Business sims are a niche genre and there are not a ton of them out there that allow you to create a corporation and run it the way you want to. Maybe the reason few exist is because Capitalism did it so well it was one and done. Capitalism lets you really fine tune everything about your company and the world you will be playing in. The really amazing thing that sets this game apart is there are few if any limits on playstyle. You can make a company that mines raw resources and sells them to other companies so they can manufacture goods or you can run a factory selling products to retail stores or even be the retailer yourself or all of these together. You could run a farm or even just play the stock market and never produce/sell any products and still win that way! There is complex branding system in the game which you can either produce or buy products and brand them with your own company branding and then market those products via TV and Newspaper to beat your competition. To win the game you need to be the last company standing, the best way I have found to do that is to monopolize resources to prevent the other companies from creating products and push for research and development to create products they don’t know how to make.

I have looked for years for business sim games and this one is really the best there is. The second game in the series is great as well but in my opinion it doesn’t have the same charm as the first game. The controls and the UI are simple and easy to follow and understand and the charts and graphs give such great information you can easily tell how well you are doing against your competition. The most fun thing to do I think is to use your wealth to buy shares in your opponents company until you have enough to own a controlling interest and then merge them into your company stealing their properties and research and knocking them out of the game.

The amount of complexity in this game really gives you a good idea of what it is like to run a real world corporation. From setting up production and supply lines to marketing and issuing shares there is so much available that you can really sink significant time into this one easy.

Since this is a DOS game it is small (around 141 MB for the GOG Offline installer but I think its way less than even that if installed via GOG Galaxy.) The price for this game is always a bargain as well. I always judge if a game is worth the money by taking the price and dividing it by the number of hours I played the game. For this title I bought it at $5.99 and have played 120 hours so far so I have only spent $0.04 an hour for all the fun I had!

As of the time of this writing Capitalism Plus is 50% off on GOG at the moment and selling for just $2.99! For the price this game is a no brainer. Head over and pick up a copy and become a titan of industry today!

Link to GOG – Capitalism Plus