The basic premise involves choosing a platform, a genre, and a thematic category for the game. With each new console comes new opportunity to make new games.Īs one might expect, the making of the games is where all the gameplay and strategy truly is. As the game progresses, new consoles get released in the universe that closely mirror the console release timeline of the real world. Players start out in a garage in the early days of the video game revolutionary creating simple games for the PC and basic platforms. Five years later and a mobile version of Tycoon is finally on iOS, where it naturally fits and is an awesome addition to the genre.įor mobile gamers that haven’t played Game Dev Tycoon on another platform, it plays similar to the 2011 Kairosoft title Game Dev Story (which actually inspired Tycoon).
Billed as somewhat of a basic strategy/simulation title, Tycoon earned a strong player following and has been a favorite indie title on PC for quite some time. In 2012, Greenheart Games released game developer simulator Game Dev Tycoon ($4.99) for PC players.
