Magnate — frequently asked questions

Magnate is a business life simulator you play in your browser. One tap is one year: you are born in a real city to parents with jobs of their own, you go to school, choose whether university is worth the debt, work for someone — or found a company, raise capital, and take it to a unicorn or to bankruptcy. You fall ill and the treatment costs money, you raise a family, you die — and one of your children inherits what you built and becomes the next player. The score is not a rating out of a hundred: it is your net worth, on a ladder that climbs from €1k to €1T one order of magnitude at a time.

Yes. It runs in your browser at game.magnateworld.space, it is free, and there are no ads and nothing to buy. You create an account with an email address so your lives are saved and you can pick them up from any device.

The loop will feel familiar — a text life, one year at a time, decisions that stack up. Everything the loop is pointed at is different: in BitLife, business is a paid add-on inside a life that can be anything; in Magnate the money is the game. Your progress is measured on a wealth ladder, work and debt are simulated in detail, and death hands the estate to an heir you then play. We wrote an honest comparison: games like BitLife, compared.

Yes. When you're ready — or just reckless — you found a company in one of eight sectors, from manufacturing to marketplaces to property. You raise capital round by round, bootstrap to seed to growth, and the company either climbs toward a unicorn or takes you down with it: bankruptcy is a real state in Magnate, not a game over screen. The eleven ordinary careers are still there underneath — somebody has to pay the rent while the dream loads.

Your estate passes to your family, and you continue as one of your children — a full person the simulation has been tracking since their birth, not a fresh save with your surname. Lives are meant to be lived in generations: what one leaves, the next starts from.

Any modern browser, on the phone in your hand or a desktop — nothing to install. The Android app is in closed testing on Google Play: the invite comes through the sign-up form on the home page. It's the same game, not a port — Magnate is built in Flutter, and the phone is just another build target.

Yes, by design. Failure, bankruptcy, layoffs, debt and stress are part of the game, because they are part of the subject; gambling, alcohol, drugs, sex and violence are not in it — not as cards, not as mechanics.

English, Spanish and Italian, all first-class: the game's engine writes no prose of its own, so every sentence you read was written in your language rather than run through a translator. The preference follows your account, and you can change it in the settings at any time.