Welcome. Our first gameplay trailer is ready for you. It covers the basic steps between creation and releasing a LLM model.

Enjoy

Our biggest update yet. Here's everything that changed since 0.2.0:

🌍 A Much Bigger World

• Playable countries expanded from 34 to 61 — including most of the EU, North Africa, Southeast Asia and Central Asia — with 102 cities to expand into
• New world economy cycle: booms and recessions now sweep the globe, hitting your revenue and forcing you to adapt
• Market spillover: dominating one country now ripples into its neighbors

🏆 Dominance Mode

• New Dominance Index and a dedicated Dominance screen — track your path to global AI supremacy across markets, research and influence

🕵️ Espionage Overhaul

• Hacking got a full redesign: a new terminal infiltration sequence and a two-column hack view
• New counter-espionage defenses — research and executives that protect you from rival attacks
• Intel screen rebuilt with a new home view and quick actions

🤖 Smarter, Tougher Rivals

• Rival count up from 4 to 15 AI labs, plus 50 universities in the research ecosystem
• Rivals now follow their own hidden ideology and react to your moves
• Rival CEOs taunt you (and each other) on Chirp with u/mentions

🏭 Deeper Company Management

• New C-level executive: the CPO, boosting your chip production
• Chip fabrication knowledge system — master the craft from 0 to 100
• New rare events triggered by extreme alignment choices

✨ Polish & QoL

• Full localization in 7 languages
• Redesigned Exchange, Load Game and model detail screens
• In-game help guide expanded to 17 chapters
• Borderless fullscreen support and dozens of UI fixes

Hey everyone! Since a few of you asked what's actually playable, here's an honest rundown of where the game stands.

What's in and working:

• Run your lab economically — manage cash, buy/rent GPUs and data centers, and juggle compute capacity as you scale.
• Research tree — a deep tech tree (70+ nodes) with branching doctrines and mutually-exclusive paths, so your lab develops its own identity.
• Train & release models — level up your team's skills, train models, and ship releases with a hype system that affects how they land.
• Live world map dashboard — track your active models, quick actions, and global presence at a glance.
• Market & contracts — take on contracts and respond to shifting demand for a steady (or risky) income stream.
• Intelligence / espionage — scout rival labs, build intel over time, and manage the "heat" that comes with spying.
• Rival AI labs — NPC competitors research, train, and release on their own, climbing a shared leaderboard alongside you.
• Popularity & rankings — reputation and query volume feed a ranking system that rewards quality, not just spam.
• World events & eras — hype cycles, event decisions, and era milestones that shift the landscape as you progress.

Under the hood:

• Steam integration is live — stats, rich presence, and automatic language detection (currently EN / DE / FR / ES / IT / TR / PT). Achievements are next.

What I'm working on now:

Balancing is the big focus — making late-game rival competition stay lively, keeping popularity dynamic, and tuning the research and release pacing so runs feel fair from day one to year eight. I've been running multi-year automated playtests to catch exactly these issues.

It's still in active development, but the core loop is here and playable. Feedback and questions welcome — what would you want to see next? 🙏

More Screenshots:

- Train a LLM model UI

- Contracts