Software Inc.

Software Inc. is a business simulation about building a company that designs and sells software and hardware. You hire and manage employees, develop products, compete in a simulated market and can take over rival businesses. Each playthrough differs because the market is randomized and simulated, and your actions affect how events unfold.

Build your offices

Buy plots across a huge map and design, furnish, style and maintain buildings of up to ten stories plus a basement. The free-form building system does not require a grid and includes copy-and-paste tools. You can also build roads, paths, bike racks and parking to make commuting easier. Make sure there is coffee.

Manage your company

Hire employees to design, develop, support, update, research and market software and hardware in teams. Balance their needs, demands, skills and specializations, while building teams with suitable compatibility and cohesion. You can customize one founder or divide the company among a team of founders, poach a lead designer from a competitor and delegate development cycles and human resources to team leaders.

Staff can repair furniture and computers, clean offices, prepare food, transport goods, secure buildings and greet visitors. You can also set up servers for your products, source control and an online store.

Make and sell products

Design and manufacture software and hardware products and franchises. Sell them in the market, take contract work, create patents, make deals and trade stocks to compete with other businesses and pursue market share.

Multiplayer and modding

Play on the same map with up to three other players, or cooperate by delegating work tasks, manufacturing jobs and server hosting. Mods can change the kinds of software you can develop, add furniture, share building blueprints, add language support or modify the game with your own code.