Software Inc.

[Franceska]

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.

• Build, furnish and maintain office buildings up to ten stories + basement, on an enormous Land
• Hire employees to design, develop, support, research and market software in teams
• Build roads and parking to ease commuting for your employees
• Tend to your employees' needs, demands, skills and specializations, while making sure each team has compatible personalities
• Customize your own employee avatar
• Create your own software products and franchises
• Compete in a simulated or event-driven market by selling your products, taking on contract work or trading stocks
• Hire staff to repair your furniture and computers, and clean your office
• Mod what kind of software you can develop, what kind of companies will be simulated, game scenarios, missions, personalities and random name generators
• Delegate important tasks to your team leaders, such as managing development cycles and human resources
• Set up your own servers for products, source control and running your own online store

 

System requirements:

MINIMUM:

OS: Windows 7

Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Graphics: 512 MB dedicated video RAM, Shader Model 3.0

DirectX: Version 9.0c

Storage: 500 MB available space

Additional Notes: Laptops with power saving graphic processors might need to be configured for Software Inc.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/362620/

The avatar creation screen is outdated. It now looks like this (minus the enabled mods of course):

The game is developed by only 1 guy but provide tons of fun, and more ways to make your company. If you want to focus on an all games only company, release only games. Want to be into the computer OS scene? Release computer OSes. Virus scanners? Also possible. With mods, you can even do more than the huge amount of possibilities you can run your company.

It's a lot of fun to play.

[Presidential]

I might give this a shot. I like sims.

[Franceska]

I might give this a shot. I like sims.

I recently got back into it after having played Alpha 7,and Alpha 8 (not officially released because the Dev isn't satisfied with the amount of fixes yet plus he's not confident it's stable enough for an official release) is a lot of fun. Workshop integration, blueprints, and more makes this game a lot better.

 

The developer is very committed to the game and by supporting this early access, you won't be disappointed (there's a lot of markets you can try to dominate, or go bankrupt when attempting so)

 

There's automation, if you want to focus on building and have your lead take care of hiring people, that's what you want.

 

If you want to manually control who gets hired that's possible too. There's a stock market, so you can invest and double your money down the line - or lose money.

 

It's a lot more in depth than Game Dev Tycoon.