The official game is called Monopoly Plus and can be bought either directly from the Ubisoft store or from the Steam or Epic Games stores. My limited success lands me a passionfruit mini-cupcake to go with my drink.Yes, Monopoly is available for PC. It can be spent at the gift shop, or at the diner – Monopoly cafe – on pun-heavy food and drinks. Playing games earns you Monopoly money, which at the current going rate, pending further rampant inflation, works out to A$0.10 for one Monopoly dollar. You’d also be laughed out of the game for suggesting negative gearing or capital gains tax discounts approach anything remotely resembling fair play. At least in Monopoly, cut-throat as it can be, you can’t jack up rents without making actual improvements to the property, like building a house or a hotel. While make-believing as a landlord, I forget we’re in the grips of a rental crisis. You can even get your foot in the door of Melbourne’s broken property market with a print-out of a personalised title deed, complete with your name and an official-looking stamp, (I’m now the proud owner of Queen Victoria Market). It’s heartening to think that the children helping ailing utilities at Monopoly Dreams today may grow up to help dysfunctional telcos switch their networks back on. One game’s aim is repairing busted pipes at the Water Works another involves fixing the power at the Electric Company by smacking and stamping on buttons. There’s even a 4D cinema that screens a Melbourne-themed Mr Monopoly adventure, with moving seats, gusts of air and the odd water spritz.īut there’s at least some sense of civic responsibility. You can try to crack a code to break out of jail, or you can weave your way through a laser maze to Mr Monopoly’s diamond vault. A literal cash grab … in a booth with Monopoly money flying all around.Īfter touring the mansion, guests are let loose in Monopoly City, its streets filled with carnival games, claw machines and gacha machines.

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