Free Edition
Free
- Complete 36-month company campaign
- Build products and manage their lifecycles
- Hire and develop a team
- Manage cash, expenses, research, and growth
- Reach an IPO success or failure ending
Available August 29
Coming August 29
Build a company before time runs out.
You begin alone in a tiny office. Your employees become your deck. Every product launch is a gamble. You have 36 months to turn the company into an IPO, or watch it collapse.
Build it. Bet on it. Keep it alive.
Every product consumes time and cash. Every employee changes the cards in your deck. Every launch can move the company closer to an IPO or closer to bankruptcy.
One Founder. One Desk. One Deadline.
Start with a little cash and an empty office. Choose what to build, manage your monthly expenses, and ship something customers want before your runway disappears.
Your Team Is Your Deck
Hire specialists, develop their skills, and build a stronger deck of cards. The people you recruit determine which risks your company can afford to take.
Decide Where to Take the Risk
Choose your product’s audience, features, and scope. Then divide your deck of cards across Experience, Core Workflow, Architecture, Performance, and Reliability to build the product.
Risk Cards, Beat the Target
Each category has a target determined by complexity, feature choices and audience. Missing the wrong category target can blow your chances of a product’s success, but play your cards right and you might create a breakout release.
A Launch Changes the Company
Set your price, choose how much to spend on marketing, and face the market. Product quality, reach, and customer reception become users, revenue, and the runway for your next move.
Turn One Good Launch Into a Real Company
Research new capabilities, enter new markets, maintain aging products, and grow from a one-person office into a team capable of reaching the public market.
Reach the IPO or Lose the Company
You have 36 months to build a credible portfolio, sustainable revenue, a capable team, and the public trust required to go public. If the cash runs out first, the company is finished.
Finish the campaign for free. Go further with Full Access.
Minimum Viable Deck launches with a Free Edition and an optional Full Access upgrade. The Free Edition includes the complete core campaign through its IPO ending. Full Access expands the company you can build and lets successful founders continue after going public.
Full Access
$9.42$4.71
50% off with waitlist coupon
One-time purchase. No subscription.
- 5 additional product categories
- 6 additional customer markets
- 21 additional product features
- 53 additional research nodes
- Custom founders and rare Star Employees
- Innovation Campus and 15 additional decorations
- Three cloud-save slots
- Continued play after a successful IPO
- Build custom office spaces and backgrounds
Available August 29
Join the Waitlist
Join the waitlist before August 29 and we’ll send you a 50%-off Full Access coupon when the game launches. You’ll also receive exclusive founder cosmetics for your account.