The Cable Guy — Wire a Town · Win Its Homes

The job

A beat-up pickup, a ladder, and a whole town to wire.

You're a small-town cable guy setting up your own cable company. Run hybrid fiber-coax out from your headend, hang it on the power company's poles or bore it underground, and light up streets with nodes and amplifiers.

Then sign up the homes before the satellite company does. Over time you go from doing every job yourself to running a company with crews, trucks, a yard and a few loans to pay off.

635power poles in Douglas, WY

413house lots to win over

7job types, from drops to repairs

6scenarios, including the tutorial

How it plays

Plan it. Build it. Sign them up.

01
Plan the plant
Lay out cable runs, nodes and amps on the map.
02
Buy materials
Stock up at the supply warehouse.
03
Build it
Work aerial from the pickup or bucket truck, go underground with the directional drill, and splice from the trailer.
04
Get paid
Homes on live streets sign up and pay every month.
05
Grow
Hire crews, add trucks, fund research, and buy out local cable companies.

And on the way: faults, storms, strikes on buried utilities, and customers who want their picture back now.

Features

What's on the work order

Real towns

Built from OpenStreetMap data. Start in Douglas, Wyoming, with more towns like Edgar Springs, MO and Cape Coral, FL on the way.

Real cable engineering, simplified

Headend → fiber → node → coax → amplifier → home. Includes pole-attachment agreements, make-ready waits, and calling locates before you dig.

A full fleet

Your pickup with a ladder rack, bucket trucks, a tracked horizontal directional drill, a fiber-splicing trailer and a supply delivery truck.

A living town

Houses fill in over time in Suburban, Ranch, Craftsman, Cape Cod and Victorian styles, along with businesses, schools and service drops on every pole.