Game Dev Tycoon

4.8
155K reviews
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Everyone
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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
Sep 4, 2023

Data safety

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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
145K reviews
Michelle M
March 17, 2024
I love trying out all the different combinations to figure out what works well together and what areas need focus on each! I did get softlocked at one point after hiring only one employee and starting development on a medium game. I didn't have enough staff to assign tasks, and couldn't leave that screen. It would be nice to have been warned about that, or have it require 3 staff in order to even select it.
2 people found this review helpful
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Nick Ruedi
March 10, 2024
Very enjoyable so far! This game has a great mix of idle play with impactful decisions. Really just knocking it out of the park in the mobile game genre. It has the same feel as the mainstream "idle tycoon" games with a slight tweak to the progress system. Instead of mindless mashing to get to the next level it takes thought while also retaining the idle feel. 11/10 great job guys! Can see myself playing this for a long time!
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Kassidy Norris
March 26, 2024
Game is awesome I've been playing for 2 years now and it's great but I'm reviewing because of a major bug some people have experienced. So basically when you make a new save it sticks you in the loading screen forever, making it impossible to make a new save. The solution to that is to simply delete and reinstall the game. Don't know if that's what fixes it or the fact that all your saves are wiped but it works so it's fine. I hope Greenheart fixes this because wiping your saves is not the best.
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What's new

Thank you for playing!

Changes (1.6.9):
- Various bug fixes