Game Tycoon 1.5

Game Tycoon 1.5

Sunlight Games · February 11, 2014 · Simulation, Strategy, Management, Economy, Casual

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Game Tycoon 1.5 price by region

Game Tycoon 1.5 costs £0.36 in the United Kingdom, €0.40 in Europe (EUR), $0.50 in the United States, $0.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$1.29 in Canada, NZ$1.49 in New Zealand, A$1.50 in Australia, zł2.21 in Poland and R$3.49 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest Game Tycoon 1.5 offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.36 −60% £0.89 £0.36 4
Europe (EUR) €0.40 −60% €0.99 €0.40 5
United Statesyour region $0.50 −49% $0.99 $0.50 5
Georgia (USD) $0.99 $0.99 — 1
Canada CA$1.29 CA$1.29 — 1
New Zealand NZ$1.49 NZ$1.49 — 1
Australia A$1.50 A$1.50 — 1
Poland zł2.21 −51% zł4.49 zł2.21 3
Brazil R$3.49 R$3.49 R$10.33 2

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Game Tycoon 1.5

✦ AI summary

Build your games industry empire from the ground up in 1982, managing everything from development and manufacturing to marketing and investor relations across eleven campaigns. Navigate the chaotic business landscape with cartoon charm and strategic depth as you compete against rivals to become the next Game Tycoon.

Welcome to the Game Industry!

The year is 1982. Three young entrepreneurs discover the computer and potential to strike it rich in the Games Industry! Their love for computer games is a common bond that they all share but they are also in fierce competition with one another in a race to build a successful Games Development House…

They quickly find that the Games Development business is not as simple as it appears… Banks, Investors, Magazines, Retailers, Distributors, Manufacturers and the Press are all breathing down your neck...they want results! Do you have what it takes? You are now an up and a coming entrepreneur in the Games Business. Do you have what it takes to be the next Game Tycoon?

Features

  • Cartoon style graphics
  • Three characters to choose from
  • eleven mission including tutorial as well as a continuous play
  • Interactive advisor (when you need advice)
  • Realistic strategy game
  • Different market situations in accordance with the customer's requests of the respective years
  • As the years progress new technological advances offer new game development techniques
  • Animation of all speaking characters
  • Voices in English and German
  • A lot of laughs and jokes

Game Tycoon 1.5 — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Feb 22, 2025
Kinda ironic to make a game about game development and make it an unplayable disaster.
9 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 16, 2025
This game goes in the "WTF did I just play" category, and not in a good way either. Sure, Game Tycoon 1.5 is over 10+ years old. But man, it is so broken beyond repair that I'm surprised the devs published it as complete AND even slapped a price tag on top of it. So many unresponsive buttons from the moment you enter the menu; Campaign button crashes the game, and there other 2 difficulties (easy + hard) cannot be selected when you reach the creation. Now in the game, all voice lines you cannot speed through or skip the boring dialogues. The VAs have the most slowest speech and most mono-tone sounding voice, it feels like they just used a bot talking with speed x0.5 or x0.75 at the fastest. There's a tutorial, but I could barely handle that with all the flaws above. It's even worse when some of the NPCs don't have a dialogue bubble pop-up while instructing you how to play, so good luck remembering all of that if audio-learning is your weakest asset. The game is not beginner friendly, and fails to properly teach players how to even manage their first program. The graphics are horrid. Everything looks so stretched with some blurring on my screen, Clearly the devs did not consider acc…
8 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 19, 2024
NOTE: This game has potential to be quite "fun", but it has quite some major flaws like crashing when switching tabs, awkward voice acting, music not working on the main menu, ... Therefore i cannot recommend it for anyone looking for a [i] serious [/i] game to play ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☑ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☑ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necess…
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 5, 2026
Game Tycoon 1.5 approaches the familiar business simulation genre from the perspective of the video game industry, placing the player in charge of building a development company from humble beginnings. Developed and published by Sunlight Games, the game begins in 1982, an appropriate starting point for a simulation interested in following the evolution of computer gaming. Its central idea has considerable potential: establish a studio, understand an emerging entertainment market, develop games, manage business relationships, and gradually adapt as technology and consumer expectations change. The game offers three playable entrepreneurs, each pursuing the goal of creating a successful development house. Rather than concentrating exclusively on designing individual games, the simulation attempts to represent the broader commercial ecosystem surrounding the industry. Banks and investors can matter to the financial side of the company, while manufacturers, distributors, retailers, magazines, and the press contribute to the process of bringing products to the market. This broader approach gives the game more ambition than a simple cycle of selecting a genre, developing a product, and c…
Recommended Jul 4, 2026
Very enjoyable and worth every minute I spent playing it.
Not recommended Dec 26, 2025
straight up caused my entire system to fail

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