Game Dev Studio

Game Dev Studio

Explosive Squat Games · 2018 · Simulation, Strategy, Casual, Indie, Management

PC
Very Positive87% · 529
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$1.55-84%
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About Game Dev Studio

Welcome to your own Game Dev Studio!


How will you run your own offices and ascend to greatness in the gaming industry?

Non-linear progression. Fill the empty spaces in your office with any objects you wish, and when you run out of space, buy a new building to continue expanding!

Find the best employees for your studio. Employees have their skills, attributes, traits, interests, and knowledge on topics.
Create multiple teams, work on multiple game projects at once, or reach for the stars by focusing all your workpower on one game.
Just don't forget that you won't get to keep your employees forever.

Rev up those engines. Make game engines, update them with new tech, and revamp them when the code gets too messy!

Make awesome games. Employees? Check. Game engine? Check. Now it's time to make great games!

Hype it up! Advertise your games through a multitude of ways: invite reviewers for an interview, start a mass advertisement campaign, contact online personalities to create early playthrough videos of your game, hire agencies to shill your game online, and even bribe reviewers!

Show your rivals who's boss of this industry. Your rivals are on the lookout for talented developers just like you are, so get ready to fight off their attempts to lure your employees away with higher salaries. Give them a taste of their own medicine and buy them out when they go under!

Sway the odds of platform manufacturers. Games you release influence the fate of platform manufacturers for which they're made.
Good games will make a platform more attractive to gamers and change its market share for the better.

Never a dull moment. Story mode, four extra campaigns, a freeplay mode, and the ability to randomize various aspects of the game at the beginning of a playthrough make for greater replayability.

Full modding support via Steam Workshop. Every little bit about the game can be changed with mods, even turned into something else entirely if the modder's skill and patience allows them.

DLC & expansions

🎁 Complete the collection

Base game + 0 of 1 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).

$1.55
to own everything

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Players praise this game development simulator for its immersive sense of ownership and clean design, with the workshop mods adding creative depth and replayability. The main criticism centers on a lack of engaging positive features, though some enjoy the text-based simulation aspect and the ability to experience gaming history across different eras.

Recommended Jul 12, 2026
Lee Harvey Oswald Sim was a huge success.
Recommended Jul 12, 2026
This game is really fun and very addicting, it's easy to scale money fast even with a small company when u make a banger hit video game and print a bunch of expansion packs for it, so sometimes the economy of scale breaks but overall 9/10
Not recommended Jun 27, 2026
Lacks positive features.
Recommended Jun 26, 2026
Dollhouse for boys
Recommended May 29, 2026
workshop of the game was insane, they even got a topdown shotgun mod which you can kill all of the employees of your enemy company
Recommended Mar 19, 2026
soo freaking awsomesauce

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