CompanyGame vs Marketplace Simulations

CompanyGame provides business simulators for practicing management decisions in simulated company environments. Its learning platform combines course content, theory, and practice while tracking student competencies and progress. The six simulator categories are Business and Strategy, Marketing and Sales, Finance and Banking, Entrepreneurship, Business Transformation, and Hospitality and Services. Participants make decisions across company management areas and receive continuing access to updated company information, with consultant support. Difficulty ranges from level 1 for beginners to level 7 for advanced users, with audiences spanning upper-secondary learners through university and master's students. Simulations can be competitive or noncompetitive and run individually or in teams. Users can take part on a computer, phone, or tablet; the listed platforms are web, Android, and iOS. Custom courses can have schedules and durations adapted to client needs. Education licenses can be purchased per student for a simulator or through packages of three to five simulators for a set period. Teachers can register for free for selected simulators and demos, and may request free licenses subject to availability. CompanyGame is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. Pricing is on request.

Marketplace Simulations provides web-based business education tools for undergraduate and MBA students and their educators. Its subjects include core business, marketing, societal impact, strategic management, business strategy, entrepreneurship, supply chain, MBA and EMBA capstones, and microsimulations. Students can compete with classmates or computer-controlled teams; computer play supports classes of 1,000 or more. Platform tools include an AI Coach, an AI Tactical Plan Reviewer, and an Automated Coaching Assistant. Automated grading uses cumulative balanced scorecard results, with Easy, Intermediate, and Difficult levels and manual adjustments. Simulations run on internet-connected devices without software installation. Marketplace integrates with Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Sakai, Brightspace, Harvard Business Publishing, and Western Governors University, and supports LTI 1.1 and LTI Advantage. The Individual Microsimulation is listed at $8, paid once, billed at $8 per student; exercises take 10–25 minutes and students can replay them. Live support hours are listed for weekdays and weekends, with 24-hour emergency support for registered instructors.