Taipan

Name: Taipan
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.289999961853027 (915 reviews)
Author: November31

November31

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4.3

915 reviews

10K+

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Teen

About this game

Taipan was a home computer game from the early '80s that was fun and addicting despite its lack of graphics. It invented the trading-game genre. Taipan was inspired by the famous novel of the same name.

This Android version is modeled after the popular home computer version. The infamous bug in the original game remains in this version.

• To skip most pauses, press the text shown.
• To speed up battles, tap the 'Fight' or 'Run' buttons again.
• Includes the simple "beep" sounds of the original, but with optional sounds.
• Tablets are supported.

Updated on

Nov 17, 2025

Data safety

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This app may share these data types with third parties

App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs

This app may collect these data types

App info and performance and Device or other IDs

Data is encrypted in transit

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Ratings and reviews

4.3

823 reviews

rich g

September 13, 2020

The game is fun enough, but you can't say you haven't tweaked it. I've had it downloaded for about two years now and the original was spot on to the game I played on an Apple IIe in the 80s. I could build up to 100s of guns, play well into the 1900s and score massively. I can still score decently well, but the imbalance of attacking ships to my limited ability to obtain guns is not a representation of the original game.

34 people found this review helpful

T. M. Hunter

March 8, 2025

Love the nostalgia of this game from my youth. Seems to have an issue if you exit and save a game, though. Waited a few days and then came back to resume. Now every battle resets my gun total to 10 (which is okay, as no matter what the attacking ship count says, you only face 5). Started a new game, though, and that glitch follows (which immediately overloads your ship after the first battle).

Adam Hunter

March 8, 2025

Loved this game as a child. Thank you for doing this! After about four games it started glitching out. Tried clearing memory but didn't fix it. Every time I was attacked it would knock me down to 10 guns and only 5 ships attacking. Went to play store and found there was an update already. Installed the update and it fixed the problem. The developer of this game rocks! Can you kindly do a version of choplifter now?

2 people found this review helpful