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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 6,062 reviews of which 4,942 were positive and 1,120 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 12.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 10.97€ on Instant Gaming.

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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System 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.

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May 2025
Not bad strategy (tycoon) game! 5/10 + Good visual style. + Ability to create your own internet platform like Steam, YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, etc. - Monotonous music. - Repetitive gameplay. - Lots of grind. - Bad tutorial. A game that is interesting at first becomes boring and monotonous over time. I recommend this game only to fans of the tycoon genre!
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March 2025
If you’re into micromanaging and have an unhealthy obsession with virtual numbers, this might scratch that itch.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Startup Company is currently priced at 12.99€ on Steam.

Startup Company is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.99€ on Steam.

Startup Company received 4,942 positive votes out of a total of 6,062 achieving a rating of 7.92.
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Startup Company was developed and published by Hovgaard Games.

Startup Company is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Startup Company is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Startup Company is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Startup Company is a single-player game.

Startup Company does not currently offer any DLC.

Startup Company is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Startup Company does not support Steam Remote Play.

Startup Company is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Startup Company
12.99€ Visit Store 🔥 -16% 12.99€ 10.97€ Visit Store
7.9
4,942
1,120
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Hovgaard Games
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Hovgaard Games
Release 10 Apr 2020
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