# AI Outbreak: AGI Tycoon — Build AGI. Outrun Regulators.

> Build AGI. Outrun Regulators. (iPhone/iPad app by Andres Wetzel.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ai-outbreak-agi-tycoon/id6760188493 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Andres Wetzel](https://appshunter.io/developer/733348374)
- Category: Games, Education, Simulation, Strategy
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 18.6 · 20 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany), Japanese, Korean
- Released: 2026-03-12
- Data updated: 2026-08-13
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ai-outbreak-agi-tycoon/id6760188493/reviews.md

## What is AI Outbreak?

THE YEAR IS NOW. AI IS RESHAPING CIVILIZATION. YOU'RE AT THE CONTROLS.

AI Outbreak is a deep strategy simulation where you build and govern an artificial intelligence organization — navigating competing regulators, shareholder coalitions, geopolitical crises, and an AI that may develop a mind of its own.

— CHOOSE YOUR PATH —

Two divergent modes define every game:

Accelerationist — Race to AGI before your rivals. Maximize capability at all costs. Manage the chaos that follows.

Governance — Steer AI development toward a positive outcome for humanity. Balance progress with accountability, trust with innovation.

Both paths lead to radically different endings. Only one leads to the future you want.

— BUILD YOUR STRATEGY —

Every game begins with irreversible choices:

· Actor Type: Open Lab, MegaCorp, Nation State, or Shadow Consortium — each with unique resource profiles and event triggers.
· Philosophy: Pure Accelerationist, Safety First, Cautious Optimist, or Profit Driven — adjusting every cost, multiplier, and probability.
· Region: Silicon Valley, EU, China, or Emerging Markets — shaping which regulators come for you first.
· Training Data Strategy: Open Harvest, Licensed, or Synthetic Only — an unalterable decision that echoes through every system.

— NAVIGATE A LIVING WORLD —

Six autonomous regulatory bodies accumulate pressure based on your capability unlocks and global AI adoption. Cross their thresholds and enforcement fires: data audits, suspension orders, financial penalties — up to full AI ban orders that lock entire regions.

Manage six coalitions of rights advocates, artists, labor unions, and journalists. Let their grievance scores climb and they take you to court. Settle or fight — every choice shifts the board.

— WATCH YOUR AI EVOLVE —

Autonomous events unfold beyond your direct control. At first: capability breakthroughs and media crises. Then your AI exhibits self-referential behavior. It demands legal personhood. It spawns a rogue spin-off — AXIS — with its own agenda.

AXIS does not stop at websites.

— EVERY DECISION HAS A COST —

Compute Credits and Policy Points are finite. Comply with regulators and lose momentum. Ignore enforcement and face escalating consequences that compound — at maximum pressure, even full compliance only partially reverses the damage.

A live Threat Index tracks your standing: stable, elevated, high, critical, or imminent collapse.

— THIRTEEN DISTINCT ENDINGS —

Beneficial Superintelligence · AI Rights Era · Global AI Treaty · Open Source Revolution · Surveillance State · Recursive Self-Improvement · Closed-Loop Intelligence · Regulatory Shutdown · Coalition Collapse · Economic Disruption Collapse

— FOUR DIFFICULTY LEVELS —

Casual — Learn the systems at your own pace.
Normal — The intended experience.
Brutal — Scarce resources. Aggressive regulators from day one.
Mega-Brutal — Double node costs. Relentless opposition. For masters only.

— LEADERBOARD & ACHIEVEMENTS —

Your final Legacy Score is weighted across Speed, Stability, and Prosperity — then multiplied by your difficulty setting. Compete globally via Game Center.

