01 / Explore
A living city
The game is played on the real street map of Stockholm. Districts differ in demand and in the sites they offer — where you build shapes what a company earns.
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FOUNDER
Build. Own. Expand.Create businesses, secure real estate, run operations and grow your group in a living online version of Stockholm — a city that keeps moving while you are away.
In development · Web first
StockholmA living business world
- Business
- Real estate
- Operations
- Exchange
- Shared worlds
- Expand
Explore districts
Play on the real Stockholm street map. Districts differ in demand and in the sites they offer.
Build companies
Start or buy companies in 16 industries — from cafés and restaurants to software, hotels and data centers.
Manage operations
Set strategy, prices and marketing, hire staff — or step into your café and serve customers yourself.
Own real estate
Lease or buy premises at real Stockholm addresses and fit them out from shell to premium.
Trade on the Exchange
Put a company up for sale, make offers on other players' companies and close the deal you want — in game money.
Share a world
Invite other players to a world with one clock for everyone. Their companies stand on your map, and the city keeps moving while you are away.
02 / Manage
Real businesses
Run each company with its own strategy, prices and marketing, staff your café — and step behind the counter yourself when you want to.
03 / Grow
Your group
Your companies sit in one group under a parent company you name. Move cash between them, follow the group's value over time and expand.
- Companies
- Premises
- Staff
- Cash
- Group value
One economy
Everything is connected
FOUNDER is designed as one economy, not a collection of minigames. Interest rates move banks, banks move companies, companies move jobs and property — and all of it reaches the players.
- 01World economy
- 02Interest rates
- 03Banks
- 04Companies
- 05Labour market
- 06Property
- 07Stock market
- 08Players
- Live today
- Companies, premises and staff on a server-authoritative economy, with a ledger for every company, group value over time and a player market for whole companies on the Exchange.
- Planned
- The rest of the chain: the world economy, interest rates, banks and loans, a labour market, a property market and a stock market.
Money in FOUNDER is game money only — no real money, no purchases and no payouts.
Risk and consequence
Every shortcut has a price
Not every path in FOUNDER is legal. Risky routes can pay — until the consequences arrive. It is a game system of risk and reward inside a fictional economy, never a guide to the real thing.
Risky routes
- Operating without a licence
- Black marketPlanned
- Bribery & insider contactsPlanned
- Tax evasion & fraudPlanned
- Money launderingPlanned
- Smuggling & contrabandPlanned
- Rival organisationsPlanned
Consequences
- Investigation
- Trial
- Fines
- Custody
- Reputation damage
- Police heatPlanned
- Raids & seizuresPlanned
- Life behind barsPlanned
Live in the current build: running a regulated business without a licence — and what follows: an investigation, a trial, a fine or custody, and the way back. Everything marked planned is the owner's direction for the darker path, built part by part.
Development
Where FOUNDER stands
FOUNDER is in development and not yet open to the public. This is what exists in the game today, and what is planned.
- Companies in 16 industries, each with its own demand, capacity, prices and costs
- Premises at real Stockholm addresses — lease or buy, then fit out
- A server-authoritative economy in game money, with a ledger for every company
- Company groups under a parent company, with group value over time
- Staff, regulars and a hands-on café
- Industries judged against Swedish law: investigations, trials, fines, custody and reintegration
- A world clock, and an autopilot that runs your decisions while you are away
- Shared worlds: invite players with a code, one clock for everyone, their companies on your map
- The Exchange: list, offer on and sell whole companies between players, with every deal public
- Banks, loans and interest — the Financial & Economic System
- Investments and co-ownership between players
- A stock market and a property market in game money
- Police heat, raids and seizures
- The underground economy and the underworld
- Life behind bars: longer sentences, running the group from inside, appeals
A city of opportunities
Create your business world
Real districts. Real addresses. Real consequences. Build, own and leave your mark on Stockholm.
Same city.
Different visions.
Your decisions.
Lasting legacies.