Tiny Tower is a business simulation video game developed by NimbleBit, released on June 23, 2011, and November 16, 2011, for iOS and Android devices respectively.

The game tasks players with managing a tower filled with virtual people, referred to as “bitizens”, with the goal of building new floors and gradually making the tower taller, which attracts bitizens to move in and work in any floor the player designates.

On May 25, 2016, NimbleBit announced the return of Tiny Tower to the app store with some new upgrades to the app including new floors, costumes, lobbies, roofs, elevators, missions, BitBook posts, and the ability to trade bitizens with friends and earn new Golden Tickets.

Each bitizen has a skill level out of 9 for each category of commercial floor, showing how good they are at each type of trade.

Sometimes Bitizens will also Give you “free money” like, “Here's the rent, better late than never!” The tower grows by constructing floors, which can be either residential or commercial.

Tower Bux are used for special functions, such as speeding up processes which would otherwise involve a waiting period.

Tower Bux are not as common as coins are, and only appear randomly through active game play, or when a user purchases them with real money.

[3] VIPs have special abilities such as reducing the time taken for stocking and construction, or attracting extra customers.

Residential floors are hotel rooms where guests stay temporarily; potential workers spawn as 'applicants'.

[4] The game received a generally positive reception, with a score of 82/100 on review aggregator Metacritic.

[8] Microtransactions are present in the game; small payments allowing users to purchase in-game currency which can speed the player's progress.

They brought mixed response from reviewers, with Eurogamer saying "as it is, it reminds me of all the reasons I despise micro transactions".