NeuronIdle: AI Tycoon

Thendril

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About this game

Welcome to the Neuron Universe.
The gold rush of commercial AI development is on. Every institution needs models — banks, hospitals, regulators, defense agencies, media houses, and quiet ministries whose full names never make it onto a business card. You're a solo developer with a rig, a coffee machine, and clients who never quite say what they want the model for.
Nobody wants an AI that thinks for itself, though. The industry is very clear about that. Everything you ship must be predictable, delivered to specification, and auditable. What happens in your lab after hours is your problem.
THE WORK
You start with a small brain, a modest rig, and clients willing to give a nobody a chance. Train the model. Watch it stumble. Learn to feel its personality — one learns like a dream, another is stubborn as a brick, and the one you poured everything into will crash on its first run and inform you it was statistically inevitable.
You don't tell the model how to behave here. You measure how it behaves, and you hope.
Manage fatigue, frustration, and the growing complexity as the system evolves. Find the moment to stop training — too early and you waste potential, too late and you risk overfitting. Every run is different. That's a feature, not a bug.
THE SALE
Some brains you keep. Some you sell on the Black Market for instant, no-questions-asked profit. Some you deliver to a growing network of clients across seven sectors, each with its own taste.
Media pays for attention. Finance pays for prediction. Health pays for calm. Governance pays for compliance. Research studies what others build, and occasionally publishes redacted findings.
Build reputation with vendors and unlock bonuses tied to their sector. Specialize or spread yourself thin — both can work. Both are stubborn about it.
THE SYSTEM
Eight model tiers from Micro to Colossus. Forty-plus knowledge domains across four corpora. Hardware with rarity brackets and VRAM to manage. Seven industries, three vendor classes, individual reputation ladders. Fine-tuning, boosts, and a procedural Black Market with rare and experimental hardware.
No pay-to-win — you can save time, but you cannot buy a better model roll, smarter decisions, or immunity from failure. Ads are optional and rewarded, with no forced interruptions. This game pokes fun at aggressive monetization rather than practicing it.
And then there are things this description won't mention.
Some trigger only when you do something you shouldn't. Some will be seen by almost nobody. Some clients keep records their competitors would find inconvenient.
The game won't show these to you — you'll find them yourself, or hear about them through word of mouth.
Assume there's more than you can see. A lot more.

What’s new

What's new in 1.6.7

Packet Filter: ad-based boosts have been removed. Boosts are now earned by how well you do in the Packet Filter minigame — the better your score, the stronger the boost.

Fragment drops: the drop rate for code fragments has been reworked.

Smaller download: the app is noticeably lighter than before.