Startup Empire: Business Game

Startup Empire is a business board game where you roll the dice, launch products and grow a tiny garage startup into a company that rings the IPO bell. Every card teaches a real startup idea in plain words.

You begin with an idea, a laptop and a small pile of cash. Rival founders want the same markets. Launch products, ship features, pitch investors and keep your runway alive long enough to go public.

A LIVING STARTUP WORLD
• Your office comes alive: the team types at their desks, takes calls, carries deliveries and grabs coffee while screens scroll code and charts
• Five animated scenes follow your career, from a cramped garage through a coworking space, an office and a campus to a glass tower
• Dice tumble, tokens hop around the board, cash counters roll up and new products open with a burst of sparkle
• Stage-ups and the IPO finale celebrate with confetti, fireworks, a ringing bell and cheers
• Crisp sound effects for typing, phones, coffee, deals and revenue, over an original soundtrack

ROLL, LAUNCH AND GROW
• A 40-tile board with 22 market tiles in 8 sectors, drawn from 26 markets such as Food Delivery, Neobank, AI Assistants and SpaceTech
• Launch a product on a free market, then grow it from v1 to v2, v3, Platform and Ecosystem
• Rivals who land on your products pay you a market share fee
• Own every market in a sector to become the category leader and double your fees
• 4 growth channels and 2 infrastructure tiles give you more ways to earn

RUN YOUR COMPANY
• Every lap of the board is one month: collect your MRR and pay your burn at the Garage
• Track Cash, Burn, Runway, MRR, Users, Valuation, Ownership, Team and Stage on your dashboard
• Survive Payroll, the Cloud Bill, Burnout and the Regulator Audit
• Join the Accelerator and pick one of 16 perks: mentors, cloud credits, coaches and more

PITCH DAY AND FOUNDER DILEMMAS
• 36 investor term sheets: priced rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes, board seats, liquidation preferences and down rounds
• Accept, negotiate or decline, and see exactly how much of your company you keep
• 41 Founder Dilemmas with real trade-offs: co-founder conflict, pivots, technical debt, data breaches, price wars and more

FOUNDER ACADEMY
• Collect 40 lessons as you play, plus 10 bonus lessons with Academy Plus
• Each lesson has a clear explanation, a worked example and a quiz question
• Learn about MVPs, product-market fit, unit economics, burn and runway, MRR, churn, pricing, cap tables, vesting and more
• After every match, a Founder report sums up your numbers with a founder insight

CAREER, QUICK MATCH AND PASS & PLAY
• Career: 8 stages from The Garage through Seed Round, Series A and Growth Stage to the IPO, with up to three stars each
• Quick match against 1 to 3 AI rivals on Easy, Normal or Hard
• Pass & Play for 2 to 4 founders on one device
• Six AI rival founders, each with their own personality and risk style
• Collect 6 player tokens and 4 board themes, and claim a daily reward that grows over 7 days
• Play offline, anytime

Whether you love board games, tycoon strategy or simply want to see how startups work, Startup Empire turns every roll into a lesson you will remember. All money in the game is virtual, and the lessons are for learning and fun, not financial or business advice.

Startup Empire is free to play. It contains optional ads and in-app purchases, including a one-time Remove Ads purchase that stops interrupting ads. Rewarded videos are always optional.

Playable in 14 languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

Questions or feedback? Write to us at info@andalusgames.com.

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