Pub Carpet Simulator

The National Institute of Pub Carpet Inspectors (IPCI) requires your services with this DEMO VERSION! Full version coming late 2026

Pub Carpet Simulator is about the most important of all floors. It has to hide the stains, the dropped change and survive whatever else happens. It also has to please the inspectors, who refuse to tell you all of what they want. 

• What? Every contract comes with clues about the inspector’s taste. Some are CONFIRMED. Some are RUMOURED (with an honest confidence rating). Some are CLASSIFIED.
• Design the carpet: Paint an 8×8 tile with colours and motifs (roses, leaf scrolls, fleurs, stars) and watch it repeat across the whole floor as you go.
• Open the doors: The pub trades on your carpet for a full day. Regulars arrive, pints go down, and you nervously wait on edge.
• Get the report: A typed, stamped, official document scores your carpet on everything from Stain Concealment to Drunken Navigation, along with the inspector’s notes. 
• Spend your commission in the Carpet Supplies Catalogue, build your reputation and get promoted to bigger, posher, fussier venues.

Demo version:

• The Small Local Pub, from your first contract to your first promotion
• One contract at the Town-Centre Pub
• The Small Local Pub edition of the catalogue
• Play in browser only for now

The Full game is coming

• Seven establishments, from the Small Local Pub to the Entertainment Venue. Plus one more on the top floor that we’re not permitted to discuss
• The complete catalogue: every colour and motif, six carpet materials, multiple tools, brick and half-drop repeats, and curved/cut shapes
• A Daily Challenge (Daily!) with a leaderboard
• Over 1,000 inspector notes, special events and 46 Certificates of Merit to earn
• A Carpet Gallery that keeps every carpet you’ve ever made, with side-by-side comparisons and reports you can save/export as images

Follow the project

There’s no release date yet. (The IPCI does not disclose its schedule.)

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Controls: mouse. Right click removes a motif, Alt + click picks up a colour, R rotates, Ctrl + Z undoes. 

Accessibility: four colour-vision modes (protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, monochrome), plus symbols on every colour.

Music: pick Funk & Soul, Lo-fi Chill or Classic Pub in Settings.

Feedback on the demo is very welcome! I came up with the ideas for Pub Carpet Simulator and built it with a lot of help from AI, around a full-time job that has nothing to do with games (though I wish it did). AI lets me finally build the kind of games I’ve had ideas for but never had the time/skills to make.