CEO SIMULATOR (1986)

What it does

CEO SIMULATOR (1986) is a text-only browser game where you run a startup and try not to get fired. There are no good options - only consequences. FEATURES: - Daily challenge mode - same seed for everyone, Wordle-style sharing - 3 company types (Consumer App, B2B SaaS, Marketplace) - 13 unique endings (IPO, Fired by Board, Burnout...) - No signup, no saving, no mercy Built for founders, operators, and anyone who's wondered what it's really like to make decisions when everything is on fire.

Run a company. Make decisions. Get fired. A text-only CEO simulator where every decision trades money, trust, and sleep. No dashboards. No tutorials. Just consequences.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, I built CEO Simulator over the past few weeks. It's a text-based game where you run a startup as CEO and make quarterly decisions. There are 13 possible endings. Only one is good (IPO). The rest range from getting fired by the board to burning out to becoming a zombie company. The game was inspired by the gap…

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