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Thanks for playing, and for losing track of time! That’s the best thing anyone can say about an incremental game.

You found the trick: once the Monthly Report is minimized, it stays down. Each new month updates it in place, and its taskbar button blinks instead of popping the window up again. You can minimize it with Esc, or by clicking its taskbar button while it’s in front. Marge in Finance insists on handing you one every month, even after the money stops mattering.

The full version is on its way, and the Steam page is coming soon. Thanks for the kind words :D

Thank you so much for playing all the way to the end of the demo and for writing this up. It’s our first comment here, so it really made my day!

The clutter is kind of on purpose :D Too many things to deal with and too little time is pretty much what running a real ISP feels like. But you’re right that new stuff shouldn’t sneak up on you. New apps get a setup note, but upgrades you buy for a window you already have only make its taskbar button blink, and that’s easy to miss when everything’s going on at once. I’m going to give those a short note too, and pause the game while you read it.

Tip in the meantime: F1 opens the company’s intranet wiki on whatever window is in front, if anything stops making sense.

Thanks again for playing!

My ISP nearly doubled my bill because fiber is apparently "hard to maintain." So I made a game where you're the ISP.

Bandwidth Barons is an incremental management game. You start a tiny dial-up ISP in New York, London or Istanbul, and the only way to grow is to get creative with the fine print. Buy modems, invent fees, run marketing, and ignore the Help Desk until the angry tickets pile up. The internet reacts to every bad decision you make, in a live social feed.

The incremental side is inspired by Universal Paperclips. Fewer paperclips, more surcharges.

The free demo includes:

• The whole dial-up era, about 30 minutes at normal speed
• Modems, marketing, packages, the Help Desk and network incidents
• Saves that carry over to the full game
• English and Turkish
• Windows, macOS and Linux

👉 Play the demo

I'd love to hear your feedback, especially on pacing and which fees made you laugh. Unlike a real ISP, I read every complaint.

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