircraft comes back. The condition rarely matches the contract.

Mistimed the cyclewhere it leaks

Bought at the top, financed short, refinanced into the downturn.

Leasing Run · Departure Board GATE B0.9--:-- UTC
BetaBrowser build · turn-based Now Boarding
SoundtrackNight-shift ambient Scheduled
Leaderboard12-quarter equity run Locked

Status — Now Boarding

The beta is wheels-down. Runs in your browser — phone or desktop, nothing to install, free.

Board now — free