Simulations by SparkTower
Official simulations from the SparkTower team
Business simulations built and run by SparkTower — for classrooms, entrepreneur clubs, managers, small-town owners and startups. Every market here is written from how the trade really works, checked to be winnable, and priced at $5 a seat.
Simulations
- Orbit From Zero: A Rocket Company, 2027–2040 — No money, an engine design and fourteen years. Win grants, survive three launch attempts, reach orbit, land a booster and build a real…
- Independent Insurance Broker — Run a 60-person independent insurance brokerage selling personal and commercial cover. Price your service, build a book of loyal clients…
- Esports Café — Open a gaming café with high-end PCs by the hour, weekend tournaments and a snack bar, in a town with no gaming venue of its own. Price an…
- Clinic Scheduling SaaS — Sell online booking software to independent clinics, from solo physios to ten-chair dental practices, against two entrenched…
- AI Writing Tool for Small Business — Sell an AI writing assistant to small businesses in a market where a new look-alike launches every week, model costs eat a quarter of…
- Student Budgeting App — Launch a freemium budgeting app for college students: millions of free downloads, a few per cent who pay, app-store fees on every…
- Sustainable Packaging Supplier — Supply compostable mailers and recycled-fibre boxes to e-commerce brands that need to drop plastic. Tens of thousands of online sellers…
- Indie Mobile Game Studio — Run a small mobile game studio in app stores where a hundred thousand games launch a year. Your customers are the players who pay, a third…
- Fitness Club Chain — Run 12 mid-priced gyms squeezed between $10 budget clubs and $200 boutique studios. Set membership prices, staff the floor and the…
- Local Tradespeople Marketplace — Build a two-sided marketplace matching homeowners with plumbers, electricians and handymen. Homeowners pay booking fees, trades pay for…
- Meal-Kit Subscription — Launch a meal-kit service into one of the most crowded subscription markets in the US: over half of every box goes on food and shipping…
- Senior Home-Care Agency — Start a home-care agency as the baby boomers turn 80: more families need help at home every year than the existing agencies can staff. The…
- The Small-Town Diner — Run the diner on the square in a town of 12,000: the 6am regulars, the after-church rush and the truckers off the state road, against the…
- Farm Shop & Market Garden — Grow and sell on five acres outside a town of 8,000: a weekly veg box, a farm shop, the Saturday market and the chef at the inn, against…
- Main Street Florist — Run the florist on Main Street in a town of 14,000: weddings booked a year out, sympathy arrangements by noon tomorrow, Valentine's Day…
- Plumbing & Heating Contractor — Build a plumbing and heating business in a county of 20,000 households: burst pipes at 2am, furnace servicing before winter, water-heater…
- Laundromat & Dry Cleaner — Run a laundromat with a dry-cleaning counter in a town of 22,000: renters' weekly wash, wash-and-fold for busy families, the motels'…
- Direct-to-Consumer Skincare — Launch an online skincare brand against department-store prestige labels, drugstore staples and a wave of influencer-led startups. Win on…
- Hair Salon & Barbershop — Open a salon with a barber's chair in a town of 20,000: colour clients, Saturday cuts, kids before school starts and the occasional…
- Coffee Roaster Subscription — Turn a small specialty roastery into a subscription business shipping fresh beans across the US, against grocery brands, other craft…
- Family Auto Repair Garage — Run a three-bay repair garage in a county of 45,000 people and their cars and pickups: commuters, farm trucks, the plumber's vans and the…
- Independent Pharmacy — Run the independent pharmacy in a town of 9,000 against a chain drugstore, the supercenter's pharmacy counter and insurers pushing…
- City Hotel Revenue Management — Run revenue for a 300-room downtown hotel. Price corporate accounts, leisure weekends and conference groups against two brand-name towers…
- Private Clinic Network — Run 15 outpatient clinics serving insured, self-pay and employer-contract patients. Set prices, staff clinicians, and decide whether to…
- Custom Furniture Workshop — Run a 40-person furniture workshop making pieces to order for homeowners, interior designers and boutique hotels. Price commissions, keep…
- Home EV Charger Installers — Start a company installing home EV chargers as electric car sales climb every year. The market is wide open, the bottleneck is licensed…
