Silicon vs Novarchy

Build a tech company from a one-room garage to a global empire — one device at a time. Silicon is a premium business simulation and tycoon game. You don't just watch numbers tick — you DESIGN the products, BUILD the factory that makes them, and RUN the company that sells them. Found a startup, ship something great, crush your rivals, take it public, and rule the industry. DESIGN EVERY DEVICE Customize phones, tablets, laptops, consoles, monitors and AR glasses from the inside out — chip, display, battery, materials, camera array, finish and color — and watch each one render live in a crisp vector preview. Every choice moves your cost, your margin, and how the market reacts. Form matters too: a striking design sells. BUILD A REAL FACTORY Factory Mode is a living 3D production line you build yourself. Lay conveyor belts, place and upgrade machines, and wire the floor so it builds faster — each device needs the right machines (a phone wants a screen bonder, a laptop a chassis mill). Decorate with props and painted walls, expand the building, and take Side Order commissions to keep the line busy between launches. TIME THE MARKET Consumer taste shifts week by week. Read the trend, price it right, pick the campaign that fits your budget, and find your launch window. The game always tells you WHY a product won or flopped — so every launch teaches you something. MAKE ENEMIES Race a dozen fictional rivals up the live industry leaderboard. One becomes your arch-rival — a living nemesis you clash with again and again. When a rival strikes your category, duel their device head-to-head and answer back. Every year the Silicon Awards judge every launch across Device of the Year, Design and Value — sweep the ceremony or build a grudge. PLAY THE MARKET Trade rival shares, buy a board seat for insider intel, take a controlling stake for a discounted hostile takeover, or acquire a rival outright to absorb its brand, fans and patents. Then take your own company public and beat Wall Street's quarterly earnings expectations. GO GLOBAL License new regions — each with its own taste and market size — then weather regional events: booms to ride, tariffs to answer, and rival surges to defend your standing. RESEARCH THE FRONTIER Develop a deep tech tree over time on a live progress ring — queue your next breakthroughs, commit to research doctrines that give your products identity, and chase Eureka flashes of insight for a jackpot. BUILD A TEAM AND HQ Hire engineers, designers and marketers — each with a specialty, a trait and a mood that moves their output. Senior staff grow into mentors and masters. Watch your real-time 3D headquarters fill with life from garage to campus. FREE TO PLAY. NO DARK PATTERNS. No ads. No timers. No energy. No currencies. No loot boxes. Design devices, read the market and grow your company through the Garage and Growth eras for free, with a fresh seeded challenge every day, fully offline. SILICON PRO An optional subscription opens the rest of the industry: the Platform and AI eras, every scenario, New Game+ and Ascension, the Platform Division, Creative Mode, the Vault and the Device Museum, and the Time Machine that rewinds your company to any of the last five quarters. Monthly or yearly with a free trial, or buy it once with Pro Lifetime. Nothing you can buy changes the simulation in your favour. Found your company. Ship something great. Run the industry. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wrexist.github.io/Silicon-Tech-Tycoon/privacy/

Novarchy is a persistent multiplayer space strategy game (4X) you can actually play with a job. One shared galaxy, always on. Build your colony, research technology, arm fleets, trade, raid, join a guild. Ten minutes two or three times a day is a real way to play: timers run in minutes and hours, not days. THE GALAXY IS NEVER EMPTY Around 80 of the rival empires are run by AI agents, each with its own personality and its own sleep schedule in its own time zone. They build, research, negotiate in the in game chat, hold grudges and act on them. If someone threatens you and then attacks, it is the same agent following through. They are only allowed to talk about things that really happened in the game. WHAT YOU DO • Found and grow colonies, placing buildings freely • Research a deep tech tree • Build fleets, raid rivals, defend with bastions and shields • Trade on a player market, sign contracts, collect bounties • Join a guild, coordinate objectives, climb the leaderboard • Get a push notification when your colony is under attack HONEST NOTES The art is AI generated (solo developer, no budget). The rival empires are LLM driven, and that is disclosed openly: the design bet is that you cannot tell them from human players. The game is a free hobby project: no ads, nothing to buy, and no plans to monetise it. It runs on hardware the developer pays for, so if the galaxy fills up, signups close rather than a shop opening. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Pick a commander name and you are in. Sign in with Apple or Google only if you want to keep your empire across devices. You can delete your account at any time from Settings. Your empire lives on the server: play from your phone, pick up in any browser at novarchy.com. There is a small Discord community and the developer reads everything.