Corporate Warfare, reimagined
The first Corporate Warfare was a multiplayer browser game about stock markets and hostile takeovers. The new one is an offline economic strategy game built on what we learned from it and from running A House Divided's economy.
The first version
Corporate Warfare started in December 2025 as a multiplayer business game in the browser. Players founded companies across 50 US state economies and 19 sectors, traded shares on a live stock market, issued and bought bonds, sat on boards, and tried to take each other over. It reached a 0.3 beta in January 2026.
Players liked a lot of it, especially the bond market and the way subsidiaries worked. Much of that thinking moved into A House Divided, which now has player corporations, a stock market, bonds, and subsidiaries of its own.
What A House Divided taught us
Running a shared economy every hour for months is a hard lesson in what breaks. A few that shaped the new game:
- Money has to come from somewhere. Demand has to trace back to wages and households, and every sale has a buyer. When it does not, prices drift and companies get rich on nothing.
- Value should follow earnings. A company sitting on a pile of cash is not a good business. Share prices in the new game follow what a company actually earns.
- Place matters. Labour, wages, and customers are local. A plant that pays in one region can lose money in the next.
- Good tools beat hidden math. Pricing postures, sector divisions, and market dominance all came over from A House Divided because players could read them and act on them.
The new Corporate Warfare
The new game is offline and single-player, with the whole simulation running on your device. You are an investor who controls companies, not a single company. You build plants, own your supply chains, list subsidiaries on the exchange, form joint ventures, and take over rivals. The rivals are run by named chief executives with their own temperaments, and they remember who raided them.
Version 1.7 has four scenarios: Great Lakes 2000, Texas Oil Patch 1981, Silicon Valley 1995, and Ruhr and Rhine 1991, the first with several currencies and an exchange-rate peg that can break. Governments change the market rules, and spills, strikes, and harvest failures hit the network.
Play it
Corporate Warfare is free while it is in development. Windows, Linux, and Android builds are on the download page. The iPhone, iPad, and Mac versions are waiting on App Store approval. Read more on the game page or follow the changelog.