Games like Mad Games Tycoon
If Mad Games Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mad Games Tycoon 2, Blockchain Tycoon and Rise of Industry — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, nostalgic and relaxing. 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 →Mad Games Tycoon is a strategy-simulation hybrid released in 2016 by Eggcode that tasks players with building a game development company from humble beginnings. Set in the early 1980s, the game covers the full scope of studio management, from designing custom consoles and developing proprietary engines to crafting marketing campaigns and forecasting platform trends. Players blend genres, experiment with development sliders to gauge audience appeal, and unlock advanced departments such as QA and motion capture as they expand from a garage operation into an industry giant. The game runs at a comfortable difficulty over extended sessions and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers highlight its retro aesthetic and cozy atmosphere, with players describing it as nostalgic and relaxing, and it holds an 89% positive rating from over 1,200 Steam reviews.
About Mad Games Tycoon: 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!
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Mad Games Tycoon 2
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Top pick for Mad Games Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
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.
Blockchain Tycoon
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Second-strongest match for Mad Games Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
Blockchain Tycoon is the cryptocurrency simulation game where you build and manage your own mining operation. Create your own coin, mine it, invest in other coins, upgrade and overclock GPUs or you can just HODL.
Rise of Industry
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Third-strongest match for Mad Games Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
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Shares a relaxing mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Ranked #4 for Mad Games Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
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!
The Corporate Machine
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Ranked #5 for Mad Games Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
Stardock's classic 2001 real-time economic strategy game, available now on Steam. Dive back into the timeless battle for one of the most ruthless environments ever created: international trade.
Another Brick in The Mall
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Shares a relaxing mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Ranked #6 for Mad Games Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator
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Ranked #7 for Mad Games Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.
Winkeltje: The Little Shop
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Shares a cozy mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Ranked #8 for Mad Games Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
Winkeltje: The Little Shop is all about building, decorating, and running your own old-world fantasy shop. Buy low, sell high - from nails and apples to swords and alchemic love potions. Impress your customers, craft items, and be the master of your very own shop.
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Blockbuster Inc.
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Reviewers of Mad Games Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Mad Games Tycoon.
Ever dreamed of making your own movies? Build up your own movie studio, scout for upcoming stars, and produce cutting-edge films and TV shows. Try to stay ahead of your competition throughout the history of cinematography.
Game Dev Tycoon
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Shares sequel creation and a cozy mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Reviewers of Mad Games Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
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.
The Executive - Movie Industry Tycoon
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Reviewers of Mad Games Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
Shape the history of the Hollywood movie industry in this sandbox business simulation game. Create the movies you've always wanted to see, hire the best team, research cutting-edge technologies, and dominate the Box Office. Can you rise from a small studio to a Hollywood giant?
Showrunner
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Shares staff management with Mad Games Tycoon.
Reviewers of Mad Games Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
Create and run your own TV show! An isometric management game where you craft scripts, populate your world with characters and cast actors to play them. Hire and manage staff, develop your studio and gain a dedicated following.
Empire
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Reviewers of Mad Games Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
In a traditional fantasy RPG, play as several characters in a time of war as they fight for freedom while a greater darkness grows amidst the chaos.
Hollywood Mogul 4
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Shares a retro mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Reviewers of Mad Games Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
Own the studio. Run the studio. Make the movies. Play Hollywood Mogul 4 and run your own Hollywood movie studio in a complex, immersive, business strategy simulation that is TEXT-BASED with NO GRAPHICS and MINIMAL SOUND.
Casino Resort Tower
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Shares a cozy mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Reviewers of Mad Games Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
News Tower
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Shares a cozy mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Reviewers of Mad Games Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mad Games Tycoon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Mad Games Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
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
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Priced ~67% under Mad Games Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Mad Games Tycoon.
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
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Priced ~47% under Mad Games Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
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
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Priced ~50% under Mad Games Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mad Games Tycoon.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Mad Games Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
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
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Priced ~47% under Mad Games Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
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...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Mad Games Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~67% under Mad Games Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Mad Games Tycoon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
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
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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!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Games Tycoon.
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DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Mad Games Tycoon.
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Mad Games Tycoon 2
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Another title from Eggcode, the studio behind Mad Games Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
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.
Mad Tower Tycoon
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Shares a retro mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Another title from Eggcode, the studio behind Mad Games Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Mad Television Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Mad Games Tycoon.
Another title from Eggcode, the studio behind Mad Games Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Games Tycoon.
In Mad Television Tycoon, you take control of a TV station. Accept the challenge and lead your network to success. Your task is to create a diverse schedule, maximize advertising revenue, and outshine the competition.
Frequently asked about Mad Games Tycoon
- Does Mad Games Tycoon run on Steam Deck?
- Mad Games Tycoon 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 Mad Games Tycoon cost?
- Mad Games Tycoon is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mad Games Tycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mad Games Tycoon are Mad Games Tycoon 2, Blockchain Tycoon, Rise of Industry.
- Who developed Mad Games Tycoon?
- Mad Games Tycoon was developed by Eggcode.
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