CEO

Released: May 20, 2022
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 18:16 GMT

Updates & announcements

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19 Dec 2024Developer post
New Product Research
New Product Research The higher-tech products will now need to be researched before production can start, and most will award a 5-year patent. During these years, the inventor will have exclusive manufacturing rights. Once the patent expires, other corporations can start producti
New Product Research
The higher-tech products will now need to be researched before production can start, and most will award a 5-year patent. During these years, the inventor will have exclusive manufacturing rights. Once the patent expires, other corporations can start production and local vendors will slowly start their own production and increase their quality over time. Most researchable products are not available from game start, but will appear over time.
This will, in the next update, be extended with additional products, longer patents, licensing and trade in patents.
Other improvements

Improved market share ratio calculation as these fluctuated significantly day-to-day on low-volume products.
When clicking OK after adjusting sliders for units (training, quality, advertising), hold shift to apply the value to all units of the same type. For training-spending, hold CTRL to apply to all units of all types.
Fixed the inability to load a game that was saved after the game originally ended (once goals were yet or max years reached)
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22 Oct 2024Developer post
Bugfix update Oct 24
Various minor bugfixes
05 Oct 2024Developer post
0.6 Revival Update
Climate Regions are now in specific climate zones that affect crop growing. Each region is either in a temperate, sub-tropical or tropical zone. Most crops will have a different yield in each zone. Wheat yields better in a tropical climate, but Cocoa will hardly yield at all. Not
30 Jun 2023Developer post
0.5 update
Corporate bonds You can now issue bonds to borrow money from other corporations or investors. Set the interest rate and months to maturity to make the bond interesting to buyers. If you have spare cash, you can buy bonds to receive a monthly interest payment. Multiplayer Games ca
10 Apr 2023Developer post
0.4-update with full makeover
CEO is now in version 0.4 after a makeover with all new graphics. All new in-world graphics UI finally scales. Will scale based on your monitor's DPI, but can also be changed in Options If the game allows funding new corporations, it is now possible to start a multiplayer or cust
CEO is now in version 0.4 after a makeover with all new graphics.

