Run the branch
Customers queue at the vault for loans. Each team has one job: greet, check, approve, pay. Every loan paid is coins in your vault.
Free · plays in your browser · phone or computer
Run a bank. Fix the flow. Watch your town grow.
FlowTown is a business-simulation game about making work flow. Hire, train and automate a team, find the bottleneck, please a demanding owner, and turn a slow branch into a busy, profitable one. Then grow a town of nine places, from a café to an airport, and keep it standing when disaster strikes.
No download. No account needed to start.
How it plays
Every business is a process: work arrives, waits, is served. Your job is to keep it flowing, and every decision you take (good or bad) shows up in the vault.
Find the bottleneck
One team always has the tallest pile. Hire, train or move people there first: help anywhere else only adds wages.
Automate wisely
RPA bots race through simple work; AI agents handle anything but make mistakes. Add a checker, or pay the fines.
Survive the disasters
Crowd surges, walkouts, fires and crashes strike anywhere in town. Beat the clock to earn bonuses and promotions; miss three and you are demoted.
Your town works while you’re away
Close the game and your businesses keep trading in their opening hours. What you set up before you left decides what is waiting when you come back.
- A vault of takings, filled while you were gone. A bigger vault holds more hours.
- Trained teams: send a team on a course and it comes back faster.
- Finished projects: Kaizen workshops and campaigns that pay off when you return.
- A daily reward that grows with every day in a row you visit.
- Willow Bank9:00–17:00
- Harbor Café7:00–21:00
- Parcel Post8:00–18:00
- Riverside Clinic24/7
- Anvil Workshop8:00–18:00
- Greenleaf Market7:00–23:00
- Seaview Hotel24/7
- City Call Centre8:00–20:00
- Skyport Airport24/7
Opening hours follow your local time. Some businesses never close.
Learn real Lean while you play
FlowTown is built by LeanProjax, the platform for real improvement projects. The same ideas run the game.
The constraint
A process moves only as fast as its slowest step. Improving anything else is waste.
Queues and waiting
Work piled up in front of a desk is time your customers spend waiting. Limit it and lead time falls.
Quality built in
Maker/checker and mistake-proofing stop errors before they reach a customer, and before they cost a fine.
Standard work and Kaizen
Small, steady improvements (fewer hand-offs, smaller batches, a pull signal) compound into a much faster flow.
The cost of decisions
Hiring heats the job market; letting people go costs severance. Every choice shows up in profit.
When automation pays
A bot is only worth its fee at the constraint, on the work it can actually do.
Questions
Is FlowTown free?
Yes. FlowTown is free to play in your browser, with nothing to download. Pixels, the game’s gems, are earned by playing well.
Do I need an account to play?
No. You can play straight away as a guest: the bank and the café, up to level 8, kept in your browser. A free LeanProjax account opens the other seven places, from the clinic to the airport, saves your town and lets you carry on from any phone, tablet or computer.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. FlowTown is built for phones first and plays just as well on tablets, laptops and big screens. Any modern browser works.
What happens while I am away?
Your businesses keep working during their opening hours and bank their takings in the vault, up to what the vault holds, so a bigger vault lets you stay away longer. Training and improvement projects you started finish while you are gone, ready to collect when you come back.
What will I learn?
Real operations ideas used by Lean and Six Sigma teams: find the constraint (the bottleneck) and improve it first, cut waiting by limiting work in progress, build quality in with maker/checker and mistake-proofing, and judge when automation such as RPA bots and AI agents really pays.
Who makes FlowTown?
LeanProjax, the platform for running real improvement projects with DMAIC. The same free account signs you in to both.