Game Dev Tycoon

Greenheart Games 💚 / Aug 29, 2013 / Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy

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Steam Deck Playable

86 playing now

That's more people than live in the Pitcairn Islands.

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.

Can your PC run it?

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What's new

Small Patch 1.7.9

2025-10-10

Pre-emptively fixed an issue that could have caused the share code feature to break in the near future.

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What players say

Very Positive

95% positive, 25,284 reviews

Not recommended73 hrs played

I am honestly disappointed with how Game Dev Tycoon is being handled. The Netflix version gets an exclusive updated version with more content, improvements and better polish, while people who actually bought the game are left with the older and less complete version. That feels wrong. I paid for this game and supported the developers directly. Now it feels like the original paying community is being ignored in...

123 found this helpful, 2026-04-26

Recommended1,404 hrs played

i accidently left this game running in the background for two months on my laptop It's pretty good though

29 found this helpful, 2026-01-27

Recommended14 hrs played

I NAMED MY COMPANY UBISOFT AND IT MAKES GAMES 10/10 EVERY TIME I WISH I COULD BELONG TO THAT REALITY 10/10 - game informer

30 found this helpful, 2025-11-06

Not recommended5 hrs played

I want to like this game, but I feel like it'd be better played by an algorithm than a person. Success is dependent on finding out which sliders to maximize/minimize and which combinations of genre, topic and platform receive the best results. Not much room for creativity or experimentation, and doesn't seem to account for the unexpected elements of a game's success in the real world. I'm in the minority, I know;...