825 MB
Casual
, Indie
, Simulation
, Strategy
Added
10 months ago
Updated
4 weeks ago
CSF + Goldberg
About the Game
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game. You’re the CEO of a small startup and are eager to grow your company. With a small investment, you set out to build an amazing website to compete against the largest tech giants in the world and dream of becoming the most valuable company in history.
Your company’s success depends on your ability to run and manage a website. You’ll have to continously develop and improve features, while increasing hosting capacity and effectively run marketing campaigns.
The city offers you offices in all sizes and shapes. It’s up to you to select the most suitable. It’s your job to organize and decorate the office while keeping your employees happy.
Your employees are a vital part of your success. As you grow, you’ll have to continue recruiting more people. Over time, your employees will start demanding more of you and the company. It’s your job to keep them happy, before your competitors sends them a job offer they can’t reject!
There’s no website without stable and reliable servers. As your website attracts more traffic, you have to move from virtual servers to your own fully featured hosting center.
The goal is obvious: becoming the biggest website in the industry. It’s up to you if you want to buy and merge your competitors or simply outrun them till they go out of business!
We believe a strong community only improves the game experience. This is why Startup Company is fully moddable through the Steam Workshop.
We also invite our community to translate the game through Localizor:
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 10977766
Up to date
- Fixed broken link to Localizor: https://www.localizor.com/startup-company/
- Updated all languages
- Added Czech support
- Added Indonesian support
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Hi there!
Beta 26 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
We're super excited to bring to you Beta 26, which introduces a very controversial feature: Outsourcing.
To understand why, we have to go back to Beta 17. Back then, we had something called "Contract Work". The feature was removed in Beta 17 because it was such an easy way to earn money. It was probably the most unpopular decision I have ever made. Fortunately the game ended up being much better, as I was finally able to correctly balance out websites. You can read the original devlog here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/606800/announcements/detail/1709565386033916765
Today, with Beta 26 we are reintroducing "Contract Work" as Outsourcing. The feature has been completely rewritten and is now much more integrated with the rest of the game's ecosystem. It is "part 1" as I plan to introduce even more features in future updates.
You can use Outsourcing in two ways. To deliver components and receive money, or to request components and pay money.
To generate extra income, you have to first hire an Outsourcing Executive. Then you'll have to win the task by sending a good offer. The mechanics are similar to recruitment, but here you'll be competing against other companies.
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The second part of outsourcing is getting other companies/competitors to deliver components and modules to your company.
This is especially useful if you have a sudden demand for some specific components or modules or if you simply don't have the space to hire more employees.
To create a task simply use your Outsourcing Executive. You can define up to 4 requirements (max 500 each). The shorter the deadline you define the more expensive it will be.
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The new Market Prices Menu allows you to make clever choices based on the demand and prices of specific components/modules.
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Improving performance across the board. This time the code that updates overlays has been improved. In my specific test case I went from aroung 20 FPS to a minimum of 120 FPS. I'm feeling pretty happy with that!
By popular demand, you can now pay bonuses to multiple employees at once using the Employees Menu.
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As always, we'll be monitoring the release very closely for any potential issues that might arise or that we might have missed during testing. If you encounter any issues or bugs, please send us a message in our Discord channel (link provided below) or create a post in the Steam discussions.
That's it for Beta 26!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi there!
Beta 26 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
We're super excited to bring to you Beta 26, which introduces a very controversial feature: Outsourcing.
To understand why, we have to go back to Beta 17. Back then, we had something called "Contract Work". The feature was removed in Beta 17 because it was such an easy way to earn money. It was probably the most unpopular decision I have ever made. Fortunately the game ended up being much better, as I was finally able to correctly balance out websites. You can read the original devlog here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/606800/announcements/detail/1709565386033916765
Today, with Beta 26 we are reintroducing "Contract Work" as Outsourcing. The feature has been completely rewritten and is now much more integrated with the rest of the game's ecosystem. It is "part 1" as I plan to introduce even more features in future updates.
Outsourcing: Completing tasks for money
You can use Outsourcing in two ways. To deliver components and receive money, or to request components and pay money.
To generate extra income, you have to first hire an Outsourcing Executive. Then you'll have to win the task by sending a good offer. The mechanics are similar to recruitment, but here you'll be competing against other companies.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/176f6c89b869eb821271a9d93a7410451b3cada2.gif
Outsourcing: Get components/modules delivered
The second part of outsourcing is getting other companies/competitors to deliver components and modules to your company.
This is especially useful if you have a sudden demand for some specific components or modules or if you simply don't have the space to hire more employees.
To create a task simply use your Outsourcing Executive. You can define up to 4 requirements (max 500 each). The shorter the deadline you define the more expensive it will be.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/0081a7ba9b7e2483fb56d2f7526138b56ad3518f.gif
Outsourcing: Market Prices
The new Market Prices Menu allows you to make clever choices based on the demand and prices of specific components/modules.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/2339b616eef0e9c4f36c25123a5a3a869ae72dd5.jpg
Another round of performance optimization
Improving performance across the board. This time the code that updates overlays has been improved. In my specific test case I went from aroung 20 FPS to a minimum of 120 FPS. I'm feeling pretty happy with that!
