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Best 1 Beer Distribution Game

The Beer Distribution Game simulates a complex beer supply chain to illustrate principles of inventory management and demand forecasting. Developed at MIT Sloan School of Management in the early 1960s, it’s renowned for demonstrating the bullwhip effect – where small fluctuations in end-customer dem...

2 Capitalism Plus

Capitalism Plus simulates complex corporate growth through strategic decision-making. Developed initially in 1996, this PC business simulation allows users to manage diverse industries and build a global enterprise. It’s notable for its detailed economic modeling and is suitable for students studyin...

3 SimTower: The Vertical Empire

SimTower is a business simulation game released in 1994 where players manage and develop a skyscraper into a thriving commercial complex. The game’s notable complexity lies in balancing tenant needs with structural integrity and financial performance. It's designed for individuals interested in urba...

4 Supply Chain Management Simulation: Root Beer Game

The Root Beer Game simulation demonstrates fundamental supply chain principles through a classic business exercise. Participants manage a network of suppliers and retailers distributing root beer, illustrating concepts like inventory management, demand forecasting, and the bullwhip effect – where sm...

5 Capitalism Lab

Capitalism Lab provides a realistic simulation of modern capitalism. Players manage businesses across diverse industries, grappling with fluctuating markets and global economic forces. The game models current economic conditions allowing students, entrepreneurs, and business professionals to explore...

6 Rotman Interactive Trader

The Rotman Interactive Trader is a business simulation tool developed by the University of Toronto. It replicates real-world financial markets allowing students and professionals to practice trading strategies and develop investment skills. The platform is widely used in finance education programs a...

7 People Express Management Flight Simulator

The People Express Management Flight Simulator is a business simulation modeling tool developed by MIT’s John Sterman. It replicates the operational dynamics of People Express Airlines during its period of rapid growth and subsequent decline from 1981 to 1987. This system-dynamics model provides ins...

8 Strategy Simulation: Back Bay Battery

Back Bay Battery is a business simulation developed by Harvard Business Publishing. It models the strategic challenges of researching and developing advanced battery technology. The game focuses on managing innovation investments while navigating market volatility and technological uncertainties. It...

9 Beer Game
Beer Game

The Beer Game is a classic business simulation used for educational purposes. Developed at MIT, it models a simple supply chain to illustrate systemic issues like the bullwhip effect – where small changes in demand amplify throughout the distribution network. It's particularly useful for students an...

10 Friday Night at the ER

Friday Night at the ER is a business simulation used for training healthcare professionals and administrators. The game models a busy emergency room environment revealing the complexities of patient flow, resource allocation, and interdepartmental coordination within a hospital setting. It’s particu...

11 Operations Management Simulation: Benihana

The Benihana Operations Management Simulation provides students and professionals with an interactive experience of managing a fast-paced restaurant environment. Based on the original Benihana concept established in 1964, it explores key operational challenges including seating optimization, kitchen...

12 Parkitect
Parkitect

Parkitect is a business simulation game where players design, build, and manage their own theme parks. The title gained attention for its detailed focus on operational logistics and realistic park management challenges. It’s designed for individuals interested in strategy games, simulation experienc...

13 TCG Card Shop Simulator

The TCG Card Shop Simulator is a business simulation PC game designed to replicate the operational challenges of managing a trading card collectible shop. Players learn about retail management, inventory control, and customer engagement within a fictional setting centered around selling Tetramon car...

14 Production Line

Production Line simulates automotive manufacturing processes within a PC business simulation. The game focuses on managing an assembly line, identifying production bottlenecks, and responding to market demands for vehicles. It’s designed for individuals interested in industrial operations, logistics...

15 TraderEx
TraderEx

TraderEx provides an interactive business simulation designed to replicate electronic limit order markets. It allows users to experience market microstructure firsthand, simulating trading strategies and observing price discovery dynamics. The platform is valuable for finance students and profession...

