Big Ambitions Mods
Every notable Big Ambitions Workshop mod with its subscriber count and whether the author has updated it since 1.0 shipped — including the multiplayer mod.
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Yes. Big Ambitions has had native Steam Workshop support since Early Access 0.11 in June 2026 — no third-party mod loader, no manual file copying. Subscribe on the Workshop and the game loads it. The table below says which mods their authors have touched since 1.0 shipped.
Hovgaard added mod support in the last Early Access update before 1.0, and was explicit about what that changed: “No more third-party add-ons just to load the mod.” The Workshop is wired into the game, there is a sample Unity mod pack for creators, and finished mods go up through an in-game uploader.
That timing matters when you are reading a mod list in the first weeks after 1.0. Almost every mod on the Workshop was built against an Early Access game — of the 29 below, only two were created after 28 August. The most useful column is not the subscriber count. It is the date.
The mods
29 mods, ranked by subscribers within each group. 18 of them have been updated since 1.0 shipped.
| Mod | What it does | Subscribers | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiplayer — the base game is single-player only, so this one mod is the entire category | |||
| Going Public: Multiplayer for Big Ambitions | Runs a shared city so several players can build in the same New York at once. | 3,758 | |
| New businesses and markets — business types the base game does not have | |||
| [UPDATED 1.0] Empire Bank – Banking & Finance Expansion | Build Your Bank | Adds a deeper banking and finance layer on top of the base game. | 4,505 | |
| [UPDATED 1.0] Empire Motors — Dealership Management Expansion | Adds a vehicle dealership you buy wholesale for and resell from. | 4,479 | |
| IT Business Expansion | Adds office-economy businesses — the ones that run on coffee and computers. | 4,030 | |
| Aluna's Exchange | A trading terminal on the phone for playing markets instead of shopfronts. | 3,635 | |
| Aluna's Online Casino | Five casino games on the phone, played with your real in-game balance. | 2,900 | |
| Deep Ventures - 5 New Specialized Businesses | Adds specialised business types with their own products and fixtures. | 2,570 | |
| Stock Exchange | Adds a stock and commodity market with its own news, opened with F8. | 2,510 | |
| [UPDATED 1.0] EMPIRE CASINO - BUILD & MANAGE YOUR OWN CASINO | Rent a building and run a player-owned casino as a business. | 1,950 | |
| Automation — hands the repetitive parts to the game: pricing, restocking, staff rotas | |||
| PricePerfect - Smart AutoPricing | Sets prices automatically instead of leaving you to undercut competitors by hand. | 4,120 | |
| SchedulePerfect - Smart Autofilling | Fills employee shift schedules automatically instead of dragging staff between shifts by hand. | 3,328 | |
| Auto Price Maximizer - 1.0 Compatible | Sweeps every product your established businesses sell and repositions prices in one pass. | 3,056 | |
| Advanced Time Skip — Simulate Days & Hours Instantly | Skips hours or days forward while keeping the whole empire in sync. | 1,919 | |
| Smart Restock — Complete Inventory Automation | Automates restocking through the game’s own inventory systems. | 1,871 | |
| Quality of life — same game, fewer clicks to play it | |||
| Voogle Route | Draws an actual route line on the ground and gives Voogle Maps walking, driving and subway directions. | 14,116 | |
| Aluna's Phone Pages | The in-game phone menu only holds eight apps; this pages the grid so app-based mods stop crowding each other out. | 9,369 | |
| BizSuite | Notes, a calculator, a calendar and spreadsheets in one phone app, for running several businesses at once. | 7,984 | |
| Immersion - RPG Camera | A configurable third-person camera for playing the city from behind your character. | 6,839 | |
| One Click Taxi MOD - 원클릭 택시 모드 | Opens the taxi travel map on a keypress whether or not a taxi is nearby. Korean and English. | 2,475 | |
| Better Map Filter | Replaces the long list of map filter switches with something you can actually scan. | 2,445 | |
| Aluna's BizInsights | A profit-and-performance dashboard in the phone, styled to look native. | 2,079 | |
| Changes the economy — alters what things earn or cost, so a save plays differently after you add one | |||
| RentPerfect - Real Estate Rebalanced | Reworks real-estate returns so property portfolios earn their keep against operating businesses. | 6,620 | |
| Always Satisfied | Pins energy, hunger and happiness at maximum so you stop managing your character. | 2,838 | |
| Double Income | Multiplies daily business income by a factor you choose. | 2,534 | |
| Cheats and trainers — single-player only, so there is nothing online for them to affect | |||
| Aluna's Trainer | A full trainer built into the in-game phone as its own app. | 3,636 | |
| Big Hax | A light cheat mod for skipping the parts of tycoon life you would rather not do honestly. | 2,251 | |
| Libraries other mods need — these add no gameplay of their own. You install one because another mod requires it | |||
| LIB BA Player Location | A shared player-position library other mods build on. On its own it changes nothing you can see. | 13,989 | |
| LIB BA Unified UI | A shared user-interface toolkit for other mods. Adds no gameplay by itself. | 7,445 | |
| John's Smartphone | A framework that lets other mods install their own apps onto the in-game phone. | 1,656 | |
Reading that last column
A green dot means the author last published on 28 August — the day 1.0 shipped — or later. A grey dot means the last version went up before that day, while the game was still in Early Access.
