Machinations is a browser-based systems simulation tool that helps you to design, forecast, and optimize complex systems.

From games and web3 to finance, logistics, energy, manufacturing, supply chain, healthcare, and more — if your system has resources, flows, and uncertainty, you can model it in Machinations. All that, even before writing a single line of code.

What can I do with Machinations?

Think of Machinations as your moving flowchart or mind map. Whether you are designing a game economy, a supply chain, a financial product, or teaching systems thinking, you can use Machinations to:

Who uses Machinations?

Systems / economy designers who want to reduce iteration time by up to 90%
Producers who want to save on production time and predict KPIs accurately
Consultants who want to communicate their ideas to clients efficiently
Developers who want an easy way of “translating” game design to code
Analysts who want a tool for rapidly predicting KPIs and outcomes
Professors who want a dedicated framework for teaching game design
Students who want to develop a promising set of skills to build a career upon

What sets Machinations apart?

🤖 Leverage AI for design and Balancing

The AI Agent turns prompts into diagrams and helps evolve models. Start from a description of an economy, process, or loop and iterate visually instead of from a blank canvas.

The AI Balancer optimizes influencer variables toward a target you define (maximize, minimize, or hit a value). Instead of hand-tuning every lever, you set the goal and constraints and let the solver search efficiently.

🎯Reduce Guesswork

With Machinations, teams work more efficiently and ship better-balanced systems.

Machinations uses a Turing-complete visual language. It gives you multiple simulations (Monte Carlo) at a click (no macros or code) so you can spot weaknesses in a design before you commit resources in the real world.

📢Improve Team Communication

Machinations uses a shared visual framework for resource flows and system dynamics. Diagrams are dynamic: you can instantly see how a design behaves. Anyone on the task gets a clear view of the end goal.

Learn a visual language of nine symbols and two connections. Master it, and you can unlock the inner dynamics of systems. Create your vision in Machinations, then predict and balance outcomes. It starts as a diagram — the blueprint of your system — but once you hit Play, it comes to life.

🛳️ Test safely before you ship

Stress-test what-if scenarios in a safe, virtual environment — before you commit budget, code, or live operations.

Change parameters and run a single journey with Play, or thousands of stochastic runs with Predict. Charts, accuracy indicators, histograms, and scenario comparison show distributions, not guesswork: where the system holds, where it breaks, and which levers actually matter. Catch bottlenecks, fragile feedback loops, and bad ranges while changes are still cheap — so teams debate evidence, not opinions, before anything ships to the real world.

Your first diagram

Are you curious to try it out yourself? We recommend starting with our hands-on tutorials for our systems simulation tool:

Step-by-step Tutorials & Guides

Also, you can access an extensive library of examples directly in the app by creating an account on the Register Page. Here you can find embedable building blocks that can be used as puzzle pieces for your complex projects.

templates, building block and premades available after creating a Machinations account

Machinations’ superpower: Simulations

Once you’ve nailed down the basics of Nodes and Connections, you can become a superhero and start predicting the future. Find out how to run simulations and why simulations are important.

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Monte Carlo Simulations

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