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Substandard Shrimp · Published by Substandard Shrimp
Positive — 83% positive (12 reviews) · 41 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Comic Company Manager is a comic book themed management game. Create your own comic publishing company and design your own ideas from combining 100+ concepts. Hire and manage artists to create comics for you and expand your company. Grow to dominate the industry
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3 Sept 2026Lowest: £5.89 · Highest: £5.898 Oct 2026
Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Casual · 2023 · More £5 - £15 games
Build a thriving comic publishing company in Comic Company Manager, where you'll hire artists and blend over 100 unique ideas to dominate the industry. Dive into an engaging simulation experience that blends strategy and creativity.
About this game
Become A Comic Publisher
Start your own comic book company. Create comics, hire people and expand your marketing.Create Your Ideas
Core of Comic Company Manager is its Franchise system. You create new ideas by combining 3-6 tropes. After it has been created you can make comics, create merchandise and level it up.
Create Your Comics
Conquer the market with your comics. They can be based on your own ideas or you can buy or license franchises. Customize them by deciding if they should be colored or black and white, how many ads they have, what kind of paper they are printed on, how long they will run and how often they publish. There more ways to adjust them but the game also allows you to leave it up to the creators if you don't want to go that deepDecorate Your Offices
To make comics your workers need work stations. To keep them happy you need to decorate the rooms too. Add some nice furniture so they can take a break. Paint the walls the colors you like
Manage Your Artists
Keep your workers happy or they will quit. Make sure they like their team-mates or the work will suffer. Your workers can fill roles like: Writer, Penciler, Inker, Colorist and EditorSimulate The Comic Market
Market in the game is dynamic with readers changing tastes and AI companies creating their own comics. You are directly competing with other companies for sales as each reader is simulated and they will only buy a set amount of comics.Features
- Create ideas from combinations of 100+ concepts
- Buy, sell and license ideas
- Create comics
- Hire workers for roles like: writer, penciler, inker, colorist and editor
- Decorate offices
- Buy new offices
- Set printing settings
- Manage marketing
- Win awards
- Create and customize your own character
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB dedicated video RAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Recommended
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
English, Finnish
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
1.0.6.1 - Beta Branch Update
Small hotfix for crash that happens when multi threading is enabled and franchise levels upRead full article on Community Announcements (Substandard Shrimp)Patch NotesOfficial
1.0.6.0 Update
This update makes the Direct3D 12 the default windows driver. This should help with Windows stability of the game.- Moved to Godot 4.6- Made Direct3D 12 the default driver- Option to toggle 3d borders for meshes on/off- Moved sliders on comic creation to be included in quick version- Various small UI changes- More improvements to comic creation UI- Tiny improvements to sales calculation times- Speech bubble font size increased- Reworked comic creation UI- Changed how character photos look- Increased hint font size- Increased size of comic info info windows- Fix: Fixed font issue on low skill level displays for workers- Fix: Speech balloons no longer have outlines over them- Fix: Creator names in comic info sometimes were hard to see- Fix: Brainstorming progress was invisible- Fix: Company size was not being always displayed correctly- Fix: Basement as starting location wasn't working correctly- Fix: Characters stop moving now when time paused- Fix: Crash related to comic creation introduced last beta update- Fix: Loading game after returning to main menu from game was not working correctly- Fix: Multiple workers were using same station when creation a franchiseRead full article on Community Announcements (Substandard Shrimp)Patch NotesOfficial
1.0.5.3 Beta Branch Update
This updates moves the engine to Godot 4.6 and with it the default windows driver is going to be Direct3D 12. D3d12 branch will therefore obsolete as its going to be same as main. This will be last beta for this version so next will be going to main- Moved to Godot 4.6- Made Direct3D 12 the default driver- Option to toggle 3d borders for meshes on/off- Moved sliders on comic creation to be included in quick version- Various small UI changes- Fix: Multiple workers were using same station when creation a franchiseRead full article on Community Announcements (Substandard Shrimp)Patch NotesOfficial
1.0.5.2 Beta Branch Update
Small update, mostly to fix issue introduced last beta update Changes: - More improvements to comic creation UI- Tiny improvements to sales calculation times- Speech bubble font size increased- Fix: Characters stop moving now when time paused- Fix: Crash related to comic creation introduced last beta update- Fix: Loading game after returning to main menu from game was not working correctlyRead full article on Community Announcements (Substandard Shrimp)Patch NotesOfficial
1.0.5.1 - Beta branch update and Direct3D 12 branch
This is update for beta branch. Also included is a new beta you can access from steam beta selection for Direct3D 12 version of the game. This is for people who might be having issues with the graphics in the game.- Reworked comic creation UI- Changed how character photos look- Increased hint font size- Increased size of comic info info windows- Fix: Fixed font issue on low skill level displays for workers- Fix: Speech balloons no longer have outlines over them- Fix: Creator names in comic info sometimes were hard to see- Fix: Brainstorming progress was invisible- Fix: Company size was not being always displayed correctlyRead full article on Community Announcements (Substandard Shrimp)
