SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim

Hello, investors! With update 2026.11.12, hedge funds are open to everyone in SELF MADE. Open the Hedge Fund app on your in-game computer to see what it would take to launch your first fund. If you qualify for the Emerging Manager tier, you can put up $2 million of your own and ask Mara Voss to invest the other $8 million. She wants you to protect her capital, and she can pull her money if you tak

Hi everyone!Update 1.851 is now available for SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim! This update adds new tools for managing your wealth and inheritance, alongside improvements to investing, business management, and everyday gameplay.What’s new and improvedFamily Office: Access a new service through the bank to review your wealth, build estate-planning benefits over time, and schedule stock sales across

Hello, investors!This update round is driven almost entirely by your posts on the discussion boards — special thanks to Doomi, whose detailed feedback and hedge fund threads shaped most of this update, and to everyone else who took the time to write up what they hit. On top of that, an internal audit pass closed out every remaining high-severity finding from our full-game review. Hedge Funds — You

Hello, investors!Since the August 17 patch, we’ve completed a major pass across controller support, Steam Cloud saves, business balance, hedge funds, multigenerational play, localization, and responsive presentation.Here is the complete changelog.Steam Cloud & Save Reliability“Keep This Device” can now resolve a save conflict while Steam Cloud is disabled or offline.The local decision is stored du

Steam Deck: full controller supportUntil now, SELF MADE on Deck was a mouse game with an on-screen keyboard. Version 1.815 makes the whole game playable from the controller:Left stick moves a cursor (or steps focus item-to-item on menus), A clicks, right stick scrolls, B backs out of screens.A hint bar shows the controls, in all 7 languages, and disappears the moment you touch the mouse.The on-scr

1) Keyboard focus / window-stacking Previously was allowed to tab to a button, mash Space/Enter, and stack infinite copies of a window; focus never entered the popup or stayed contained. Now the focus is contained to a popup, preventing an infinite window situation. 2) Two non-paying issues: Deferring year-end taxes to April skipped April's whole paycheck (early-return before the pay code). Moved

More bug fixes and gameplay enhancements are included in this update. Here’s what you’ll find:Updated dashboards and menu pop-ups now run on a more stable system. The Rocket, Sports, Media, Franchise, and Company dashboards—along with the Main Menu screens for Continue, Load, and Victory Hall—no longer use the old window technology responsible for certain pop-up crashes and soft-locks, including w

In this update we have addressed: Bank Tutorial Bug - (now automatically closes the bank pop up in segment of the tutorial to avoid a lockout) Mortgage Foreclosure Bug - Won't foreclose even though you make payments College Application game - Now allows pictures to be shown in a much larger format and labels for the cards Shorting your own company stock exploit - Now shorting your own player creat

Update Released Just Now Minor Updates mostly to jobs: Readded Embezzlement Added Workplace injury (for certain jobs) New Pension and Retirement System (Can retire early for smaller pension) Added More Leadership opportunities (Leadership experience as well as other things will allow the player to get the chance to apply for the service franchise job) When both parents have passed away, slider set

Patch Update — Bug Fixes & UI RefreshBug FixesTorch-pass shorts no longer drain your fortune When you pass the company torch on a public company, any shorts you held against it are now auto-covered at the current market price before the stock delists — no more eternal shorting fees on a stock you can't access. Saves with stuck shorts will heal on load.Going private no longer locks the company Taki

Summary of improvements Market Mechanics: "YOLO week" has been successfully integrated with live stock fundamentals, ensuring the chaos now has a basis in (virtual) reality.Financial Safeguards: Improved how the game handles "no-headroom" payment scenarios and fixed a bug where mortgage paydowns were incorrectly triggering missed-payment flags.Hard Mode Adjustments: Resolved a "tax popup trap" tha

Added some 'defensive' code to help the game with stability in: Stock Market Engine (division by zero problem) A few Translation errors where key is missing, causing crashes unguarded 'child' chains in bank manager Null nodes found throughout all files.

Fixed HRSH Bug, HRSH should only be tradable when the event for it fires.Cleaned up hotel logic, works when we test it, hopefully works for all players.Company Loans considered liability now.Updates to the tax system and spreadsheets for sources of income. Government bond interest is now labeled as tax-exempt.Rocket Company bug with new Luxury penthouse level.Now acknowledging the player as GM in