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Start a game studio in 1976. Take over the industry.
A deep management sim where you run a video game company through the whole history of gaming. Make games, hire a team, open studios across a living city, build your own consoles and buy out your rivals.
Also on GOG and itch.io, DRM-free.
- Very Positive on Steam
- Steam Deck Verified
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- 16 languages
Nearly 70,000 studio bosses and counting
City Game Studio left Early Access in 2021 and it keeps growing. A big update lands roughly every three months, shaped by what players ask for on Steam and Discord: studio directors, rival consoles, mods with balance checks, Twitch integration and a lot more.
Official Selection at Comic-Con and DreamHack 2019. Featured in three Steam Daily Deals.
Latest updates
All news on SteamFrom one rented room to the whole industry
Every playthrough follows the same arc, and no two end the same way. The city, your rivals and the market change every time.
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January 1976
One room, one game
You rent a tight little office and make your first game. Pick a genre and a theme, balance design against development, then release it on the consoles of the day.
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Your first hires
Hire, furnish, repeat
Artists first, then developers, then testers. Furnish every studio desk by desk, keep your people happy, and copy a layout you love to your next building.
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Your first hits
Publishers take the lion's share
Your games are good, but you don't have the fans to self-publish yet. Work with publishers until a string of hits lets you go solo, then write publishing contracts of your own.
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Moving out
Location, location, location
The city is procedurally generated. Grab the neighborhood next to the convention center before a rival does, or reshape the city to fit your plans.
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Scaling up
Hand the studios to a director
Hire a studio director, tell them the genre, platform, engine, audience and minimum review score, and they make the games, the updates and the ports while you run the company.
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Going big
Your engine, your console, your store
Build or rent game engines. Design a console part by part, haggle with manufacturers over licenses and exclusivity, and run your own digital store.
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All the way to today
Own the market
Win Game of the Year, spy on rivals, poach their best people and buy them out. They fight back: rivals build their own consoles and buy each other up too.
Everything you get to run
Dozens of hours of content, and most systems connect to each other.
Make games
- Mix genres and themes, unlock new genres as you go
- Sequels, brands, remakes and ports to many consoles
- Updates, DLCs and in-game purchases
- Online games running on servers you set up
- Marketing campaigns and convention booths
Run the company
- Buy or rent buildings across the city
- Hire staff, plan their schedules, train them on contracts
- Studio directors who run whole studios for you
- Design your company logo
- Keep the banker happy, or else
Beat the competition
- Spy on rivals and crack their games
- Poach their best employees
- Buy out companies, catalogs and studios
- Negotiate console licenses and exclusivity
- Chase the Game of the Year award
Build the hardware
- Design your own consoles and handhelds
- Production costs drop as your console sells
- Send devkits to rival studios
- Create, rent or sell game engines
- Run your own digital store
Screenshots
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What players and press say
Game Dev Tycoon on steroids. 11/10
BEST GAMING TYCOON GAME THAT EXISTS!
Really An Step Up From Game Dev Tycoon! Really Enjoying the game!
We start the game, we take care of his studios, we look up, and three hours have passed.
Play it your way
Several difficulty levels, from a leisurely stroll to a permanent challenge, plus a sandbox mode where you set up every rule yourself.
Made for streaming
Connect your Twitch account and your viewers become your employees. Run polls to let chat name your games, studios and consoles. Hire them, or fire them.
Made by one person since 2016
City Game Studio is the game I wish I had when I was a kid dreaming of making video games. It lets you experience forty years of gaming history, from a single-room studio in 1976 to a global empire. Every mechanic, every decision, every failure is something I lived through building this very studio.
Code, art, design and support are all Xavier, except the soundtrack by Conciliator. Most of what's in the game today started as a player suggestion, so come say hi.
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87 achievements, trading cards, Steam Workshop, Cloud saves and Remote Play.
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