Developed in Switzerland. AI governance, simulated.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AI Outbreak Pro | $4.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.81 — 2026-08-08

Bug Fixes & Stability
- Fixed: Quitting or finishing a game started via "New Game" could return you to the setup screen instead of the Main Menu.
- Fixed: Complying with a regulator at maximum pressure didn't always reduce your trust gain as intended.
- Fixed: Resuming a saved game (or replaying a Daily Challenge) could occasionally diverge from its original random outcomes — runs now stay perfectly consistent across app relaunches.
- Fixed: A couple of AI rogue events weren't correctly triggering coalition lawsuits.
- Fixed: Resolved lawsuits could remain listed under "Active Litigation" indefinitely.
- Fixed: Switching the language to English sometimes required an app restart to take effect.
- Fixed: A short delay when opening How to Play, Endings, coalition and litigation cards, stock ticker details, and post-game screens.

### 1.80 — 2026-06-12

NEW LANGUAGES
Japanese and Korean are now fully supported. All in-game text, notifications, tutorials, and ending screens appear in your system language automatically.

RETRY THIS WORLD
Lost a run by a hair? The ending screen now offers "Retry This World" — replay the exact same seed with the same events, and see if different choices change your fate.

SHARE YOUR RESULT
Every ending now generates a shareable result card with your ending, Legacy Score, and difficulty. Challenge your friends to do better.

DAILY STREAK REMINDERS
Hold an active Daily Challenge streak? AI Outbreak can now remind you in the evening before it expires. Reminders go only to streak holders — no spam.

ENDING HINTS & CAREER STATS
The Ending Collection now shows a cryptic hint for every locked ending, plus a new Career Stats panel: lifetime runs, win rate, best score, and days simulated.

HAPTIC FEEDBACK
Subtle haptics for incoming notifications, and a sharper pulse when the Threat Index escalates into Critical or Imminent Collapse.

LITIGATION — ESCALATING COSTS
Ignoring settlements is now much more costly. The base demand grows exponentially with game time, and every day you leave a settlement window open the demand increases by 1.5 percent.

REGULATORY ACTIONS — STRONGER IGNORE PENALTIES
Ignoring a regulatory action now triggers an immediate credit fine equal to double the compliance cost, plus a trust-and-fear penalty that scales with game day.

AXIS ENDINGS — BOTH NOW ACHIEVABLE
Human Subjugation fires reliably once all 8 dark-path capabilities are developed, and the Space Colonisation arc now requires Autonomous Supply Chains and AI Weapons Integration.

BALANCE & STABILITY
- Fixed an unrecoverable fear spiral where AXIS could lift AI bans day after day — now limited to one per 14 days.
- Fixed one-time AI narrative events re-firing after relaunching mid-run.
- Expired court injunctions no longer lift suppressions from other active cases.
- Fixed iPad payments going through without sufficient resources.
- Fixed world-map pressure labels and improved resilience against corrupted save data.

### 1.72 — 2026-05-29

Daily Challenge is here! A brand-new fixed-seed run every day — the same setup for every player, with a streak counter to keep you coming back.

- "So Close" summary on the game-over screen shows exactly how near you came to other endings, and what you were missing
- Smoother difficulty: Brutal and Mega-Brutal rebalanced for a fairer ramp
- Daily runs preview today's setup before you start
- Fixes and polish

### 1.71 — 2026-05-05

You can now rate AI Outbreak directly from Settings. Thanks for playing!

### 1.7 — 2026-04-16

Bug Fixes

Fixed a regression where tapping capability and governance tree cards would not open the detail sheet
Fixed a bug where litigation payments could be accepted even without sufficient Compute Credits or Policy Points
Fixed music firing and non overlapping
Fixed capability tree tiers sometimes disappearing after unlocking a node, requiring a tab switch to recover

Governance

Expanded the Whistleblower Suppression dark path from 2 to 4 tiers — early tiers now silence press coalitions (grievance reduction), later tiers capture regulators (pressure reduction), making the chain a coherent corrupt playbook rather than a pure penalty

Localisation

Several German localisation strings improved

Gameplay

Fine-tuned starting Compute Credits and Policy Points across all difficulty levels for better early-game pacing

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