Pay bonuses to multiple employees
By popular demand, you can now pay bonuses to multiple employees at once using the Employees Menu.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/40e19e27488aa4ac0694fd7f9e5d6c11707c5112.gif
Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game?
Check out our Conflux board.As always, we'll be monitoring the release very closely for any potential issues that might arise or that we might have missed during testing. If you encounter any issues or bugs, please send us a message in our Discord channel (link provided below) or create a post in the Steam discussions.
That's it for Beta 26!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi there!
Beta 25 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
We're super excited to bring to you Beta 25, which will introduce new features that will change the game play and introduces new challenges for you to manage as CEO!
Beta 25 changes how website satisfaction is calculated.
How it worked in Beta 24
The website satisfaction was calculated by simply using the average of all features' satisfaction. You could have a Landing Page with 100% satisfaction and "Banner Ads" with 15% satisfaction. This worked okay, but it was super confusing to new players, as the red smiley would show 5% for "video ads" and 15% for "banner ads", indicating that "video ads" would be less annoying to the user.
How it now works in Beta 25
There are now two options for a feature: Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction. Base Features will only produce Satisfaction and Revenue Features will only produce Dissatisfaction.
The total website satisfaction is calculated by first taking the average of your base features and then subtracting the dissatisfaction from all the revenue features.
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Hopefully this change will make it more clear to new players how everything is calculated.
Please notice: Existing Revenue features will continue to use the old model to avoid breaking your save-game. If you want to switch to the new model, you'll have to remove and add the revenue features.
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Adblockers are now a part of the game and will directly affect how many impressions is generated (and can be monetized) for ad features.
Small websites will have a very low ad-blocker penetration as they haven’t yet been discovered by many ad-blocker programs.
As a website gets more users, the more ad-blocker programs will register the site and start blocking ads.
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The obfuscator will cover up your ads in messy Javascript code that makes it much harder for the AdBlockers to detect your ads.
If you don’t continue upgrading the obfuscator, it will be less efficient over time (as AdBlockers become smarter).
The obfuscator is also the first time we see Research Points being used to upgrade a feature.
As always, we'll be monitoring the release very closely for any potential issues that might arise or that we might have missed during testing. If you encounter any issue or a bug, please send us a message in our Discord channel (link provided below) or create a post in our community hub - which we'll be closely monitoring while Beta 25 is rolled out.
That's it for Beta 25!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi there!
Beta 25 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
We're super excited to bring to you Beta 25, which will introduce new features that will change the game play and introduces new challenges for you to manage as CEO!
Major change to website satisfaction: Dissatisfaction
Beta 25 changes how website satisfaction is calculated.
How it worked in Beta 24
The website satisfaction was calculated by simply using the average of all features' satisfaction. You could have a Landing Page with 100% satisfaction and "Banner Ads" with 15% satisfaction. This worked okay, but it was super confusing to new players, as the red smiley would show 5% for "video ads" and 15% for "banner ads", indicating that "video ads" would be less annoying to the user.
How it now works in Beta 25
There are now two options for a feature: Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction. Base Features will only produce Satisfaction and Revenue Features will only produce Dissatisfaction.
The total website satisfaction is calculated by first taking the average of your base features and then subtracting the dissatisfaction from all the revenue features.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/abb262d2eba91b2c6c9df6f5b2bccae63c37f23f.jpg
Hopefully this change will make it more clear to new players how everything is calculated.
Please notice: Existing Revenue features will continue to use the old model to avoid breaking your save-game. If you want to switch to the new model, you'll have to remove and add the revenue features.
AdBlockers
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Adblockers are now a part of the game and will directly affect how many impressions is generated (and can be monetized) for ad features.
Small websites will have a very low ad-blocker penetration as they haven’t yet been discovered by many ad-blocker programs.
As a website gets more users, the more ad-blocker programs will register the site and start blocking ads.
AdBlock Obfuscator
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/31088a74ece430d2d22ec4b850cc484a2701c1a3.png
The obfuscator will cover up your ads in messy Javascript code that makes it much harder for the AdBlockers to detect your ads.
If you don’t continue upgrading the obfuscator, it will be less efficient over time (as AdBlockers become smarter).
The obfuscator is also the first time we see Research Points being used to upgrade a feature.
Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game?
Check out our Conflux board.As always, we'll be monitoring the release very closely for any potential issues that might arise or that we might have missed during testing. If you encounter any issue or a bug, please send us a message in our Discord channel (link provided below) or create a post in our community hub - which we'll be closely monitoring while Beta 25 is rolled out.
That's it for Beta 25!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi there!
Beta 24 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
Today is the release of Beta 24, an update with a bunch of new features and various improvements. Performance issues have taken most of the time in this update, so hopefully a lot of you notice an improvement :schappy:
As with each beta release we just want to make sure that you’re aware of the fact that there might be some bugs or other unexpected issues. Jonas is on standby, ready to make sure that any discovered issues are fixed as soon as possible. If you find any bugs or experience any issues make sure to either let us know on the community hub or by joining our Discord!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/4a57c036ee8f64b6fa543caa6ad7084bb8dc6292.png
The city map has been updated and revamped, making it much more detailed and cooler!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/904fbbe1543581ba7e574022af8343338f5cda21.jpg
Another huge performance improvement hits Startup Company. This time I've been working heavily on improving performance of the employee overlays which caused a lot of end-game lag.