All new in-world graphics
UI finally scales. Will scale based on your monitor's DPI, but can also be changed in Options
If the game allows funding new corporations, it is now possible to start a multiplayer or custom game without having a corporation at start. This allows you to form a corporation after start and customize your own investment and outside investment in the corporation.
Improved performance (especially for slower computers)
Fixed AI occasionally working too slow on slower computers
Possibly to show a bubble over all buildings to more easily see them all and who owns it
Clicking on the minimap to center the camera now works again
Fixed various bugs
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10 Mar 2023Developer post
0.3.55 release notes
Players can now (re)join an ongoing multiplayer game Players can now liquidate and form new corporations in multiplayer games AI can't increase bonus above 5% When electing Chairman, a corporation will vote for its own chairman (so a person's voting shares becomes his personal sh
Players can now (re)join an ongoing multiplayer game
Players can now liquidate and form new corporations in multiplayer games
AI can't increase bonus above 5%
When electing Chairman, a corporation will vote for its own chairman (so a person's voting shares becomes his personal shares + shares owned by corporations where he is chairman)
Can now hire a CEO for a corporation if player is chairman
Investor stats shown on Policy-page in corporation report
Forming a new corporation requires minimum 10M with 10% ownership
Interest rates are slightly higher and dependent on economy level
Bugfixes in the internal order products were sold - could make Purchasing units show wrong stock level if buying from another region
In a multiplayer game, after 90 days of being disconnected the disconnected player's stock will be slowly sold off
In a multiplayer game, after player disconnects, the player's corp is liquidated after 90 days (instead of instantly) and, if "form new corp" is enabled, after all the player's stock in the corp has been sold off
Fixed many minor bugs in save-games that made game state not be perfectly saved
Added icons to Persons-window to show which people are humans and which are disconnected
Added 4 new corporation colors
Improved the effective speed of multiplayer games (reduced the delay compared to single-player games)
Started performance improvements
Some icons replaced (by similar-looking icons)
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05 Feb 2023Developer post
0.3.52 release notes
Raw Materials Trader unit added to Warehouse New setting (when creating a game) to allow Raw materials trader A player can form a new corporation if he finds himself without one (e.g. after a bankruptcy) New setting (when creating a game) to allow forming new corporations If a pl
Raw Materials Trader unit added to Warehouse
New setting (when creating a game) to allow Raw materials trader
A player can form a new corporation if he finds himself without one (e.g. after a bankruptcy)
New setting (when creating a game) to allow forming new corporations
If a player is chairman of a corporation, he can hire himself as CEO
Chairman can issue stock
The value of a Natural Resources's quality now better reflects how much end products value high quality
Adjusting spending on training, advertising or quality is now done in 5% increments (hold shift for full control)
Research unit shows top level
Competitors are better at computing their subjective value of natural resources
If a building has a unit with a warning (red triangle), the building list will display the same warning
The small/medium/large radio buttons on the new building window show unit/slot count and operating overhead
CEO's bonus is now based on operating profit, not net profit
CEO's bonus is still calculated on the 1st of the year, but it is now paid in monthly installments
Dividend is still calculated on the 1st of each quarter, but it is now paid in monthly installments
The "Other" line on the income sheet is now split into "Other", "CEO Compensation", "Dividend" and "Land value increase"
Inventory corrections are now write-offs instead of "other"
Seeds&fertilizer-cost of crop growing is now added to the new "Supplies" account during sowing, growing and harvesting (used to be purchase cost at time of sale, or written off)
Fixed bug where competitors would sometimes not upgrade units even if they operated at full capacity
Fixed bug where competitors would sometimes stop acting if their stock price got too high
Fixed bug where competitors would sometimes stop acting if they took on too much debt
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07 Aug 2022Developer post
Patch notes, version 0.3.51
Building tooltip now includes annual profits Adjusted local vendor ratings (higher on easy, lower on hard) A purchasing unit with auto-link enabled will now look for a new supplier after 10 days of receiving no cargo Auto-link does a better job at looking at supply/demand when fi
Building tooltip now includes annual profits
Adjusted local vendor ratings (higher on easy, lower on hard)
A purchasing unit with auto-link enabled will now look for a new supplier after 10 days of receiving no cargo
Auto-link does a better job at looking at supply/demand when finding a new supplier
Prepared for using Workshop for community translation. More info coming shortly.
Fixed "net worth" goal not subtracting loans
Fixed "profit" goal being operational profit instead of net profit
AI is now able to issue shares
Purchasing units show warning when the supplier is unable to supply
Natural resource extraction units show warning when depleted
Documented settings and goals (tooltips and guide article)
Stock market window has more tooltips and now clearly shows parties to a transaction
Added support for CJK-languages
Optimization and minor bugfixes
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04 Jul 2022Developer post
Hotfix, 0.3.49
Fixes problem where after updating to 0.3.47, many save-games would render the game unplayable.
03 Jul 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.47
Competitors are now less likely to build their own raw materials and intermediate products and more willing to buy from other corporations When looking at building layouts, the unit grid now shows the layout Building Layouts can be made for all buildings except offices It wasn't
Competitors are now less likely to build their own raw materials and intermediate products and more willing to buy from other corporations
When looking at building layouts, the unit grid now shows the layout
Building Layouts can be made for all buildings except offices
It wasn't possible to merge two corporations if neither was the player's corporation
Max number of years increased from 50 to 100
If a loan was paid back manually, interest wasn't charged for the current month.
Find supplier window, corporation filter now includes Seaport (for imported goods)
Inventory unit visualizes max level
Inventory value incorrectly included freight for some buildings
AI doesn't switch suppliers so often
Rare Earth Minerals are now slightly more valuable
Store manager icon incorrectly showed in non-Store buildings
Information guide updates
Minor fixes
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23 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.46
More helpful tooltips (and a lot more coming over the next few updates) First version of a "Guide" to help players understand the game. This is very much work-in-progress and will be improved in the next few updates. Fixed multiple natural resource categories in the log settings
More helpful tooltips (and a lot more coming over the next few updates)
First version of a "Guide" to help players understand the game. This is very much work-in-progress and will be improved in the next few updates.
Fixed multiple natural resource categories in the log settings (after loading a game)
The Advertising unit (in Offices) was incorrectly more efficient than the Sales unit. This is fixed. Advertising unit can spend 4x as much as Sales, but will now get the same advertising effect per money unit.
