Tap to code, hire staff, buy equipment and grow a startup from garage to stock market over thirteen runs.
From a desk in a garage to a company on the stock market.
Idle Startup Tycoon is an incremental clicker and tycoon sim. Tap to write code, buy the hardware that earns while you sleep, hire the people who fill the desks, and push a startup through 12 stages of growth. Then sell it, keep what compounds, and do the next run faster.
Do that thirteen times and you can take the whole thing public.
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AN OFFICE THAT FILLS UP
Your company is a room you drag through, not a menu. Desks fill as you hire, the props change as you grow, and every stage repaints the place — garage, co-working, first office, Series A, campus, global HQ.
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TAP TO CODE
10 software tiers, from MVP Prototype to Autonomous Division. Critical taps start at 5x. Crit chance caps at 85%, and every point you earn past the cap becomes extra critical damage instead of vanishing.
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AUTOMATED INCOME STREAMS
Ping Bot, Server Cluster, Orbital Station, Dyson Swarm. Your hardware runs 24/7 — collect up to 8 hours of offline income, and push that window further with permanent bonuses.
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HIRE YOUR TEAM
Up to 5 desks, filled from a rotating pool of 12 candidates across 4 departments. Stack 3 from one department for +10% to its output, or cover all four at once for +12% on everything. You cannot hold both — unless you land the CTO, who counts for every department.
Your team does not survive the sale. That is the whole tension.
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FOUNDER TRAITS
Every sale offers you 1 of 3 traits for the next run. The pool widens as you go, and from your ninth run you carry two at once — only compatible pairs are ever offered.
⚡ HACKATHON EVERY 8 HOURS
Three minigames — Bug Hunt, Pitch Perfect, Code Review — feeding a 14-day season track of 10 tiers, with endless overtime past the capstone. Four seasons rotate, and each changes what the track pays for: two shots per window, a streak that breaks if you miss one, or a harder run worth more.
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PERMANENT UPGRADES
Five tiers of research, each gated by both your exit count and the highest level you have ever reached. Timers keep running while the app is closed. Nothing you research is ever lost.
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SELL THE COMPANY
Cash out for a permanent multiplier that compounds at +28% per exit — the genre's prestige reset, with the paperwork. Every sale pays investor tokens for a four-branch tree that no reset touches, and the tree completes on your 13th exit.
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GO PUBLIC
The floor above the tree. Selling the entire company pays shares, and shares buy nodes on a 24-node board that survives everything below it. The gate is 13 exits, then 14, then 15 — and the board is where the endgame actually lives.
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ACTIVE ABILITIES
Crunch Mode (2x taps, 30s) · Funding Round (instant 15 min of passive income) · Innovation Sprint (10x passive, 20s) · Networking Event (5 auto-clicks/sec, 30s) · Growth Hack (+25% crit chance, 25s).
📋 GIGS, STREAKS AND 59 ACHIEVEMENTS
Three gigs every 8 hours across 5 rarities, with extra slots earned from research, hires and the board. A 28-day check-in where day 28 pays 10x and a 48-hour grace period protects your streak. 59 achievements, each worth a permanent income bonus. Click combos up to 1.5x.
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GROWTH MARKET
10 strategic upgrades, ending in Infinite Scaler: +1% to all income, no maximum, forever.
If you play idle games, incremental clickers, tycoon simulators, business strategy games or startup sims, this is all of them at once — with the decisions left in.
No paywalls. Ads are optional.
Ratings
I love this game. It's very simple and not difficult to play at all.
Fun
honestly enjoyable, absolutely love that you don't shove adds into the game every 30 seconds like some games.
