Games like Publish! A Game About Making Games
If Publish! A Game About Making Games is your kind of game, the closest matches are Server Owner Tycoon, Save the Game Devs and Game Dev Empire — 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.
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Server Owner Tycoon
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Top pick for Publish! A Game About Making Games fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
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?
Save the Game Devs
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Second-strongest match for Publish! A Game About Making Games fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
Tap to drain an endless parade of overpaid CEOs, rescue laid-off game developers, and fund worker-owned indie studios. Upgrade from squeaky chairs to full cooperative ownership in a satirical incremental tycoon about rebuilding the games industry one severed golden parachute at a time.
Game Dev Empire
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Third-strongest match for Publish! A Game About Making Games fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
Start a game studio in 1980 and turn it into an industry empire. Build teams, create hits, follow a changing market with competitors, and expand into engines, publishing, hardware, digital stores, and acquisitions.
Tramp: Become President
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Ranked #4 for Publish! A Game About Making Games fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
This is your cyber begging companion: collect, craft, and trade hundreds of items, recruit a cast of eccentric NPCs, explore the sewers, build your business empire, dodge taxes, and buy votes on the black market. One day, you'll be shouting from the back of your own presidential campaign truck.
Last $50
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Ranked #5 for Publish! A Game About Making Games fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
Build a drug empire with your last $50. Buy production, upgrade it, and hire workers to automate.
PC Tycoon 2
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Ranked #6 for Publish! A Game About Making Games fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
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!
Software Inc.
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Ranked #7 for Publish! A Game About Making Games fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
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 Builder Tycoon
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Ranked #8 for Publish! A Game About Making Games fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
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.
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- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Publish! A Game About Making Games are Server Owner Tycoon, Save the Game Devs, Game Dev Empire.
- Who developed Publish! A Game About Making Games?
- Publish! A Game About Making Games was developed by AlterStaff Inc. and published by AlterStaff Inc., Pluto Games.
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