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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.

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
Conduct industry changing products
Unlock achievements
Modding support
Workshop support
Community translations for German, Spanish, French, Portoguese (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.

System Requirements

Windows

Mac OS X

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP SP3
Processor: 2 GHz dual core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
Additional Notes: minimum resolution of 1024x768

Recommended:

OS: Windows 7/8
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with 1GB memory

Minimum:

OS: Mac OS 10.7.5+
Processor: 2 GHz dual core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
Additional Notes: minimum resolution of 1024x768

Recommended:

OS: Mac OS 10.8
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with 1GB memory

Minimum:

Processor: 2 GHz dual core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
Additional Notes: minimum resolution of 1024x768

Recommended:

Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
Additional Notes: minimum resolution of 1024x768

The game is self-rated for ages 12+

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Posted: 20 August

This is the only game where "Space Gangstas killin Old Ladies" gets a 10.25 average.

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Posted: 20 August

Game is fun and enjoyable, many ways on how you will start your career as a game dev. Spend 12 hrs straight playing this, very addicting at start yet if you finished the game its kinda boring at the end cause theres no challenge anymore.

8/10

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Posted: 20 August

Best tycoon EVER!

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Posted: 20 August

Most addictive flash-made game ever! No really, this game is basically 2D and was probably made with flash or something. But there must be some super crazy coding in this game, because it's addictive af!

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Posted: 19 August

wery god and funney game

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Posted: 19 August

Picked it up again after not playing pretty much since release. Overall I enjoy the game...However, as others have noted, it doesn't have much replay value beyond earning Steam achievements. Also I wish there was more customization of workspaces available, like having posters of games you've made hang on the walls.

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Posted: 19 August

This game is great! 9.9999/10 Would Play Again!

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Posted: 19 August

Fun and captivating gameplay. It's good to just sit back and think about what makes a good game. Some of it is luck, but a lot of it is just having a system and paying attention. It's rewarding to hit on a successful title, and demeaning after spending hundreds of thousands on a game that gets poor ratings and sets you back. But only encourages you to do better next time. The interface is simple and easy to understand. I wish it let you change your game name if you forgot to, before it gets released. But alas, it's only a minor hit to your score if you don't change it. Nice too that system requirements are light so it will run on a potato.

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Posted: 19 August

really good game 10/10

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Posted: 19 August

Great Game. Can't wait to see how it grown in the future. Great job!

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Most Helpful Reviews In the past 30 days

Fr4chu AFK 2 WEEKS

125 products in account

12 reviews

Posted: 22 July

-Started playing
-Made some mediocre 4-5 rated games
-Got Fantasy category
-Made Fantasy RPG for Gameboy and called it "Edgy Anime RPG"
-Got ratings of 9.75 and 6M of money while still being in garage

GG

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schnorrbert the pervert

49 products in account

1 review

Posted: 1 August

Developed post-apocalyptic RPG/Simulation and named it " DayX ". 64 Bugs - didnt fix them at all - 10/10 magazines love this game, made tons of money - Game Dev Tycoon is more realistic than a simulator lel

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Boltok

5,739 products in account

13 reviews

Posted: 14 August

A very fun and addictive game, you start as a simple indie dev working in his garage and you have to make the road to become a top AAA company.

Pros

Really Funny.
Great management system.
Easy to play.
You will learn about game history.

Cons

No replay value.
No competition with others companies.

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Deej10

104 products in account

1 review

Posted: 6 August

No option to sleep with game reviewers for better scores?

Game is broken :(

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laccrafter

14 products in account

5 reviews

Posted: 7 August

My story:
-Makes RTS
-Turns it into a series
-4 games later my friend suggest I make a TPS spin-off
-I make it
-More popular than the RTS
-I make more TPS games and less RTS
-Year 15
-TPS becomes FPS
-5 games later
-Online play released
-Zombies mode released
-Makes FPS into MMO
-Makes 60 expansions
-Year 57
-MMO still on market
-180 expansions
-I get a hardware lab finally
-Console is built to play MMO
-Keeps making expansions for MMO, never makes another game
-Year 106
-100th Anniversary of the series (including RTS, FPS, and TPS)
-Makes console in honour
-Releases grPad edition
-Flops
-Goes bankrupt
10/10 would have a 108 year long game again

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【Sollok】™

164 products in account

46 reviews

Posted: 4 August

Game Dev Tycoon is a cute and witty take on the video game development process. There is a certain level of addiction the game instills in the player, pushing you to continue to develop new titles or create new businesses to try and squeeze out the best review scores ensuring a steady stream of sales which equates to more cash for your little simulated development company.

The pacing works well and gives you roughly 6-8 hours of play time for the 30 years you get to play. Once you reach the end the game does allow you to keep going, but no more story elements unfold (nothing beyond the PS4 and next Xbox).

If you can find Game Dev Tycoon on sale on Steam it’s certainly worth picking up.

THE GOOD
- Addictive gameplay
- Solid design
- It is easy to understand
- Fun real life gaming representations
- You can interact with the community

THE BAD
- Can be very easy
- Flat gameplay

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