Games like DevTycoon
If DevTycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Server Owner Tycoon, Game Dev Story and City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins — picked from the ranked list below. 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 DevTycoon: DevTycoon is a software development business simulation with a charming pixel art style, which challenges you to build and manage your own company in a world where competition is fierce and the challenges reflect real life.
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Server Owner Tycoon
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Top pick for DevTycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DevTycoon.
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?
Game Dev Story
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for DevTycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DevTycoon.
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for DevTycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DevTycoon.
Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!
Mad Games Tycoon 2
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Ranked #4 for DevTycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DevTycoon.
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.
Youtubers Life 2
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Ranked #5 for DevTycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DevTycoon.
Start from humble beginnings and take charge of the daily life of a wannabe influencer. Balance your day between creating trend-based content, completing tasks to earn money, and building trust with your neighbors to uncover their stories. Are you ready to embark on your road to fame?
Game Dev Masters
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Ranked #6 for DevTycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DevTycoon.
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.
ACTION SANDBOX
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Ranked #7 for DevTycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with DevTycoon.
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Project Hospital
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Ranked #8 for DevTycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DevTycoon.
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DevTycoon at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under DevTycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DevTycoon.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under DevTycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DevTycoon.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under DevTycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DevTycoon.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under DevTycoon on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with DevTycoon.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under DevTycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with DevTycoon.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under DevTycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with DevTycoon.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under DevTycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DevTycoon.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under DevTycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with DevTycoon.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DevTycoon.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with DevTycoon.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DevTycoon.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with DevTycoon.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with DevTycoon.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DevTycoon.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DevTycoon.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about DevTycoon
- How much does DevTycoon cost?
- DevTycoon is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to DevTycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DevTycoon are Server Owner Tycoon, Game Dev Story, City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins.
- Who developed DevTycoon?
- DevTycoon was developed by Nova Spark Interactive.
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