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Schedule I on PC. Click to open it full size.
Schedule I is a crime business simulator for PC from TVGS, available on Steam. You arrive in the city of Hyland Point with no money and build a drug empire from a motel room. You make product, sell it to customers, and grow into properties, staff and a fully automated operation.
It plays like a management game wearing a crime comedy costume. The real hook is turning a one-person hustle into a business that runs itself. Police patrols and a rival cartel push back as you grow.
It came out in Early Access on March 24, 2025, and many players search for it as Schedule 1. It runs on Windows 10 and 11, plays solo or with up to four people in co-op, and gets free updates.
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What You Need to Know
- It is a paid game on Steam, in Early Access, with free updates.
- The whole game is about making and selling illegal drugs. It is played for laughs, but read Our Take if that bothers you.
- It plays solo or in online co-op for up to four people.
- It is Windows only. There is no console version.
- Mods run through MelonLoader, mostly from Nexus Mods. There is no Steam Workshop.
Quick Facts
How to Download Schedule I on Windows
Steam is the only PC store that sells it. You need 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and 8 to 10 GB of free space.
- Step 1. Install Steam. Download it from the Steam website and sign in.
- Step 2. Open the store page. Go to Schedule I on Steam.
- Step 3. Buy the game. Click Add to Cart and check out.
- Step 4. Install it. Pick a drive with 10 GB free and confirm.
- Step 5. Launch it and start a save. Play the short desert tutorial before you reach Hyland Point.
Playing with friends? Each person needs their own copy. Steam Family Sharing is supported. The host’s save holds the shared empire, so back it up with the export button in the main menu before you try mods or a beta.
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Price and Early Access
There is one edition and no DLC. Every update so far has been free, and players vote in the main menu on which big feature comes next.
TVGS planned about two years of Early Access from the March 2025 launch. Updates so far have added a rival cartel, shrooms, weather, full controller support and traveling groups of special customers. A new technical artist is redoing the game’s art before the first map expansion.
What Is Schedule I?
Schedule I starts in the desert with your uncle, who gets arrested at the end of the tutorial. You flee to Hyland Point, rent a motel room and start small, answering customer texts and meeting them around town. Every sale earns money and reputation, which unlock new products, suppliers and parts of the city.
Mixing everyday ingredients into a product changes its effects and its price.
The comedy comes from the mixing system. Adding ordinary items such as energy drinks or painkillers to a product changes what it does to customers, from new hair colors to stranger effects, and the right recipe sells for far more. You walk, skate or drive across town to deliver, and police searches, roadblocks and a night curfew make every trip a risk.
Later on, hired staff run whole production lines while you manage the business.
As money comes in, you buy bigger properties, hire botanists, chemists, cleaners and dealers, and launder cash through businesses such as a car wash. The Benzies, a rival cartel, demand a cut or attack your dealers, and pushing them out is how you open up the rest of the map.
Official Trailer
Watch the official gameplay trailer for Schedule I to see Hyland Point, the production setups and the deals that build your business.
Key Features
Combine products with everyday ingredients to create new variants that sell for more.
Walk, skate or drive to customers, and hire dealers to sell for you.
Botanists, chemists, cleaners and suppliers can run production without you.
Grow from a motel room to warehouses, and launder cash through front businesses.
Searches, curfews and cartel ambushes get tougher as your empire grows.
Run the business with friends, splitting production, deliveries and security.
Hiring staff is how a one-person hustle turns into a business that runs itself.
Is This Game for You?
Our Take
🎮 Our Take
Schedule I is a sharp management game hiding inside a crime comedy. The early hours of texting customers and running deliveries are slow, but the moment your first hired staff take over a production line, it clicks, and building a business that runs itself is satisfying. One developer started it, and updates come regularly with community votes deciding big features. To be plain: it is a comedy about dealing drugs, and the tone is silly rather than serious, but that subject will rule it out for some players.
If you enjoy management sims and the theme does not bother you, buy it, and bring a friend or three for co-op. If you want polish, a big map and a finished story, wait for the full release. If the subject sits wrong with you, skip it.
System Requirements
These are the specs TVGS lists on Steam. The minimum is a mid-range PC from several years ago, but big late-game operations ask for more.
A large property full of staff and machines is the heaviest load, so the recommended 16 GB of RAM matters more as your empire grows. The gamepad update also brought optimizations that TVGS says made the game run noticeably faster. If you are shopping for a new machine, our Best Gaming Desktops guide is a good place to start.
Tips for Beginners
Answer customer texts fast
Customers order through your phone. Quick, reliable deals build their trust and bring repeat orders.
Experiment with mixing
Try ordinary ingredients on your product. A good recipe can sell for far more than the base version.
Respect the curfew
Police get stricter at night. Plan deliveries for the day, and avoid carrying stock past checkpoints.
Hire help early
A dealer and a botanist save hours of busywork. Keep enough cash to pay their daily wages.
Launder your cash
Buy a front business and run cash through it, so your money is usable and safer from searches.
Best Schedule I Mods to Start With
Schedule I has no Steam Workshop. Mods run through MelonLoader, a free mod loader, and most are shared on Nexus Mods, with some on Thunderstore. Install MelonLoader once, then drop mod files into the game’s Mods folder. These four were all updated recently and are a good start.
💡 These are fan-made mods, not official ones. Some fake mods for Schedule I have carried malware, so download only from Nexus Mods or Thunderstore and consider the MLVScan plugin, which checks mods before they run. Export your save first, check that each mod supports your game version, and in co-op make sure everyone runs the same mods.
Schedule I Screenshots
Deals, police searches, night chases, grow rooms, the casino and the business computer from the Steam version. Click any image to open it full size.
Schedule I FAQ
Is it Schedule I or Schedule 1?
How many players can play Schedule I co-op?
Does Schedule I have controller support?
Is Schedule I on PS5 or Xbox?
Are Schedule I mods safe?
What are the Schedule I system requirements?
Support and Community
- The official Schedule I website, from TVGS.
- Steam news for Schedule I, where update notes and community votes appear.
- The official Schedule I Discord, for help, bug reports and finding co-op partners.
- r/Schedule_I on Reddit, the subreddit linked from the official site.
- Schedule I on YouTube, for trailers and update videos.
- Schedule I on Nexus Mods and Thunderstore, for mods.
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Love this game, very underrated and imagine, it’s all from 1 developer.