Rent Party

Rent Party is a property-trading board game you can pause. Start tonight and finish days later with the same friends.

Fridays used to end at 1 a.m. Now the crew lives in three cities, and nobody can stay up that late anymore. The last game you started never got a winner: a phone died, then somebody had to go. Somewhere, a board still has three hotels on it.

Start a game tonight. Finish it Thursday. Bankrupt your friends. Hit pause when life calls, then pick it up days later on any screen with every deed exactly where you left it.

You roll two dice, buy the unowned streets you land on, trade for full color sets, and build houses and hotels so the rent on your streets keeps climbing. The game runs the bank, and play can pause and pick up again over several evenings. The last player who isn’t bankrupt wins.

Rent Party plays by the classic property-trading rules and applies each one the moment it matters, so nobody has to dig out the rulebook mid-game. Pass on a street and it goes to auction. You can still bid. Short on bucks? You raise money before bankruptcy. Nothing for sale makes you win.

Play your way. Pass one phone around the table for up to 8 players. Take on CPU characters, each with their own style, at four difficulty levels. Or open a room for friends anywhere: play live with turn timers, or take a turn whenever you can over several days.

One phone, no peeking. Family night, kitchen table, one phone or tablet going around. Each time the phone changes hands, a hand-off screen keeps your trades and auction bids safe from nosy cousins and anyone else leaning over your shoulder.

Meet the rivals. They have opinions. Every rival talks back, and one of them holds grudges. They’re the computer opponents, each with a name and a personality, and you can play them on Easy, Normal, Hard or Expert. Begin on Easy. Move up whenever you like. Bea bakes cookies and builds hotels. Captain Moss collects stations like ships in bottles. Lulu will trade you anything, twice. Pip never forgets an auction.

Same table, different time zones. Sign in with Google and the crew is back at one table, whether everyone’s on tonight or the game runs a turn at a time all week. Turns fit around your week. Miss one and it’s auto-played. Scan to join, or type the six-character room code.

Life gets in the way, so the game waits. Local and CPU games pause any time, and they’re still there after you close the app. An online game pauses only when everyone at the table agrees. It resumes once everyone’s ready. When a paused game resumes, you’re back on the same turn at the same table, with every deed exactly where you left it. Signed-in players can continue on another device.

Leaving an online game counts as a forfeit, paused or not: their deeds go back to the bank and are auctioned, and the rest of the table plays on. If you need to step away, ask the table for a pause instead.

Play it the way your family always did. Before a game starts, pick a preset or switch house rules on one at a time. If your family always piled the taxes in the middle of the board and handed the pile to whoever stopped on the quiet corner, the piggy bank is that rule. Shake on the rules, then shake the dice.

The banter is half the game. Send an emote when the dice turn on you. Swap jokes in quick chat while friends watch from the sidelines. When it’s over, share the result card in the group chat, or tap rematch and the same table is rolling again before anyone says good night.

Dress up your token. Earn coins by playing and spend them on looks: tokens, boards, dice and frames. Coins buy looks, never luck. Collect badges, take on a daily challenge, and add friends to start games faster.

Start on the bus. Finish on the couch. Once you’re signed in, your games follow you from screen to screen. Whichever one’s closest wins.

Free is the whole game. Pro and Family raise limits, like how many online games you can run at once. You buy plans on the website.

Pull up a chair. The dice are still warm.