
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
It's a good game if you like a mix of the sims and a tycoon style management game. The title does not quite do it justice though. You are going for money and software is only ONE of the ways you can get it, there are many paths, you can make the original Xbox or become the original SQUAD that was a marketing company before it made Kerbal Space Program. It's fun, probably worth your time if you like other management games.
Gutes Spiel und aktive Weiterentwicklung. Kann es jedem nur empfehlen.
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Languages: English
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You will not find a better IT simulation management game for £20. You want to run a gaming company? you can do that. You want to build the next Mircosoft? you can do that. With all the Mods on the workshop aswell there isnt much you cant do. The dev is super responsive and is constantly making updates to the game before the release. I have had this game for years now and the current version feels like a completely different game to the one I bought all those years ago.
It's definately got a learning curve but I plan to get better at the game and try to understand everything.
Verliere mich immer wieder in stunden langen runden. Für mich ein Mega gutes und spaß bringendes Game.
Отлично.
Keep coming back to this game. Always a good experience.
ohh yeahhhh
Genuinely one of the most in depth and entertaining games I have ever played. 8.5/10 would recommend
Super addictive management game, had lots of fun trying different pathways; hardware, software, games, etc. It has a bit of a learning curve but soon enough you'll find yourself kicking off a gaming session after work and wonder why your wife is asking why you're still on the PC at 2 in the morning.
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