
From 1986 to 2026, design and engineer the world's most advanced CPUs. Run your own fabs or manufacture for rivals. Research groundbreaking tech, manage your team, buy and build offices, and dominate the market through decades of cutthroat competition. Become the ultimate hardware tycoon.
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Take the helm of your own technology company in Hardware Tycoon.
Start your journey in 1986 and lead your enterprise through four decades of innovation to 2026. This game is about shaping the future of computing. Design the brains of tomorrow's devices, outsmart ruthless competitors, and build a legacy that lasts.
🧠 Design Custom CPUs
Dive deep into the heart of silicon. Decide on core counts, clock speeds, cache sizes, and thermals. Balance raw performance against power efficiency and cost to create the perfect processor for every market segment. Every design choice impacts benchmarks, reviews, and your bottom line.
🏭 Run Your Own Fabs — or Someone Else's
Own the means of production. Build and operate fabrication plants to manufacture your chips. But survival comes first: produce CPUs under contract for rival companies to keep revenue flowing. It's a double-edged sword — you stay afloat, but you're fueling the competition.
🔬 Research & Strategy
Invest your cash into risky, era-defining research projects. Unlock new manufacturing nodes, pioneering architectures, and essential technologies. Will you play it safe with incremental upgrades, or bet the company on a revolutionary new design that could change everything?
👥 Manage Your People
Your team is your true asset. Hire brilliant engineers and sharp managers. Train them, pay them, and keep them satisfied, or watch competitors poach your best talent. A neglected workforce won't build you a market leader.
🏢 Build Your Physical Empire
Start in a modest office and grow it into a global high-tech campus. Buy, lease, or sell properties. Construct R&D labs and executive suites. Your real estate decisions directly impact employee morale, productivity, and your company's prestige.
📊 Dominate the Market
The competition never sleeps. Track market trends, analyze rival products, and time your releases perfectly. Will you undercut them on price, or crush them with superior performance? Compete for market share across decades of technological revolution.
Key Features
Historical Tech Journey: Start in 1986 and progress through real-world tech eras to 2026.
Deep CPU Engineering: Full control over processor architecture and design parameters.
Dual Manufacturing Model: Make your own chips or fabricate for competitors.
Personnel Management: Hire, train, and retain top industry talent.
Office Building & Real Estate: Acquire, customize, and expand your physical workspace.
Strategic R&D: Bet on risky technologies or refine proven architectures.
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English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Japanese
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1.中文翻译部分仍然有部分错误,如把市场占有部分的“游戏”翻译成“赌博”。 2.后期工艺制成进步没有明显改善CPU的功耗,而主板最大的1000W明显不够用。 3.希望后续更新出有关不同厂家的产品排名榜,可以根据各个性能模块以及市场占有率进行排名。 总的来说,作为玩过《PC Tycoon》、《Mobile Tycoon》系列的人,对这部新作很有期待,在漫长等待隔壁的《Devices Tycoon》过程中,这个游戏有望成为不错的过渡。
This game is serviceable and might have a future, but the business simulation element of the game is untenable. Not being able to compete on price alongside competitors completely destroys any semblance of entertainment. What is the point of making extremely competitive products if the game automatically adjusts the price of them to pennies?
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Hours played at review time, across 35 reviews with recorded playtime.
Сыровато, но есть куда расти. Желательно бы сделать мастерскую и накатить модов и игра расцветет большими красками, буду ждать обновлений.
enjoyed this game alot hope to see more update for it
我非常喜欢这类拟真硬核的游戏,但专业名词太多,所以机器翻译非常影响游玩体验,希望之后能有所改善
Играется интересно, визуал карты хороший, но визуал интерфейсов совсем простенький. Буду ожидать обновлений. Не хватает всплывающих подсказок параметрам при создании сокета.
Is 30 minutes of gameplay worth the money? Because after that time you will encounter game breaking bug. And not a single word from developer in three month. CPU engineering mechanic is amazing. Market simulation is dissapointing and office management is just boring distraction.
I Got this game to test out for free. I have always been a sucker for Tycoon games! So trying it out was a thing looked forward to. Its important for me to mention, its a test of the 0.4.0 Version. Please bare that in mind. So far i had a great time seeing my company grow. The fires you pretty much into an open sandbox with already a functioning company. Tutotial is a decent althou would have loved more in-depth of the creation´. Theres ALOT of micro-management. sliders to turn where since i am not a tech geni i had no idea what mean. But that being said. it was easy to start making money and gave me the urge to try and figure out what the slider meant for the future. Its very in depth with the Development of hardware to sell. I love the fact that when making your office you can choose to auto furniture all rooms. It makes the game play faster and dosent fell like a chore when you just wanna develop. You can also but in all furniture your self of course. Other games sometimes made me feel like it was a chore to build rooms like i was playing The sims! Here i can focus on other aspects way faster like i am playing Sim City and focus on other aspects again like Development and research! Building my company big with light speed and not like a chore. there is still a long way to go for the game. But so far the premise and ideas are intriguiging. Looking forward to play it some more and see a road map of what to come for the future :)
If you've ever wanted to run your own semiconductor company, this is the simulation you've been waiting for. This game is a dream come true for anyone who wants to design their own architectures and sockets under their own brand. The level of detail is insane, you aren't just clicking buttons. You're balancing pipelines, OoO windows, power profiles, and thermal limits, choosing between different lithographies, cache structures, and instruction sets (MMX, AVX, etc.). From managing your R&D departments and setting up office layouts to manual socket design (LGA/PGA/BGA) and choosing the right packaging, the sheer depth of the technical side is unmatched in games industry. Seeing your employees actually working at their desks adds a great layer of immersion to the management side of things. However, I am experiencing a noticeable optimization issue. Once I scale up to 6 offices filled to the brim with employees, the game hits a major stuttering wall. Specifically, whenever the text pop-ups appear over the employees' heads indicating their wage deductions, the frame rate drops to nearly zero for a moment. It makes the late-game experience quite jarring. Despite that, the developer update frequency has been impressive, so I’m confident this will get smoothed out. If you love deep, technical hardware simulations, this is definitely worth your time. Just be prepared for a bit of a bumpy road as it continues to improve.
Задумка и механика интересные, но баланса 0. ты можешь выпустить лучший проц по хар-кам и оценкам но он провалится в продаже или выпустить фуфло с оценками ниже 20 и это будет твой самый продаваемый товар (и такое происходит всегда)
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