
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
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Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software and hardware, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

Buy plots in a huge map to create and customize your own building. No grid necessary, just make sure there's coffee.

Craft and manufacture software and hardware products, corner your market, defeat the competition, and make them work for you.

Create and optimize teams of employees with different skills and demands to release products in a timely fashion. Why not poach a big shot lead designer from a competitor to give you the edge?

Every playthrough of Software Inc. is different, as the market is simulated and randomized. Each action you take affects how history plays out.

Build, furnish, style and maintain office buildings up to ten stories + basement, on an enormous land, using a free-form building system with simple copy-paste tools
Hire employees to design, develop, support, update, research and market software and hardware in teams
Build roads, paths, bike racks and parking to ease commuting for your employees
Tend to your employees' needs, demands, skills and specializations, while making sure each team has compatibility and cohesion
Customize your own founder or split the company between a team of founders
Design and manufacture your own software and hardware products and franchises
Compete in a simulated and randomly populated market by selling your products, taking on contract work, creating patents, making deals and trading stocks
Set up your own servers for products, source control and running your own online store
Hire staff to repair your furniture and computers, clean your office, make food for your employees, transport goods, secure your offices or greet visitors
Mod what kind of software you can develop, add your own furniture, upload your building blueprints, add support for your language or write your own code to modify the game
Delegate important tasks to your team leaders, such as managing development cycles and human resources
Play against up to 3 other players in the same map or cooperate with your friends by delegating work tasks, manufacturing jobs and server hosting
Updates
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Reviews
I bought this game a decade ago, tried it, and completely forgot about it until recently when I realized the game had been updated consistently the entire time. For free!!! I am so impressed with the devs commitment to this game! Not to mention the game has some serious depth (there are so many ways to play) and multiplayer with friends is perfect!! Highly recommend.
If you ever wanted to feel smart and dumb at the same time, buy this game This game taught me that coffee machines are more important than employees You don’t play Software Inc. You live Software Inc.
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Languages: English
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[h1]Si Software Inc. était une personne, je lui écrirais une lettre d’amour…[/h1] Je ne compte même plus les heures que j’ai passées sur Software Inc. – et honnêtement, j’y reviens tout le temps. Je pense que c’est le seul jeu qui m’a autant fait réfléchir sur l’organisation, la gestion, la micro-optimisation… et même la déco de bureau! [b]Pourquoi j’y retourne encore et encore ?[/b] – La liberté est totale : tu construis ton bâtiment de rêve, gères chaque équipe, fais le ménage dans les horaires, inventes de nouveaux logiciels, consoles, systèmes d’exploitation… TOUT! – Les scénarios et la rejouabilité sont quasi infinis : tu peux partir de zéro à chaque fois et rien ne se passe jamais pareil (j’ai littéralement un carnet d’idées juste pour Software Inc., c’est grave docteur?) – Le système de simulation est ultra poussé, du recrutement à la gestion de crise, des bugs au marketing. Tu peux micro-manager ou tout déléguer, bref, c’est TOI le patron (enfin!). – Y’a toute la satisfaction de voir son “petit projet garage” devenir une méga-corporation, racheter les rivaux… ou juste ruiner la concurrence en lançant un OS à la Windows 95, mais sans les écrans bleus. [b]Côté dev ?[/b] Le gars derrière ce bijou est ultra présent. Même après toutes ces années, il écoute la communauté, balance des updates majeures et prend le temps de peaufiner chaque détail. C’est un vrai passionné et ça se sent. [b]Des défauts ?[/b] – Oui, tu vas perdre la notion du temps, et non, ce n’est pas remboursable chez Steam. – Les premiers pas peuvent sembler durs pour les nouveaux, mais après, c’est le paradis du management. – J’ai parfois eu envie d’embaucher des “vrais” employés pour m’aider IRL, mais bizarrement, ça ne marche que dans le jeu. [hr][/hr] [b]Bref, Software Inc., c’est LE jeu de gestion ultime pour tous ceux qui aiment construire, optimiser, et recommencer. Pour moi, c’est un incontournable – et si tu me croises dans les forums, c’est sûrement parce que j’ai replongé… encore une fois.[/b]
Um jogo incrivelmente detalhado, fazendo qualquer triple AAA com vergonha de sua obra, estranhamente bem otimizado, isso sendo a minha primeira impressão. Bem, o jogo tem o grande foco no desenvolvimento de softwares, ou programas, no que você preferir, mas não se delimita a esse ramo, temos impressões, pesquisas, suporte, contabilidade, jurídica, e criar uma espécie de "Steam" no jogo, isso se aprende ao longo do tempo, é até de certa forma rápida, basta ter paciência. No quesito de softwares, temos alguns ramos, como sistemas operacionais, seja para Pc, consoles ou telefone, ou até jogos, como de RTS e simulação, um antivírus, ferramenta de áudio, software de escritório e um editor 2D, com certos detalhes incríveis, o Software Inc é rico em coisinhas que de primeira nem se percebe na primeira jogatina.
Você pode sonegar imposto. 10/10
I consider this game as a 4X game. Start as a single developer, grow to a corporation of over 400 employees. Crush the competition... go big on the stock market... invest in illegal gold... get caught cause you did not have a big enough accounting division... lose all your best employees... go bankrupt... start again. I love this game.
I don't normally write a review, but Software Inc is the best Simulation game that I have ever played. It is better than Sim City, and it is better than Civilization; it is better than anything else that I can think of that I have played. At 1,350 hours in, I am still learning new in-game strategies; coming up with new efficient team configurations, and game-play styles. Currently playing on very hard, the simulated market is more than competitive. Using console commands to cheat or not, provide so many hours of entertainment, that this game is deeply gratifying, and is worth the cost compared to the entertainment value that it provides. I can play it over and over again on any difficulty, On any difficulty, I still find it to be entertaining. The updates to the core game seem to be common; every few months or so. The attention to detail is more than apparent. I highly recommend this game to anyone that is seeking an in-depth software simulation game that is continually being upgraded and updated by a devoted developer. I highly recommend this game for anyone that appreciates a single-player strategy game with an emphasis on turn-based strategy gaming. It is a game that I return to every three months or so.
Excellent company/biz sim. I'm a software engineer and after being at work all day...it's good to come home, fire this game up, and run a company the way I want. 10/10
TLDR Its a great game only as complex as you want to make it as constantly growing, I am super excited to see where it goes in the future! I absolutely love this game. I have been playing it for a few years now and it has grown so much, At the time it didn't really have much. To some that was great and wasn't too complex. The game is certainly complex but I think that it is to the point of complexity that would make sense for running a company. Every time that I start the game I try out a different feature, for example last week I tried out project management because it was too complex for me. I think that is one of the positives of the game. You can disregard anything that you think is too complex and just make masterpieces. I love that you can make deals with publishing companies and your deals will become better as your relationship grows. For example I had a product that sold something like 25 million copies after that the publisher's deal was 22% down to 0% after a 4.2 recoup. That is the sort of thing that I love about this game. not to mention I haven't even touched the hardware side of the game. I do wish that you could leave your main company after it got big enough and make a subsidiary and basically restart to make a different kind of product like for example I would love it if I could make a subsidiary and make a hardware company.
I remember when this game was awesome, start a company and take over the tech industry. There were talks in the beginning of making certain kinds of software or apps for cell phones... now the game has become too much to manage. The best i have seen yet is being fined for not having fire sprinklers but fire sprinklers arent an option to build in the year i am playing. what a joke. Not to mention Michael doesnt like Michelle.... the game became more of a sim 4 reboot poorly done instead of a software simulator.
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