Game Dev Tycoon

178K reviews
Content rating
PEGI 3
1M+
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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!
Replay gaming history - The hit tycoon game, now on Android
Updated on
Oct 13, 2025

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  • 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

166K reviews
Kira Selwood
February 28, 2024
I do love and enjoy this game, however i do think there could be improvements made. I find myself often restarting once i reach the end, i think attempting to make an endless (or longer "run" of the game could be a good idea), another idea i have is too be able to choose multiple topics, for example space and sci-fi, i think this would add more options to game creating within the game. You could also implement some more upgrades/ research. All in all the game is very good and i enjoy it a lot!!!
66 people found this review helpful
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DarkMoney 95
May 20, 2024
Really enjoyed this entry, just a few issues... when developing a sequel to a game already developed the settings and name of the previous game should be used as a template and the mmo option, it seems just as expensive to release a dlc to the game itself... I would like research points to be easier to obtain, maybe having one of your employees go to conventions etc. for market research. Great game, just some user accessibility improvements. Refreshing to see a game that isn't pay to win :)
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Carlos De Souza
December 23, 2020
Can finish it pretty quickly but that kinda makes it sweeter, feels good to finish a game. On the other hand, I would have been playing longer if you didn't put a time limit to complete it tho, didnt understand that. Had a lot of money, could have just kept growing and growing but it just finished. Very good game apart from the limitations that you imposed on yourself.
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What’s new

Thank you for playing!

Changes (1.6.18):
- Various bug fixes