- Update 2026.08.29 — Dynasty & Quality-of-Life Overhaul - 30 August 2026
Hello, investors!This update round is driven almost entirely by your posts on the discussion boards — special thanks to Doomi, whose detailed feedback and hedge fund threads shaped most of this update, and to everyone else who took the time to write up what they hit. On top of that, an internal audit pass closed out every remaining high-severity finding from our full-game review. Hedge Funds — Your Questions, AnsweredNot running a fund yet? The beta is opt-in: right-click the game in your library → Properties → Betas, enter the code EnableHedgeFund, and select the hedgefund branch. New Fund Reports screen. Browsable month-by-month and yearly reports, from both the Full Desk and the Compact view. No more relying on the recap popup as your only history — page through past months, or flip the yearly toggle for January-to-December changes. Fees now land where you can see them. Management an…
- Update 2026.08.23 — Dynasty & Quality-of-Life Overhaul - 24 August 2026
Hello, investors!Since the August 17 patch, we’ve completed a major pass across controller support, Steam Cloud saves, business balance, hedge funds, multigenerational play, localization, and responsive presentation.Here is the complete changelog.Steam Cloud & Save Reliability“Keep This Device” can now resolve a save conflict while Steam Cloud is disabled or offline.The local decision is stored durably, preventing autosaves, load screens, and save-slot cards from reopening the same conflict every month.Added defensive migration and repair for malformed settings, Hall records, relationship data, property records, and other legacy save structures.Companies, Markets & AccountingA product starting at 10% visibility now reaches 50% in roughly 26 months at minimum budget, or about 18 months at twice the minimum.The existing 5% monthly visibility cap remains unchanged.The first-year demand pen…
- Steam Deck and Game Controller Support + Gameplay Enhancements - 16 August 2026
Steam Deck: full controller supportUntil now, SELF MADE on Deck was a mouse game with an on-screen keyboard. Version 1.815 makes the whole game playable from the controller:Left stick moves a cursor (or steps focus item-to-item on menus), A clicks, right stick scrolls, B backs out of screens.A hint bar shows the controls, in all 7 languages, and disappears the moment you touch the mouse.The on-screen keyboard now reliably reappears when you re-select a text field.No more "hold Shift/Ctrl" tooltips on a device with no Shift or Ctrl.Scrolling with the right stick no longer silently edits sliders it passes over — that one affected about 40 sliders, including budget allocations and bet sizes.This is Deck-only on purpose. On desktop the game should plays as it always has.Steam Deck: readable and un-croppedThe Deck now renders the full native 1280×800 canvas at 100% scale. Company creation an…
- Stability Improves and Hedge Fund Beta - 6 August 2026
Introducing Hedge Fund Mode — a New Endgame Career (Opt-In Beta)You've beaten the market with your own money. Hedge Fund mode asks a harder question: can you do it with someone else's?This is the new endgame career we've been building: launch a fund, raise outside capital, build a research team, run long and short books, collect fees, keep your investors from bolting — and, if you've got the stomach for it, drag a company's board into a fight it didn't ask for. It's live now as an opt-in beta on the hedgefund branch.OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEYAt minimum: you put up $2 million of your own; the Mara Voss Family Office seeds you with $8 million more. Mara is not a passive line item — she has a mandate, a leverage ceiling, and a loyalty meter, and if you disappoint her she takes most of your fund home. You get paid the classic "2 and 20," with a real high-water mark: after a losing stretch, invest…
- Third Small July Update - 16 July 2026
1) Keyboard focus / window-stacking Previously was allowed to tab to a button, mash Space/Enter, and stack infinite copies of a window; focus never entered the popup or stayed contained. Now the focus is contained to a popup, preventing an infinite window situation. 2) Two non-paying issues: Deferring year-end taxes to April skipped April's whole paycheck (early-return before the pay code). Moved the tax check to run after the paycheck. Workplace-injury recovery left you silently unpaid — recovery cleared the flag but never restored your work hours. Now it does. 3) Spouse vacation never showed its $10k/25hr cost, didn't gate the button, and said "wonderful vacation!" even when it silently failed. Now shows the cost, disables when unaffordable, and only celebrates on success. 4) In the books. the income_earned handler is the single accumulator, but six sources also manually added the sam…
- Second small July Update - 10 July 2026