16 Markstrat
Markstrat

Markstrat is a business simulation designed to replicate real-world marketing challenges. It utilizes sophisticated mathematical models—validated through over forty academic studies—to represent market dynamics. The program provides students and professionals in marketing, strategy, and business adm...

17 Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game

Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game is a business simulation developed by Camshaft Software. Released in 2015, the game allows players to establish and manage an automotive company, focusing on the detailed design of vehicle chassis, engines, and bodies. It includes a campaign mode and sandbox o...

18 Bustafellows

Otome visual novel by Dramatic Create (2019, Nintendo Switch) set in a fictional American city with crime-noir themes, where the heroine can briefly body-swap with others to prevent deaths.

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19 Fishbanks
Fishbanks

Fishbanks is an educational role-playing simulation created by systems scientist Dennis Meadows in 1986. Participants manage fishing companies by purchasing vessels, choosing where to fish, and competing for income from a shared fish population. The exercise demonstrates feedback, resource depletion...

20 The Stock Market Game

The Stock Market Game is an educational simulation program operated by the SIFMA Foundation, designed to teach students about financial markets and investing. First introduced in 1977, the program allows teams of students to manage a hypothetical $100,000 portfolio in real-time market conditions. Pa...

21 Platform Wars

Platform Wars is a business simulation developed by the MIT Sloan School of Management that models the video game console industry. It is used to teach students about two-sided markets, network effects, and platform strategy by having participants make decisions on hardware pricing, software subsidi...

22 Out of the Park Baseball 25

Out of the Park Baseball 25 is a sports management simulation game developed and published by Out of the Park Developments in 2024. As the 25th iteration in the long-running franchise, it allows players to act as the general manager of a professional baseball team, handling roster construction, trad...

23 Capitalism
Capitalism

Capitalism is a business simulation video game developed by Enlight Software and released in 1995. Designed by Trevor Chan, the game challenges players to build and manage a corporate empire by controlling manufacturing, retail, agriculture, and resource extraction. It requires players to navigate c...

24 FTS Trader
FTS Trader

FTS Trader is a classroom-based financial trading simulator designed for university-level finance and business courses. The platform allows students to participate in live, interactive trading sessions, focusing on concepts like market microstructure, portfolio management, and derivatives. By acting...

25 StoryBrand Coaching Certification by Business Made Simple

The StoryBrand Coaching Certification is a professional training program developed by Donald Miller's organization, Business Made Simple. The curriculum teaches marketing professionals and consultants how to implement the StoryBrand framework, which utilizes a seven-part storytelling template to cla...

26 Leadership and Team Simulation: Everest V3

Leadership and Team Simulation: Everest V3 is an educational tool published by Harvard Business Publishing that uses a virtual mountain expedition scenario to teach management concepts. The simulation places participants in leadership roles during a simulated climb of Mount Everest, where they must...

27 StockTrak Portfolio Simulation

StockTrak is a web-based portfolio simulation platform used primarily in university finance and investment courses, allowing students to manage hypothetical portfolios using real or near-real-time market data. Participants can trade equities, bonds, options, futures, mutual funds, and foreign curren...

28 Operations Management Simulation: Balancing Process Capacity

This simulation, part of Harvard Business Publishing's educational catalog, models a multi-station production process in which users adjust capacity at each workstation to manage throughput, bottlenecks, and queue lengths. Participants make decisions about resource allocation, batch sizes, and proce...

29 Two Point Museum

Two Point Museum is an upcoming business simulation game developed by Two Point Studios and published by Sega, continuing the studio's signature management simulation formula. Players are tasked with designing and operating a museum, which involves organizing exhibits, decorating halls, and managing...

30 Business Made Simple Podcast

Hosted by Donald Miller, the Business Made Simple Podcast provides guidance on management, company growth, and marketing strategies. Miller is also known as the creator of the StoryBrand framework, which applies narrative structure to corporate messaging. The show is aimed at entrepreneurs, managers...

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