# Starcorp Tycoon

> Starcorp Tycoon is a single-player economic strategy (tycoon) game for Windows and macOS by independent developer Mark van den Ing, in Early Access. Sentenced to Corporate Service by THE CHAIR, you run StarCorp, maker of the drink Gulst, in a sector of 26 star systems and compete with one to seven AI corporations: chart systems, found stations, mine steel and ice, research a better drink, run campaigns, sign sponsors and win by reaching the winning share at a year-end: the licence becomes a charter and the company is yours. The year is 2246; the tone is comic. Free demo; the full game is EUR 14.95 / $14.95, one-time, incl. VAT.

Key facts:
- Genre: business strategy / tycoon / economic sim. Single-player, no multiplayer yet. Real time with pause and speeds 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x and MAX (a year in about 30 seconds); one turn is one week.
- Platforms: Windows 10/11 (64-bit) and macOS 11 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel). One purchase covers all platforms. Keyboard and mouse; game controllers work too. The Windows installer is code-signed by Van den Ing Webmarketing; the Mac builds are notarised by Apple.
- Languages: the game is in 13 languages (English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean; Italian, Polish and Turkish since 0.9.4.2). This website is in English, Dutch (/nl/), German (/de/), French (/fr/) and Spanish (/es/).
- Free demo: the complete game, 3 new games with 60 minutes of play each (time counts only while the game clock runs). The full game continues demo saves without limits.
- Full game: EUR 14.95 or $14.95 incl. VAT during Early Access (EUR 19.99 or $19.99 from 1.0), one-time, no subscription, no ads, all updates free.
- How you win: two rule sets (since 0.9.3). Advanced (the default): the race opens in year 8; the first company with the winning share at a year-end takes the charter (the winning share is 10 points below Classic: 45 % with four or more rivals), and if nobody gets there by year 20 the largest share wins on points; rivals can go bankrupt. Classic: hold 55 % market share at a year-end (60-70 % with fewer than four rivals), checked from the end of year 2, or be the last company standing. A company that defaults on its credit line is out.
- Current version: 0.9.4.5 ("Off the Spreadsheet": one house style for every bar, level and figure, Product & price with the can on a pedestal and one market-needs radar, a Marketplace that warns before you run out, the Orion Spur recalibrated with real astrophysics — orbit order, star sizes, deposits per world type, extractor cost per world — saves without a limit, Ore Dice in 3D), on top of 0.9.4.4 ("Showroom": almost every management screen rebuilt — Brands for campaigns, sponsors and collabs, Product & price with the cost per unit part by part, Sales with a coverage map, Rivals, R&D research cards, HQ staff training as a path, an Operations network navigator — and 64 achievement badges with a gallery), on top of 0.9.4.3 ("Lip Service": new, smoother lip sync for all nine talking characters, a freeze fix and crash recovery, holodeck buildings that grow with their level), on top of 0.9.4.2 ("Control Room": a control room on the factory floor, research you inspect before queuing it, a 50 % clock, a Sponsor manager, Italian, Polish and Turkish), on top of 0.9.4 ("Take Command"): a new interface from the sector map down to the factory floor (a page per world, holodeck stations, now → after on every upgrade, a product match radar); 11 scenarios with one fixed start for everyone and gold, silver or bronze medals; online leaderboards (beta) on which every game is replayed by the server before it counts; playing on after the charter with a MONOPOLY ending; Storm the Keep.
- Early Access: the game is complete (a whole 20-year game, won or lost) and still growing, with a free new version every few weeks. Next: 0.9.5 trade; 0.9.6 the full story; 1.0 on Steam; after 1.0 the expansion packs (Sneakers, Sports Nutrition, Robotics, Space Vehicles), KIXIK first, without dates or prices yet.

## Pages
- [Home](https://starcorptycoon.com/): overview, features, screenshots, demo download and purchase on one page
- [The game](https://starcorptycoon.com/#game): premise and the four pillars (explore, build, trade, win)
- [Features](https://starcorptycoon.com/#features): sector map, zoom to planet, stations, mining and trade, research, HQ and staff
- [Early Access](https://starcorptycoon.com/#early-access): what Early Access means and the roadmap to 1.0
- [Expansions](https://starcorptycoon.com/#expansions): the four packs that come after 1.0
- [Get the game](https://starcorptycoon.com/#get): free demo downloads and the full game
- [Buy](https://starcorptycoon.com/#buy): purchase form (payment via MultiSafepay)
- [FAQ](https://starcorptycoon.com/#faq): Early Access, demo, platforms, install warnings, updates, refunds
- [Releases and updates](https://starcorptycoon.com/releases.php): what changed in every version
- [Press kit](https://starcorptycoon.com/press.php): fact sheet, texts, screenshots, logos and art, and one zip with everything (English)
- [Get featured in the game](https://starcorptycoon.com/featured.php): bands, brands, creators and clubs can appear in the game ("Become an Eternal")
- The same pages in Dutch, German, French and Spanish: https://starcorptycoon.com/nl/, https://starcorptycoon.com/de/, https://starcorptycoon.com/fr/, https://starcorptycoon.com/es/

## Files
- [Full description for AI assistants](https://starcorptycoon.com/llms-full.txt): everything about the game in plain text
- [Release notes (JSON)](https://starcorptycoon.com/downloads/releases.json): machine-readable changelog
- [Sitemap](https://starcorptycoon.com/sitemap.xml)

## Optional
- [Terms of sale](https://starcorptycoon.com/terms.php): seller, price, delivery, right of withdrawal, contact
- [Privacy](https://starcorptycoon.com/privacy.php): what data is kept and why
- [Lost download link](https://starcorptycoon.com/resend.php): buyers get their link emailed again
- [Discord community](https://discord.gg/Pem8Y78hw): news, feedback and bug reports
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@StarCorpTycoon): trailers, gameplay and dev logs
- [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/starcorptycoon): dev streams and playthroughs
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/starcorptycoon/): art, CEOs and news
- [X](https://x.com/starcorptycoon): news and updates