Starting scenario
Rock Bottom
Developer pitch
Nothing. Start from scratch. Maximum difficulty.
Starting equipment
- None.
Core kit
No core kit: the shelves and machine bays start empty.
How this start plays
- The Mentor only negotiated your lease: no machines, no stock and no scenario adjustment to cash or rent.
- Even the damaged cassettes other starts find in the tape player are missing, although the Tapehead perk still adds its seven tapes.
- Winning from here unlocks From Nothing, and winning it on hard mode unlocks From Nothing, the Hard Way.
- Save it for a later run, once you know which goods sell and which customers to turn away.
The trade it opens
All trades and unlock costs →- Cash vs. standard start
- 0.
- Starting rent
- 0.
- Trade it opens
- None.
- Core kit
- —.
- Starting equipment
- None..
This start comes without a production trade. Dr. Jackson brings a Furnace on day 6, Joe Wild's Network sells trade unlocks from day 7, and the Appraisal Board takes members from day 8.
