Game Dev Tycoon

Greenheart Games

4.8

163K reviews

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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!

Updated on

4 Sept 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.

No data shared with third parties

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This app may collect these data types

App activity and App info and performance

Data is encrypted in transit

Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.8

152K reviews

Brayden McArthur

15 September 2024

Nearly perfect, but their algorithm, no matter how well thought out, severely limits replayability. If early on you make the best possible game, it's a nightmare to make good games again. It "sets the bar" for good games and you have to top it. This sucks when you spend the time to get good at the game only to have it punish you. There's no sense of "I finally figured out the game!" Instead, you just get confused why everything you learned stops working next playthrough. The algorithm is bad.

6 people found this review helpful

Elric42

14 October 2024

Super fun at first, but the more you play it, the more it sucks. Even if you follow PERFECT design rules for the exactly right game combinations, marketing, etc., the game inexplicably goes downhill. On my 2nd playthrough I looked up a guide to make sure all my game decisions were perfect. Within 30-40 mins of gameplay I got rank 7-10 games. I was advancing tech, training my people, etc. Out of nowhere I started getting rank 2-4 games, and went bankrupt. This game fails you for no reason.

6 people found this review helpful

Greenheart Games

14 October 2024

Thank you for your feedback, we appreciate it!

Chef Deadpool

21 October 2024

I really enjoy this game. I personally feel that the mobile version has some better UI than the desktop (yes I've bought this game twice now, so you know it's good if I'm willing to spend money 2 times and leave a review.). I wouldn't mind if the mobile version had a way to import mods from steam. That's my only real complaint, not being able to mod it like I can on desktop. That being said, mods are not necessary to enjoy the game, its great on its own.

13 people found this review helpful