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 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.
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.
Game Dev Tycoon Key Features:
1, Start a game development company in the 80s
2, Design and create games
3, Gain new insights through game reports
4, Research new technologies
5, Create custom game engines
6, Move into bigger offices
7, Forge a world-class development team
8, Unlock secret labs
9, Conduct industry changing projects
10, Unlock achievements
11, Modding support
12, Workshop support
13, Community translations for German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Czech, Swedish, Dutch and Italian are available through the in-game menu.
A journey through gaming history
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.
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.
Game Dev Tycoon Key Features:
1, Start a game development company in the 80s
2, Design and create games
3, Gain new insights through game reports
4, Research new technologies
5, Create custom game engines
6, Move into bigger offices
7, Forge a world-class development team
8, Unlock secret labs
9, Conduct industry changing projects
10, Unlock achievements
11, Modding support
12, Workshop support
13, Community translations for German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Czech, Swedish, Dutch and Italian are available through the in-game menu.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz / AMD Athlon XP 1700+ | Intel Celeron E1200 Dual-Core 1.6GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+ |
| VRAM | 1 GB | 512 MB |
| RAM | 1 GB | 2 GB |
| OS | Win Xp 32 | Win Xp 32 |
| Graphics Card | nVidia GeForce 6200 LE / AMD Radeon Xpress 1200 Series | nVidia GeForce GT 230 / AMD Radeon HD 6550D |
| Direct X | DX 9 | DX 9 |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | DirectX Compatible |
| HDD Space | 500 MB | 500 MB |
| Game Analysis | Game Dev Tycoon is a business simulation based on gaming industry. Start building your gaming empire on garage studio, and expand it more to large office and create AAA games, be famous among gamers, feel the disturbing experience when your hard-worked games shows up on torrents! Game Dev Tycoon will make you experienced how hard and fun it is to be a game developers, the pros and cons and many more! | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Optimization Score | 10 | |
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | 2 GHz dual core | |
| RAM | 2 GB RAM | 4 GB RAM |
| OS | Mac OS 10.7.5+ | Mac OS 10.8 |
| Graphics Card | Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory | Hardware Accelerated Graphics with 1GB memory |
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | 2 GHz dual core | |
| RAM | 2 GB RAM | 4 GB RAM |
| Graphics Card | Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory | Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory |
- Good Tycoon game for beginners
- Competent Presentation
- Good Humor and references
- Novel Idea
- Its simplicity also affects replay value
- Talent Managing for AAA games is a mess and takes too long
- Incomplete Game History
Game Dev Tycoon is a novel idea but falls short at some points.
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE THIS GAME. I play it every day and I love the idea of doing the closest thing of making games while being fully ignorant in this area, but this game isn’t perfect.
The simple and restrictive design works like a charm when it does and hinders the whole game when it doesn’t. The limit of six members on your dev team really helps management at smaller scale games, but reaching AAA development takes unreasonably long thanks to that. I also couldn’t find any devs with more than 500 points in either Design or Technology, I needed to train them exhaustively before I could even start to think of Triple-A development, even if I had 2 billion in my pockets.
The game’s story rolls out in a fun way, but the neglection of some consoles (such as the Sega Saturn, the Gameboy Advance and the AMIGA) makes an incomplete and fractured gaming history. Other negative is how static each console’s market share is, every time a new console launches it will immediately go to the top of the sales chart, making it a lot unrealistic.
Presentation-wise, the game does its job. This is nothing beautiful to look at neither it is ugly.
Game Dev Tycoon is a pleasant game to play, but if you’re looking for a hardcore Tycoon experience, this isn’t.