Game Studio Tycoon 2 for Windows

A software developing tycoon game

Game Studio Tycoon 2 places you in scenario where you may develop games to sell, and then use your profits to build a software empire so that you may create better games and sell them to your in-game customers. The game genre is a mix of simulation and strategy.

Start off as a developer in a bedroom

Game Studio Tycoon 2 asks you to set up an office and use developers to create games. You start small in your bedroom and sell a simple game, and then move up to hiring people and creating more sophisticated games. Once your app starts selling, you may invest in more equipment, more staff, and larger premises so that you may create larger and more complex games that you sell and market for higher profits. Obviously, all of this is all within the gaming environment, you do not actually create “Real” games or apps to sell. The fonts, the settings and the layout for the GUI were poorly chosen and make the game more difficult to play. However, the gaming functionalities are laid out in a very simple button-pressing manner. For example, when you pick a game to develop, you press buttons to decide what to include (a little like ordering a pizza online). You may choose “Shooter” and “Zombie” and maybe pick a turn-based mechanic or first-person mechanic.

Similar to other games of its era

Game Studio Tycoon 2 may look like a cheap ripoff of Software Inc., but the games are on an almost equal level. The biggest difference is that Game Studio Tycoon 2 has far fewer design options, and Game Studio didn’t copy the isometric nonsense that Software Inc. tried (and failed) to make work. It is very similar to Developer Tycoon, so if you enjoyed that, then you may enjoy this. The biggest problem is the unappealing interface that looks oddly similar to old accounting software. If the GUI designers had been a little more skilled, then this game may have received the popular reception that it deserved when it was released.