- A New Challenge from the Developer of ‘Terminus’… New Supply Chain Management Simulation Unveiled
- Corporate management with a 90s Windows vibe… from building supply chains to competing with AI companies
- From factory construction to corporate acquisitions… A management simulation capturing a living, breathing market economy
Longplay Studio, which made its presence known in the survival roguelike genre with Terminus: Zombie Survivors, has now thrown down the gauntlet in the corporate management simulation genre.
‘FD’s Industry Tycoon’, which opened its Steam store page on July 1, is a management simulation game centered on industry, supply chains, and the market economy, featuring a unique concept that reinterprets the sensibilities of 1990s PC operating systems in a modern way.
Players manage a company within a screen that resembles a past PC business management program, experiencing the process of growing a small business into a global conglomerate. Players can choose to start the game in any era between the 1980s and the 2020s, and as the economic environment and industrial structure change depending on the era, various management strategies can be employed.
From mines to stores… Management that designs the entire supply chain
The core of ‘FD’s Industry Tycoon’ is to directly build a supply chain that extends from production to sales.
Players operate farms, mines, oil fields, factories, logistics facilities, and retail stores to process raw materials and produce final consumer goods. For example, they can build complex production systems that involve cultivating wheat to make flour and processing it into bread, or manufacturing sand into semiconductors that lead to computer production.
Finished products can be sold to other cities and overseas markets by utilizing logistics networks such as railways and ports. One can establish vertical integration to directly manage all production processes, or choose a specialized corporate strategy that focuses exclusively on specific industries.
Unscripted market competition created by over 100 AI companies
More than 100 AI competitors are active in the market. Instead of following pre-arranged scenarios, each company independently establishes factories, adjusts prices, and expands its business in response to financial situations and market changes. They also acquire competitors or enter new industries as needed.
Some companies grow into large corporations handling everything from raw material production to distribution, while others pursue different management strategies, such as focusing solely on distribution or retail. Consequently, the market environment continuously changes in response to the choices of the players, and a new competitive landscape is formed each time.
Various growth strategies ranging from R&D and price competition to corporate acquisitions
Players can choose a high-value-added strategy by enhancing product quality and brand value through research and development (R&D), or expand market share by leveraging price competitiveness.
Furthermore, it is possible to acquire and merge with companies (M&A) by securing stakes in competitors in the stock market. In essence, it is designed to allow for corporate expansion utilizing capital and management strategies, going beyond simply increasing production facilities.
The game supports not only single-player mode where you compete against AI, but also multiplayer mode where you compete against other gamers in the same economic environment. It also enhances the fun of replayability by applying a procedural generation system where the city layout, competing companies, and economic flows are newly generated every time a new game is started.
A combination of 90s sensibility and a deep management system … Targeting a Steam release in 2027
Shin In-geon, CEO of Long Place Studio, stated, “I am pleased to be able to present a new approach that deviates from the existing survival genre. Although the genre has completely changed, we maintained our development philosophy of deeply implementing complex systems. We strived to capture the complex systems of the supply chain and market economy within a 90s PC screen that anyone can feel familiar with.”
‘FD’s Industry Tycoon’ is currently under development for the PC Steam platform with a target release date of 2027. It supports Korean, English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and you can currently add it to your wishlist on the Steam store page.
Meanwhile, Long Play Studio is an indie game developer established in Daejeon in 2021. Its debut title, ‘Terminus: Zombie Survivors,’ has surpassed 150,000 cumulative global sales and has been recognized for its quality, winning the Grand Prize in the General Category at GIGDC 2023, the Indie Game Award (Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award) at the 2024 Korea Game Awards, and the 2024 Game of the Month Award.
Information regarding ‘FD’s Industry Tycoon’
| item | detail |
|---|---|
| Developer | Longplay Studio (CEO Shin In-geon) |
| Genre | Management Simulation / Industry & Supply Chain Simulation |
| Release platform | PC (Steam) |
| Scheduled for release | 2027 |
| Background era | 1980s–2020s (Start year selectable) |
| core system | Supply chain establishment, production, logistics, and sales management, market economy simulation |
| Game Features | With a procedurally generated economic system, cities, competitors, and market environments change in every game. |
| Visuals | Pixel art UI recreating 1990s office PC operating systems |
| Supported languages | Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified) |
| Main Keywords | Supply chain, industrial management, market economy, logistics, AI competitors, corporate acquisitions, 90s PC nostalgia, tycoon |
| Steam Page | Shortcut |