The "Stock" status (in unit cards) didn't show a background color so it was hard to tell when it was full
Crop growing could accidentally only store 50% of the harvest. This was supposed to be approximately 80% which it now is.
When a manufacturing or private labeling unit has multiple sources (Purchasing units) of the same type, the flow will no longer be from the same source first every day
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18 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.45
CEO wasn't paid, regardless of salary/bonus settings New logging category for discovered natural resources Investors won't sell for less than 10% above current stock price When sending offers to buy shares from other players, the initial offer is 10% above current stock price Bra
CEO wasn't paid, regardless of salary/bonus settings
New logging category for discovered natural resources
Investors won't sell for less than 10% above current stock price
When sending offers to buy shares from other players, the initial offer is 10% above current stock price
Brand rating updates correctly when switching between product type and product class policies
If a purchasing unit does not have a current source, a warning symbol will be displayed in the unit matrix
Clicking "Select Supplier" from a Purchasing unit with a previously set product type, will (initially) filter results based on that product type
Initial version of building layout library. Currently only on factories. Available from the building manager. Will be expanded in the next updates.
In multiplayer games with many humans, not enough AI competitors were created
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10 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.44
Player can no longer manually change price in stores with a store manager Can no longer set unreasonably high prices When merging corporations the highest brand-rating of the two corporations is kept When buying an existing building, the brand was incorrectly changed in some unit
Player can no longer manually change price in stores with a store manager
Can no longer set unreasonably high prices
When merging corporations the highest brand-rating of the two corporations is kept
When buying an existing building, the brand was incorrectly changed in some units
When merging corporations, some products would keep the other corporation's brand rating
Dominance is now recalculated after a corporation merge
When buying remaining shares to merge, a 20% premium must be paid
The merger window now displays how much a merger will cost
A corporation's Chairman, not CEO, is now responsible for setting CEO compensation and dividends.
After countering a stock offer, Yes/No buttons was still visible
Can not have multiple stock offers to same person for same stock active at the same time
When buying stocks, the effect on stock price is less extreme
After a merger, all pages in the Corporate report now update instantly
Available cash shows in yellow instead of red when bankruptcy warning is active
Various minor fixes
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05 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.43
Bottom left of building window now always show an overview of used/available unit space Bankruptcy warning is now more visible and with an audible warning Regional settings changed to English (number formatting, month names) Speed 1 is slowed down by 40% Added a warning symbol wh
Bottom left of building window now always show an overview of used/available unit space
Bankruptcy warning is now more visible and with an audible warning
Regional settings changed to English (number formatting, month names)
Speed 1 is slowed down by 40%
Added a warning symbol when looking at an auction where the bid is for more than player's current cash on hand
AI weren't controlled very well in multiplayer games. Fixed.
Multiplayer games now respect the "Player Capital" setting instead of always using 100M
Checkboxes now work better (easier to toggle them) in multiplayer games
Occasional bug where not enough units were moved from Purchasing to Sales so the inventory balance was slightly off. Fixed.
Annual values for goals (Annual Profit, Annual Revenue etc.) skipped a month (Feb 1st value was Jan-Dec, instead of Feb-Jan). Fixed.
The last day of the month was not included in "Previous month" numbers in the balance sheet. Fixed.
Tutorial was hard to complete on low resolutions. Foxed
Minor bug fixes and small UI improvements
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02 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.42
Manufacturing, Livestock processing, Mining, Logging show units produced yesterday and capacity Multiplayer games can now include AI competitors Multiplayer games now better check for desyncing and will eject players out-of-sync so the game can continue for others Multiplayer gam
Manufacturing, Livestock processing, Mining, Logging show units produced yesterday and capacity
Multiplayer games can now include AI competitors
Multiplayer games now better check for desyncing and will eject players out-of-sync so the game can continue for others
Multiplayer games now require that all players run the same version
Livestock processing would, because of rounding, produce some products at 101-104% efficiency
Rounding-error in Manufacturing would occasionally make 100% efficiency look like 99%
Various minor bug fixes
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30 May 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.41
Various minor bugs, primarily related to problems caused by liquidated corporations in multiplayer games
Various minor bugs, primarily related to problems caused by liquidated corporations in multiplayer games
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28 May 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.40
Fixed possible memory leak Various minor bug fixes
Fixed possible memory leak
Various minor bug fixes
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27 May 2022Developer post
Path notes, 0.3.39
Fixed problem switching region when minimap was disabled Fixed problem where the population of a region could suddenly go from millions to billions Fixed occasional problem entering multiplayer password Various minor bugfixes
Fixed problem switching region when minimap was disabled
Fixed problem where the population of a region could suddenly go from millions to billions
Fixed occasional problem entering multiplayer password
Various minor bugfixes
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26 May 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.38
The new bug reporting feature was incorrectly available in tutorials and caused problems Changing size of a building after rotating it could cause problems Various smaller bug fixes
The new bug reporting feature was incorrectly available in tutorials and caused problems
Changing size of a building after rotating it could cause problems
Various smaller bug fixes
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26 May 2022Developer post
Patch notes, 0.3.37
Could not load save games for scenario World's richest - fixed Prepared for localization/translation Added user reporting Removed ability to change speed using hotkey (0-5, spacebar) when game should remain paused Various minor bugfixes
Could not load save games for scenario World's richest - fixed
Prepared for localization/translation
Added user reporting
Removed ability to change speed using hotkey (0-5, spacebar) when game should remain paused
Various minor bugfixes
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CEO

Updates & announcements

New Product Research

New Product Research

Other improvements

Bugfix update Oct 24

0.6 Revival Update

Climate

Seasons

Customizable regions

Make your own game variant

Other improvements

Fixes

0.5 update

Corporate bonds

Multiplayer

Scoring

Other

0.4-update with full makeover

0.3.55 release notes

0.3.52 release notes

Patch notes, version 0.3.51

Hotfix, 0.3.49

Patch notes, 0.3.47

Patch notes, 0.3.46

Patch notes, 0.3.45

Patch notes, 0.3.44

Patch notes, 0.3.43

Patch notes, 0.3.42

Patch notes, 0.3.41

Patch notes, 0.3.40

Path notes, 0.3.39

Patch notes, 0.3.38

Patch notes, 0.3.37