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Build a tech company from the ground up: design offices, manage staff, develop products, and compete in a shifting market.
Released 01 May 2015
Design Gridless Offices
Release Software Products
Manufacture Tech Hardware
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.
Developed by Coredumping · Published by Coredumping
You lead a technology company, starting with a founder and a small operation. Build and furnish offices on purchased land, then hire employees with different skills to form and organize teams.
Develop and sell software and hardware, take contract work, and handle research, patents, marketing, support, and updates. Products can be distributed digitally or through physical manufacturing, while server services offer another way to do business.
Manage employee needs, skills, pay, and working conditions alongside company finances and facilities. Grow your operation while competing in a simulated market, with options including stock trading, deals, and acquiring other businesses.
Players often praise the depth and range of ways to run a technology business, from developing products and managing staff to building offices and pursuing alternative revenue streams. Many enjoy experimenting with different approaches and returning for new runs; some also value playing with friends. Others find the systems difficult to learn or too demanding to manage, especially as a company grows, and some criticize project management or early-game finances.
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
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 15 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Software Inc. supports multiplayer on a shared map. The description states you can play against up to 3 other players or cooperate by delegating work tasks, manufacturing jobs, and server hosting. Store features list Online PvP, LAN PvP, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op, and Cross-Platform Multiplayer. Single-player is also supported. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The game is moddable and supports Steam Workshop. The description says players can mod software types, furniture, languages, and game code, but no specific multiplayer-only mod behavior is stated. |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
