ConsoleMe

About the Game

ConsoleMe is a deep, unforgiving game studio management simulator where success isn’t just about making great games, it’s about surviving the business behind them.

Start in the early days of the games industry and build your studio from a scrappy startup into a legendary name, or run it straight into the ground trying,

You’ll hire staff, manage payroll, choose what to build and when, chase trends and innovations, survive market crashes, deal with governments, investors, publishers, and competitors… and try not to miss payroll while doing it.

There are no perfect runs. Only lessons.

🕹 Build Games Across Decades

• Create games across multiple eras of the industry, from the early console years to modern platforms

• Choose genres, scopes, engines, platforms, and business models

• Release hits, ship flops, or build cult classics that find an audience over time

• Support games after launch with DLC, live services, ports, sales, and updates

Your games don’t exist in a vacuum, the market changes, competitors react, and timing matters.

🏢 Run a Real Business (Not Just a Dev Team)

• Manage cash flow, payroll, rent, taxes, loans, grants, and investors

• Choose where your company is based and expand offices across countries

• Deal with shifting government policies, tax regimes, and economic cycles

• Balance growth against risk, scale too fast and you’ll collapse

Money runs out faster than you think.

👥 Manage People, Not Just Numbers

• Hire staff with traits, skills, morale, fatigue, and ambitions

• Promote leaders and deal with internal politics and alignment

• Burnout, resignations, key departures, and succession all matter

• Your culture decisions shape how your studio behaves under pressure

A great team can save a bad plan. A bad culture can sink a great studio.

📣 Market, Compete, and Adapt

• Run marketing campaigns across different eras — magazines, TV, web, events, partnerships

• Compete for market share against AI studios with their own strategies

• Navigate sponsorships, expos, publisher deals, and platform exclusives

• Respond to crises, controversies, and industry shocks

Reputation matters. Timing matters more.

🏆 Leave a Legacy

Every run tells a story.

• Past runs are tracked so you can see what you built — and how it ended

• Bankruptcy is a failure… but also a lesson

• Learn, adapt, and try again with better decisions next time

Make hits. Miss payroll. Try again.