Choose your pressure
Run a coffee shop, repair business, construction firm, software company, and more. Each business has its own economics and failure mode.
A business life-sim for iPhone
Make the call.
Live with it.
Start with $60,000 and a decision to make. Build a business one month at a time — where every hire, price, and risk changes the story.
MONTH 07 · ASH & EMBERWhat matters
What matters
right now?
AVAILABLE CASH$18,420
THIS MONTH+$2,140
CASH RUNWAY3 months
NEXT DECISIONProtect margin
Founder insightProfit is not cash.
The experience
A game that respects your attention.
VENTURED is designed around short, meaningful sessions. Make a decision, advance the month, and understand what happened before you decide again.
See the trade-off
Before you commit, understand the cash cost, recurring burden, upside, and risk. No mystery purchases. No hidden catches.
Watch the story unfold
Events and consequences arrive over time. A choice that looks smart today can become the problem you solve next month.
Build a founder record
When a run ends, it becomes part of your permanent legacy. Try new strategies, take on mastery contracts, and learn from failure.
Inside the game
Every number has a consequence.
The interface keeps the important things visible: cash, profit, customers, morale, runway, and the decisions that connect them.
01 / OPERATE
Run the month
Set your price, choose your focus, manage equipment, and decide where your limited cash should go.
02 / PEOPLE
Build the team
Hire for skill, cost, and fit. A cheap hire can be expensive if your team cannot deliver what customers expect.
03 / RESPOND
Make the hard call
Competitors, suppliers, landlords, and opportunities force decisions with imperfect information.
The monthly brief
Not just what happened.
Why it happened.
A clear recap turns the simulation into a conversation with your own decisions. See where money moved, what changed, and what deserves attention next.
Learn as you play
Business knowledge is optional.
Curiosity is enough.
Plain-language lessons use your numbers, not textbook abstractions. VENTURED meets you where you are and gradually asks more of you.
“Profit is what you earned. Cash is what you have. Only one of them pays wages.”— a lesson you discover in the run
Where we’re going
A living business world,
built in chapters.
The first release is the foundation. Future updates will deepen the simulation without losing the clarity and fairness that make each decision feel yours.
AVAILABLE NOW
Founder Edition
Distinct businesses, monthly decisions, contextual learning, events, and a permanent Founder Legacy.
NEXT CHAPTER
More ways to build
New industries, deeper product strategies, richer locations, and more stories shaped by how you play.
ON THE HORIZON
A world with memory
Long-term milestones, seasonal challenges, and a business ecosystem that gives every run more context.
Coming soon to mobile
Choose your platform.
VENTURED is preparing for its first store release. Follow along or contact us to hear when it is available.