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BIZ Helmsman

《BIZ Helmsman》is a branching, multiple-ending corporate sim. By day, accept orders, assign tasks, and weigh moral boundaries during emergencies. By night, choose between family duties, underground deals, and conscience. Every decision shapes your fate and everyone around you.

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22°N explorer studio
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About the Game

Congratulations, new CEO—you’ve inherited a company! This means escaping the grind of being a bottom-tier employee and embarking on the path of entrepreneurship.

But in this sick society obsessed with efficiency and devoid of empathy, growing your business means facing greater challenges. By day, as CEO, navigate orders, assign tasks, and balance exploitation with humanity to survive. By night, as a father and husband, walk a tightrope between family duties, underground deals, and moral conscience.

This is a branching, multiple-ending business simulation. Every choice isn’t just about numbers—it shapes the fate of you and everyone around you.

Core Features

Deep Moral Business Simulation

  • Dynamic Market & Contracts: Simulate real business operations with randomly generated contracts. Choose low-profit but safe public welfare projects, or risk illegal deals for huge gains. Your contracts define who you are—high-risk, high-reward deals might keep you afloat today, but could lead to exposure or plant seeds of disaster.

  • Authentic Cost Tradeoffs: Every contract ties to profit, employee stress, company reputation, and morality. From execution strategies to employee requests and emergency responses—your choices impact not just your company and team, but other firms and their leaders.

  • Precise Resource Management: Oversee funds, employees’ limited working hours and mood points, and tech R&D. Assign the right staff to boost efficiency, or exploit them for higher profits.

Lifelike Employee System

Employees aren’t resources—they’re living, breathing people. Each core staff has unique backstories, personalities, and secrets. Engage deeply with their lives through dialogues, events, and your decisions. Exploitation may yield short-term gains but lead to betrayal or tragedy; sincere care might cost resources, but unlocks unexpected loyalty in desperate times.

Colorful Nightlife

By night, take time off to go home, provide for your family, and enjoy warmth. Or explore the city: buy prohibited items on the black market, schmooze with tycoons for more contracts, try your luck at casinos, or spend the night with strangers. Every night choice carries far-reaching consequences for you and your family.

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