Mad Games Tycoon 2
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 27.4h
- Value
- $0.91/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compatible with 512 RAM or better, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $12.49. It has been discounted 34 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Parkitect ($29.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins ($19.99, scores 56).
Of the 744 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 359 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
65% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
152 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 17:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
its gameplay loop and progression keeps u pinned at your pc if u ever wanted a management game where u wanted to play only for two hours but then you see the sun has come up ... its your game
Fun but flawed. If you enjoyed Game Dev Tycoon, you'll enjoy this. It is, in my opinion, a decent amount more fun. It suffers the same fatal flaw in the main game loop; arbitrary sliders that are the same over every playthrough. This incentivises just looking up the ideal combinations. You can get the right slider settings through repeated failing games, researching each one. This works for the early game, but once...
It took me five bankruptcies to finally get a game over 90% rating - suddenly I have $500,000,000 in my bank account and two successful consoles.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mad Games Tycoon 2 scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1342330/mad-games-tycoon-2Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Oct 1.
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