Software Tycoon puts you in the role of a game studio CEO. You start out in the 1980s, where you hire your first employees and develop your first games and research new technologies and genres to create even better games.
Besides a free-style mode without any goal, the game does feature various scenarios.

A spiritual successor to the game was released under the name of Mad Games Tycoon by two of the main developers of the original game: Stefan and Christian Pohl.