MicroProse Software

MicroProse's recent publishing slate runs on PC simulation games in Steam Early Access. The publisher launched Car Park Capital, a city builder from Hilkojj Interactive, on October 9, 2026, at 2,160 yen with 10 percent off and support for 10 languages including Japanese. The game casts the player as a Big Auto employee who buys up housing, pushes residents to the suburbs, and builds parking lots. Three scenarios are playable, including Boldtown, a walkable city the player converts into a parking lot empire. Early Access is set to run about 10 months, with a full release planned for summer 2027.

Five days after launch, the game held a 97% positive rating and an Overwhelmingly Positive Steam status. The reception is the clearest signal in this coverage: a sim audience rewarding a city builder that reverses the genre's usual civic goals. Nothing in the stories establishes sales figures, concurrent player counts, or how the Early Access window is being managed.

Earlier, MicroProse announced Drone Sector, a gunship simulation from solo developer Ingmar Trump's Icosphere, for Steam Early Access on July 21, 2026. The game draws on Trump's experience with military VR training simulations and is inspired by AC-130 missions in the Call of Duty series. A demo was already available with a 95% positive rating before the early access launch.

The throughline is a publisher working with small teams on simulation games that invert or narrow their genre's conventions: a city builder about car dependency, a gunship sim from a single developer. Both are on Steam in Early Access. Neither story reports post-launch performance for Drone Sector.