u/chaczyk

I’m making a corporate-themed incremental game where you climb office ranks, improve skills, hire coworkers, etc.

Recently I added shareable employee badges/profile links (video below), and it got me thinking about lightweight social systems that fit idle games without turning them into “guild chore simulators”.

Current idea is something like corporate branches/departments:

  • adding coworkers/friends,
  • seeing their ranks/job titles,
  • maybe small async department goals or company-wide events.

I like the idea of making the company feel more socially alive, but I’m not sure where the line is between:

  • fun ambient social features, and
  • systems that just become obligation/UI noise.

What social features have actually worked well for you in incremental games?

And which ones sounded better on paper than in practice?

u/chaczyk — 7 days ago

You click through tasks. Hire interns. Watch your team grow. Get promoted. And slowly realize this company's history goes much deeper than you'd expect.

Cookie Clicker meets Jira. The idea was born in 2019 — back when I had my own brief corporate episode and couldn't stop laughing at all the corpo memes. That humor felt fresh then, the clicker market wasn't as crowded, and the idea seemed almost obvious. But I couldn't pull it together back then and it kept sitting in a drawer...

Years later I'm no longer in an office, but my wife has been working corporate for years. I see it up close — the meetings, the tasks, the quiet grind. I wanted to build something that gives people stuck in that world a moment of joy. A quick promotion. The recognition they actually deserve.

A love letter to the factory of cookies — but dressed in a suit.

The UI is designed to blend in on purpose:

  • Pastel colors, LinkedIn-style layout, real productivity charts
  • Corporate inbox with lore that goes deeper than you'd expect
  • Hard skills, soft skills, a growing team to manage
  • A career ladder that keeps surprising you

After years of attempts, restarts, and lessons learned — mostly a grassroots solo effort — I finally have a version I'm not ashamed to show you.

Currently available in Polish and English — happy to work on more languages if there's interest.

Web (desktop + mobile), Android app, free — no account needed, or log in to keep your save across devices.

https://app.korpoclicker.pl

I have a lot more ideas for where this could go — but I'd love to hear what you'd add first.

u/chaczyk — 16 days ago