Hamsterdam: Run a Startup on Hamsters

You are a startup CEO. You have an idea, a team of enthusiasts and a whole army of trusting hamsters ready to bring you money. It sounds like a joke about the startup scene, and that is exactly what it is. 🐹

Hamsterdam calls itself a hyper realistic 5D CEO simulator. The 5D bit is irony, of course: the game is satirical, and its stories are presented as fictional but based on real events.

What you do in the game

According to the game, the job is to develop the project and collect money from hamsters. You grow a startup, attract an audience and direct resources into different activities.

It is an economic strategy where decisions matter more than tapping speed. The team runs channels and chats in English and Russian, where updates and tactics are discussed.

Seasons and the fight for hamsters

The game is built on seasons. In the first season, startups split 8 billion hamsters among themselves. When the hamsters run out, the game moves on to its second stage.

From there players either cash out in TON on time, like founders who pull the plug, or compete for each other's audience on the road to the Great Exit. The game deliberately shows a mechanic that is usually hidden.

Leaderboard and rewards

Startups compete for leaderboard places, and high positions are said to bring recognition and rewards in TON. That is a strong motivator, but no guarantee.

• Ranking. A higher place means a more visible reward.
• Competition. The hamster audience is shared, and players fight over it.
• Time. The game runs in seasons, not in a single sitting.

Honest talk about risk

Satire is satire, but the money is real. Hamsterdam is tied to cryptocurrency, and rewards depend on the rules of the game and on how other players behave. A few can win, and the rest spend their time.

The game also shows how schemes work in which early players are paid by later ones. Keep that in mind and apply it to yourself: if your profit is possible only at the expense of new depositors, it is not a business. ⚠️

1. Play without spending until you understand the season rules.
2. Do not put in an amount whose loss would hurt.
3. Connect only a separate wallet with a small balance.
4. Never send a seed phrase to anyone, even to supposed support in chats.

Where to begin

Open the mini app, read /info and visit the project channel to see the current rules. The app works on the web and in Telegram.

The bot has gathered about 115 thousand users. That is no guarantee of quality, but it shows a community exists around the game where you can ask for advice. Do not confuse it with other hamster games: the names look alike, but the projects differ. 🎮