How your life in LEONIS begins

Get started in seven steps

The order is a suggestion. Apart from the account and your home, nothing is mandatory, and you can skip the guided chapter at any time.

1. Create an account

   You enter your name, email address and password and confirm that you are at least 16 and accept the terms of use. Depending on the team's settings you need an invitation code, confirm your address with a code from an email or solve a captcha. At most two accounts are possible on one device.

2. Choose your home

   You pick country, region and city from all the countries of the world. The first choice is free; later you can move every 7 days for €900 of play money. Your home affects things such as the tax rate, price level, local time and which places are near you.

3. €15,000 starting capital

   After registering you receive €15,000 of play money once. There is no second starting capital, and play money can neither be paid in nor paid out.

4. Look around or start guided

   The app has five main areas: Overview, My life, Money, Possessions and World. If the team has switched it on, an optional first chapter suggests three directions: work, everyday life or the world. With “Play freely” or “Later” you skip it and can reopen it under Help at any time. The magnifier at the top finds every feature.

5. Take a job

   Under My life › Work you see positions and what you would earn there. The wage arrives once a week, on Monday for the week before, even when the app is closed. Better positions require experience, passed lessons or courses.

6. Know your running costs

   For housing, food, mobility, leisure and other costs you choose a level from frugal to comfortable. The amount is debited every Monday. On top come whatever you sign up for later: rent, loan payments, insurance, utilities. The payment calendar shows what is due when.

7. Set a first goal

   An emergency fund of a few months of expenses is a good start before you buy bigger things or invest. You set goals in the app and see your progress. The lessons explain the basics in a few minutes. Go to the lessons

How time passes

Game time is real time: a day in LEONIS is a day. Weeks and months follow the German calendar (Berlin time zone). Opening hours of restaurants, shops and sights apply in the local time of the city, so on a trip in your destination's time zone.

Work, travel, visits and appointments take up time. You cannot book things that overlap at the same time: before you book, the app tells you what it clashes with. A flight, a dinner or a course lasts as long as shown.

What keeps running

These bookings run on fixed dates on the server, even when the app is closed:

Wage

once a week, on Monday for the week before

Living costs

every Monday, the weekly amount of your levels

Bank loan payments

on the first of the month; if your balance is short, the app warns you in the days before

Interest on cash

on the first of the month

Insurance

monthly; if a premium is not covered you are not insured that month

Rent paid and received

monthly, depending on the contract

Bonds

coupon every 30 days from purchase, the face value at the end

Orders and savings plans

the server checks pending orders about every five minutes; savings plans run on their day

All bookings are listed under Money › History. You see how much a payment is before you sign anything.

When you are away

You do not have to be online every day. But there is also no mode that pauses running payments: income and expenses continue while you are away. Being well prepared therefore mainly means having enough balance for the next few weeks.

If your balance is not enough

arrears build up. With bank loans, two missed payments lead to a reminder, and after three the bank can terminate an instalment loan. After a grace period it then also collects open payments by selling securities and crypto, never from property, company shares or leveraged products.

Mail and cases with a deadline

Some letters and events require a decision by a deadline. About 24 hours before it runs out you get a reminder. If you do not decide, the default outcome shown with the case applies.

Work and travel

Your wage arrives even if you do not log in. Trips on working days can use up leave days; the confirmation shows what a trip costs and whether it needs leave before you book.

Streaks and daily tasks

A missed daily reward restarts the streak. You do not lose any possessions.

Coming back

After a break of at least 7 days you get a one-off €150 welcome-back bonus. What was booked in the meantime is listed under Money › History.

Notifications

Notifications are optional. They tell you, for example, when your wage has arrived, an order was filled, a deadline is running out or a loan payment is getting tight. You set quiet hours in the settings. On Android they work in Chrome or as an installed app; on iPhone and iPad from iOS 16.4 only when LEONIS is on the home screen.

How to install LEONIS as a web app

Ways to play

There is no final level and no fixed path. A few examples of how players can begin. They describe possibilities, not a recommendation:

• Build up frugally: a job, low living costs, an emergency fund, then your own flat instead of renting.
• Learn and invest: lessons, quizzes and small amounts on the Leonis exchange, later savings plans and diversification.
• See the world: trips by plane, train or car, hotels, restaurants and sights in real cities, with a travel budget.
• Play together: invite friends, plan meetings and trips, compete in groups for the best return.
• Start something of your own: a company with capital, an industry and running costs.

See all game areas · What LEONIS can do: all features

Help and support

Answers by topic are in the FAQ, fixes for typical problems in the help centre. In the app you reach “Support and feedback” via your initial at the top left; without signing in, write to support@leonis-app.com.

• Check yourself: internet connection, reload the page, look under Money › History whether a booking has already gone through.
• Helpful in a report: what you wanted to do, what happened instead, the time, device and browser and, if shown, the reference number.
• Never send: your password, sign-in or two-factor codes and other players' private messages.