Cloud Provider Sim is a first-person management game where you build and run your very own cloud provider. 🌩️
You start with an empty building and a single Internet connection. Rack servers, run cables, sign customers… and try not to go bankrupt along the way.
¶ 🎮 What kind of game is this?
Think tycoon game meets hands-on datacenter work:
| You are… | Which means… |
|---|---|
| 🧑🔧 The technician | You physically carry boxes, place racks, mount servers, plug power cords and lay network cables — in first person. |
| 🧑💼 The manager | You sign customers, choose your electricity supplier, launch R&D projects and keep an eye on the bank balance. |
| 🚒 The on-call engineer | Servers fail, links saturate, the power goes out, rooms overheat. You react before your customers notice. |
Your customers rent cloud services (virtual machines, databases, storage…). They pay by the hour as long as their services run well. If the service degrades, they ask for refunds — and if it stays bad, they leave and tell everyone. 😬
¶ 🔁 The game loop
- Order hardware from the shop.
- Collect the boxes delivered to the loading dock.
- Install racks, then mount servers and network gear inside them.
- Plug in power and cable the network all the way to the Internet.
- Sign customers who need computing power.
- Monitor load, network, heat and failures — then reinvest to grow.
New to the game? Start with Getting Started: it takes you from an empty building to your first paying customer in about ten minutes.
¶ 🧭 Where do I go from here?
| Page | What you will learn | |
|---|---|---|
| 🚀 | Getting Started | Your first hour, step by step |
| 🎓 | Story Mode | The guided campaign with Victor, your investor |
| ⌨️ | Controls | Keys, mouse, game speed |
| 🖥️ | The Console | Your company's control center |
| 🏗️ | Building Your Datacenter | Shop, deliveries, racks and servers |
| 🔌 | Power and Cabling | Cords, cables, connectors and cable trays |
| 🌐 | Networking | Getting to the Internet, bandwidth and redundancy |
| 🤝 | Customers and Contracts | Prospects, tiers, contracts and cloud services |
| 🧮 | Servers and Workloads | How customer services live on your servers |
| 📊 | SLA and Reputation | Why quality of service is everything |
| 🔥 | Failures and Repairs | What breaks and how to fix it |
| ❄️ | Heat and Cooling | Keeping your rooms cool |
| ⚡ | Electricity and Backup Power | The grid, suppliers, batteries, generators and solar |
| 💰 | Money and Finances | Income, expenses and Victor's loan |
| 🔬 | Research and Development | Unlocking new services and faster hardware |
| 💡 | Tips and Strategy | Grow without going broke |
| 📖 | Glossary | All the jargon, explained |
¶ ✨ Highlights
- 🏢 A real building to explore: server rooms, an electrical room, a cooling plant, a loading dock, a storage room and a generator yard.
- 🗄️ Everything is physical: every server sits in a rack, every cable follows a real path and has a real length.
- 🌐 A living network: traffic flows, links saturate, redundant paths take over when something breaks.
- ⚡ Power and heat matter: electricity prices change during the day, storms cut the power, GPUs heat up your rooms.
- 🎓 A guided story mode for beginners, and a free sandbox for veterans.
- 🌍 Playable in English, French and German.
The game is still in active development. Numbers quoted in this wiki (prices, durations…) are indicative: balancing changes from one version to the next. The in-game Help page (F1) always shows the exact values of your version.
¶ ☁️ Cloud Provider Sim
First steps
Building
Running the business
- 🤝 Customers and Contracts
- 🧮 Servers and Workloads
- 📊 SLA and Reputation
- 💰 Money and Finances
- 🔬 Research and Development
Keeping it alive
Going further