Software Inc.

Tycoon/Management/Simulation

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Create your own headquarters

Buy plots in a huge map to create and customize your own building. No grid necessary, just make sure there's coffee.

Design your own products

Craft and manufacture software and hardware products, corner your market, defeat the competition, and make them work for you.

Manage your employees

Create and optimize teams of employees with different skills and demands to release products in a timely fashion. Why not poach a big shot lead designer from a competitor to give you the edge?

Simulate the market

Every playthrough of Software Inc. is different, as the market is simulated and randomized. Each action you take affects how history plays out.

Current features
  • Build, furnish, style and maintain office buildings up to ten stories + basement, on an enormous land, using a free-form building system with simple copy-paste tools
  • Hire employees to design, develop, support, update, research and market software and hardware in teams
  • Build roads, paths, bike racks and parking to ease commuting for your employees
  • Tend to your employees' needs, demands, skills and specializations, while making sure each team has compatibility and cohesion
  • Customize your own founder or split the company between a team of founders
  • Design and manufacture your own software and hardware products and franchises
  • Compete in a simulated and randomly populated market by selling your products, taking on contract work, creating patents, making deals and trading stocks
  • Set up your own servers for products, source control and running your own online store
  • Hire staff to repair your furniture and computers, clean your office, make food for your employees, transport goods, secure your offices or greet visitors
  • Mod what kind of software you can develop, add your own furniture, upload your building blueprints, add support for your language or write your own code to modify the game
  • Delegate important tasks to your team leaders, such as managing development cycles and human resources
  • Play against up to 3 other players in the same map or cooperate with your friends by delegating work tasks, manufacturing jobs and server hosting

Get the DRM-free version of Software Inc.

Software Inc. is currently in Early Access, meaning it is still under development. Core features are subject to change and the game might be unstable in areas.

The purchase includes:
  • Immediate access to the current version
  • All future updates
  • The final release
  • Windows, Mac and Linux builds
  • No ads and no In-app purchases, ever
The purchase does not include (Only available on Steam):
  • A Steam key
  • Cloud saves
  • Online multiplayer (This version is LAN only, and needs manual port forwarding for playing outside the local network)
  • Modding through the Steam Workshop

What does DRM-free mean?
DRM(Digital Rights Management)-free means the game does not include any anti-piracy measures, such as requiring an online connection or a key to unlock. You just download the game files and they are yours to keep forever.

Get Software Inc. on Steam

News


Patch notes for Beta 1.8.28

2025-11-06

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.30


Changes

  • You can now re-order columns by dragging (remembered per save)

  • Added leader column to team window, hidden by default (right click to show)

  • Made floor grills colorable

Fixes

  • Fixed some lists not loading hide status properly

  • Fixed multiplayer saves not working due to receiving corrupted building data from clients

  • Fixed game reloading all custom images when there is a change, instead of just the changed image


Patch notes for Beta 1.8.29


Changes

  • Rebalanced long commute complaints

  • Some complaints now disappear once the complaint has been handled (so you get a chance to fix the issue)

  • Added ability to report user submitted logos for review

  • Added ability to place custom wall art on the outside of buildings

Fixes

  • Fixed error when moving object from a snapped position to the floor

  • Fixed not being able to move some objects in place on tables

  • Fixed being able to clip an existing object into another existing object on a table

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.28


Changes

  • You can now place multiple decorative items anywhere on the surface of shelves, tables and desks (For modding: Open a snap point in the editor and click Edit/Generate surface to make a surface and Snap options -> Surface Snap Radius to make an item placable on surfaces)

  • You can now add image files to the game and decorate your walls with them

  • Added ability to change age of founders

  • Added more granular control over HR role assignment

  • Added option to render grass in outdoor areas as well

  • Clarified amount of released bonds in investment window

  • Undoing room, path and road construction now brings back trees

Fixes

  • Fixed using wrong difficulty name in character creation menu when joining a multiplayer game

  • Fixed not being able to undo moving furniture outside

In other news: Over 2000 logos have been submitted by you since February 2024 (And manually approved (I see you)).

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.27

2025-10-07

Changes

  • Ceiling fans can now also be repaired from some distance

  • Temporary staff salaries have been adjusted up

  • Loan interest has been adjusted up

  • AI companies will now take tech level dating into account when picking frameworks

  • AI companies will now rush to update a product on release, if it has very outdated tech levels

  • Improved currency short form mode to show decimals if number is short

  • Steam profanity filter has been integrated for Steam version in multiplayer games

Fixes

  • Fixed not getting reputation from development deals and notification about IP purchase cancelling deal

  • Fixed people getting stuck in the air in some cases after deleting a multi-story building

  • Patched Unity vulnerability CVE-2025-59489

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.24

2025-09-02

Beta 1.8.26 fixes instances of employees not sitting in chairs correctly

Beta 1.8.25 fixes instances of game bugging out when trying to save a multiplayer game with multiple buildings and players

Changes

  • Wall mounted furniture can now be placed across wall intersections

  • Ceiling mounted lamps can now be repaired from some distance, allowing it to be placed over tables

  • Made employees prefer going through elevator shafts, to reduce traversal time

  • Elevator shafts can now be snapped together, adding ability to place them in atriums without balconies for support

  • Past day/month income is back to net income instead of gross income (takes a day for old saves to update)

  • Development progress detail panel can now be grouped by specializations

  • Removed the ability to collapse a lot of modal windows, to avoid confusion

  • Couriers Will no longer loiter longer than 10 minutes if they are holding boxes to be delivered

  • The host can now cheat money in for other players, but everyone will get a message about it

  • Project management effectiveness drain is now controlled by amount of active tasks instead of being constant and is uncapped

  • Added effectiveness drain bars to project mangement window and made tooltip clearer

Fixes

  • Fixed windows and doors sometimes not being copied over during cloning when sitting betwen indoor and outdoor areas

  • Fixed last day/month product income not resetting properly every day in some cases

  • Fixed some bugs having to do with deleting project management presets

  • Fixed some animations not loading properly when loading saved game, causing actively ridden bikes to be abandoned on load

  • Fixed subsidiary autonomy not being synchronized in multiplayer

  • Fixed retired lead designers not being synchronized in multiplayer for subsidiaries

  • Fixed AI not taking updates into consideration when picking frameworks

  • The tax report can now be filed with 0% tax rate if tax fraud has occured duxring the year, to avoid an audit

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