Reborn as a Startup Junior Developer

Your first startup job. Thirty years of decisions. One resume at the end.

Reborn as a Startup Junior Developer is a browser-based career simulation set in a pixel-art office. Start as a new hire, talk to your coworkers, and make one defining choice each year. What you do changes your salary, trust, technical debt, and stamina. Some decisions come back years later.

Choose a path in frontend, backend, mobile, data, or planning and operations. Work through technical and workplace dilemmas, learn concepts that open up new options, and navigate job offers, funding rounds, acquisitions, company closures, and fresh starts. Prefer decisions over technical questions? You can play in decision-focused mode.

Your career can end in burnout, retirement, financial independence, or a startup exit. When the run ends, your resume shows the companies you worked for and the choices that brought you there.

This is a beta. We'd love feedback on the decisions, pacing, and English wording. You can leave feedback through the in-game menu.

The game is available in English and Korean. You can also play the English version on our website:

https://one-and-only-engineer.vercel.app/en/?utm_source=itchio&utm_medium=referr...