High Rise is a strategic city-building game with a little bit of corruption added. You can get bonuses on your actions by gaining Corruption, but the game will periodically penalize the players with the most corruption, and everyone loses VP for Corruption at the end of the game.

You'll perform all your actions — like constructing buildings, collecting resources and repaying favors — on a one-way track. Like other one-way track games, you may go as far as you'd like, but you'll only get another turn when everyone else passes you. You gain 1 VP per floor for each building you build. Tenants offer powerful actions that change every game. You can obtain a tenant power by landing on its space or constructing a building on its card.

The round is over after everyone makes a lap around the one-way track. Players will score bonus points for tallest buildings in each neighborhood and the game. A Standard Game last 2 rounds (about 90-120 minutes for 3-4 players) and 3 rounds (about 2.5 hours) in the Full game. After the appropriate number of rounds, players lose points for Corruption, and the player with most VP wins the game.