# Be a CEO

Be a CEO is a business strategy game in three eras: a medieval kingdom, steam-age railways and modern logistics. In closed alpha.

Canonical: https://mantar.io/beaceo

Run a trading house through three eras: a medieval kingdom, the age of steam and a modern logistics world. Start with a single wagon and build a name that outlives you.

- Stage: closed alpha. Platform: Windows. Players: single player and online rooms (in testing).
- Steam page: not live yet. Release date: not announced.
- Developer: Mantar Tech LTD, Istanbul. Contact: support@mantar.io

## Three worlds

### Valmora · a fantasy age of caravans

Salt, iron and dangerous roads. Send caravans across a mountain kingdom. Pick your guards or risk the road, pay the guilds, and keep an eye on the bandits in Stonebreak Valley. Every house starts with a few wagons and a small purse. Where you buy, where you sell and how you survive the winter is up to you.

- Goods: Iron ingots, dwarf ale, salt, grain, timber and silk
- Towns: Kordag Hold, Saltmere, Silverport, Aldheim, Blackwood

### Ferrovia · the railway mania of 1846

Coal, steel and steam. Lay the lines, load the freight cars and run the works that feed a new age. Smoke, bridges and furnaces mark the map. Houses like Fenwick & Hallam Bank and Crane Iron & Steel want the same coal, the same rails and the same ear in Parliament.

- Goods: Coal, bricks, steel bars, grain, cloth and tea
- Towns: Coalbrook, Ashmoor, Wexmill, Port Hallam, Lordsbridge

### Meridyen · freight, ports and glass towers

Today’s supply chain. Run trucks and convoys between refineries, ports and the city. Fuel, cement and electronics move on thin margins and tight schedules. The present day has the same old questions: who do you trust, who do you squeeze, and what will the regulator think?

- Goods: Fuel drums, cement, steel bars, food pallets, apparel and electronics
- Towns: Coldridge, Ironfield, Lumen, Port Kestrel, Meridian City

## How it plays

- **Make real decisions**: Set prices by moving goods, build works, borrow from the bank, hire and delegate, and study the market. Events come back to you later, because people remember what you did: the press, the workers, your family and your rivals.
- **Rivals that push back**: Rival houses trade, raid, dump goods and, when you grow too dominant, band together against you. At the top wait antitrust inquiries, activist investors and boardroom coups.
- **Grow at your pace**: Guided mode opens new parts of the house as you are ready. Expert mode opens everything from day one. Undo a day while you learn, or play Ironman.
- **Scenarios and free play**: Nine scenarios per world, from a family firm to a financial boom, or free trade with no end.
- **Play together**: Share a world with friends in online rooms. Online rooms are still in testing.
- **Comfortable to play**: Colour-blind palette, text scale, reduced motion, and gamepad and Steam Deck navigation. No microtransactions.

## Rivals

- Hessa Halst, Royal Salt Company (Valmora, Cautious)
- Drukh Vosh, Shadow Caravan (Valmora, Reckless)
- Josiah Fenwick, Fenwick & Hallam Bank (Ferrovia, Cautious)
- Agatha Crane, Crane Iron & Steel (Ferrovia, Balanced)
- Soo-ah Brennan, Quanta Retail Group (Meridyen, Balanced)
- Gustav Halden, Halden Holding (Meridyen, Cautious)