We Love It's Guide to…
Run a game studio by hiring developers, building engines, producing and marketing games, and competing for market share.
Released 12 Mar 2018
Match Staff to Projects
Build Game Engines
Launch Studio Games
Welcome to your own Game Dev Studio! How will you run your own offices and ascend to greatness in the gaming industry?
Developed by Explosive Squat Games · Published by Explosive Squat Games









Take charge of a game-development studio and grow it by furnishing offices, expanding into new buildings, and hiring employees with different skills, traits, interests, and areas of knowledge. Organize staff into teams and decide whether to spread them across several projects or concentrate their work on one.
Develop game engines, research and add technology, and update or rebuild engines as their code becomes messy. Use your staff and technology to create games, then promote releases through advertising campaigns, reviewer interviews, and early-playthrough videos. Rivals compete for talent, while your releases can affect the market share of the platforms they appear on.
Progress through story mode, four additional campaigns, or freeplay, with options to randomize aspects of a new run. The studio can continue expanding as you pursue different projects and strategies, and Steam Workshop support allows mods to change game content.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its layered studio-management systems, the appeal of building a company and releasing games, and its capacity to keep them playing or returning. Some also value the mod support and pixel-art presentation. Critical reviews point to unclear tutorials and rules, awkward staff or office management, and repetitive play; a few also express concern about updates stopping.
| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 28 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |