Hey everyone, time for another development update.
We’ve been working on a sizeable new chunk of the game, and this one touches both a major new venture and the wider direction of the mogul layer.
Before the breakdown, a quick note on how we’re talking about development going forward for the next few months.
The Epics, in plain English
The game’s roadmap is currently built around three major Epics, with polish continuing alongside all of them.
Epic 1: Empire Command Centre This is about building a proper empire front page: a visual, plain-English weekly command post with recap, risk, recommended actions, and “why this matters” drill-downs across the mogul layer and the systems around it — engine, story universes, football annual, wrestling, newspaper, stock pressure, and more. The goal is simple: less tab-hunting, more “here is your week as a mogul.”
Epic 2: Empire portfolio / new businesses
This expands side businesses beyond today’s passion projects into a broader empire portfolio fantasy. That means new business categories and ventures across areas like technology, food, retail, services, transport, health, media, entertainment, real estate, manufacturing, and more. Player-facing, we’re leaning into Empire portfolio as the label.
Epic 3: Political layer
Later on, we’ll open the political dimension: political capital, optional public office runs, deeper kingmaker and lobbying play, appointed power, and, once you are dominant enough, scrutiny and antitrust-style pressure from the state. Your history — releases, policies, scandals — starts to matter in a new way here.
Running polish (every Epic)
Alongside all of that, every release keeps room for core ConsoleMe polish: console and platform flow, game and launch flow, community systems, balance, bugs, and quality-of-life. The epics are the spine; polish is the heartbeat.
This update mainly covers the start of Epic 1 and pushes further into Epic 2.
New Venture: Golf Club Management
One of the biggest additions in this update is a brand new empire venture: golf club management.
This is not a passive investment screen or a background stat generator. It’s being built as a proper management layer inside your wider empire, where you take land, shape a course, upgrade facilities, and grow the club over time.
The goal is to create something that feels like a genuine business inside the world of ConsoleMe:
buy land and develop it
manage course quality and club appeal
expand facilities
grow membership and prestige
push toward bigger events and stronger long-term returns
This is one of the first major steps in making the wider empire feel more alive and more playable.
Course Building
At the heart of the golf club system is a course builder.
We’ve been moving this away from abstract menu choices and toward something that feels more like building and shaping an actual course. Layout, hazards, structure, and overall identity are all part of the direction here.
The intent is that your course should not just be “good” or “bad” in the abstract. It should feel like your course — whether that means a clean member-friendly layout, something more prestige-focused, or a venue built to support bigger ambitions later on.
This is still evolving, but the core direction is now in place.
Facilities and Club Growth
We’re also building out the supporting facility layer around the golf club.
That includes things like:
clubhouse
spa
bar
pro shop
These are there to do more than simply add numbers. Over time, they help define the kind of club you’re creating, how attractive it is, and what sort of reputation it builds.
The broader aim is to make the club feel like a place that develops over time, not just a menu of upgrades.
Empire Command Centre
On the Epic 1 side, we’ve also been building the new Empire Command Centre.
This is meant to become the player’s main command post as the game gets deeper and the number of moving parts grows.
Instead of jumping between systems trying to work out what matters, the Command Centre is being built to give you:
a clearer top-level weekly view
priority actions
major risks and opportunities
better drill-downs into why things are changing
stronger handoff into the right area of the game
The goal is not to simplify the simulation. The goal is to make the simulation more readable and more actionable.
If the game is increasingly about running a company — and eventually an empire — then you need a place that actually feels like the desk of the person in charge. That is what Epic 1 is aiming at.
Empire Portfolio Direction
The golf club work also matters because it pushes forward the wider Empire portfolio vision.
Epic 2 is about growing beyond the current shape of passion projects and into a broader set of businesses and ventures. Golf club management is part of that wider movement: it helps establish the idea that your success can open up entirely different types of opportunities.
That means the empire side of the game starts to feel less like a set of disconnected extras and more like a real portfolio of businesses with different rhythms, risks, and rewards.
That’s the bigger direction behind this work.
Settings and UI Improvements
Alongside the bigger systems, we’ve also taken a pass at the Settings menu and related UI flow.
This includes work on:
clearer grouping of settings
better layout and spacing
improved readability of controls and sliders
a cleaner overall setup for common options
It’s a smaller feature on paper than the golf club or the Command Centre, but changes like this matter a lot in practice. They make the whole game feel smoother and easier to live in.
Why This Update Matters
This update is important because it starts to show how the different parts of the roadmap connect.
Epic 1 is about making the mogul fantasy feel clearer, smarter, and more actionable.
Epic 2 is about giving that fantasy more room to grow through new ventures and a broader empire portfolio.
And polish keeps running the whole time so the core game continues to improve as these bigger systems land.
Golf Club management is one of the first major examples of that expansion.
Empire Command Centre is one of the first major examples of that clarity layer.
Together, they move the game closer to the longer-term goal:
not just making games, but building something much bigger around them.
More soon, and thanks as always for the feedback, it keeps shaping what matters most as we build this out.