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How to play

Hunt the city.
Build your legend.

48rich is a free 3D game in your browser. Walk the Neon Market, step into real businesses’ shops, start their side quests, hunt artefacts and craft your gear, all for in-game coins.

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The game

  1. 01

    Walk the Neon Market

    Explore the market, the plaza and five districts around it, by day and by night. Free, no account needed to look around.

  2. 02

    Step into the shops

    Lit buildings are real businesses. Walk in to see their products in 3D, or open their online store from the door.

  3. 03

    Start a side quest

    Every shop has a quest kiosk. Sign in with Google or an emailed code to start a quest and save your progress.

  4. 04

    Earn coins and promo codes

    Follow the clues to landmarks and search them, then hand in at the shop's kiosk. You earn coins and XP, plus the shop's own promo code while codes last. Once per player per quest.

  5. 05

    Hunt artefacts

    Signed-in players find artefacts around the city, and one hidden inside every open shop. Sell them to the Scrap Baron for coins, or craft them into weapons, armour and rides.

  6. 06

    Survive the machines

    Rogue bots and drones guard the rarest finds in the dangerous districts. Get knocked out and you wake at your hideout, losing nothing.

Controls: WASD or arrows to walk, Shift to run, Space to jump, drag to look, click or Q to attack, E to use, F to get in or out of your ride, V to call it, M for the map, I for your inventory. On a phone: the stick to walk, drag to look, and the on-screen buttons to attack and use.

For businesses

Rent a building in the city.

64 buildings line the Neon Market and the districts around it. Rent one by the month and it becomes your store: your banner on the front, your logo on the sign, a link to your online shop, a 3D showroom inside, and side quests that send players around the city to your door.

Main Street

$49/mo

6 buildings · the biggest fronts, most foot traffic

Side streets

$19/mo

30 buildings · on the cross streets

Back alleys

$9/mo

12 buildings · small, cheap, hidden

Outskirts

$5–9/mo

16 buildings · trading posts in the yard, park, docks and desert, cheaper the further out

Rent a building

Our guarantee

100% real. Every open shop is a business with a verified Stripe payment.

Nothing in this city is invented. Every lit storefront and every visitor count comes from something real — and we can prove where each one came from.

  • A shop only opens after a completed payment

    A building lights up the moment Stripe confirms its rent was paid — not when checkout starts, and never before.

  • Verified with Stripe's signature

    Our server only accepts a payment confirmation that carries Stripe's cryptographic signature. Nothing else can open or close a shop.

  • No fake shops

    We never invent a shop or a quest. Every lit storefront is a real business that rents it.

  • Real visitor counts

    The online and visitor numbers are counted live from real visits. Bots are excluded and nothing is padded.

The rules

Play fair. Have fun.

  1. 01

    Coins are the only currency

    Coins are the only currency in the game. You earn them by selling artefacts and finishing quests. They, and your artefacts and gear, can't be bought with money or cashed out.

  2. 02

    Machines only

    You only ever fight AI enemies. There is no player-versus-player combat.

  3. 03

    No cash prizes

    Artefacts and fights only ever pay in-game coins, XP and items. A quest can also give you a shop's own promo code: a discount from that business, which honours it. 48rich never pays prizes, and the only real money in 48rich is a business renting a building.

  4. 04

    Shops play by the rules too

    Banners, logos and products must follow our Terms. We remove anything that breaks them.