How many copies has Game Dev Tycoon sold?

indielist estimates Game Dev Tycoon has sold between 1,687,812 and 3,938,228 units (median 2,813,020), derived from its 40,186 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Game Dev Tycoon?

Game Dev Tycoon was developed by Greenheart Games 💚 and published by Greenheart Games 💚.

Who published Game Dev Tycoon?

Game Dev Tycoon was published by Greenheart Games 💚, developed by Greenheart Games 💚. See Greenheart Games 💚's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Game Dev Tycoon released?

Game Dev Tycoon was released in 2013.

How many reviews does Game Dev Tycoon have on Steam?

Game Dev Tycoon has 40,186 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is Game Dev Tycoon worth playing?

Steam players rate Game Dev Tycoon 95% positive across 40,186 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Game Dev Tycoon

Aug 29, 2013 Casual $9.99

Developer Greenheart Games 💚 Publisher Greenheart Games 💚

Profile updated May 2026

This casual simulation strategy game, released in 2013, allows players to manage their own game development studio. With 39,981 reviews on Steam, it offers a deep simulation experience.

Game Dev Tycoon is a 2013 Casual game developed by Greenheart Games 💚 and published by Greenheart Games 💚. On Steam it has gathered 40,186 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Greenheart Games 💚 with publisher Greenheart Games 💚 is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.7 million to 3.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Game Dev Tycoon can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

40,186

Positive

95%

Steam appid

239820

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

172

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-07 13:16 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.7M to 3.9M

units (median: 2.8M)

≈ $9.6M to $22.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.7M median 3.9M

+ How is this calculated?

40,186 reviews × NB(70) = 2,813,020 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2013	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_95%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	70

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Game Dev Tycoon at roughly 1.7 million to 3.9 million copies, with a median around 2.8 million, derived from its 40,186 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $16.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $3.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-05-31.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Game Dev Tycoon sold?: indielist estimates Game Dev Tycoon has sold between 1,687,812 and 3,938,228 units (median 2,813,020), derived from its 40,186 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Game Dev Tycoon?: Game Dev Tycoon was developed by Greenheart Games 💚 and published by Greenheart Games 💚.
Who published Game Dev Tycoon?: Game Dev Tycoon was published by Greenheart Games 💚, developed by Greenheart Games 💚. See Greenheart Games 💚's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Game Dev Tycoon released?: Game Dev Tycoon was released in 2013.
How many reviews does Game Dev Tycoon have on Steam?: Game Dev Tycoon has 40,186 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is Game Dev Tycoon worth playing?: Steam players rate Game Dev Tycoon 95% positive across 40,186 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Game Dev Tycoon can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Two Point Campus, Cookie Clicker, Prison Architect, Mini Metro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Greenheart Games 💚's other releases and Greenheart Games 💚's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Game Dev Tycoon sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Game Dev Tycoon page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.