Garage to AGI - Idle AI Tycoon

Garage to AGI is an idle tycoon game about the AI boom. You start with a wrapper app and one server rack in your garage. Turn that scrappy little AI startup into the company that cracks AGI, then find out what's waiting on the other side.

Build the lab
It starts out like a classic clicker. Tap to run cycles on your first products, buy levels, and hire leads so each product keeps making money without you. Each era has ten AI products to launch, from Wrapper App and Support Bot all the way up to AGI Moonshot. Close funding rounds one after another until you reach Unicorn, IPO and Titan, and new parts of the game open up as your valuation climbs into the billions.

Train bigger AI models
Scale your GPU cluster and your datasets, then train eight models per era. Ship a model and you unlock new products and multiply your revenue. Training rarely goes to plan, though. A loss spike can hit at the worst moment, and it's up to you whether to roll back to a safe checkpoint or push through and hope for a better minimum. Node failures can set a run back, emergent abilities can push it ahead, and nine research techniques raise your BENCH score. Ship the capstone and you get to watch PEBBLE-8 become AGI.

Hire a team that sticks around
Recruit at the Job Fair. Twelve star hires stay with you from era to era and take a new job in each one. Era specialists bend one of their era's rules, whether that's a power grid limit or a solar flare. Odds and pity counters are always on screen when you recruit.

Sell the company, shift eras, go again
When a run slows down, sell the company for Cred. If you've played idle games before, this is the prestige. Every Cred adds 2% revenue for good, so your next startup grows faster than the last. Move from the Garage to Hyperscale, Orbital and Dyson, and after that things get strange. You're in a simulation, and the only way out is down, one layer at a time. Each layer brings x10 revenue, a new glitch and a new palette, and Layer 100 is where you break out. Every mind you collect in the Hall of Minds adds 5% revenue across all eras.

Idle, but there's always something to do
As in any good idle game, your lab keeps earning while you're offline, for up to 8 hours. Training runs keep going in real time and pause for your decision if a loss spike shows up. Daily rewards, 30 achievements, HQ skins and titles give you something to chase between sessions, and finishing an era gets you a six-second AGI moment, a trophy and a share card.

Weekend events
Once your lab reaches Series D, a new event opens every weekend. They rotate between Hackathon Weekend, Benchmark Wars, GPU Shortage and Launch Week, with a few seasonal specials thrown in. Some put you on a leaderboard with 49 other labs, and all of them have a reward track full of chips and new hires. And yes, the golden hoodie from the icon is one of the prizes.

Fair by design
Ads are never forced on you. Every ad is your choice and pays a reward, and there's no progress wall that only money can get you over.

It's all pixel art, played in portrait. Underneath, it's a good old incremental game. Numbers go up, you sell everything, and then you watch them go up faster.

Garage to AGI is free to play. It offers optional in-app purchases, including random items (Job Fair recruits, with the odds shown in the game), the Founder Pass and a subscription.

The Founder Pass is a one-time purchase that opens the premium lane of every weekend event's reward track, in that event and every one after it.

VC Backing is an optional auto-renewing weekly subscription. It keeps the x2 boost always on, gives you ad rewards without watching ads, adds 50 chips a day and stretches time-away earnings to 16 hours. It renews until you cancel it in Google Play > Payments & subscriptions.

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