Switching between floors and buildings (office/hosting) has also been greatly improved. The game will now "cache" the floors, making the switching much more smooth and rapid.
Beta 24 adds another option to your CEO: HR Management. Just like the usual HR Managers, you can now use your CEO to set working schedules and adding speed bonus.
The CEO will still be able to recruit, meaning the CEO is the first employee type to be able to do multiple task types.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/d401e09eb635947d94f900c8ee8b3223d5469840.jpg
Beta 24 makes managers even more useful with the new feature: Shared Production Plans. Instead of having all your managers working independently, they can now share the same production plans. I also took some time to redesign the UI of the screen making it a bit easier to find the components or modules you're looking for.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/975968d2c57cf56282df50f7870ef585bb2f701b.jpg
For a long time there has been a bug allowing the game to "shrink" the internet population. Beta 24 fixes this once and for all.
That's it for this week!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi there!
Beta 24 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
Today is the release of Beta 24, an update with a bunch of new features and various improvements. Performance issues have taken most of the time in this update, so hopefully a lot of you notice an improvement :schappy:
As with each beta release we just want to make sure that you’re aware of the fact that there might be some bugs or other unexpected issues. Jonas is on standby, ready to make sure that any discovered issues are fixed as soon as possible. If you find any bugs or experience any issues make sure to either let us know on the community hub or by joining our Discord!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/4a57c036ee8f64b6fa543caa6ad7084bb8dc6292.png
New Map!
The city map has been updated and revamped, making it much more detailed and cooler!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/904fbbe1543581ba7e574022af8343338f5cda21.jpg
Improved Performance
Another huge performance improvement hits Startup Company. This time I've been working heavily on improving performance of the employee overlays which caused a lot of end-game lag.
Switching between floors and buildings (office/hosting) has also been greatly improved. The game will now "cache" the floors, making the switching much more smooth and rapid.
CEO becomes a Manager
Beta 24 adds another option to your CEO: HR Management. Just like the usual HR Managers, you can now use your CEO to set working schedules and adding speed bonus.
The CEO will still be able to recruit, meaning the CEO is the first employee type to be able to do multiple task types.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/d401e09eb635947d94f900c8ee8b3223d5469840.jpg
Shared Production Plans
Beta 24 makes managers even more useful with the new feature: Shared Production Plans. Instead of having all your managers working independently, they can now share the same production plans. I also took some time to redesign the UI of the screen making it a bit easier to find the components or modules you're looking for.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/975968d2c57cf56282df50f7870ef585bb2f701b.jpg
Improved Competition
For a long time there has been a bug allowing the game to "shrink" the internet population. Beta 24 fixes this once and for all.
Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game?
Check out our Conflux board.That's it for this week!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi everyone,
Usually I don't post announcements for minor updates, but this one is special. Today my designer sent me the third floor of the new headquarter building!
Instead of waiting till Beta 24, I decided to include the new floor with Beta 23.5 right away!
If you haven't already received the update, simply close the game and restart your Steam client.
I hope you all enjoy the extra space! :-)
Have a great Monday!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi everyone,
Usually I don't post announcements for minor updates, but this one is special. Today my designer sent me the third floor of the new headquarter building!
Instead of waiting till Beta 24, I decided to include the new floor with Beta 23.5 right away!
If you haven't already received the update, simply close the game and restart your Steam client.
I hope you all enjoy the extra space! :-)
Have a great Monday!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi there! :schappy:
Beta 23 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
On paper Beta 23 might not be a super exotic update. Fortunately it feels very different once you start playing. The brand new time machine and the additional play speed comes as the main changes. Together with tons of "rebalancings" across all parts of the game the overall gaming experience is now much more smooth (I know, this sentence is bad. Help!).
As with each Beta release we just want to make sure that you’re aware of the fact that there might be some bugs or other unexpected issues. Jonas is on standby, ready to make sure that any discovered issues are fixed as soon as possible. If you find any bugs or experience any issues make sure to either let us know on the community hub or by joining our Discord!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/4a57c036ee8f64b6fa543caa6ad7084bb8dc6292.png
The new help system is introduced in Beta 23. The system will help you understand every aspect of Startup Company, this is especially interesting for new players.
The system will first be introduced in English only. Once we're sure everything is covered, we'll have to translated later to the other languages.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/f1fc283e8a7308585cc597523a3500913abfc1c8.gif
Finally! Many of you requested one more play speed and I can happily say that it is included in Beta 23.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/5b2100b71d23b31b8925a6ec4bd848bb98538a07.jpg
Some time ago I received a review on Steam where the time machine was described as: "It feels like one of those annoying popup ads" I never really received any other complaints about the time machine but I completely understood what was meant by it. After some investigating, I've found a way to simultaneously allow the time machine to run and still allow you to work on your company! The updated time machine is also shipped in Beta 23.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/12015920eaac822f6192898f705c899056a36821.gif
Switching tabs while the time machine is running.
