Broadway: 1849

Broadway: 1849

Role Playing
4.0
36.5K+ Downloads
"Fight your way to box office glory while fending off the gangs of old NYC!"

About this app

Fight your way to box office glory, while fending off the gangs of New York! Manage a theatre in a game of high-stakes business, dangerous romance, and risky alliances set in the rough-and-tumble world of 19th century New York. You'll brave riots, fires, and political spies as you take on a city of jealous rivals, brilliant artists, and stalwart politicians.

"Broadway: 1849" is a 150,000-word interactive historical adventure novel by Robert Davis. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Will you succeed by your smart business sense or enlist the city’s gangs to push your competition out of business? Can you manage the diva personalities of your actors? What about a ghost haunting your theatre's stage?

Are you a flashy producer playing to please the crowd with circus acts? Do you try to earn the respect of the city's leaders with fine art? Can you wrangle the press into writing the best reviews?

• Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, or asexual.
• Compete with rivals to stage the biggest shows and gain the largest audience!
• Choose a cast from the city's brightest talent.
• Investigate the hidden secrets of your theatre.
• Rush to defuse a deadly bomb, or let it explode and plunge the city into chaos.
• Nurture young talent or feed your own ambition for the spotlight.
• Rub shoulders with the city's most notorious criminals, or bring their misdeeds to light.
• Help a deserving friend escape the clutches of an unscrupulous businessman.
• Join forces with a criminal gang or side with the mayor’s push for order.

When forced to choose you'll decide whether to fight for peace or let the city burn.

Now on sale until 1/28!

App Info

Version
1.0.22
Updated on
Jan 05, 2026
Size
Requires Android
5.0
Installs
36.5K+
Category
Role Playing

What's New

You can now choose a font in the Settings menu. Switch to Helvetica for crisp sans-serif text, or try the OpenDyslexic font, designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you enjoy "Broadway: 1849", please leave us a written review. It really helps!

App Permissions

  • Location
    • approximate location (network-based)
  • Photos/Media/Files
    • read the contents of your USB storage
    • modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
  • Storage
    • read the contents of your USB storage
    • modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
  • Wi-Fi connection information
    • view Wi-Fi connections
  • Other
    • view network connections
    • full network access
    • prevent device from sleeping
    • Google Play license check

Ratings and Reviews

4.0
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TheHistory Geek25
Jul 17, 2024

I like these types of stories where you lead and manage stuff I want a circus version of this

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Fiona O'Callaghan
Aug 09, 2022

I had no plans to buy the full game, but I got so into the story that I bought it straight away when I ran out of free chapters. I just finished my first playthrough and I still have a tonne of achievements to get so it definitely has a high potential for replaying. It's 100% text based but it works really well.

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Tise Tips
Mar 06, 2022

Make it free because i don't have money to buy this game.

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Adam Young
Nov 26, 2021

This is a well-written period piece where you are the owner of an American theatre in New York in 1849. There are a lot of cameos: people like Herman Melville, Horace Greeley, Washington Irving; it even has the father of John Wilkes Booth as an actor in your theatre. I found it much easier to get a favorable ending working with the mayor. I could not win working with Buntline no matter what. He's a democrat so no surprise there but still would have liked to have earned the know-nothings trust.

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Xtreme Tournament
Sep 10, 2021

There is also a smiller game which we give scipt to producers and they give us a budget which we can make a movie on under budget can any one tell me name of this game...

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CCaffie
Jul 20, 2020

Loved the game