Hipster CEO
Step into the gaming world with Hipster CEO, one of the top $0.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Gerard Kelly, this captivating Simulation game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 12+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 1st November 2013, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 15th January 2018.
Whether you have a liking for Simulation, Business, or Strategy games, Hipster CEO is sure to keep you hooked!
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Hipster CEO 2 is COMING SOON but in the meantime why not sharpen your entrepreneurial skills on the true original?
Ever watched a show like Dragons’ Den or Shark Tank and thought that you could do a better job? Hipster CEO allows you to prove that you’re the next Mark Zuckerberg by growing your business from a tiny dorm room startup to a global tech powerhouse. And look totally trendy while you’re doing it.
» Choose from a number of tech products to develop, from social networks like Facebook to music streaming like Spotify
» Are you an executive or a tech playground type? Choose the office that suits you best
» Develop a truly innovative product, launch a killer marketing campaign and sell like pro to bring in some coin
» Delight your employees with bonuses and office perks from pool tables to go kart tracks
» Take investment or try to build just from your savings
» Sell your company for the big bucks
» Compare your performance against other Hipster CEOs around the world
Hipster CEO in the media:
"Championship Manager for startups…this app is a great bit of fun that can keep you entertained for hours." – Adrian Collins, JOE.ie
"At last, there’s a game built around running a startup. What’s more scary: It’s closer to reality than you might imagine." – Matthew Lynley, BuzzFeed
"…an iOS business sim that dramatizes the startup experience." – Owen Faraday, PocketTactics
"Take charge of your very own startup and put your entrepreneurial skills to the test." – Tasnuva Bindi, ShoeString.com.au
It’s time for you to prove you have what it takes to build a successful tech startup. Download Hipster CEO now.
Questions, problems, feedback? Get in touch [email protected] or follow us on Twitter at @hipsterCEOapp.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Hipster CEO on 15th January 2018:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Squishing some bugs.
Hear from the Players – Hipster CEO Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Hipster CEO:
AMAZING concept and game but the bugs ruin it man, if we were billgates Id seriously throw like 1/2 a million to help get ceo2 out.
We noticed this 2mins after you updated. This is amazing. Are you working on this again? Actually 2ms might be months. Wow. Im sorry.
Hi Developers, we hope this finds you well and that it is still monitored. We have been playing this game for years, since it initially came out and absolutely love it. We originally signed up for the Beta of Hipster CEO 2, but have come to accept there most likely will not be one. This game is one of the best we’ve played and we wanted to give props to you guys! It is obviously missing some ideas that we were originally hoping would be part of Hipster CEO 2. We feel like the game has so much potential and we wanted to reach out to see if there is anything we can do to help to maybe start development back up on it! There is a lot of demand for it from when we were reading reviews and Reddit pages. The game really being joy, entertainment, and fun in a startup. Some factors that could be improved would be hiring managers (as its difficult to scale when we have to single handedly hire and assign 60 salespeople at once), an area for R&D to improve products or create more, not capping sales at 100/day. Better investors and more use to do with the money on acquisition (for example bribing politicians, being able to start a larger company with your own money like an electric car company or space company). Being able to buy back equity from investors. Better graphs with conversion rates. These are all just general ideas off the top of our head along with the multiplayer piece and great advances in AI! Please if theres anything we can do let us know! We noticed the email for the game is no longer active, so there is no other way to contact you. Best Regards, Hipster Nick.
Looking at your social media pages it looks like the second one got scrapped! Please dont give up on the second one! This game is dope.
We’ve been playing this game for years! We really do love coming back to it now and then. The issues we have at every similar to others, mainly that theres a lot of different menus that can get hard to remember and there are glitches with employees and where their names show up. Im very excited for 2 because we’ve seen the message for years, so maybe its actually on the way? We cant wait never the less.
Why can investors with 1% of your company buy staff that need so much money and are and at their job?
Amazingly fun yet simple app. This would be 5 stars if there wasnt a MAJOR bug. The app crashes about 30 minutes into a game EVERY time we play. We cannot click a button within the app to even restart a game… We have to delete the app and re-download to play another game. We play on the iphone X. We love the game so much we still recommend purchasing, but be warned!