- Telehealth for Pets — Launch a vet video-call membership in a market barely five years old. Most pet owners have never tried it, regulations vary by state, and…
- Craft Brewery Taproom — Open a brewery and taproom in a county seat of 25,000: build a mug club, get your tap handles into the bars, and draw the beer tourists…
- Plant-Based Cheese — Launch a plant-based cheese brand while the category is still young: millions of flexitarian and lactose-intolerant households are trying…
- Taco Street: An East Austin Taqueria — Open a taqueria on a crowded East Austin corridor against a beloved family taqueria, a chef's spot, a regional chain, a national burrito…
- Regional Coach Operator — Run an intercity coach company with 70 buses linking four cities, a university and the airport. Set fares, schedule drivers and decide…
- Turnaround: The Regional Grocer — Lead a 40-store regional grocery chain on a 2% margin as a hard discounter opens its first stores in your towns. Decide where to cut…
- Regional Logistics Depot — Run a delivery depot serving 3,000 local retailers with same-day and next-day runs. Set rates, size the van fleet and drivers, and hold…
- Sandwich Franchise Expansion — Grow a regional sandwich brand from 8 shops to 30 across the state. Decide where to open, what to charge for lunch, how to staff each…
- The Pizza Delivery War — Run a local pizzeria in a city of 250,000 against three national delivery chains and the apps' ghost kitchens. Every chain has a coupon on…
- Budget Gym vs Boutique Studios — Open a gym in a city squeezed from both ends: $10-a-month budget chains below, $35-a-class boutique studios above. Choose your middle, or…
- Fast Fashion Online — Launch an online clothing label against ultra-fast app retailers that drop a thousand styles a day at $9 a top. Compete on speed and price…
- Niche Streaming Service — Launch a documentary streaming service against the giant platforms that already sit on every TV. Win the viewers who want more than the…
- Main Street Hardware vs the Big Box — Run the independent hardware store on Main Street in a town of 15,000 the year a big-box home center opens off the highway. Keep the…
- Vertical Farm Greens — Grow salad greens and herbs indoors, year-round, a few miles from the grocers and restaurants that today buy them trucked 2,000 miles…
- Customer Support Outsourcer — Run a 400-seat contact-centre company bidding for support contracts from banks, retailers and software firms. Price per agent, hold…
- College-Town Bike Repair — Open a bike repair and refurbished-bike shop in a college town where half the students ride and nobody fixes bikes cheaply. Price a…
- School Spirit Store — Run the spirit-wear store for a school district: hoodies, team gear and supplies, against the big-box store's aisle of generic gear and…
- Saturday Market Bakery — Bake for a weekly farmers' market stall and wholesale to two cafés. Decide what to bake and how much, price a sourdough against the…
- Mobile Car Wash — Run a car wash that comes to customers' driveways and office car parks, against the express tunnel wash by the highway and the gas-station…
- County Fair Food Truck — Take a student-run food truck through one summer of county fairs, rodeos and music festivals. Pick a menu, price it against the corn-dog…
- Pet Sitting & Dog Walking — Start a dog-walking and pet-sitting business in a suburb where a big booking app already has most of the walkers. Price a walk, hire…
- Campus Coffee Cart — Run a coffee cart on a 12,000-student campus against the chain café in the library and the vending machines. Price a latte, staff the…
- Shoes From the Trunk of a Car, 1964 — A business-school graduate and his old track coach import running shoes from Japan and sell them at track meets. Fourteen years of banks…
- City Coffee Shop Wars — Open an independent café in a downtown where a national chain sits on every corner and the drive-throughs undercut you on price. Find the…
- Study With Me: A Gen Z App Startup — Two students, a few thousand dollars and a study-with-me app: live focus rooms, streaks and lo-fi, against a giant notes platform, a…
- The Garage Computer Company, 1976 — Two friends, a garage in California and a circuit board nobody else can build as cheaply. Fourteen years from hobby kits to a public…
- Peer Tutoring Company — Build a tutoring company of top students teaching younger ones, in a town where a chain learning centre charges $60 an hour. Price…
- Solar for Farms — Install solar on farms and rural businesses and get paid for the power they use, year after year. Power prices are rising, grants are…
- Sneaker Resale Shop — Buy limited sneakers low and resell them online in one of the most crowded markets there is: a giant resale app, thousands of other…