One mod was last published on 28 August itself. Steam timestamps Workshop updates to the second, but it never published the hour 1.0 went live — so nothing available settles which side of the release that update landed on. It sits in the green group, and the label says “since release” rather than “after release” for exactly that reason.
This is a fact about the mod’s publishing history, not a compatibility guarantee — the only way to
know a mod works in your game is to run it. But it is the closest thing to a signal that exists,
and it is the one thing a scraped mod list cannot tell you. Some authors say it outright in the
title: three of the mods above carry an [UPDATED 1.0] prefix, and one calls itself
“1.0 Compatible”.
Three things that confuse people
The second most-subscribed mod does nothing on its own. LIB BA Player Location sits near the top of the whole Workshop and adds no gameplay whatsoever. It is a shared library that other mods depend on, as are LIB BA Unified UI and John’s Smartphone. If you subscribed to one because it was near the top of the list and nothing happened, that is why — they are grouped separately above for exactly this reason.
The Workshop is mostly not mods. Sort it by subscribers and roughly three quarters of the top
items are blueprints — saved interior layouts for one specific building, tagged with the
building code they fit (A1, M1, K1, C1, I1, B1, N1). Blueprints are not mods and do
not appear in a mod list; they load through the game’s Blueprints panel and only work in a building
of the matching code. If what you actually want is a ready-made shop layout, that is the half of
the Workshop to browse.
There is a multiplayer mod, and the base game has no multiplayer. Going Public runs a shared city so several players can build in the same New York. Steam lists Big Ambitions as single-player only, and there is nothing about multiplayer anywhere on Hovgaard’s roadmap — the studio last spoke about co-op in a 2021 devlog, calling it a post-release dream. Everything multiplayer about this game today is community-built.
Installing one
- Open the Big Ambitions Workshop and subscribe to the item you want. Steam downloads it alongside the game.
- Check whether the item’s page lists another mod as required. Anything in the libraries group above exists to be required by something else — subscribing to the dependent mod without its library is the usual reason a mod appears to do nothing.
- Blueprints go in through the Blueprints panel in-game and need a building with the matching code. Opening that panel updates your saved blueprints to the current format, and updated blueprints cannot be opened by older versions of the game.
How this page is kept
- Sources: the item titles, subscriber counts and update dates come from Valve’s official Workshop API, captured on 1 September 2026. The grouping and the one-line descriptions are ours — we do not reproduce authors’ own descriptions.
- Scope: the mod-tagged items inside the Workshop’s top 120 by total subscribers. Small and new mods are not here yet; a mod that climbs into that range gets added on the next check.
- Checked: at least once a fortnight. The build refuses to publish this page if that check falls more than 30 days behind — which for this page matters more than most, because the useful column is a date.
Related
- Patch notes and update tracker — the build your mods have to match
- Big Ambitions roadmap — what Hovgaard is adding without a mod
- Getting started — worth playing unmodded first
