
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
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 859 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
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Keeps getting better with every update. Just release the game already its been 10 years!
Great game!
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 863 reviews with recorded playtime.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ---{ 9 / 10 }---
Good software game, but it need polishing to became Best software game with automation. When you reach corporate level you are playing powerpoint game.
Game itself being an amazing simulation on one side, how dedicated devs are with their continuous updates on the other side. 10/10
Played through it multiple times, always fun to come back and see they've had updates, and try a new run.
Great game
Immense depth that gets even greater by adding mods (hardware for example). Plethora of options even for building your offices. But the game didn't click for me. I had revisited it many times trying to go through it but the mechanics and the economy didn't work for me. Felt a bit random at times. I mostly played it with cheats of unlimited money just to fool around. Nonetheless, the developers have done amazing job in building this complex business, supply chain, people management, software building game and I would recommend supporting them.
Pretty much the best dev sim game, in scope it eclipse many other titles in the genre, be it game that are too limited to game-dev and games that lack customisation in their feature. You can do basicaly anything IT related, be it game-dev, general dev, hardware production, being a general IT company, with proper integration and built-in interactivity between all of those since it's by design in vanilla, and if your niche isn't covered you have large modding possibilities to make it reality. Furthermore it offers various ways to play the game, be it for people who like to micromanage every small detail like me as well as those that want to automate everything to focus on other details or enjoy the game rather than RP a particular company.
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