Software Inc.

I love this game. It provokes every type of challenge. Finances, employees, traits and relationships, market congestion for different games and programs. Natural disasters. One time I was very tight to my deadline and pushed my employees too hard on crunch mode and long hours. I went bankrupt to a class action lawsuit. 10/10

I've sunk over 85 hours into Software Inc and I'm still finding new layers to it. This is hands-down the best business sim I've played since the original Game Dev Tycoon, and honestly it leaves most of the genre in the dust. What sets it apart is the depth without the bloat. You start in a garage with a couple of underpaid coders cranking out shareware, and before you know it you're running a multi-floor office complex, juggling OS development, console hardware, marketing campaigns, employee training programs, and a stock-market IPO. Every system actually matters. Office layout affects employee mood. Mood affects work speed and bug rates. Bug rates affect reviews. Reviews affect sales. It all interlocks beautifully without ever feeling like spreadsheet hell. The art style is clean and readable, the building tools are genuinely fun (I've spent entire evenings just designing campuses), and the AI competitors keep you on your toes — releasing rival operating systems, poaching your best designers, pricing you out of markets. The era progression from the late 70s into the modern day gives the whole thing a satisfying arc. Special shoutout to the developer, Coredumping, who has supported this game with consistent updates for years. The modding community is also fantastic if you want to extend the experience further. If you've ever fantasized about being the next Bill Gates, or you just love games where you can lose six hours optimizing an HVAC system for a server room, buy it. You won't regret it. Verdict: Absolute gem. Buy it on sale, buy it at full price — just buy it.

10 years of early access, what else would you like to know?

Played for over 400 hours. The game is great. Flexible. Many different ways to play and scratch the itch. I have never reached endgame (post 20-30 years in-game) because I always feel like fixing something in the next run. Early game can maybe do with some improvement, early bootstraping. Beyond that, no complain.

The level of detail on display here is stunning. There are so many things you can do and manage that its an overwhelming experience to say the least. Perhaps so much so that it stops being a fun business tycoon simulator and becomes a ruthless true to life depiction of capitalism in the tech sector. That experience isn't for me, but the game's quality is unmistakable.

This game deserves a lot of praise. It's been in early access for 12 years, which some people might think is a bad thing, but in this case it really isn't - the dev has continued to provide updates for free this whole time. It's moving finally towards 1.0, but still, the game is in a fabulous state. It's well past "software" at this point - it's super deep. You can develop nothing at all and just play the stock market. You can open up a digital store (think: steam) and deal with all of the server and network problems that come with that. You can start life as a marketer and only take subcontracted marketing jobs from other companies and functionally live on being a consultant. You can also just do the typical "game dev tycoon" thing and develop video games, or operating systems, or whatever else, and ship those in the same kind of way. Oh, well, except there's a whole simulated physical media system - so like, how are those games getting to people? well, you need to either only distribute them digitally, or, much more likely, get them printed into disks and shipped places - which you could do yourself or subcontract. Or, hell, you could buy a bunch of printers and get contracts to produce physical media for other companies. Oh, or you could design and build hardware with a whole-ass production line in a warehouse of your own design. Or you can build hardware as a subcontractor and just become a middle-man and never produce anything original yourself. It's crazy deep - it may as well at this point be called "tech industry inc", because you really can do anything in that space, which is awesome. What a game, what a dev - definitely worth the money if you're a fan of tycoons, simulators, or tech stuff in general.

Já fali 3x, digo, na vida real, no jogo mesmo eu fali umas 9.

Долго я смотрел на эту игру, долго не решался запустить, и вот, наконец, время пришло. Все опасения были не напрасными. Этот тайкун как выглядит на "вещь в себе" так собственно потом и играется. Мы выступаем в роли фаундера софтовой/игровой/производственной компании, которая осуществляет разработку (и если захотите - выпуск) полного цикла с дальнейшей поддержкой. Можем делать игры, программы, антивирусы и даже операционку. Внешне это не различается никак - тот же пайплайн, те же сотрудники. Мы выбираем продукт, жмакаем на фичи, каждая из которых влияет на окончательную цену, сроки и привлекательность продукта, а затем начинаем разрабатывать. В процессе разработки геймплей подкидывает развлекух в виде хотелок сотрудников и различного рода игровых препятствий, типа внезапно проникших воров, которым срочно понадобились компьютеры 1980 года выпуска и так далее ) Нельзя сказать что в игре что то явно не так. Но нельзя сказать, что это прям весело и увлекательно. Начало достаточно бодрое, есть дефицит бюджета, нужда в более прокачанных сотрудниках, суета по донастройке вашего офисного гнездышка, что бы довольных стало больше, а недовольных меньше. Однако, решив все проблемы через пару часов вы выходите на плато продуктового гринда и начинаете развлекать себя сами разработкой более сложного ПО или даже создания своего производства. Проблема в том, что это просто второй уровень сложности перед выходом на очередное гриндовое плато и какого то особенного азарта, который присущ хорошим тайкун играм тут нет. По итогу, в целом да. Но сильно под вопросом. Рекомендовал бы коллекционерам тайкунов, а просто прохожим - скорее нет.