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Aug 29, 2013·95% positive·
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Best games like Game Dev Tycoon
The best games like Game Dev Tycoon are Mad Games Tycoon, Game Dev Studio, Mad Games Tycoon 2, City Game Studio, and Game Tycoon 1.5. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 95% positive across 40k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Strategy, Casual, Indie, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $9.99 pricing signal.
- Mad Games Tycoon - Mad Games Tycoon is closely similar to Game Dev Tycoon because both are Strategy and Casual and Indie and Simulation games, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- Game Dev Studio - Game Dev Studio is closely similar to Game Dev Tycoon because both are Strategy and Casual and Indie and Simulation games, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- Mad Games Tycoon 2 - Mad Games Tycoon 2 is closely similar to Game Dev Tycoon because both are Strategy and Casual and Indie and Simulation games, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- City Game Studio - City Game Studio is closely similar to Game Dev Tycoon because both are Strategy and Casual and Indie and Simulation games, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- Game Tycoon 1.5 - Game Tycoon 1.5 is closely similar to Game Dev Tycoon because both are Strategy and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Management, Simulation, Strategy, and fit the same systems/automation/colony intent.
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In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
A journey through gaming history
Start in the 80s Start your adventure in a small garage office in the 80s. Enjoy the hand-crafted level design while you develop your first simple games. Gain experience, unlock new options and create your first game engine. Create games your way In Game Dev Tycoon the decisions you make during development really matter. Decide which areas you want to focus on. Does your game need more gameplay or should you focus more on quests? These decisions will have a major impact on the success of your game. 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. Make larger more complex games With experience and a good team, you can release larger, more complex games. Larger games bring new challenges and you will have to manage your team well to deliver hit games.
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Start a game development company in the 80s
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Design and create games
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Gain new insights through game reports
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Research new technologies
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Create custom game engines
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Move into bigger offices
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Forge a world-class development team
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Unlock secret labs
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Conduct industry changing projects
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Unlock achievements
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Modding support
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Workshop support
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Community translations for German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Czech, Swedish, Dutch and Italian are available through the in-game menu.
The full game has many more features which are not listed here to prevent spoilers.
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