Game Dev Tycoon

Greenheart Games

About this game

Welcome to Game Dev Tycoon. In this business simulation game you start your own game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games, research new technologies to boost your business and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Create games your way

Your success depends on your creativity and willingness to experiment. What topics and genres go well together? Should your Action game focus more on engine optimization or on quest design? The decisions you make during the development of your games will have a major impact on the ratings you receive.

Grow your company

Once you have successfully released a few games you can move into your own office and forge a world-class development team. Hire staff, train them and unlock new options.

Features

🕹 Start a game development company in the 80s
✍ Design and create games
💡 Gain new insights through game reports
👁 Research new technologies
⚙ Create custom game engines
🏢 Move into bigger offices
👩🏽‍💻 Forge a world-class development team
🔬 Unlock secret labs
📈 Become a market leader
💚 Gain worldwide fans
🥇 Unlock achievements

The full game has many more features which are not listed here to prevent spoilers.

The mobile version introduces

☠ A super-difficult (but optional) pirate mode
📰 An updated storyline
👩‍🍳 New topics for even more varied games
📱 New UI optimized for phones and tablets

A game with 💚

Game Dev Tycoon does not contain any in-app purchases or ads. Enjoy!

Ratings and reviews

Pretty fun, played it for hours my first go. Controls and ui are easy to understand, like the feeling of being stuck in. Kinda wish you could turn down the rent amount or go into a sandbox mode so you don't always feel pressured to always be doing something, its nice the first few runs, but a casual sandbox endless mode would be nice say, after you finish the first go of it... All in all, good fun.

Truly an amazing game! So many different combinations to choose from, it ensures every playthrough is unique. The game has a fair share of trail and error, but it's fun discovering the combinations and what does and doesn't work well. My biggest gripe is the sequel system, I'd prefer to be able to put my games into 'series' and have spinoffs that aren't necessarily sequels (and have them grouped as a series on my game overview). The game timeline menu could use an overhaul regardless.

Its a fun tycoon game but there are some very frustrating mechanics and the inability to do any kind of market research or see a trend is not enjoyable. You just keep pumping out random game combos to try and see what fails and what succeeds. Also while I see the point in realism or difficulty the fact that you can't focus on making a specific type of game because "people don't like it when the game is similar in genre to your previous" game is laughable at best.

What’s new

Thank you for playing!

Changes (1.6.9):
- Various bug fixes