Startup Company

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

Startup Company is a management, simulation and economy game developed and published by Hovgaard Games.
Released on April 10th 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 15 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Turkish, Italian, Hungarian, Korean, Japanese, Dutch, Czech and Polish.

It has received 6,007 reviews of which 4,901 were positive and 1,106 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 12.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Startup Company into these genres:

Management Simulation Economy Strategy Indie Casual Sandbox Building Singleplayer Early Access Crafting Moddable Real-Time with Pause Isometric Resource Management Clicker Family Friendly Capitalism Great Soundtrack Base-Building

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 or similar
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.9
Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 or similar
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: Only 64-bit

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 and later
Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 or similar
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: Only 64-bit. The game may be working on other distributions, but not guaranteed or supported.

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

Performance: 9/10 Bugs: 8/10 Gameplay: 7.5/10 Difficulty: Easy to learn, hard to master Lore: 2/10 Price: 10/10 Worth the price + no DLCs Overall: 8.5/10 Very fun game to kill time

Sept. 2024

This is a very similar experience to Game Dev Tycoon, but just different enough not to be stale. Still, once you get the hang of how things work, it does end up with a lot of sitting around watching numbers go up while you wait for things to be finished, while micromanaging employees. If that's your jam, you'll probably like this game. For me, I eventually lost interest once I figured out how to make the company profitable and then was basically just waiting to unlock more stuff and do more of the same.

Aug. 2024

Game is fun at first but once you get mid to late game it gets super boring with no new mechanics or features.

Aug. 2024

This game is / was a lot of fun at first. As you continue to develop your company / app it gets pretty rough in the later game. Two particularly troublesome parts that don't make sense. 1) DDOS attacks are way too frequent - when you put in DDOS protection the customers dislike it. When you couple this with needing ad's for revenue and things like ad-block prevention - you can't seem to keep positive user satisfaction - even with many other 100% modules. 2) Ad-block is way too pervasive at the higher level. It was 60% and eventually 90%+. When you use the obfuscation to still be able to sell ad's, it impacts customer satisfaction and people leave the site. Overall, a lot of fun early on but doing the later stage / larger company stuff doesn't seem very well tuned. They should make a service you can subscribe to for DDOS prevention that doesn't impact customer satisfaction as exists in the real world. Alternatively, they should re-work the Satisfaction system. You can have 7+ modules with 100% satisfaction, but they aren't cumulative so the more value the site has doesn't matter. It shouldn't take detractors away from the sub-total, it should be cumulative.

May 2024

very realistic. It's a like running a company. But later on it becomes an idle game. You just have no incentive to develop higher level stuff when you can just exploit low level ones.

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12.99€

7.9

4,901

1,106

Online players

Developer

Hovgaard Games

Publisher

Hovgaard Games

Release 10 Apr 2020

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