We love the game, and it has the potential to be awesome if this was added: Firstly, we feel like the prices for assets are WAY overpriced, and we dont see why a rust bucket; crappy car would be a million dollars. We currently have 124 million dollars in the game, and its really annoying that we have a semi-detached house and a mini-cooper. In real life someone with that money could buy a mansion and have like 12 cars. We find it very annoying, sometimes insulting that we have so much money, but we have such crappy assets. Secondly, we would like to see acquisition offers to be much higher. Our company is currently worth 400 million dollars, and the largest offer we’ve gotten was a 30 million dollar buyout, even though we have lots of fans and our product has been marketed all over the place. We would love to see higher acquisition offers so that we can be determined to make our company better. Lastly, we have noticed a small issue where our sales department got to 100%, and every time we wanted to buy something, or even higher employees, our game would crash and we had no choice but to start over. All in all, this is a great game, but if this stuff was added, it would make the game much more enjoyable.
Im from Ireland, so the game automatically put the currency into Euros, and all the character names are Irish, which is pretty cool. The game is quite fun and well done as well.
This game is great and we can play it for hours but can someone please tell when hipster ceo 2 is coming out we have been waiting for a whole year. All and all its a great game and it has no competitors.
Hipster ceo is a truly captivating game and is a great game however it needs some work with bug fixes. Its so buggy we right now have to uninstall and reinstall it. Cant wait for hipster ceo 2!
We love this game but we remember now why we deleted it the first time we got it. We just had a lot of success, became rich, and sold our business for millions, but the money disappeared once we got it. We were broke. We dont know what happened but now we have to start over.
It has soooooo many bugs and lags and we cant even play it anymore because of the crashing.
So… The game keeps crashing on our end and keeps saying that stuff isnt there when it is. Like for example Ill get an acquisition offer, and then it wont ever show up, or like so how Ill get more money in our wallet, but the notice says that we dont have anything in there. Im on the iPhone 6 btw. Thanks :) (Ive tried to contact the developer and the owner of this app, but no ones responded, its like theyre dead or something)
We really enjoyed playing the game at first but eventually hit a bug that crashed the game whenever interacting with an email.
Great game.. Until it crashes when you start making money, sales was fine making money was fun until you go -215 and the app crashes and wont allow you to do anything past that!
No matter how much we market, our fan base doesnt go up. And sales dont either. We always end up going bankrupt before we even get one sell.
So we purchased this game and used for a day with no problems. We sold our startup and right when we started our next run, the game started crashing. We restarted the app and even restarted our iPad but it crashes anytime we try to do anything in the app. Dont waste your money, we know its only a dollar, but its not worth it to just sit here and watch it crash with no way to get help.
Somewhat of a fun game, not worth more than 99c surely but fun. However the app keeps crashing whenever you make specific commands for your business. Ruins the game Im gonna call apple support for a refund.
There are so many bugs, its almost unplayable. If you happen to accept an acquisition, it says you now have $0 and trying to replay the game is basically impossible as you cant do much of anything other than be a 1 person company and not make any money due to bugs.
Whoever made this game owes us some money! At first it was great but now all the game does is crash and theres no way to get a hold of the developers!! FIX THE GAME dont just take peoples money and then give up on what you started!
We dont hate this game. We actually like it. But its incomplete. We thought about giving it at least two stars, even three. We just cant condone selling a game for $2 that is incomplete, and buggy. Imagine going to McDonalds and ordering a quarter pounder with fries and a coke. After driving off without looking into the bag because youre in a hurry, you discover that they gave you a dollar meal hamburger, no fries and the coke is flat. That is this game.
We LOVED this game when it came out. Played it nonstop for a while. The developer was working on a sequel that sounded like it was going to blow the original out of the water. Unfortunately, it never game to fruition and this game became abandoned to the depths of the App Store. We wish someone would revive the project. It had a lot of promise.
We really like this game it’s fun and addictive we’re stuck on it and also just wanted to add some support for this game to hopefully get it more popular.
It takes a while to get uses to at first, but it’s a really unique concept. We thoroughly enjoy playing this and whenever we have any questions we just contact the developer and he helps nearly instantly. This is quickly becoming one of our favorite games and you should get it! XOXO- SkyeViolet.
It’s a great game, and we have learned how to be successful, but the investors that started us off, keep hiring random people! It’s annoying and they are always for terrible prices! Is there any way to get our equity back?! We hate investors! (I’m not restarting with acquisitions)
The game is awesome, it’s really unique and fun, not super realistic with the money and the investments in terms of the amount of money but is still just fun.
