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Capitalism
A corporate business sim in which the player builds retail stores, factories, farms, mines, and R&D centers from internal unit layouts and competes with AI firms on price, quality, and brand across city markets.
parts
13 mechanics, as Capitalism does themcore · 4
Building placement
Each firm is a grid of internal units placed and linked by the player; layout decides what flows where.
Customer value choice
City consumers pick among stores by price, product quality, and brand; each department store stocks up to four items.
Production chains
Factories turn purchased inputs into products through linked manufacturing units; farms, mines, oil wells, and logging camps supply raw materials.
Rival firms
AI corporations with aggressive to conservative management styles compete in the same cities for market share.
supporting · 9
Advertising and awareness
Advertising units inside firms spend money to raise a product's brand rating, which customers weigh with price and quality when choosing among stores.
Blueprints
A layout plan library saves and reuses firm unit layouts.
Delegation to AI managers
Hired presidents can run divisions day to day.
Equity and buyouts
An optional stock market lets the player buy shares, take over rivals, or be bought out.
Pause and speed control
Quality tiers
Product quality comes from input quality and technology level and drives demand and price.
Resource extraction
Mines, oil wells, farms, and logging camps produce raw materials.
Scenario objectives
Seventeen scenarios set goals such as market-share dominance within a time limit.
Tech tree
R&D centers run projects from six months to ten years that raise technology and unlock new products.
core loop
buy land and place a firm -> lay out its internal units -> link purchasing, manufacturing, and sales units into supply chains -> set prices and advertising -> compete for market share on price, quality, and brand -> reinvest, research, or trade stock
design notes
Trevor Chan's Capitalism models a firm as a small grid of internal units (purchasing, manufacturing, sales, advertising) that the player wires together, so every factory, farm, mine, and store is a layout and logistics puzzle inside a market model. Retail is the main income source: each department store sells up to four products, and customers weigh price, product quality, and brand against competing stores. R&D centers raise product quality over projects lasting from six months to ten years, and AI rivals can be set from aggressive to conservative. An optional stock market allows takeovers, and hired presidents can run divisions. Advertising spend that builds brand awareness has no mechanic in the taxonomy (proposed as advertising-awareness).