SimBio
A biotech-building sim · new-hire onboarding · about 30–45 minutes

Build a biotech from a hunch to a medicine.

You will found a small, secret ("stealth") biotech and take one drug all the way from lab bench to patients. You make the choices. The game explains every step as you reach it, and nothing happens faster than you can read.

01Name your company

02Pick a disease to fight

Each disease changes the science, the trials and the market. All three paths teach the same core process.

03Pick the kind of medicine

This decides how you discover the drug, how it is made, and which application you file with the FDA.

04Pick how forgiving the world is

05What you will learn

  • How a disease target is chosen and validated
  • How drug candidates are found and improved
  • What the FDA needs before the first human dose
  • What Phases 1, 2 and 3 each prove
  • How an application is filed and reviewed
  • How a medicine reaches patients and grows
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SimBio

Lantern Therapeutics

Stealth mode

Data points0
DateYear 1 · Week 1
Cash$3,000,000
Spending / week$0
Runway—
Insight0 / 100
Next step

Run an assay.

The bench

Target biology

Each experiment (an "assay") produces one data point. Data unlocks discovery milestones.

Scientists0
Experiments / week0

Scientists run experiments automatically but cost $7,500 a week each.

Insight0 / 100
Insight / week0

Insight is your team's know-how. It grows on its own and pays for milestones.

The clinic

IND active

Trial sites are hospitals and clinics that find and treat patients for you. Each enrolled patient costs money.

Trial sites0
Patients enrolled / week0

The market

Approved
Patients on treatment0
Eligible and insured0
Supply can serve0
Insurance coverage30%
Revenue / week$0
Field team0
Manufacturing lines0
On the label

Optional upgrades

Speed things up

Lab notebook

Newest first

    Field guide

    1 lesson

    Every lesson you unlock is saved here. Select one to reread it.

    Fictional companies and molecules. Real process, terms and typical success rates.
    Speed