Hello everyone and a late Merry Christmas to all. Hope the holidays were wonderful to all. Today we will be talking about another tycoon game called Game Dev Tycoon released August 29 2013 by developer and publisher GreenHeart Games. In this game which the title says it all you get to start your own development company so you can climb the ranks and be the top developer.
The game is simple it starts you out 35 years in the past when gaming was still young and it was mostly PC and I’m assuming the games version of atari. Of course for copy right reasons every console name is changed but by their pictures its obvious what they are. You progress slow and steady slowly unlocking new consoles and working through the game until you reach the end of the 35 year journey.
This game has a lot to offer I’ve played this multiple times having logged 30 hours it’s one of my most played tycoon games.
You start out alone in your garage prompted to pick a name for your company and yourself as well as your gender and the clothes you will wear for the duration of the game. After that the game enters the tutorial faze telling you what to do and how to start off and it’s a great tutorial it carrys you through your first game and the actions you perform from naming the game to the time invested in each aspect to the release of the game which shows you how much experience you gain at the end of every game developed and then the big release and off to the races, and just like in real life the game has 4 critics that judge your game on a 1 to 10 scale at the end the 4 scores are added up for your final score which yes it does impact your games sales the better the score the more you sell and the more fans you gain which we all know is the life essence of the gaming industry.
This game has a big variety of topics thankfully trying to reflect off real life as much as possible. You start out with 4 topics and unlock the rest using research points that you gain during development cycles each topic cost 10 research points if your lucky you have 1 good topic to use until you gain more. From all the times I’ve played the game offers 5 genres they are action, adventure, rpg, simulation and strategy and everything you do impacts your games in a big way so even though you will need to do a lot of experimenting to find good combos. Don’t be scared to go wild cause the game does help you out offering a little section called game report where it gives back advice on the game released telling you not only if the combo you picked out was good but if the PC or console you released it on was a good match and trust me there are games that work well on one and not the other.
There’s a lot to research in the game that helps you advance your products like creating your own game engine or better graphics and sound this tycoon game is really well made and in my own personal opinion I feel it is very close to real life minus coding and stuff lol.
Your able to progress past the garage and being a single worker once you start bringing in the big money you will also get to go to the big E3.
The game is a great time killer in short burst I’ve tried playing it for long sessions and got bored after a while but if you need a good time killer and love tycoon games check this one out.
Down below will be some pictures from the game enjoy. Thank you all and have a great day
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