Late 2022. The world has just met AI, everyone wants in, and nobody owns the market yet. LLM Tycoon puts you in charge of a young AI company and asks a simple question: can you carry the world into the age of superintelligence before somebody else does?
It is a strategy-tycoon game played on a world map. You train models, build datacenters, set prices country by country and deal with rivals who have their own models, their own ideals and their own scandals. History moves on the real timeline, and your choices bend it.
Your models have personalities
Honesty, safety, tone and depth are sliders you set yourself. Play it safe and reviewers call your model boring. Let it off the leash and it says something the press will never let you forget. Push a slider all the way and strange things start to happen. Rival companies struggle with the same sliders, and their hidden ideals turn into scandals of their own.
Six ages
The race runs through six ages: Chat, Scale, Multimodal, Agentic, Superintelligence and Ascendancy. Each one changes the rules. New markets open, acquisitions become possible, and sooner or later the crises begin. Getting there first matters; surviving it matters more.
Steel, silicon and 75 cities
Pick a headquarters and put datacenters where power is cheap and regulators are friendly. Haggle on the chip market or sign with a foundry to skip the queue. When your models are good enough, design a consumer device and put them in everyone's pocket. The map holds 30 countries and each one wants something different from you.
Rival CEOs with opinions
On Chirp, the in-game social feed, rival CEOs hype their keynotes and mock your launches. Sometimes they fall apart in public instead. You can also take the unofficial routes: intel dossiers, a hacking minigame to steal research, buying shares in a rival or buying the whole company, going public and taking loans.
How to play
- Choose where your company starts and found your headquarters.
- Train your first model and set its character sliders: honesty, safety, tone and depth.
- Build datacenters, secure chips and set prices in the countries you want to win.
- Watch Chirp and the news: rivals launch, scandals break and world events arrive on their real dates.
- Push through the six ages and climb the four-front Dominance Index before the rivals do.
Questions
When does LLM Tycoon come out?
LLM Tycoon is coming to Steam. Add it to your wishlist on the Steam page to get a notification on release day.
Which platforms will it be on?
LLM Tycoon is a PC game and will be sold on Steam.
Which languages does it support?
The game is fully localised in 7 languages, including English and Turkish.
Where can I follow development?
Follow r/LLMTycoon on Reddit and @llmTycoon on X for news, updates and playtest calls.