More bug fixes and gameplay enhancements are included in this update. Here’s what you’ll find:Updated dashboards and menu pop-ups now run on a more stable system. The Rocket, Sports, Media, Franchise, and Company dashboards—along with the Main Menu screens for Continue, Load, and Victory Hall—no longer use the old window technology responsible for certain pop-up crashes and soft-locks, including windows closing immediately after opening or becoming impossible to dismiss.Corrupted saves are now repaired when loaded instead of causing a crash. This includes corruption involving venture capital investments and market events.College applications are now a true one-shot decision. Applying locks in your acceptance result and scholarship offer, preventing re-roll scumming. Selecting “Decide Later” preserves that same offer for you.Fixed the “Start a Company While Employed” pop-up. You will no…
- Small July Update - 5 July 2026
In this update we have addressed: Bank Tutorial Bug - (now automatically closes the bank pop up in segment of the tutorial to avoid a lockout) Mortgage Foreclosure Bug - Won't foreclose even though you make payments College Application game - Now allows pictures to be shown in a much larger format and labels for the cards Shorting your own company stock exploit - Now shorting your own player created company accounts for splits. Man of the People Achievement -Now wired with the updated job system (was left connected to the old system) Some refactoring of company management code for performance Updated crash reporting
- Companies Rework - 18 June 2026
Companies Rework Managing companies has gotten a rework. Players can now retain ownership of the companies they started instead of being forced to sell it. Not only that, but players can delegate who runs it and inherit it when taking over as their child. Players can also step away from the company and return if they feel they want to spend their player's hours on different projects. If the company has gone public, they will have a harder time coming back to run it, but will collect dividends while away. We also added two new types of companies, and now have 5 products per category, and the player can redesign completed products, and the company can also branch into other categories for a price (price scales up with number of categories and market size).Further more, all publicly traded companies can now be run as well. If the player gains a significant amount of shares, they will be as…
- Minor Job details update - 3 June 2026
Update Released Just Now Minor Updates mostly to jobs: Readded Embezzlement Added Workplace injury (for certain jobs) New Pension and Retirement System (Can retire early for smaller pension) Added More Leadership opportunities (Leadership experience as well as other things will allow the player to get the chance to apply for the service franchise job) When both parents have passed away, slider set to 0 (no time spent/money transfers as they are deceased) -- Already working on three things for next update -- First: Additions to player started companies (Things like More types of product categories, more products, holding onto shares and potentially retaking over as child, and more) Second: Able to take over as CEO of tradeable companies like Apple, Coca Cola, etc, where each sector will each have different ways of managing. Third: New Hedge Fund system
- Job And Education Rework (Plus poll for future updates) - 26 May 2026
Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend. We were bug fixing our latest update to Self-Made. In this update education and jobs have been reworked to be more dynamic. Play a very short minigame to determine which school tier and how much of a scholarship you qualify for. Now you will have more freedom to focus on your studies, which now grade you for effort, or on working while in school to not accrue as much debt. Grades will affect your ability to get into a better grad school tier and grades at both undergrad and post grad will also factor into salaries. The player must spend hours looking for a job and pending on their work experience and schooling, they are qualified for certain jobs (Becoming a doctor requires medical school and residency, while becoming a lawyer requires law school). If the player's job application is rejected and they don't see their dream job, they can spen…
- Self Made Patch + UI Enhancements - 3 May 2026
Patch Update — Bug Fixes & UI RefreshBug FixesTorch-pass shorts no longer drain your fortune When you pass the company torch on a public company, any shorts you held against it are now auto-covered at the current market price before the stock delists — no more eternal shorting fees on a stock you can't access. Saves with stuck shorts will heal on load.Going private no longer locks the company Taking your company private now correctly flips it back to private status, so you can change CEO compensation again and re-IPO whenever you're ready.Private companies no longer generate Massive monthly losses Fixed a unit math bug where buying out a tiny public company and taking it private would compound private-equity income into the negative trillions. Existing affected saves are repaired automatically on load.Buyback now actually reduces the market float Fixed a 1,000× unit error in the company…