Loved this game, can’t wait for HCEO2. Maybe there will be a Kickstarter for the 2nd game??
We think am addicted to this game. And can’t wait for part 2 to come out.
For all of you who are having trouble getting started the best thing to do is use your self to start the tech stuff and hire a cheap person to start advertising for about $10 a day then by the time your tech is done you will have enough fans to start selling once again use your own person for sales.
Ok, we struggled the first 5 times. Ok, the first ten? OK, YA GOT ME, IT WAS MORE LIKE 20. Regardless, we love the game. Once you get the hang of it, you start to feel super successful – which urged you to play more. IT’S ADDICTIVE!! We do have some suggestions to make the game more competitive: -Create a bigger network between players -Allow collaboration between players -Make it so you can sabotage or buy other players businesses These would make the Game a bit more edgy.
We have played this for over a year and love it… One of the few games that keep our interest….. We cannot wait for the second one to truly develop our skills as a hipster startup tycoon! Twitter: @DawsonCall.
Really fun fastest way to make billions of $$ is to get the tech geeks as ur niche bump the price up to $100 as soon as u launch ur product.
This is a good game but this game needs improvements such as having a venture capitalist at like 5% ownership hiring an employee without our permission because we own like 95% also need to be able to buy and sell other peoples companies and stock and be able to start multiple products. We also want more product categories for example like smartphone wearable os and have them bundled with each other to beat competitors.
The best game in the app store.
This is by far a better game than any other business tycoon like game. There are so many things to do and track and ways to better your self. One annoying thing is that after a while your company is doing so well it runs its self and there isnt much to do. The only real flaw is that the game is very dense with a lot of variety. And you kind of expect more depth but it does miss some big innovations other games dont have, that if this game had would send it off the charts! Thankfully the sequel is coming out soon!
We went broke in less than 15 minutes – 10/10.
We play this game a lot and once u know how to play it’s really easy to make cash without needing investors just hate how the investors hire the worst people for tons of money when we can get better workers cheaper and it would be better if you can other companies or invest in them.
One of the most fun and addicting games we’ve ever played. -Webah444.
We can’t wait for HCEO2! We love the idea of this game so much! We’ve been waiting years for the sequel to be released!
Please fix the staff screen glitch, and for the love of god add voting to the game! We don’t want stockholders with 3% ownership completely ignoring and having more power than the guy with 97% ownership.
First of all, lots of fun. There are far too few simulation games out there. We’re excited for CEO hipster 2 to see some much needed improvements though. The average sales per day and average revenue per day are basically useless as it averages every day since the beginning. It needs to do a weekly average (charts and graphs to show trends would really help). Also a lot of employees stats are unclear as to their purpose. (Teamwork, productivity, dedication). There should be some options to train employees to up stats. The interface needs a little tweaking as you often have to cycle through lots of menus, and the investment offers get annoying really fast. Your inbox in the game is just spammed by them. Maybe add some different job positions too. This game is too one dimensional for how complex it is.
Its a great idea it’s just it needs to be more realistic. Investors that own 1% of the company shouldn’t be able to hire the highest paid employee without the majority owners consent. Also staff happiness rating just gets destroyed no matter what you do. Good idea but you need to fix those things. PS If you could invest in other companies/merge/buy that’s be awesome. Also it’d be cool if you could buy back equity in your company. Thanks!
This game is great in our opinion, but some major bugs are stopping it from reaching its potential. If one more update could be applied, it could be amazing!
The extra things you can buy (property, cars, etc) are useless. They should be worth something. Also the acquisition money should go into the bank, not your personal wallet where it sits useless except for buying useless property. Please change these things and we will love this game even more.
We love love love this game, but PLEASE fix the sales error. No matter who we hire or what niche we choose, our sales progress remains at 0%! It’s so frustrating, and keeps this game from getting 5 stars. Can’t wait for Hipster CEO 2, though the "stability quality" could improve. ;-)
It’s been fun playing but we think there is a big where we cant get past level 8.
This game is funny. It has a lot of witty text that would make an otherwise banal experience tragically hip. That being said there are some odd gameplay quirks and bugs that need squashing. For example if you hire employees (affordable ones under 20k) to do develop tech for you after you have already pushed it past 50% they will actually hurt the product and make it worse each turn. Also if you sell out for over 7figures it causes the next venture to be perma stuck to level 0 with 0 cash. Revenue will go up but nothing else will move in terms of money or level advancement.