Game Dev Tycoon
BANGER ยท Strategy ยท 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
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A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$3.4965% offBANGER
- Cost per hourA
- $1.16/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 45,235
- Critics
- 68 players 27 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.6h
- To 100%
- 26h 3.0x the story
- Finish
- 2% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 35
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 55% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 August 2023
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 93 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
98% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 79 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 55 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cookie Clicker ($4.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Prison Architect ($29.99, scores 77).
More about Game Dev Tycoon
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 27-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,088 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 2,346 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 8.6 hours. Doing everything runs 26, 3.0 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. โฒ raises the score, โผ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, โข is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Dude, the studio put a lot of effort in this game. This game is ablolutly amazing. Buy the game to support the devs on their new game tavern keeper
2 more reviews
Game Dev Tycoon Started in a garage. Ended up emotionally dependent on review scores from four imaginary critics. Game Dev Tycoon is dangerously simple. Make a game. Pick a genre. Pick a topic. Move some sliders. Release it. Watch the reviews come in. Either become rich... or immediately question every decision you've ever made. "This combination should work." 5/10. "Okay, I'll improve the engine." 6/10. "Fine, I'll...
A very interesting title. It's fun to try to get good reviews on your games, build your team, compile a legacy of half-heartedly named video game titles to look back on and feel accomplished. Would recommend.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Game Dev Tycoon scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/239820/game-dev-tycoonReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak โ Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.