Achievements in Startup Company have always been extremely popular. Therefore Beta 23 will include 8 brand new achievements:
Support
Resolve 1000 support tickets
Reseacher
Research everything available
The Collector
Collect 100,000 research points
Not So Creative
Use a name from the real world for a website
Bankrupt
Go bankrupt
Super Speed
Get 1 or more employees with a base speed of more than 480%
World Domination
Become Top #1 of all website types
Small But Efficient
Reach 1,000,000 users while staying in the small office building
Beta 23 includes new components and modules. I've been focusing on 3 things:
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Beta 23 introduces new late-game milestones making the journey to Top #1 more smoothly.
That's it for Beta 23!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi there! :schappy:
Beta 23 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
On paper Beta 23 might not be a super exotic update. Fortunately it feels very different once you start playing. The brand new time machine and the additional play speed comes as the main changes. Together with tons of "rebalancings" across all parts of the game the overall gaming experience is now much more smooth (I know, this sentence is bad. Help!).
As with each Beta release we just want to make sure that you’re aware of the fact that there might be some bugs or other unexpected issues. Jonas is on standby, ready to make sure that any discovered issues are fixed as soon as possible. If you find any bugs or experience any issues make sure to either let us know on the community hub or by joining our Discord!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/4a57c036ee8f64b6fa543caa6ad7084bb8dc6292.png
Help System
The new help system is introduced in Beta 23. The system will help you understand every aspect of Startup Company, this is especially interesting for new players.
The system will first be introduced in English only. Once we're sure everything is covered, we'll have to translated later to the other languages.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/f1fc283e8a7308585cc597523a3500913abfc1c8.gif
3x speed
Finally! Many of you requested one more play speed and I can happily say that it is included in Beta 23.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/5b2100b71d23b31b8925a6ec4bd848bb98538a07.jpg
Time Machine: Version 2
Some time ago I received a review on Steam where the time machine was described as: "It feels like one of those annoying popup ads" I never really received any other complaints about the time machine but I completely understood what was meant by it. After some investigating, I've found a way to simultaneously allow the time machine to run and still allow you to work on your company! The updated time machine is also shipped in Beta 23.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/12015920eaac822f6192898f705c899056a36821.gif
Switching tabs while the time machine is running.
Achievements, achievements, achievements
Achievements in Startup Company have always been extremely popular. Therefore Beta 23 will include 8 brand new achievements:
Support
Resolve 1000 support tickets
Reseacher
Research everything available
The Collector
Collect 100,000 research points
Not So Creative
Use a name from the real world for a website
Bankrupt
Go bankrupt
Super Speed
Get 1 or more employees with a base speed of more than 480%
World Domination
Become Top #1 of all website types
Small But Efficient
Reach 1,000,000 users while staying in the small office building
New components and modules
Beta 23 includes new components and modules. I've been focusing on 3 things:
- Designers: Will now be even more relevant, especially late game. The designer is now able to merge designer components into brand new designer modules. There are now components for Beginners, Intermediate and Experts.
- SysAdmins: The SysAdmin is now able to merge SysAdmin components into new SysAdmin modules. There are now also components for Beginners, Intermediate and Experts just like the Designer. Configuring servers will require different components/modules depending on the type/throughput.
- Website features: Rebalanced current feature upgrade requirements to better fit the progress of the game. High level features will now require high level modules.
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New investor milestones
Beta 23 introduces new late-game milestones making the journey to Top #1 more smoothly.
Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game?
Check out our Conflux board.That's it for Beta 23!
Best,
Jonas
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Hi there!
Beta 22 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
Beta 22 introduces quite a big list of new features, changes and improvements to the game. We're very excited to see how all our players will adapt their companies to these changes and how new companies will use them to prosper! We're very eager to share this all with you!
As with each Beta release we just want to make sure that you’re aware of the fact that there might be some bugs or other unexpected issues. Jonas is on standby, ready to make sure that any discovered issues are fixed as soon as possible. If you find any bugs or experience any issues make sure to either let us know on the community hub or by joining our Discord!
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After enormous demand from you guys, it's finally time to introduce the new office building. You get 2 floors and an 400 employees high limitation. Enjoy!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/8d1ad7cf1df00c114bd64badfd9202e1cfe9bc43.png
Beta 22 introduces two big changes to the Sales Executive: First, the maximum amount of leads has been increased. For individual Sales Executives the numbers will be:
Beginner3
Intermediate6
Expert9
However, if you choose to team up multiple Sales Executives using a Manager, you'll be able to share leads between your executives! The lead limits for teams will be slight lowered like so:
Beginner Manager9
Intermediate Manager18
Expert Manager27
The second exciting update to the Sales Executive is filters. You'll now be able to choose the minimum and maximum impressions you're looking for. No more rejecting offers because the impressions don't fit your time-slot. This has been heavily requested by the community.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/0f0ec3999475dccb402b9d43f43537f0a6dffe65.gif
Startup Company has always been using auto-save for handling savegames. This is convenient as players don't have to remember to save. However, with a tycoon game like Startup Company, you sometimes want to try things out without having to start over if it goes wrong.
