Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This Game

You're the boss of a hot-dip galvanizing plant.
Steel comes in dirty. Customers want it out coated, on time, and on spec — and they'll send it back if you cut corners. Bid the work, staff the zones, and keep the line moving from degrease to kettle to shipping. Every load is money on the line.

Grab the pendant and dip it yourself.
Let the kettle run on autopilot, or take manual control and work the crane by hand — immersion, cook, and extract, each on the stopwatch. Time the phases right and you pull a clean coat every load. Rush it and you're stripping and re-dipping on your own dime. Upgrade from a shop-stock pendant to dual-speed and tech LCD controls as you go.

Staff the floor, manage the people.
Assign crew to zones by skill, watch attendance and friction, and handle check-ins, call-offs, and the occasional formal warning. A short-staffed shift drags the whole line — but the right people in the right spots keep the steel moving and the book in the black.

Run the business, not just the line.
Bid one-offs, rush jobs, and weekly accounts. Ship on time to keep your reputation. Grow building, line, and kettle tiers when the books allow it. Miss a deadline and you lose the account; deliver clean and the work keeps coming.

Features

• Full galvanizing line — degrease, rinse, acid, flux, kettle, unrack, and shipping

• Contract bidding — cents-per-pound jobs, weekly accounts, rush and squeeze offers. Collect Customers watch your ledger grow!

• Plant growth — expand building, line, and kettle capacity over seasons

• Crew & HR — zone staffing, attendance, friction, check-ins, and formal warnings

• Overhead cranes — auto handoffs or manual kettle control with stopwatch dip phases

• Zinc & quality — inventory, burn-up, under-coating, damage claims, and rework

  

• Daily & books reporting — lbs/man-hour, cash, zinc, and what actually made (or lost) money.

Bid the work. Run the pickle line. Don’t run out of zinc.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some of the art and visual assets in Galvanize Simulator were created with the help of generative AI tools — including character portraits, product renders, promotional art, and store page imagery — then reviewed, edited, and integrated by the developer. All game design, systems, mechanics, and writing are the developer's own, drawn from 25 years of real-world experience in the galvanizing industry.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Galvanize Simulator is a workplace management sim set in an industrial plant. It contains mild comedic and workplace themes, including:

Alcohol references — a foreman character is depicted drinking beer as comic relief. No substance abuse is encouraged or simulated as a mechanic.
Mild language — occasional mild profanity in workplace dialogue and events, consistent with a real shop-floor setting.
Workplace incidents — the game includes plant incidents, shift events, and shop-floor crises as gameplay events. These may reference industrial accidents or hazards in a non-graphic, cartoonish way. There is no gore or realistic depiction of injury.
Character death (memorial) — one character passes away during the storyline as a memorial tribute. It is handled respectfully and is not graphic.

The game contains no sexual content, no depictions of sexual assault, no self-harm content, and no realistic violence.