Game Tycoon 1.5 Reviews
Welcome to the Game Industry!The year is 1982. Three young entrepreneurs discover the computer and potential to strike it rich in the Games Industry! Their love for computer games is a common bond that they all share but they are also in fierce competition with one another in a race to build a successful Games Development House…They...
App ID | 273770 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Sunlight Games |
Publishers | Sunlight Games |
Categories | Single-player, Steam Cloud |
Genres | Strategy, Simulation |
Release Date | 11 Feb, 2014 |
Platforms | Windows |
Supported Languages | English, German |

666 Total Reviews
99 Positive Reviews
567 Negative Reviews
Score
Game Tycoon 1.5 has garnered a total of 666 reviews, with 99 positive reviews and 567 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
31 minutes
If this game weren't:
a crappy version of a much better game
broken
full of terrible voice acting
marked as released yesterday despite clearly being several years old
..........then it would still be pretty dull. But not quite so offensive. Don't buy this game.
👍 : 92 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
8 minutes
The game is virtually unplayable. The tutorial isn't a tutorial. The graphics look like something from the 90s, and the voiceover is terrible.
The interface is not comfortable.
I was intrigued by their approach to software pirates, but this game was a huge waste of money.
👍 : 42 |
😃 : 5
Negative
Playtime:
21 minutes
STAY AWAY!!!
This is a game about making other games. The same concept as Game Dev Tycoon. Before I go on I just want to say that you should get that game instead as it does a MUCH better job.
Cons:
- Extremely slow gameplay.
- Quite buggy.
- Tutorial isn't informative enough.
- The game is really hard to learn without a proper tutorial.
- At launch the .exe file wasn't there so the game wouldn't launch (says a little about the game quality as well as Steam's quality checks).
- No proper options-screen (although your computer should be able to run it considering the horrible graphics).
- Not sure about this one, but I'm pretty sure it's just an old game that's been put up on Steam. I think I read that some places.
Now to the pros:
- There are none
So please, don't buy this horrible game. Not even it's on 99% sale. You will regret it!
👍 : 38 |
😃 : 5
Negative
Playtime:
152 minutes
Alright, after the initial launch problems were fixed I was looking forward to a nice bit of tycooning in the gamedevelopment industry, boy was I dissapointed. There are some really basic "generic flaws" and then there are the "content flaws".
For the generic flaws the controls are pretty counter-intuitive (Escape always takes you to the main meny, right mouse click escapes from the screen), there is no pause option! For me pause is an important option, I mean even if it wasn't....
The contrast in sounds is horrible, when playing the tutorial you will barely be able to hear the person explain the game due to the background sounds (also the voiceacting is just horrible, I would have rather had no voiceacting at all), besides that the tutorial is just horrendous and not user friendly at all. Also, every notification slows your game down, so when it feels the need to tell me kids threw stuff at my house or that my competitors made a new game it slows my game down again, this is really tedious as the messages are irrelevant to me!
Now the obvious lackluster, depth, there is nothing to be gained here, you can't train your people, you can't invest in anything. The only thing you do is wait and watch the boards while you again click on a "genre & language(s)" to create the concept for you new game. As time progresses you get new technology available but not through any effort of yourself.
Then there is another thing, I need to take a publisher contract to push my games to stores, but for some weird reason I have to print my own discs and keep track of that stock! That is NOT gamedevelopment, that is what the publishers are supposed to do for me.
There is another game like this available on Steam which just blows this title away, I was dumb enough to think this was the sequel, save your money, buy the other title!
👍 : 79 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
36 minutes
Looking at the screenshots, I thought this was going to be an upgraded version of Game Dev Tycoon. I didn't even bother looking up gameplay videos. Turns out, they badly implement "exploration," which is really just a way to slow down the game and distract from what you're actually trying to do.
The tutorial is more or less useless, with instructions that give you just enough details to get frustrated, but not enough to actually tell you what's going on.
There's a great video on youtube with a title along the lines of "Let's NOT Play Game Tycoon 1.5." It does a pretty good job of explaining why you should avoid this one.
👍 : 34 |
😃 : 2
Negative
Playtime:
15 minutes
Choppy graphics, an annoying, repetative and amature voice actor for your advisor/tutor, and an unintiuitive interface mar what is otherwise a fun concept for a game: namely game development. If you want a real game in this genre, you're better off buying "Game dev tycoon."
👍 : 70 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
22 minutes
AWEFUL, after waiting a day for them to fix the missing executable problem the game is lacking in some necesarry features. such as: the ability to mute sound effects without muting voices, the ability to go directly to an office rather than needing to all over the place, the tutorial doesn't tell you specifically where a place is, you can't change the resolution, you can't customize your apearance, too much back and forthe (why would a starting developer have an office in a seperate building for himself while his programmers and whatnot work in a different building). To name a few problems. This is aweful, Game Dev Tycoon is much more enjoyable.
👍 : 392 |
😃 : 3
Negative
Playtime:
22 minutes
One of the most counter-intuitive games I have ever had the misfortune of playing. This game is so raw and unpolished. Some of the screens are still in German. I'm fairly certain there are only 2 voice actors for a multitude of characters. The tutorial is far from user friendly. For a game about games and the industry, you'd think this studio might have taken a moment to consider their audience / customers. Just terrible.
👍 : 757 |
😃 : 4
Negative
Playtime:
9 minutes
There's a major problem with this game at the time of this review being written: There's no executable file. The game doesn't run. If you buy this, you will be throwing your money away on a game that does not, cannot, run.
Someone in the forums linked to an archive on dropbox that is supposed to fix the problem by flat out replacing the game files, but seriously, don't get suckered like I did, just go buy a better game that actually works, like Game Dev Tycoon, or Game Dev Story.
TL;DR: Don't buy, it doesn't work.
👍 : 1358 |
😃 : 11
Negative
Playtime:
36 minutes
Dopey me, I mistakenly thought this was a sequel to Game Dev Tycoon, which I actually enjoy. Alas, this is a completely unrelated (and FAR inferior) game.
Terrible, terrible interface design; horrible (and buggy) tutorial; actual game play is dull and confusing.
Do not bother purchasing this game, it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever! :-(
If you think this concept sounds interesting, I would seriously recommend you check out Game Dev Tycoon instead. It's a pretty simplistic model of the game development industry, but quite decent for a casual, under-$10 title, and far more interesting with a much better user interface.
👍 : 712 |
😃 : 4
Negative