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Games like Game Dev Masters

If Game Dev Masters is your kind of game, the closest matches are PC Tycoon 2, Rail Route and COPA CITY — 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.

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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.

2022StrategyIndieSimulationRPGCasual14.99 USDWindowsby Ryan Saunders
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Can make deliberately silly or weird gamesDeep studio management with research and contractsEmployee training and specialization systemChillContemplativeFunny

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Steam players who put hours into Game Dev Masters also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. 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!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Rail Route

    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.

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. COPA CITY

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.

    An economic strategy where top football clubs entrust you with organizing their matches. Build in the city, manage its structures and stadium, provide entertainment, food, and security for fans. Your success is measured by Match Readiness.

    2026SportsStrategySimulation31.49 USDSteam ↗
  4. Game Builder Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Shares studio management and a funny mood with Game Dev Masters.

    Ranked #4 for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.

    In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Fast Food Manager

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Game Dev Masters.

    Ranked #5 for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.

    Launch your own business from scratch! Starting with a small coffee booth, build the most popular food service chain in town. Experiment, develop, make a profit.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Pumping Simulator 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Game Dev Masters.

    Ranked #6 for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.

    A gas station management game, start by selling a car to raise funds and invest in an abandoned plot of land. Build, expand, and upgrade your gas station, diversify services, customize and manage time efficiently during peak hours. And maybe you will become rich

    2023IndieSimulationCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Transport INC

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Game Dev Masters.

    Ranked #7 for Game Dev Masters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.

    Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!

    2020StrategySimulationCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Software Inc.

    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.

    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.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation22.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Game Dev Masters

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. 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!

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation22.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Game Dev Masters at current Steam store prices.

  1. 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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Game Dev Masters on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Dev Masters.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. 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.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  7. 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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. one night, hot springs

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.

    Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...

    2018IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Game Dev Masters

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, Rail Route, COPA CITY.
Who developed Game Dev Masters?
Game Dev Masters was developed by Ryan Saunders and published by One Man Media.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Game Dev Masters.

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