Games like Game Dev Masters
If Game Dev Masters is your kind of game, the closest matches are PC Tycoon 2, Server Owner Tycoon and Life of a Lonely Indie Game Developer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Game Dev Masters: It's time to become the Game Developer you always wanted to be. Make use of a large array of features, and player skills to create stunning 10 / 10 games. Compete with and eventually acquire other dynamic Ai Studio's. Raise the talent of your team and studio's in an effort to dominate the market.
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PC Tycoon 2
WHY THIS
Shares company acquisition and a relaxing mood with Game Dev Masters.
Top pick for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Manage your computer company and develop your PC components, create your own laptop, monitor, develop an interactive operating system or build your PC. Research new technologies, improve your office and your factory, hire the best employees, buy other companies and build your computer empire!
Server Owner Tycoon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Server Owner Tycoon has you step into the shoes of a game server owner to build your own online empire. Manage your staff members, catch the latest trends, keep users satisfied, research new features, and administer your server. Do you have what it takes to become the best server owner?
Life of a Lonely Indie Game Developer
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
"Create the games you want, at the time you want, and live doing only what you love." In this realistic life simulation game, an independent game developer dreams of such a life, struggling with money and time while paying taxes until death. Whether this life is happy or truly lonely, you decide.
One More Release: Indie Studio Tycoon
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Ranked #4 for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Build your dream indie game studio from a tiny office into an industry legend. Hire developers, create games, research engines, survive reviews, fight bugs, decorate your office, and make one more release.
Transport Fever 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
Transport Fever 3, the ultimate transport tycoon returns, bigger, deeper, and more dynamic than ever. Build the routes that transform the world across land, sea, and sky using over a century of evolving transport options. Design and build your ideal transport network.
Milesyon
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Ranked #6 for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
1978, a garage, one machine. Milesyon is a demanding tycoon spanning 48 years of video game history, where luck does not exist: same seed, same world. In the end, your run becomes an illustrated book, written and painted on your machine. To play is to write.
Rail Route
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Ranked #7 for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Perfect Decision
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Game Dev Masters.
Ranked #8 for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
「Perfect decision」 is a 2D strategic business simulation game with real estate as its theme. Here, you will choose different types of characters, use different types of companies, recruit different types of employees, and use different means to make profits in different types of cities!
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Mad Games Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Game Dev Masters.
Reviewers of Game Dev Masters cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Software Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Game Dev Masters.
Reviewers of Game Dev Masters cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Game Dev Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares studio management and a relaxing mood with Game Dev Masters.
Reviewers of Game Dev Masters cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
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.
Game Dev Story
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Game Dev Masters.
Reviewers of Game Dev Masters cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Game Dev Masters at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Game Dev Masters on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Game Dev Masters on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Game Dev Masters.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Game Dev Masters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Game Dev Masters.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Game Dev Masters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Game Dev Masters.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Game Dev Masters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Game Dev Masters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Game Dev Masters on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Game Dev Masters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Dev Masters.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Game Dev Masters.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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More from Ryan Saunders
Other recommendable Steam games by Ryan Saunders, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Surviving Ceres
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Game Dev Masters.
Another title from Ryan Saunders, the studio behind Game Dev Masters. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
The Ai Games
WHY THIS
Another title from Ryan Saunders, the studio behind Game Dev Masters. Shares RPG with Game Dev Masters.
Ever wonder why cockroaches can't be irradiated? They re-spawn. Earth is a survival game made by cockroaches. You are selected to represent the Earth game as its AI champion vs the greatest AI in all the games they have made. Will you survive the games, and what AAA conspiracy will you uncover?
Clone. Optimize. Sacrifice.
WHY THIS
Another title from Ryan Saunders, the studio behind Game Dev Masters. Shares Strategy and RPG with Game Dev Masters.
Build a city of science and magic, power up cloned heroes through automated dungeons, inherit their strength through cloning, and recycle the rest for science in this casual idle city-builder with deep RPG progression and competitive auto-battle leagues.
Frequently asked about Game Dev Masters
- Does Game Dev Masters run on Steam Deck?
- Game Dev Masters is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Game Dev Masters cost?
- Game Dev Masters is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Game Dev Masters?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Game Dev Masters are PC Tycoon 2, Server Owner Tycoon, Life of a Lonely Indie Game Developer.
- Who developed Game Dev Masters?
- Game Dev Masters was developed by Ryan Saunders and published by One Man Media.
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