SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim
Playing now
14+8 vs. yesterday
64%of peak
All-time peak
22Aug 2026
Playing now
14+8 vs. yesterday
All-time peak
22Aug 2026
| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-game event | Stability Improves and Hedge Fund Beta Introducing Hedge Fund Mode — a New Endgame Career (Opt-In Beta) You've beaten the market with your own money. Hedge Fund mode asks a harder question: can you do it with someone else's? This is the new endgame career we've been building: launch a fund, raise outside capital, build a research team, run long and short books, collect fees, keep your investors from bolting — and, if you've got the… | 24598264 | |
| Game update | Third Small July Update 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). Mov… | 24231010 | |
| Game update | Second small July Update 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, inclu… | — | |
| Game update | Small July Update 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 cr… | 24064447 | |
| Major update | Companies Rework Companies Rework Managing companies has gotten a rework. Players can now retain ownership of the companies they started instead of being forced to sell it. Not only that, but players can delegate who runs it and inherit it when taking over as their child. Players can also step away from the company and return if they feel they want to spend their player's hours on different projects. If the com… | 23794482 | |
| Game update | Minor Job details update 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… | 23551628 | |
| In-game event | Job And Education Rework (Plus poll for future updates) Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend. We were bug fixing our latest update to Self-Made. In this update education and jobs have been reworked to be more dynamic. Play a very short minigame to determine which school tier and how much of a scholarship you qualify for. Now you will have more freedom to focus on your studies, which now grade you for effort, or on working while in school to… | 23417572 | |
| Game update | Self Made Patch + UI Enhancements Patch Update — Bug Fixes & UI Refresh Bug Fixes Torch-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 compan… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Update 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 popu… | 22979250 | |
| In-game event | 2nd Generation Update Generational wealth: now you can play as your son or daughter in game who inherit the wealth you accumulated at a 40% tax on everything above $13M (first $13M is exempt). There is no third generation, so make the most of the head start you get in the second generation! Bug fixes: · Missing Hotel/Complex Foreclosure (logic bug) · Instant sell after buy hotel now prevented hoping that helps with… | 22856589 | |
| Game update | Stability Update 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. | 22571991 | |
| Game update | New Patch Is Live 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 a… | 22470067 | |
| Major update | New Update is Live The newest Property for your player to reside is the most expensive and most customizable yet. Each style has its own button layout (closet, laptop, trophy, phone positions/sizes), night-specific overrides for some buttons, and a unique PA button default position . Speaking of which, a PA button is linked to the new Personal Assistant feature added. Each Personal Assistant has their own strengt… | 22386198 | |
| In-game event | Game Mode System ("Margin Call" Hard Mode) & Bug Fixes New Game Mode · "Margin Call" Hard Mode: We’ve introduced a new difficulty system! You can now choose between "Arcade" (default) and "Margin Call" at character creation. Margin Call turns up the heat with slower market growth, higher loan rates, harsher legal penalties, tighter victory thresholds, and more frequent black swan events. Bug Fixes · Property Sale Exploit: Patched an exploit where s… | 22219398 |
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