About This Game

START WITH NOTHING. END WITH EVERYTHING—OR NOTHING AGAIN.

Begin at 18 with one defining choice: pursue an education or enter the workforce. From there, every month brings a new decision.

Trade stocks and options. Build companies and acquire real estate. Find love, raise a family, and prepare your children to become the next generation of your empire. Take reckless risks, attract the attention of the SEC, or lose everything in a market crash.

SELF MADE is a financial life simulator where your money, relationships, reputation, and health shape the story.

The American Dream has never been this volatile.

TRADE THE MARKET

Trade more than 50 stocks across technology, healthcare, finance, energy, retail, and other sectors. Study the market, follow the news, and decide when to make your move based on financial fundamentals—including P/E ratios, dividend yields, and earnings per share.

This isn't a clicker game.

• Follow Sector Trends: React to dynamic breaking news and macroeconomic shifts.

• Track Earnings Calendars: Capitalize on quarterly reports and trade after-hours price gaps.

• Survive the Cycles: Ride multi-year bull markets and protect your capital during crashes.

• Leverage Inside Information: Unlock tips from questionable contacts—just don’t get caught.

ENTER YOLO MODE

Looking for something riskier than buying and holding? Enter YOLO Mode for a week of high-stakes options trading with pricing based on the Black-Scholes model.

• Trade Calls & Puts: Construct multi-leg strategies and watch your portfolio swing in real time.

• Chase Glory or Ruin: Earn achievements like Diamond Hands, fight for a place in the Hall of Fame, and pray your next earnings bet prints.

BUILD YOUR EMPIRE

Trading is only the beginning. Turn your profits into businesses, property, influence, and power.

• Start a Company: Design products, hire employees, invest in R&D, and pursue an IPO.

• Build a Real-Estate Empire: Scale from starter rentals and laundromat portfolios to strip malls, golf courses, and an eight-property hotel empire.

• Own a Sports Franchise: Sign star players, upgrade your stadium, and fill the seats.

• Launch a Rocket Company: Complete orbital missions and compete for lucrative government contracts.

• Run a Media Empire: Generate headlines, build an audience, and control the narrative.

• Found a Charity: Tackle global challenges in education, healthcare, climate, and poverty.

Just be careful when mixing your business interests—manipulating stock prices with bogus headlines tends to attract regulatory attention.

LIVE AN ENTIRE LIFE

Your balance sheet is only part of your story.

• Find Love: Meet 11 potential partners with distinct personalities—go on dates, get married, or face a costly divorce.

• Raise a Family: Have children, shape their education, and prepare them to inherit your empire.

• Build a Career: Start in fast food, earn an MBA, climb the corporate ladder, and reach the executive suite.

• Enjoy Your Wealth: Upgrade from a basement apartment to a penthouse, then collect sports cars, private jets, and yachts.

• Visit Atlantic City: Take a trip to the casino and put your money on the line.

• Protect Your Health: Your lifestyle choices can shorten—or extend—your limited lifespan.

FACE THE CONSEQUENCES

Every decision carries risk. Become too reckless and the SEC may come knocking.

• Survive Legal Scrutiny: Face insider-trading investigations, evidence gathering, courtroom trials, and fines.

• Choose Your Defense: Hire anything from an overworked public defender to an elite legal team.

• Serve Your Time: Spend years in Club Fed—or somewhere considerably worse.

• Survive the Brink: Watch a crash erase years of progress and claw your way back from forced liquidations—bankruptcy is always one bad bet away.

One bad decision can change the course of an entire life.

KEY FEATURES

• 50+ Tradable Stocks with detailed company fundamentals, earnings events, and market-driven price movements

• High-Stakes Options Trading with calls, puts, multi-leg strategies, and pricing based on the Black-Scholes model

• Empire Building across real-estate portfolios, tech startups, sports franchises, media, and aerospace

• Life Simulation covering careers, education, marriage, children, divorce, health, and aging

• 11 Romanceable Characters with unique personalities and relationship arcs

• Dynamic News & Events including quarterly earnings, market crashes, and SEC investigations

• Prestige Progression with multiple victory paths: wealth, philanthropy, and legendary status

• Retro Terminal Aesthetic featuring diegetic office environments and sharp satirical humor

A COMPLETE GAME THAT KEEPS GROWING

SELF MADE is fully released, but development continues with fixes, balance improvements, and substantial new gameplay systems. A full hedge-fund management system is currently in development. Its scope and release timing may change as development progresses.

HOW WILL YOUR STORY END?

Retire at 65 with billions in the bank and a family that loves you—or flame out at 40 with an SEC record, an ex-spouse, and a portfolio full of worthless calls.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some image assets were made with the assistance of AI