Computer Tycoon v0.9.9.16b

Computer Tycoon - это a grand strategy and business management hybrid about computer evolution. Begin your journey in the 1970s and lead a small company through six decades of technological change - research and develop hardware and operating systems, manage infrastructure and production, run marketing campaigns, grow your team of experts, discover and promote video game hits on your platforms, expand across the globe, and strive to dominate the market or push humanity toward the technological singularity.

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Key gameplay features
- Mix of grand strategy and tycoon mechanics: manage a world map, resources, and competing companies rather than placing buildings or furniture.
- Real simulated market: see competitors' products and pricing and compete directly.
- Deep product design: choose trade-offs like computing power, features, price, prestige, portability, or ease of use for operating systems - your design decisions strongly affect success.
- Research timeline up to near-future tech (playable to 2034): follow hardware and software inventions from early models to future concepts.
- Company growth and global expansion: build offices, factories, labs, and adapt to local labor and education differences.
- Team and business management: hire and lead managers, balance budgets between R&D, production, marketing, and expansion; recruit, train, or poach talent.
- Multiple map modes: Historical, Randomized, and Vanilla.
- Sandbox-friendly options: Beginner difficulty and the ability to disable opponents for a more relaxed experience.

Victory conditions
- Become a monopoly or reach the technological singularity - or simply survive and thrive across 60 years of computer history.

Early Access note
- The game is currently in EA alpha. Expect bugs, missing or simplified features, and ongoing changes.

Features implemented
- Start a computer manufacturer in the 1970s
- Design and create hardware: home, personal, portable, and handheld computers
- Grand strategy-level world market control
- Research technologies from earliest models to near-future computers
- Expand industrial sites across the globe
- Hire and lead managers; advertise and train staff (or steal talent)

Features not implemented yet
- Technology trading and diplomacy with opponents (similar to Master of Orion II or Civilization)
- Random events
- Achievements / Steam integration
- Localizations not yet available for: Hungarian, German, Chinese, French, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese

Experience a detailed, historically anchored simulation of the computer industry where strategic decisions and long-term planning matter as much as individual products.
[spoiler=Steam Update Info 01.06.2026] VERSION 0.9.9.16 is going live in the Default Branch and NEWS! Hello Tycoons, The Open Beta Branch moves to the Default Branch!So first of all, the important stuff that will affect players right now! I'm moving the Open Beta Branch's current build (v0.9.9.16) to the Normal Branch. I won't even change the version number. I will simply move it to the normal branch. It means that if somebody installs the game now - that's the version that will be installed automatically.This is a big deal because many of you still haven't played that version. It contains years of added features and improvements, and after all this time, I think it's ready to be pushed to the main branch. It definitely has some flaws, but compared to the original version, it's still superior in many ways.Moving it to the main branch will also help me gather more feedback, which will be critical for the upcoming updates.This means that your current saves will no longer work unless you opt into a legacy branch that I will create for the previous default branch version (v0.9.8.03). This way, you can finish your current games.Here's how to do that. Don't worry, it's not complicated: https://steamcommunity.com/app/686680/discussions/0/4031350783733793401/ (This is where you can opt in into different versions/branches)Current Development: The CTN FeatureI'm close to finishing the main new feature of the game: CTN, which stands for Computer Tycoon News.Back when I played Master of Orion 2 as a kid (a timeless strategy game), I really loved the news show that talked about recent events in the game and occasionally gave feedback on how the different empires were doing. CTN is somet... [leech=https://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/1833968530898700]Read more in Steam[/leech][/spoiler]