Growth creates work
In Family Office Simulator, larger portfolios create more operational workload. Staff have capacity; they are not passive percentage bonuses.
I started Vitalis because I wanted more from business games.
Buying, financing, hiring, and growing should create responsibilities—not just larger numbers.
A note from the founder
Why I started Vitalis
I like management games, but I kept wanting the actual business to matter more. Buying a property should give you debt, cash-flow pressure, maintenance, and tenant problems. Hiring someone should add payroll while changing what your business can actually handle. Growth should solve some problems and create new ones.
That is the reason Vitalis exists. I want to make simulations that are grounded enough to teach how the underlying business or operation works, but still designed as games. Realism is useful when it creates a decision, explains an outcome, or makes success feel earned.
I am not interested in adding complexity just to make a spreadsheet bigger. If a real-world detail does not create an interesting tradeoff or help the player understand what happened, it probably does not belong.
What that means in the games
Financing has terms
Cash to close, DSCR, debt service, origination fees, loan restrictions, and liquidity can make an attractive property a bad—or impossible—deal.
Bad decisions can stick
A seller can walk away, a rent increase can raise move-out risk, and a lower asking rent can improve the chance of leasing a vacant property but becomes the rent you actually collect if a tenant signs.
Complexity has to earn its place
The simulation can be deep, but the player should be able to understand why a number moved and why a decision worked or failed.