Games like Game Dev Studio
If Game Dev Studio is your kind of game, the closest matches are Game Dev Tycoon, Mad Games Tycoon and Mad Games Tycoon 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and competitive. 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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Game Dev Tycoon
WHY THIS
Top pick for Game Dev Studio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
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.
Mad Games Tycoon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Game Dev Studio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
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!
Mad Games Tycoon 2
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a contemplative mood with Game Dev Studio.
Third-strongest match for Game Dev Studio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
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.
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a contemplative mood with Game Dev Studio.
Ranked #4 for Game Dev Studio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
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!
Startup Company
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Game Dev Studio.
Ranked #5 for Game Dev Studio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Democracy 3
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a contemplative mood with Game Dev Studio.
Ranked #6 for Game Dev Studio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.
Painters Guild
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Game Dev Studio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
Painters Guild is a management sim where you control an art academy in the Italian Renaissance. Paint artwork as beautiful as the Mona Lisa. Hire painters like Leonardo da Vinci and millions of randomly generated ones. Expand and customize your guild with furniture and more.
Two Point Campus
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Game Dev Studio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Game Dev Studio at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Game Dev Studio on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Studio.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Game Dev Studio on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Dev Studio.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Game Dev Studio on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Game Dev Studio on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Dev Studio.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Game Dev Studio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Game Dev Studio.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Game Dev Studio on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Game Dev Studio.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Game Dev Studio on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Studio.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Game Dev Studio on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Dev Studio.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 and Casual with Game Dev Studio.
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.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Dev Studio.
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 Game Dev Studio.
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 Game Dev Studio.
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 with Game Dev Studio.
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.
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 Studio.
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.
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More from Explosive Squat Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Explosive Squat Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Intravenous 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Game Dev Studio.
Another title from Explosive Squat Games, the studio behind Game Dev Studio. Shares Strategy with Game Dev Studio.
Intravenous 2 is the ultimate blend of tactical gameplay and immersive storytelling. Will you embrace the shadows or confront your foes head-on? The choice is yours. Experience a new era of tactical stealth action. Save lives. Uncover secrets. Take vengeance.
Intravenous
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Game Dev Studio.
Another title from Explosive Squat Games, the studio behind Game Dev Studio. Shares Indie with Game Dev Studio.
Teeth-clenching stealth, followed by tactical hardcore gunplay for those not looking for a quiet way in. Intravenous redefines challenging stealth-action and will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Intravenous 2: Mercenarism
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Game Dev Studio.
Another title from Explosive Squat Games, the studio behind Game Dev Studio. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
Playing as Gideon, a cold-hearted mercenary willing to kill for money without any moral principles, you'll have tactical freedom with a wide variety of weapons and special gadgets to complete your mission in the prologue of Intravenous 2.
Intravenous 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Explosive Squat Games, the studio behind Game Dev Studio. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Dev Studio.
Tense stealth action, tactical hardcore gunplay, and missions & story shaped by the way you play. Step into the roles of Steve and Sean, outnumbered and forced to survive a relentless manhunt.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a contemplative mood with Game Dev Studio.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
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!
Startup Company
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Game Dev Studio.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Two Point Campus
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Studio.
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Frequently asked about Game Dev Studio
- How much does Game Dev Studio cost?
- Game Dev Studio is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Game Dev Studio?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Game Dev Studio are Game Dev Tycoon, Mad Games Tycoon, Mad Games Tycoon 2.
- Who developed Game Dev Studio?
- Game Dev Studio was developed by Explosive Squat Games.
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