
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.
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.29/day in the week to Aug 28 → 2.57/day in the week after.
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Themes across 923 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I was briefly drawn into this game development game, it was made long ago in a simple way, there are not enough game genres, a more extensive game creation system and engines. Average in its kind, there are more interesting ones.
Fianlly i can LARP as a major AAA game studio and make some of the most ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games ever would recomend
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14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Sep 10: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 963.8/day in the week to Jul 16 → 4.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil +5 more
Hours played at review time, across 925 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Tenho uma memória afetiva muito grande com Game Dev Tycoon. A primeira vez que joguei foi na casa de um amigo, pouco tempo depois do jogo ser lançado. Lembro claramente do tempo que passamos jogando e principalmente criando toda uma lore para os jogos que a gente fazia dentro do próprio jogo. Fui comprar o jogo novamente em 2021 aqui na Steam e aproveitei ele ao máximo. Fazer a platina demorou um pouco, mas sinceramente foi mais por preguiça e falta de tempo. O jogo é ótimo, e fico muito feliz em saber que um jogo criado por uma equipe pequena recebeu tanto carinho e consideração durante o desenvolvimento. Mesmo que a ideia principal seja sempre criar jogos dentro do jogo, ele sempre vai introduzindo novas mecânicas que deixam a experiência mais interessante. Hoje em dia também é possível instalar mods para melhorar ainda mais a experiência (mas recomendo zerar pelo menos uma vez sem mods primeiro). Outra coisa muito legal é ver o cuidado contínuo com o jogo. Ele recebeu atualizações e correções de bugs até 2025 (estou em 2026 e não teve atualização desde então), o que mostra o carinho que a empresa ainda tem por ele, mesmo sendo seu jogo mais antigo. Fico muito feliz de ter acompanhado e participado, mesmo que como jogador, da história de um jogo e de uma empresa que cresceram tanto.
Exelente Tycoon!
Es macht wirklich sehr viel spaß seine eigenen spiele zu entwickeln und auf den alten Retro Konsolen seine spiele zu veröffentlichen finde das System sehr gut und liebe gewisse Anspielungen vor allem das man Als Genre Game Dev nutzen kann ist einfach Mega geil und seine eigenen Konsolen zu machen fühlt sich so befriedigend an. 9/10 Game
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Probably being a bit unfair as this game came out years ago, but it's pretty plain, there's very little graphical content on screen and is essentially just shifting a load of sliders repeatedly. I didn't find it very logical in terms of what you do = a good outcome, or a game where you can learn how to get through the game through experience as there's very little feedback as to where you're going wrong, but again, the game is more or less just shifting some sliders and seeing if it works out... not great.
诡异但还是不错,刚开始还有点意思,见过比这更好的
Game Dev Tycoon é um simulador de gerenciamento muito bom. A progressão é muito satisfatória, acompanhar a evolução da indústria dos videogames é muito legal e interessante. A jogabilidade é simples de aprender, mas divertida de dominar. Escolher gêneros, pesquisar tecnologias, criar engines e administrar sua equipe faz com que cada novo lançamento seja desafiador e satisfatorio Game Dev Tycoon é um dos melhores jogos do gênero e uma ótima escolha para quem gosta de estratégia e gerenciamento. 9,5/10
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