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EntwicklerDeltaGames
PublisherDeltaGames
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Start in a garage in 1970 and build a corporation through more than a century of change. A realistic business tycoon sim where cash flow isn't profit, every strategy has a price, and there's no winning build — only the trade-offs you can survive.
From a garage to a global corporationFound your company in a single-car garage and steer it, month by month, from your first anxious invoice to a market-leading corporation — or watch it collapse under debt, competition, a cyber-attack, or your own decisions. Founders is a business simulation built on economic honesty: cash flow and profit are not the same thing, investments pay off late, and growth is never free.Money behaves the way it really doesCash flow ≠ profit. You can post a profit and still run out of money. Customers pay late, VAT is due next month, loan payments don't care about your mood.
Real financing. Overdrafts, bank loans gated by your credit rating, a business angel who wants a slice — every euro of capital has a cost.
Optional full accounting. Balance sheet, P&L and cash-flow statement — every number in the monthly report is traceable.No winning buildPrice too high and the market walks. Price too low and your margin suffocates as wages and rents drift upward across the decades. Skip marketing and you stay a small shop forever. Chase growth without a cash buffer and one bad quarter ends you. Every strategy carries its own risk.A changing world from 1970 to 2100Start as early as 1970 and live through the arrival of computers, the internet, search, social media and AI — each technology must be researched before it pays off, and falling behind the market standard costs you customers. Weather the 1987 crash, the dot-com bust, the 2008 crisis and more as they hit on their real dates. Cyber-attacks only exist once the world goes online.People, not headcountIndividual employees with skills, motivation and burnout — overtime buys output today and quits tomorrow.
Hiring is uncertain: interviews only hint at true skill. Competitors poach your best people.
Management overhead grows with the org — scale too fast without structure and the whole team stalls.A living, deterministic simulationLegal forms that actually matter, rent-vs-buy real estate, IT security that decays as you grow, two adaptive AI competitors, and historical market shocks. Everything runs on a seeded engine: the same seed plays out identically — perfect for sharing runs and comparing strategies.FeaturesRealistic economy: cash flow, P&L, taxes, credit rating, receivables
Era system 1970–2100 with technology research and historical events
IT security & cyber-attacks as a full game system
Marketing with real channels — phone, flyers, press, TV, then digital and AI
Deep staff simulation: skills, motivation, poaching, severance
Seeded, replayable engine — deterministic runs, shareable seeds
Full German, English, French and Spanish localization
Build it. Defend it. Try not to run out of cash.
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