Beta 22 introduces manual save functionality. You'll now have to save your game manually and choose a name for your savegame (basically "slots" as you know it from other games). The game will still auto-save (now every 5 minutes), but instead, save to a new "hidden" savegame and not overwrite your existing savegames.
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Beta 22 includes another highly demanded feature: Changing your website's name and selecting a logo.
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I've been able to put some hours into the Employees Menu. For a long time, it has been missing a "multi-employee actions" feature. The list was also incredibly laggy later on in the game.
The new menu introduces a couple of new features:
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A brand new "Employee Switcher" will also be introduced in Beta 22. It will allow you to quickly cycle through your employees. The switcher will follow the order of your Employees Menu allowing you to customize the sorting.
When changing employee, the switcher will automatically stay on the same tab if it's available for the employee type.
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Beta 22 offers you the ability to pay your employees bonuses. Paying a bonus will instantly increase your employee's mood to 100%. The price is based on a combination of the employee's salary and their current mood.
The bonus is meant as an alternative to sending your employees home in order to restore mood. Once a bonus has been paid you'll have to wait 30 in-game days before paying another bonus.
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The number one question asked since Ad Contracts were introduced has been "Why do I lose money when the finance overview says I earn money every day?". Most players never noticed that contracts were paid upfront and if you had a contract running for 7 days (for example) it would mean you'll have 6 days with no payments.
Beta 22 changed this and instead made payments happen daily.
I personally wasn't too happy with this change, as I liked the realism of having to take into consideration when contracts were paid out (I know a few of you agree with me). However, the frustration and confusion for new players simply wasn't worth it.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/284dfc075d5f324ccb1e3c4b2d997e50708fe485.jpg
HR Managers will be updated too. Scheduled training days work identically with "Days Off" by simply allowing you to define weekdays in which the employee should train.
Once an employee starts a training day this cannot be cancelled (same with days off). "Days Off" and ''Training Days'' cannot be scheduled to the same weekdays (obviously).
Limitations have also been added: Setting "days off" requires an Intermediate Level. Setting "Training Days" requires an Expert level.
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The current production system for developers, designers, etc. allows you to switch between the Repeat and Queue functionality. In Beta 22 those two functionalities are combined into one: an ''Infinite Repeating Queue''. The queue size has also been increased to 10.
Components will remain in the queue after they have been produced. The blue background indicates which component is currently in development.
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Beta 22 brings two new loans allowing you to loan 1 and 2 million. Loans will only be available if you meet the minimum company valuation (valuation of all websites combined). Fever Inc (the 600k loan) has also been limited to companies with a minimum valuation of 1.2 million.
I've added an additional mechanic which gives the player a last chance before the company is declared bankrupt. The offer only comes if the player owns more than 15% of his website, hasn't bought out the investor and no loan options are available in the banks.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/846bfbf3076193be6f5eb0da32aaccdfdfa6bbed.jpg
The stats in the bottom of the hosting centre has been improved to support larger numbers. A "bottleneck alert" has also been added to make it easier to understand what to increase in order to increase produced CU.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/319d5ec1aa1384f404b0d4495515939431dbf267.jpg
When removing furniture and desks from your office they will now be added to your "purchase inventory", allowing you to save items for later use.
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Beta 22 makes it much easier to find the right employee when you have a lot of unassigned employees. The new table allows sorting and introduces a "Hired" column, making it easy to find the newly hired employee.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/f772d7090dec9875a0175c6a5e453cc4be588c2d.jpg
We made a lot of minor changes as well, which are outlined in the bulleted overview below:
As always, we're dedicated to making sure everything runs smoothly by fixing potential issues, listening to the community and continuing the development by working towards Beta 23.
All the best,
Jonas & Robert
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Hi there!
Beta 22 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
Beta 22 introduces quite a big list of new features, changes and improvements to the game. We're very excited to see how all our players will adapt their companies to these changes and how new companies will use them to prosper! We're very eager to share this all with you!
As with each Beta release we just want to make sure that you’re aware of the fact that there might be some bugs or other unexpected issues. Jonas is on standby, ready to make sure that any discovered issues are fixed as soon as possible. If you find any bugs or experience any issues make sure to either let us know on the community hub or by joining our Discord!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/4a57c036ee8f64b6fa543caa6ad7084bb8dc6292.png
New office building
After enormous demand from you guys, it's finally time to introduce the new office building. You get 2 floors and an 400 employees high limitation. Enjoy!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/8d1ad7cf1df00c114bd64badfd9202e1cfe9bc43.png
Improvements to Sales Executives/Leads
Beta 22 introduces two big changes to the Sales Executive: First, the maximum amount of leads has been increased. For individual Sales Executives the numbers will be:
Beginner3
Intermediate6
Expert9
However, if you choose to team up multiple Sales Executives using a Manager, you'll be able to share leads between your executives! The lead limits for teams will be slight lowered like so:
Beginner Manager9
Intermediate Manager18
Expert Manager27
The second exciting update to the Sales Executive is filters. You'll now be able to choose the minimum and maximum impressions you're looking for. No more rejecting offers because the impressions don't fit your time-slot. This has been heavily requested by the community.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/0f0ec3999475dccb402b9d43f43537f0a6dffe65.gif
Manual Saving
Startup Company has always been using auto-save for handling savegames. This is convenient as players don't have to remember to save. However, with a tycoon game like Startup Company, you sometimes want to try things out without having to start over if it goes wrong.
