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Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Mad Games Tycoon is a management, simulation and strategy game developed and published by Eggcode.
Released on September 13th 2016 is available on Windows and MacOS in 18 languages: English, German, French, Turkish, Czech, Polish, Russian, Portuguese - Portugal, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch, Traditional Chinese and Bulgarian.

It has received 4,395 reviews of which 3,990 were positive and 405 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 7.49€ on Steam with a 50% discount.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP
  • Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible with 512 RAM or better
  • Storage: 800 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OSX 10.9
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon HD 5670
  • Storage: 800 MB available space

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March 2025
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good β˜‘ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Donβ€˜t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- β˜‘ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good β˜‘ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids β˜‘ Teens β˜‘ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- β˜‘ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master β˜‘ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- β˜‘ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- β˜‘ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long β˜‘ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price β˜‘ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- β˜‘ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 β˜‘ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Oct. 2024
I love it. Simple yet so entertaining.
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Sept. 2024
Better than Game Dev Tycoon. imo.
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Aug. 2024
This game was my favorite game dev sim game until its sequel dropped. Honestly, can't play this anymore now. But respect for what it brought then
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May 2024
Great game easy to play, all will say dont go crazy spending early on take your time till you reach the bigger office then the money will come
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Mad Games Tycoon
8.8
3,990
405
Online players
10
Developer
Eggcode
Publisher
Eggcode
Release 13 Sep 2016
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