Developer posts and news about this game.
A fix for a fix. The card collection bar now actually fills A while back someone reported that the Collection completion bar left a tiny empty sliver at the far right once you had all 150 cards. I fixed part of it, said it was done, and they came back to tell me they could still
A small one from your feedback. Crafting duplicates is blocked Someone asked on the forums what the point of crafting a duplicate card was, and the honest answer was: there wasn't one. You can only equip one copy of a given card, and breaking a spare back down returns just a frac
Two small things from your reports. July 4th theme and the right side of the screen On smaller or high-DPI windows, the Star-Spangled (America 250) theme added an extra label to the top bar that could push the Boosts and Menu buttons off the right edge, which made it hard to get
Some small things you reported. Refound confirm dialog Two fixes here. First, pressing "Refound" on the confirm dialog now actually closes it and resets your run, instead of leaving the dialog sitting open. Second, the Founder Point total on that dialog now updates live while it
A couple of things you reported. No more "0 seconds" on the speedrun boards The fastest-first-99 and fastest-all-99 boards sort by shortest time. A very fast run that finished in under a second was getting rounded down to zero, so it sorted to the very top as a "0 seconds" record
A couple of things you reported. Card totals no longer get stuck The Card Collector and Deck Hoarder achievements count every card you have ever pulled, duplicates included. The problem was that scrapping a duplicate for shards was lowering that count, so if you completed the set
A few of you reported the game running your CPU hot or spinning up the fans. That is fair, for an idle game it should barely register, so I looked into it. Here is what was going on. The game had no frame rate limit, so on a high refresh rate monitor it was redrawing the whole sc
Thank you Two weeks ago I put this game out with no idea what would happen. Since then more than 38,000 of you have added Idle Startup and actually played it. Two weeks. I did not expect that, not even close, and I am kind of blown away. Here is the part I want to be really clear
The Hiscores just became a real competition. You asked to actually see the field instead of a lonely rank number — so now you can, plus a big batch of fixes and polish. See where you really stand How far off the lead are you? Every board now shows the gap to the next player and t
A few quick fixes from your post-launch reports: Fixed a freeze when changing music — switching tracks or soundtracks (especially the Star-Spangled set) could hang the game for a few seconds. Switching is instant again. Fixed the 100-hour "Centurion" achievement — it now unlocks
The biggest update yet, and a whole new endgame: collect a 150-card set, equip cards for permanent boosts, and chase a complete deck. Built to break the late-game income wall and give you something to keep reaching for. Collect the Founder's Deck 150 cards to collect — Common to
Fixed the free 2× boost (and speed upgrades) under-delivering for late-game players: once your tasks were already very fast, the boost was only giving about 1.4× instead of a full 2× because task speed was hitting an internal cap. Tasks now scale properly at any speed, and the $/
2026 marks America's 250th birthday — the Semiquincentennial — so we're throwing a little party in your startup. Our first-ever holiday update brings a festive new look, a full set of patriotic tunes, and fireworks over the office. New "Star-Spangled" theme A deep-navy night sky
Returning after a break now gets a proper offline recap instead of a plain list. Offline haul front and center, with quick stat chips — XP earned, levels gained, time away. A level-up bar for every skill that gained levels while you were gone, animated and colored per skill. Your
Fixes a bug from the last update where the game could launch minimized or off-screen for some players (from the new "remember window size" feature). If you were affected, just update — it corrects itself automatically on the next launch, no reinstall needed. Thanks to Fenimore fo
Behind-the-scenes logging added to the offline-earnings step to track down the "offline money shown but not kept" report. No gameplay changes.
A round of polish from your forum feedback. Speedrun times now show seconds — your "fastest run" Hiscores read like 2m 14s instead of rounding to a whole minute, so steady improvements actually show up. The window remembers its size — reopen the game at whatever size you left it
A quick refinement to yesterday's buy-preview fix on the Company and R&D tabs. Picking ×10 or ×100 now previews the full effect of that quantity — matching the cost shown on the Buy button — instead of shrinking to what you can currently afford. Only Max reflects your current
The green "before → after" preview on the Company and R&D tabs now respects your selected buy amount. Previously it always showed the effect of a single level, even with ×10 / ×100 / Max selected. It now previews the real stacked result — the true income, XP, or speed you'll
You asked — loudly and in great detail — so we reworked it. Automations are now permanent and yours to keep . Permanent, bought with Founder Points — unlock an automation once and keep it forever , across every refound. No more re-buying it each run. No more Level 99 gate — every