Games Like Launch Companion

You made the game. This tracks whether anyone actually wants it.

Launch Companion pulls your real wishlist numbers out of Steamworks every day and turns the "number go up" part of game dev into something you actually enjoy checking. It keeps the whole history, draws the curve, marks what you shipped on which day, and tells you whether this week beat last week, the things the Steamworks dashboard won't.

While it's doing that, it runs a studio idle game in a slim bar above your taskbar. You start writing code by hand. Then you hire a coder. Then artists, designers, marketers. Projects move through seven stages and ship, the back catalog earns while you sleep, and eventually you fold the whole studio and start again with better upgrades.

It's local. It's yours. No login screen, no dashboard hosted on someone else's server that goes down the one week you actually need it.

You'll need a Steamworks partner account and your own app on Steam. Every number comes from the Steam partner API using a Financial API key you supply. There's no manual-entry mode, without a key you get the idle game and a dashboard reading "—". Better you know that now than after you've bought it.

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Watch the number. Run the studio. Ship the game.