Games like Game Dev Empire
If Game Dev Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are MarginCall, FD's Industry Tycoon and CandleBook: Trading Simulator — 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 Game Dev Empire: 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.
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MarginCall
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Top pick for Game Dev Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Empire.
MarginCall is a market with no scripted prices. Hundreds of independent traders, each with its own money and mind, price a real order book inside a fully simulated economy. Build a fortune, control industries, raid rivals, or get margin called into ruin.
FD's Industry Tycoon
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Second-strongest match for Game Dev Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Empire.
Build a global industrial empire from a 1990s desktop. A retro business management sim, hand-drawn in pixel art. Alone or in MP: open factories worldwide, broker supply deals across continents, and acquire rivals when they falter. Markets shift, empires grow, and the CRT flickers.
CandleBook: Trading Simulator
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Third-strongest match for Game Dev Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Empire.
Practice trading on charts you cannot memorize. 18 markets — forex, indices, gold, oil, crypto — with broker-grade fills: stops, slippage, gap-through-stop, leverage, liquidation. 45 live lessons and a journal that names your leaks. One purchase, offline. A training tool, not advice.
Software Inc.
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Ranked #4 for Game Dev Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Empire.
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.
Computer Tycoon
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Ranked #5 for Game Dev Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Empire.
Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"
Super Movie Tycoon
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Ranked #6 for Game Dev Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Dev Empire.
Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
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Ranked #7 for Game Dev Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Empire.
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!
King of Retail
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Ranked #8 for Game Dev Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Empire.
The store is your kingdom! Expand your humble boutique into a thriving business: hire the right staff, decorate your displays, and lure in customers. Even your wildest ideas can turn a profit. Why not start a business that sells only white T-shirts and ketchup? PCs and beans? Your rule, your rules!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Dev Empire.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Dev Empire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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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 Empire.
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
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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 Empire.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Dev Empire.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Dev Empire.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Dev Empire.
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.
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 Game Dev Empire.
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Frequently asked about Game Dev Empire
- What games are most similar to Game Dev Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Game Dev Empire are MarginCall, FD's Industry Tycoon, CandleBook: Trading Simulator.
- Who developed Game Dev Empire?
- Game Dev Empire was developed by Honeylantern Games.
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