Beta 22 introduces manual save functionality. You'll now have to save your game manually and choose a name for your savegame (basically "slots" as you know it from other games). The game will still auto-save (now every 5 minutes), but instead, save to a new "hidden" savegame and not overwrite your existing savegames.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/9ca5f5699f73e6757d5fbf4f1fc6c590081bdbea.gif
Website Logo and Name
Beta 22 includes another highly demanded feature: Changing your website's name and selecting a logo.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/1b627edfdc77cebef0739961189de79d87ce4c75.gif
Improved Employees Menu
I've been able to put some hours into the Employees Menu. For a long time, it has been missing a "multi-employee actions" feature. The list was also incredibly laggy later on in the game.
The new menu introduces a couple of new features:
- Added icon next to speed to show if the employee is ready to be upgraded.
- Show if an employee is unseated.
- Remember the selected sorting order when re-opening the menu.
- Added mass action functionality allowing you to apply the following actions to multiple employees at once: remove from desk, fire, send home (1/3 days), start/stop training and release from manager.
- Greatly improved performance and removing lag when having more than 200 employees.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/3cd32686c4fd8949df05628ac63dd262c8f273cd.gif
Employee Switcher
A brand new "Employee Switcher" will also be introduced in Beta 22. It will allow you to quickly cycle through your employees. The switcher will follow the order of your Employees Menu allowing you to customize the sorting.
When changing employee, the switcher will automatically stay on the same tab if it's available for the employee type.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/5c84d3fbe8d4c8be7c99fc0065079172d9e2059e.gif
Paying a Bonus
Beta 22 offers you the ability to pay your employees bonuses. Paying a bonus will instantly increase your employee's mood to 100%. The price is based on a combination of the employee's salary and their current mood.
The bonus is meant as an alternative to sending your employees home in order to restore mood. Once a bonus has been paid you'll have to wait 30 in-game days before paying another bonus.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/88329e2ce6b57ba013fe551ecf2b0ee15f93c7e3.jpg
Ad Contracts Daily Payment
The number one question asked since Ad Contracts were introduced has been "Why do I lose money when the finance overview says I earn money every day?". Most players never noticed that contracts were paid upfront and if you had a contract running for 7 days (for example) it would mean you'll have 6 days with no payments.
Beta 22 changed this and instead made payments happen daily.
I personally wasn't too happy with this change, as I liked the realism of having to take into consideration when contracts were paid out (I know a few of you agree with me). However, the frustration and confusion for new players simply wasn't worth it.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/284dfc075d5f324ccb1e3c4b2d997e50708fe485.jpg
Scheduled Training Days
HR Managers will be updated too. Scheduled training days work identically with "Days Off" by simply allowing you to define weekdays in which the employee should train.
Once an employee starts a training day this cannot be cancelled (same with days off). "Days Off" and ''Training Days'' cannot be scheduled to the same weekdays (obviously).
Limitations have also been added: Setting "days off" requires an Intermediate Level. Setting "Training Days" requires an Expert level.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/fa8260368e26ed35a48b9f0865cae576484230fc.jpg
Improved Queue System
The current production system for developers, designers, etc. allows you to switch between the Repeat and Queue functionality. In Beta 22 those two functionalities are combined into one: an ''Infinite Repeating Queue''. The queue size has also been increased to 10.
Components will remain in the queue after they have been produced. The blue background indicates which component is currently in development.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/47c402100580e0903bfa6b80a24adcce584e0ee3.gif
Updated employee demands
- "Fire Employee" is now rarer and will only occur for existing employees, and not new candidates.
- Employees' demands are now more realistic, especially with desks, including demanding the correct Programmer/Executive desk at Expert level.
- Differ the number of new demands generated on employee upgrade based on level.
New loans
Beta 22 brings two new loans allowing you to loan 1 and 2 million. Loans will only be available if you meet the minimum company valuation (valuation of all websites combined). Fever Inc (the 600k loan) has also been limited to companies with a minimum valuation of 1.2 million.
