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Glazial · Published by Glazial · Official site ↗
Positive — 96% positive (25 reviews)
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
As the new CEO of a derelict company, you must deal (or side) with rogue corporate AIs, rebellious labor unions and globalist aristocrats. Holonoptic combines economic simulation and RPG into a story-rich corporate alpine cyberpunk.
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Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy · 2026 · More £5 - £15 games
Navigate the treacherous landscape of corporate power as CEO in Holonoptic. Tangle with AI rebels, labor unions, and aristocrats while balancing economic simulation and rich storytelling in an indie RPG-strategy experience.
About this game
Welcome, new employee.
You are now CEO,
because your predecessor vanished,
and everyone else was fired.
Oh, and an artificial intelligence now controls the company.
Rebuild and expand into the weakened Eurozone, at all costs.
Make pacts with shadow economy thieves, free market globalists, parasitic unions
or wealth-extracting aristocrats.
Good luck, and try not to get fired.
POSTINDUSTRIAL CHARACTER CREATION
Adapt your character for survival in the firestorm of the free market, from the versatile Office Drone to the financial wizard Investment Banker or sneaky Corporate Spy.
CHOICES MATTER. SERIOUSLY, YOU MIGHT GET FIRED
Replace our vanished CEO and decide carefully between different factions. Rebellious office drone unions, rogue corporate AIs or aristocratic plutocrats will try to instrumentalize you. Make your choices in an economic drama inspired by Scifi and cyberpunk.
EXPAND YOUR CORPORATE EMPIRE
Use friendly acquisitions or hostile takeovers to expand our corporate empire into the weakened Eurozone, build facilities, hire (or fire) thousands of employees.
UNIQUE PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANICS
Drink coffee to increase your focus, evolve your brain with paranoia or euphoria, use your emotions in speech checks against other characters.
Every action, substance or thing you say impacts your mental state, allowing you to transcend into the being the company aspires you to be.
ALPINE CYBERPUNK STORY
Deal with artificial intelligences trying to control companies, transhumanists striving for pharmaceutical immortality and virtual consciousness clones.
RPG MANAGEMENT
Recruit up to 16 unique characters into your company that you can level up and equip individually. Send them on business-trips all over Europe to acquire other companies or complete corporate espionage missions.
THIS GAME'S BALANCE SHEET
10+ different endings
16 unique characters you can recruit
3000+ dialogue lines, 1500+ of which are voiced
9 character classes, 6 skills, 70+ feats
8 mental & emotional states
40 psychological traits, some of which are pathological
16 psychoactive substances, half of which are legal in some countries
50+ unique companies to trade with, steal from or acquire
120+ unique items and item modifications
8 ideologies that track your decisions
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 or higher
- Processor: 2.0 Ghz 64-bit Intel-compatible
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1920 x 1080 resolution, OpenGL 3.0 or DirectX 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.9.1 live
1.9.1 UI Improvements - The avatar summon buttons in the architecture screen are labelled "summon " - The summon menu above an executive says "+ summon" instead of just "+" - The avatar can also be summoned in the server room, next to the Geist architecture button Story & dialogue - The animal spirits laptop is now correctly traced to a retired professor with the holonoptic app instead of sitting in a bank locker - Better deadline description how to find the animal spirits laptop Fixes - Fixed a crash when opening a subsidiary task that had no work left Localization - Quality improvements for German translation - Translation feedback buttonRead full article on Community Announcements (Geist)Patch NotesOfficial
Regular patch 1.9.0 live
Dear chief of whatever officers and office dronesPatch 1.9.0 is mostly about UI improvements, decreasing the use of the dreaded sub-(sub)-menus, flattening them. For example, sending executives around the map now takes one hover+click instead of three. The construction screen was integrated into the main desktop screen, and so on.Hopefully these improvements do not take away too much from the immersion of using a corporate UI. The old behavior will stay available via UI options, and there are still plenty of odd quirks left.Also, good news for our DACH-region Bürodrohnen: holonoptic can now be played in German. Q&A is still ongoing, but the language can already be selected in the options menu.Complete list of changes:1.9.0Features & gameplay- At most 3 items can be requisitioned at once; the Requisition Management feat, the Additional space upgrade and the Logistics network project each raise the limit by one- External storage is now a numbered inventory tab you drag items in and out of, rented per budget cycle at a price that doubles with every tab (1, 2, 4, 8 million)UI Improvements- Geist packages are installed straight from the architecture screen: no sub-menu, and the install progress runs in a small popup instead of taking over the screen- The holonoptic eye sits on the left with the selected ideocluster and its unlocks always shown next to it, and the icons in the eye got bigger and a score bar- Hovering the holonoptic button in the dock shows every measured ideocluster score and unlocks all available business opportunities with one click- Clicking the hidden items counter on an owned company label starts the asset recovery operation right there- The slider of the business opportunity bar sits above the opportunities instead of covering them- The button to send executives to a company now shows a plane icon, making it clearer what it does- The same plane button was added to every company label on the map, so executives can be sent to companies with one click ...Read full article on Community Announcements (Geist)Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix 1.8.20 live
1.8.20 Fixes - Fixed a crash when selling an asset that had left its subsidiary since the deals were negotiated - Fixed a crash on the map when a virtual copy was made of an executive who was in flight - Fixed removing several mods quickly emptying the inventory slots that projects add to executives - The log archive and terminal no longer overlap, preventing one from capturing the input of the other - The probation deadline now runs until the debriefing that decides it, instead of expiring into negative time - Item descriptions no longer get cut off in the substance and item detail panelsRead full article on Community Announcements (Geist)Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix 1.8.19 live
1.8.19 Fixes - Fixed a crash when opening the human resources of a rebuilt floor, caused by employees left over from its previous build (specifically academic enclave)Read full article on Community Announcements (Geist)Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix 1.8.18 live
1.8.18 Fixes - Fix a bug where the main character would teleport back to HQRead full article on Community Announcements (Geist)
