Billable & Associates

You start with one desk, one practice in parking tickets, and a big green button that says Bill a tenth of an hour. Every tap is six minutes on somebody's invoice. Save up and open the next practice: wills and notary work, slip-and-fall, divorce, real estate closings, and on up to space law and something called Estate of the Estate, twelve in all. Each one works a round of cases on its own clock, and once you hire a paralegal it keeps billing while you're away, for up to eight hours. Rate increases make every hour worth more, and the diplomas go on the wall.

There's one matter a day, the same for everybody. Close it for a point of Reputation, a day on your streak and a place on today's board. When the firm stops growing, sell it and hang a new shingle: you keep your Reputation, and each point makes everything you bill 2% more at every firm after. On Fridays the week's invoice adds itself up so you can share it.

It's a gentle idle game and a satire of legal billing, made for grown-ups. Every lawyer, client and firm in it is invented, and honestly there are no ducks in this one, just a great many invoices. It's free to play in your browser, and the How it works button up top explains the rest.