Last chance before bankruptcy
I've added an additional mechanic which gives the player a last chance before the company is declared bankrupt. The offer only comes if the player owns more than 15% of his website, hasn't bought out the investor and no loan options are available in the banks.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/846bfbf3076193be6f5eb0da32aaccdfdfa6bbed.jpg
Improved hosting stats
The stats in the bottom of the hosting centre has been improved to support larger numbers. A "bottleneck alert" has also been added to make it easier to understand what to increase in order to increase produced CU.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/319d5ec1aa1384f404b0d4495515939431dbf267.jpg
Furniture/desk inventory
When removing furniture and desks from your office they will now be added to your "purchase inventory", allowing you to save items for later use.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/d71c1f0545514bd0247c0bcb8a2f9c284e2b6555.png
Improved UI for placing unassigned employees
Beta 22 makes it much easier to find the right employee when you have a lot of unassigned employees. The new table allows sorting and introduces a "Hired" column, making it easy to find the newly hired employee.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/f772d7090dec9875a0175c6a5e453cc4be588c2d.jpg
Changes:
We made a lot of minor changes as well, which are outlined in the bulleted overview below:
- Fixed bug causing employee not to quit if ignoring competitor offer.
- Fixed bug causing employees with missing requirements not showing as flashing overlay.
- Fixed two memory leaks causing lag in late-game.
- Fixed bug causing merging competitors to fail or end prematurely.
- Fixed bug causing events to be launched too early (at game start)
- Fixed bug causing hosting building temperature not to update correctly.
- Fixed bug causing employee name changes not to update on overlays.
- Added support for panning using arrow keys.
- Added PageUp/PageDown keyboard shortcut for changing floor.
- Added Q/E keyboard shortcut to toggle between employees (switcher).
- Improved sliders when buying/selling competitor stocks.
- Added time limitation to investment offers.
- Limited feature efficiency from a maximum of 104% to a maximum of 100% (only affects new savegames, not existing ones).
- Changed overlay label to "At home" when not at the office.
- Added "sell" feature to rack devices
- Added the new 6-frame hand animations.
- Suppressed "office upgrade"-confirmation when renting the very first office.
- Show relevant Research category when clicking on "Research more" tips.
- Added hovering + sorting to Manager's employee list.
- Improved UI of rack stats and (mass)configure view.
- Added localisation for watt, kilowatt and megawatt.
- Added popup to the rack's Add Device view, allowing you to see throughput and size before buying.
- Added warning when trying to add a device to a rack with no space left.
- Added tooltip explaining manager bonus. Lowered the bonus when a manager isn't at the office.
- Improved demands view in employees' stats menu.
- Allowed employees to demand for "Coffee Machine" to be fulfilled by "Industrial Coffee Machine"
- Features' level marked with blue if at framework's maximum.
- Changed "Sell Out" achievement percentage from 10% to 50%.
- Fixed bug causing duplicated "Fire co-worker" demand.
- Stopped action-depending events from firing when the time machine is active.
- Changed the minimum marketing campaign conversion rate from 0% to 1%.
- Improved UI of "change desk" view.
- Added "Go to Manager" button to all employees.
As always, we're dedicated to making sure everything runs smoothly by fixing potential issues, listening to the community and continuing the development by working towards Beta 23.
Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game?
Check out our Conflux board.All the best,
Jonas & Robert
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Hi there!
Beta 21 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
We’ve just launched Beta 21 after extensive testing and made it available for everyone! Beta 21 is an exciting Beta version as it adds a lot of new features that add a whole new dynamic to the game, including features that were highly requested by players in our community.
As with each Beta release we just want to make sure that you’re aware of the fact that there might be some bugs or other unexpected issues. Jonas is standing by to make sure anything that might go wrong will get "hotfixed" as soon as possible. If you find any bugs or experience any issues make sure to either let us know on the community hub or by joining our Discord!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/4a57c036ee8f64b6fa543caa6ad7084bb8dc6292.png
We’ve now successfully added support tickets to Beta 21. These are basically questions and issues coming from your users that you will have to handle. It adds a whole new dynamic to Startup Company where you have to make sure that your users will be happy with the support that you provide them.
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Tickets has to be handled within 36 hours. Anything later than that will decrease your Support Satisfaction.
Tickets come in 3 different complexities (difficulties): low, medium and high complexity. To solve them, you have to hire new employees for a brand new role: Supporter.
As with any other employee type the Supporter comes with various degrees of experience such as Beginners, Intermediates and Experts.
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All Supporters resolve tickets at the same speed (relatively to their own speed of course), but Intermediate and Expert Supporters will eventually become unhappy if they're forced to solve too many tickets below their level of expertise.
If you fail to handle support tickets in time, it will directly impact your website's overall satisfaction.
The support dissatisfaction is working a bit different from Features as the decrease is subtracted directly from the subtotal of your current website satisfaction.
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Beta 21 will introduce a revised recruitment functionality. You'll now have to use a "Recruiter" (or your CEO) in order to find and headhunt new employees.
You'll be able to poach (better known as steal) employees from your competitors and negotiate salaries and signing bonus in order to persuade them to take you up on your offer.
The new feature also allows you to research the candidates demands.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/ed92bf86bb71f0c90375c10c1a837b17f5597255.gif
A highly requested and popular demand of the community was the ability to add the CEO to the game. Beta 21 will deliver on that promise and will allow you to introduce "yourself" to the game as the CEO (Chief Executive Officer).
The first time you launch Beta 21 you will be required to customize your CEO. All CEOs will have a personal "bonus" that affects the rest of the game (see screenshot for more details).
