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

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. This purchase does not include a Steam key.

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

Note that the difference between the Steam release and the version you can buy on this site, is that the Steam version will require that Steam is running when you launch Software Inc. The version sold on this site will not have any Steam synchronization. Buying the game on Steam does not include the version sold on this site.


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.

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News


Patch notes for Beta 1.6.8

2023-05-22

Changes

  • Reduced saturation of generated team colors

  • Added button to auto color teams based on skills and meeting time

  • Changed CCTV cycle rate from every 30 minutes to every 15 minutes


Fixes

  • In-house products can no longer receive best product or designer awards

  • Fixed some bugs in the furniture modding system introduced in the last patch

  • Proper handling of modded furniture where the primary color can't be edited by player, but secondary or tertiary can

Logos and awards officially out

2023-05-19

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Full patch notes for Beta 1.6


Changes

  • All companies now have procedurally generated logos

  • Added logo editor

  • Added yearly awards with 4 categories

  • Added shelf furniture that supports table lamp, table plants and awards for now

  • Heavily improved schedule window and made it interactable + added shortcuts in team and staff window

  • Added complaint when commute times are above 3 hours

  • AI companies can no longer dilute shares if one company owns more than 50%

  • Founder no longer reports precious metals

  • Only realized gains and losses from investments are now taxed

  • Improved furniture interaction distance visualization to work outside as well

  • Added furniture interaction distance to couch, which is 50 meter radius

  • The effect of mass layoffs on applicant appeal is now relative to company size

  • More in-game UI elements are now affected by UI scaling, e.g. the context menu

  • Team colors are now randomly chosen on creation

  • Improved random color selection for servers, teams and assembly lines to space colors out more

  • Save times in save window now use AM/PM based on player options


Fixes

  • Fixed chance of getting missing sink warning, when employees are getting sick for other reasons, e.g. Just the flu trait

  • Fixed taking a huge performance hit with destroy wall tool active in some cases

  • Fixed random name generator getting stuck on a word after having used it 100 times

  • Fixed 2 color materials not getting copied correctly when splitting room

  • The AI will no longer place bids on IP that is owned by a lead designer, since it doesn't concern the company

  • Fixed bug when undoing selling plot that caused an atrium to get removed

  • Fixed replacing wall mounted furniture on the outside of a building placing it inside

  • Fixed not being able to put company logo and title on both sides of a wall

  • Fixed furniture placed on wall mounted furniture not moving with it when using wall drag tool

  • Fixed wage negotiation window not closing if the only employee on the list was poached while the window was shown

  • Removed review work from secondary task selection

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Patch notes for Beta 1.6.7


Changes

  • Only realized gains and losses from investments are now taxed

  • Improved furniture interaction distance visualization to work outside as well

  • Added furniture interaction distance to couch, which is 50 meter radius

  • Added option of making schedule window ugly and confusing by supporting AM/PM

  • Save times in save window now use AM/PM based on player options


Fixes

  • Fixed recent addition to code modding breaking some code mods

Beta 1.6.1 out on unstable branch

2023-05-08

Click here to see how to join the Unstable branch.

Patch notes


Changes

  • All companies now have procedurally generated logos

  • Added logo editor

  • Added yearly awards with 4 categories

  • Added shelf furniture that supports table lamp, table plants and awards for now

  • Founder no longer reports precious metals

  • The effect of mass layoffs on applicant appeal is now relative to company size

  • More in-game UI elements are now affected by UI scaling, e.g. the context menu


Fixes

  • Removed review work from secondary task selection

  • Fixed taking a huge performance hit with destroy wall tool active in some cases

  • Fixed wage negotiation window not closing if the only employee on the list was poached while the window was shown

  • Fixed chance of getting missing sink warning, when employees are getting sick for other reasons, e.g. Just the flu trait

  • The AI will no longer place bids on IP that is owned by a lead designer, since it doesn't concern the company

  • Fixed 2 color materials not getting copied correctly when splitting room

  • Fixed bug when undoing selling plot that caused an atrium to get removed

Some logos to try:

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Patch notes for Beta 1.6.2


Fixes

  • Fixed logo editor breaking when placing a shape or image directly on top of an existing connection

  • Fixed position tool in logo editor not working with UI anti-aliasing turned on (All platforms but Linux by default)

  • Fixed logo editor being broken with UI scale above 100%

  • Fixed logo editor sometimes breaking when breaking connection down the line of a finished logo

  • Fixed logo editor breaking when trying to save with a logo that is missing connections

Patch notes for Beta 1.6.3


Fixes

  • Fixed cases of logo editor breaking when disconnecting nodes

  • Old save games using the modded bookshelf called "Shelf" will now load correctly

  • Fixed replacing wall mounted furniture on the outside of a building placing it inside

  • Fixed not being able to put company logo and title on both sides of a wall

Patch notes for Beta 1.6.4


Fixes

  • Fixed last update breaking logo editor completely

  • Fixed logo editor breaking if color node had invalid second input

Patch notes for Beta 1.6.5


Changes

  • Awards are now announced in newspaper regardless of whether player was nominated

  • Awards are now given to inventor of product, rather than current owner of IP

  • Designer award is now given to owner of the winning product instead of employer of designer, to avoid poaching exploit

  • Tech levels are no longer considered for best product award

  • Having employees quit or being caught comitting tax fraud disqualifies player from employer award for that year


Fixes

  • Fixed furniture placed on wall mounted furniture not moving with it when using wall drag tool

  • Fixed random name generator getting stuck on a word after having used it 100 times

Patch notes for Beta 1.6.6


Changes

  • Heavily improved schedule window and made it interactable + added shortcuts in team and staff window

  • Added complaint when commute times are above 3 hours

  • AI companies can no longer dilute shares if one company owns more than 50%

  • Team colors are now randomly chosen on creation

  • Improved random color selection for servers, teams and assembly lines to space colors out more


Fixes

  • Fixed awards being visible in construction category after loading save

  • Fixed random cars getting company logo after enacting company car benefit


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