About the Game
Become a Software Mogul
In Code Tycoon, you start in 1980 in a garage with nothing but a computer and big dreams. Take on contracts, develop software and work your way up from a one-man operation to a corporate headquarters with 100 employees.
Experience the History of Software Development
Unlock over 20 programming languages – from BASIC and COBOL to Python, JavaScript and Rust. Each language has its strengths and weaknesses. Choose the right technology for every contract.
Manage Your Company
- 📋 Projects – Take on contracts from startups to government agencies. Each client has their own requirements, budgets and deadlines.
- 👥 Employees – Hire junior developers, seniors, specialists and QA testers. Train them and keep them satisfied.
- 🏢 Office Upgrades – Expand from the garage to a small office, then to an open-plan office and finally to corporate headquarters.
- 💰 Finances – Keep track of revenue, salaries, rent and license costs.
Develop Real Software
Each project consists of features you need to implement. Bugs will appear along the way – find and fix them before you deliver. The fewer bugs, the happier the client and the better your reputation.
Grow With Your Clients
Build long-term client relationships. Satisfied clients return with bigger contracts and request migration projects when new technologies become available.
Features
- 🕹️ Over 40 years of gameplay (1980–2020+)
- 💻 20+ unlockable programming languages
- 📊 15+ project types (web apps, mobile apps, databases, games, and more)
- 🎵 Era-authentic music (8-bit chiptunes → synthwave)
- 🏆 Skill system with specializations
- 🌍 Available in 30 languages
Screenshots
10 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Bug Fixes
- Auto-assign staffs the contracts in the order the board shows them. Sorted by days left, the most urgent job is the one that gets a team; before, the cards were reordered while staffing still walked the order you had dragged them into, so a card at the top could sit untouched. Dragging still sets the order whenever the board is sorted by priority.
- The board's sort is kept in the save. It used to fall back to the dragged order every time the game started.
Bug Fixes
- The founder's own training can now be stopped - including a train-to-max plan. The running course's language card offers Cancel; the fee already paid stays spent, levels gained stay.
New Features
- Products can be renamed at any time. A button on the product card opens the name for editing — and the new name follows everywhere, including the running development project and mails already sitting in your inbox.
- Sandbox: you decide when your company is founded — year and month, from 1980 to 2019. If you would rather not play the early years again, start in the middle of a later era, on hardware that actually exists by then. Runs that start late are not ranked on the leaderboard.
Bug Fixes
- You can type in text fields again. The keyboard shortcuts fired along with every letter, so single characters switched panels or changed the game speed — product names, team names, the mail search and the mod editor were all affected.
- The resolution you pick stays picked. On Linux and under Proton the window manager does not always grant exactly the size that was asked for — a panel along the edge of the screen costs a few pixels. The game read that clamped size as you dragging the window border, and promptly switched itself down to the next smaller resolution.
- The resolution survives a restart. It was saved, and the menu showed it correctly, but it was never applied to the window at startup — the game always opened at 1280 x 720.
- On displays with scaling, such as 125% or 150%, changing the resolution did nothing at all. The window stayed as it was.
Bug Fixes
- The end screens have their buttons back. On bankruptcy, victory and at the end of the demo, New Game and Main Menu were laid out outside the visible area - the only way on was to quit the game.
- The closing text on the demo end screen wraps instead of running off the edge of the box.
Bug Fixes
- Corrected faulty translations across all 28 in-game languages: achievements, in-game events, tutorial tips, employee events and other texts that previously appeared in English are now properly localized.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the add-member list in team management not scrolling, so employees further down the list can be selected again.
Improvements
- The Development, Market and Employees desktop icons now show a small count badge.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that closed the game when hiring an applicant.
Bug Fixes
- Employee actions (train, promote, dismiss, hire) respond reliably again.
- The idle-employee indicator is back as a badge on the desktop icons.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed non-Latin languages (e.g. Russian) showing mail and panel text as garbled boxes after a window resize or a display-mode change.
Bug Fixes
- Developers now handle testing when no QA is on the team. In large offices projects could previously get stuck in the testing phase with no one able to sign the work off.
New Features
- You can now add a project manager to a team. When you assign the team to a project, its manager automatically becomes that project's project manager.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed missing or garbled interface text in non-Latin languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
- Fixed a freeze and crash that could occur when opening the mailbox in those languages.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a fatal error on startup that could stop the game from launching, so the game boots reliably again.
Current Release
Build 25648147
Uploaded Oct 12, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
CodeTycoon.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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