The CEO will act identically with the new "Recruiter" employee type, however uniquely for the CEO he won't require a salary or age at all (I know, it's unrealistic, but imagine the Steam reviews if I retire the player themselves).
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/78d2c33fccc30092f0dba1a0cf1befa3270f1ca5.jpg
A new and very important feature will be added to all employees: age. As time goes by, your employees will start to age. It won't affect performance (mood or speed), but once the employee reaches the age of 65 he/she will retire.
Note: All employees from existing save games will be set to an age between 25 and 30 years old.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/07a02fc8476f3e51b6a48e30848a3c9dd9cbe253.jpg
In previous Devlogs we mentioned that a new office building will make its way into Beta 21. However, we were unable to optimize and test the new office building for Beta 21. It will make its entry in Beta 22 instead.
As always, we're dedicated to make sure everything runs smoothly by fixing potential issues, listening to the community and continue the development by working towards Beta 22.
Best,
Jonas & Robert
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Hi there!
Beta 21 is now available. Restart Steam to get it right away!
We’ve just launched Beta 21 after extensive testing and made it available for everyone! Beta 21 is an exciting Beta version as it adds a lot of new features that add a whole new dynamic to the game, including features that were highly requested by players in our community.
As with each Beta release we just want to make sure that you’re aware of the fact that there might be some bugs or other unexpected issues. Jonas is standing by to make sure anything that might go wrong will get "hotfixed" as soon as possible. If you find any bugs or experience any issues make sure to either let us know on the community hub or by joining our Discord!
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/4a57c036ee8f64b6fa543caa6ad7084bb8dc6292.png
Support Tickets
We’ve now successfully added support tickets to Beta 21. These are basically questions and issues coming from your users that you will have to handle. It adds a whole new dynamic to Startup Company where you have to make sure that your users will be happy with the support that you provide them.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/c9bd4dd3c2abe04bd9812f1a0eb551a9a64ddcf7.jpg
Tickets has to be handled within 36 hours. Anything later than that will decrease your Support Satisfaction.
Support Team
Tickets come in 3 different complexities (difficulties): low, medium and high complexity. To solve them, you have to hire new employees for a brand new role: Supporter.
As with any other employee type the Supporter comes with various degrees of experience such as Beginners, Intermediates and Experts.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/7f66507a7d2bd89c0b3aa3e616facf666e2705b2.jpg
All Supporters resolve tickets at the same speed (relatively to their own speed of course), but Intermediate and Expert Supporters will eventually become unhappy if they're forced to solve too many tickets below their level of expertise.
Support Dissatisfaction
If you fail to handle support tickets in time, it will directly impact your website's overall satisfaction.
The support dissatisfaction is working a bit different from Features as the decrease is subtracted directly from the subtotal of your current website satisfaction.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/0ed9a2174cdd72528edeb19fb7967f94fd9ff81b.jpg
Recruiters and Headhunting
Beta 21 will introduce a revised recruitment functionality. You'll now have to use a "Recruiter" (or your CEO) in order to find and headhunt new employees.
You'll be able to poach (better known as steal) employees from your competitors and negotiate salaries and signing bonus in order to persuade them to take you up on your offer.
The new feature also allows you to research the candidates demands.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/ed92bf86bb71f0c90375c10c1a837b17f5597255.gif
The CEO
A highly requested and popular demand of the community was the ability to add the CEO to the game. Beta 21 will deliver on that promise and will allow you to introduce "yourself" to the game as the CEO (Chief Executive Officer).
The first time you launch Beta 21 you will be required to customize your CEO. All CEOs will have a personal "bonus" that affects the rest of the game (see screenshot for more details).
The CEO will act identically with the new "Recruiter" employee type, however uniquely for the CEO he won't require a salary or age at all (I know, it's unrealistic, but imagine the Steam reviews if I retire the player themselves).
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/78d2c33fccc30092f0dba1a0cf1befa3270f1ca5.jpg
Age & Retirement
A new and very important feature will be added to all employees: age. As time goes by, your employees will start to age. It won't affect performance (mood or speed), but once the employee reaches the age of 65 he/she will retire.
Note: All employees from existing save games will be set to an age between 25 and 30 years old.
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28693489/07a02fc8476f3e51b6a48e30848a3c9dd9cbe253.jpg
New office building postponed until Beta 22
In previous Devlogs we mentioned that a new office building will make its way into Beta 21. However, we were unable to optimize and test the new office building for Beta 21. It will make its entry in Beta 22 instead.
As always, we're dedicated to make sure everything runs smoothly by fixing potential issues, listening to the community and continue the development by working towards Beta 22.
Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game?
Check out our Conflux board.Best,
Jonas & Robert
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Current Release
Build 10977766
Uploaded Aug 15, 2026
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
2 GHz Dual Core
RAM
2 GB RAM
GPU
Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 or similar
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run electron\StartupCompany.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
Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
CRC32
E4A2B390
SHA-256
d1ba540915d6770d7f914da76367a31523f3c7672673810b87120f6ca5c52e47
How: Right-click the downloaded file → 7-Zip / WinRAR → CRC SHA → compare with the values above.
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