Game Dev Studio

Game Dev Studio is a management game about running a game development company and growing it within the gaming industry. You arrange your offices, hire employees, build game engines and make games, while competing with rival studios and influencing the fortunes of gaming platforms.

Build your studio

Place objects in the available office space as you choose. When you run out of room, you can buy another building and expand. Employees have individual skills, attributes, traits, interests and knowledge of different topics. You can form multiple teams and work on several game projects at once, or focus all your staff on a single game. Employees may leave, and rivals may try to recruit your developers by offering higher salaries. You can also buy out rival studios when they are struggling.

Develop engines and games

You create game engines, update them with new technology and revamp them when their code becomes too messy. With employees and an engine in place, you can develop games for release.

Promote your releases

You can advertise games in several ways: invite reviewers for interviews, run mass advertising campaigns, contact online personalities to make early playthrough videos, hire agencies to promote games online or bribe reviewers.

Influence the industry

The games you release affect the platform manufacturers they are made for. Successful games can make a platform more attractive to gamers and improve its market share.

Game modes

The game includes a story mode, four additional campaigns and a freeplay mode. At the start of a playthrough, you can randomize various aspects of the game.

Modding

The game supports mods through Steam Workshop. Mods can change any part of the game, or transform it into something else.