- Patch Update - 27 April 2026
Summary of improvements Market Mechanics: "YOLO week" has been successfully integrated with live stock fundamentals, ensuring the chaos now has a basis in (virtual) reality.Financial Safeguards: Improved how the game handles "no-headroom" payment scenarios and fixed a bug where mortgage paydowns were incorrectly triggering missed-payment flags.Hard Mode Adjustments: Resolved a "tax popup trap" that was likely ending runs prematurely and improved the visual contrast on sector reports. This has been persistent and we have not been able to recreate it on our end. However, we added some more defensive codeData Integrity: Implemented "crash protection" to prevent save-file lossCode Hardening: The "hotel arrays" are now better protected against null entries, and various "error-laden areas" have been refactored for smoother performance. We have tried to recreate the bugs on our end for this as…
- 2nd Generation Update - 19 April 2026
Generational wealth: now you can play as your son or daughter in game who inherit the wealth you accumulated at a 40% tax on everything above $13M (first $13M is exempt). There is no third generation, so make the most of the head start you get in the second generation! Bug fixes: Missing Hotel/Complex Foreclosure (logic bug)Instant sell after buy hotel now prevented hoping that helps with hotel issuesUnsafe Dictionary Access for midlevel properties (crash fix)Supply Chain Disruption indicator addedCEO auto-launching for commercial satellites (picking the highest payout contracts)Issues with Gordon Greed not appearing even after accepting his contact
- Stability Update - 30 March 2026
Added some 'defensive' code to help the game with stability in: Stock Market Engine (division by zero problem) A few Translation errors where key is missing, causing crashes unguarded 'child' chains in bank manager Null nodes found throughout all files.
- New Patch Is Live - 24 March 2026
Fixed HRSH Bug, HRSH should only be tradable when the event for it fires.Cleaned up hotel logic, works when we test it, hopefully works for all players.Company Loans considered liability now.Updates to the tax system and spreadsheets for sources of income. Government bond interest is now labeled as tax-exempt.Rocket Company bug with new Luxury penthouse level.Now acknowledging the player as GM in sports franchiseIncreased size of media company UIAdded a hint about the service franchise company's current failings.Player now gets a warning if relationship with spouse gets close to 0.Stock Market long term trajectory rebalanced slightly more favorably.Player now informed of Personal Assistant employment with a pop up now.
- New Update is Live - 17 March 2026
The newest Property for your player to reside is the most expensive and most customizable yet. Each style has its own button layout (closet, laptop, trophy, phone positions/sizes), night-specific overrides for some buttons, and a unique PA button default position. Speaking of which, a PA button is linked to the new Personal Assistant feature added. Each Personal Assistant has their own strengths and weaknesses for whichever task you give them. Some will be better with improving your family life, others will help you with PR, or they can just help you free up a little more time in general. Finally, we have addressed several bugs which the community has pointed out for us and we are grateful for. We hope to get more feedback, and improve this game more in the coming months! Thank you for supporting our game and us!
- Game Mode System ("Margin Call" Hard Mode) & Bug Fixes - 5 March 2026
New Game Mode"Margin Call" Hard Mode: We’ve introduced a new difficulty system! You can now choose between "Arcade" (default) and "Margin Call" at character creation. Margin Call turns up the heat with slower market growth, higher loan rates, harsher legal penalties, tighter victory thresholds, and more frequent black swan events.Bug FixesProperty Sale Exploit: Patched an exploit where selling investment properties paid out the gross property value without deducting the outstanding mortgage. It now correctly calculates and pays out the net proceeds (sale price minus remaining mortgage principal).Down Payment Display: Fixed an issue where 25% and 50% financing options appeared even if your credit score required a higher minimum down payment. These options are now properly hidden if the required credit percentage exceeds that tier.Liquidation Screen Input: Fixed a bug where the liquidatio…
