Game Dev Tycoon - PC Game Review

Game Dev Tycoon is a wonderful industry simulator for game development.

These are not new - I remember playing a simple one in my 8-bit computer back in 88 and quite a few since then - but it is surprising how much fun this one is. You start up in a garage, and by choosing a few simple options per game you develop, you can build up to a major company.

The system is very nice - you just pick a genre, topic, platform, rating and game engine (you also develop this). After that you pick some choices - how much time are you going to spend on graphics? What about AI?

With these, together with the current trends, give a rating to your game, and these influence how many sales it will get.
The rating

The big office. Also, I don't bother with game names :-)

You are also constantly researching new technologies to apply to your games, as well as training yourself and your employees.

Graphics and sounds are simple but fit the theme perfectly.

My only complaint is the overuse of slider-like interface. For example, when picking a game to make a sequel from, you have a full screen report of each game. It looks nice, but a grid view would pack in a lot more information and could possibly be sorted by best score.

Overall, great fun and strongly recommended.

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