
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
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Reviews
One of the deepest games (in terms of mechanics) that I've ever played
Amazing game!
Good software management game, you should try it.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 863 reviews with recorded playtime.
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To be honest this game its great game, i dont think this game an early access, its already feels like full game for me, maybe just need more opsional and variant for rent buildings, but for otherthings i think its improve alot from the first time i purchase this game, and the dev still working on this game never got abandoned and still updated it, hope the devs keep improve the game with maybe an big update like graphic changes or more complex gameplay.
Fun management sim with building mechanics, have really enjoyed it and seeing it come such a long way over the years
After your daily routine at an IT company, do you feel like you could improve your work processes? Test yourself in this software developer simulator. Understand how much you can earn from shares of truly profitable IT companies. Work for several years to earn a reward — hide it, or it will be taken from you the very next night. After this game, you will understand why they don't want to raise your salary and why you need a ladder in building. Try, try, and try again! Here, you can make mistakes! What I'm trying to say is that the game is very detailed and has potential for further development.
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Excellent software development business sim.
BEST GAME EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Played for a few hours years ago when it first came out EA, it was pretty simple. Played recently for even longer, a lot of content and mechanics have been added to this game and it's been amazing. Very detail oriented simulating an actual software business down to filing your tax reports. Well worth that solo development wait. 10/10
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