Lab Tycoon: AI Startup Sim

Buy compute. Train on questionable data. Ship before it is ready. Then prompt your own model and watch it answer. Early ones produce confident nonsense.

Run a scrappy AI lab from a garage to the frontier. Train models on questionable data, ship them before they are ready, and beg investors for GPUs with a straight face.

Lab Tycoon is an idle tycoon game about the AI industry. Pick an architecture, slide your compute between training and serving, and watch your big demo go sideways in front of the one investor who mattered. Raise absurd funding rounds. Poach researchers. Wake up to a rival lab open-sourcing your entire business overnight.

FEATURES

• Train and ship models across generations, from chatbots that lie confidently to agents that almost work
• A living lab: hire researchers, grow from garage to office to frontier campus
• Compute is everything. Buy GPUs, rent cloud, and keep the burn rate from eating you alive
• Random events ripped from the AI news cycle, only slightly exaggerated
• Idle progress while you are away. Your models keep training. Your costs keep growing.
• Exit when the moment is right, then start again with a head start

No account. No internet required. The full game is playable free.