if you played Game Dev Tycoon and you're having thoughts about this one,
then the best way to describe this game is to imagine the jump in complexity and deep mechanics between Civilization and Crusader Kings.

These guys hired an addiction expert to get you hooked up for days on this game, I spent a whole week playing it, and when I'm not, I'm thinking about it.

it is stupid the amount of things you can do.

- you can buy studios, and have crazy amounts of options for them, such as how much time they can spend on developing a game, or release exclusives on your own consoles, which IPs to focus on and genres and who to publish with.

- budget your games and release bundles and DLC bundles and GOTY editions...etc.

- do deals with publishers

- separate your own developers across multiple teams and choose which are for developing new games, or releasing updates, and creating remakes for example

- creating IPs or buying them from other companies, each IP has a value and generates certain amount of hype based on your previous releases, I basically copied the Mario formula, releasing spinoff party games, Karting games, even football games from the same stupid IP I created for what is originally an RPG game (and if you're short on cash, you can sell it, but dont, its not worth it if you have a good one, you can just make games and generate more money with it)

- the game is funny when it comes to company names and legendary developers names.
and many more that wont fit here,

so all seems great, whats the catch?

- horrible UI, it is moronic how many features I missed because some options weren't visible or easily accessible, buying other companies (Subsidiaries) for example was under the market stats page which didn't make sense and I thought it was a feature that will be available when I accomplish something, but no it was there all along I guess..

- Automation, this is a feature, but its not up to par with the depth of the game, the amount of mechanics and moving parts are way too many it feels like an airplane dashboard and the automation is a 2 button toy remote, either do everything at once, or nothing,
I cant tell my R&D team to queue certain handpicked features I want, they have to research every single item on the planet one after another forever, or I have to go and do it manually every time.
and the marketing department became my own office, I've spent more time on marketing than the actual development team, just make it so I can tell my marketeers to market every game and spend money automatically to a certain amount of hype, why limit it to one title only for each marketing room?, I have so many products in the market and its boring to click the same options 400 times for every game.


there's a ton of ♥♥♥♥ you can do here, some are very well designed and some are not, but nevertheless it was REALLY fun.

I've played many games in the genre and tried different types of tycoon games, including the unfortunately disappointing SimCity remake. As soon as City Skylines, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, Game Dev Tycoon, City Game Studio, and Game Dev Studio first came out, I delved into this genre with intrigue. Management sims have become an addiction for me lately, alongside my typical JRPG binges, haha.

Out of all the games I have tried, nothing matches the fun and easy-to-learn experimentation that this game offers!

Yes, it does get repetitive once you figure out how the system works and find ways to exploit the game's financial mechanics. However, increasing the difficulty or adding some conflict—such as changing the review randomness, altering the genre/topic mix, or introducing different events over the years—makes the game challenging enough to force you to think of new strategies and become a problem solver.

Here are some of the great things to try:

• Sandbox mode lets you live out your game development fantasies. For instance, I created a JRPG-dominated market that turned into a semi-monopoly. Great times!
  
• Customize your rooms to look better or simply choose the auto-furnish option if you don't want to spend time on that.
  
• You can even make an MMO, dedicate a full chained team to it, and try to keep the in-game audience interested while having a separate team work on regular games.
  
• Try making your company as big as possible and see how well you can manage multiple teams.

This game will keep you playing if you keep experimenting!

I do wish there were more in-depth mechanics for the console development portion of the game or some additional features for the marketing segment. I do enjoy the Game Pass, Collector Edition, and other added selling features, even if they feel like add-ons.

Regardless of my wants, I appreciate the developer for consistently fixing this game and updating us through the years with dev logs.
This is excellent work for an indie game, and I hope that Mad Games Tycoon 3 becomes even bigger with more in-depth systems and a larger studio to make it happen without the stress in the development process.

Eggcode is a studio I'll be looking out for in the future! You have made a fan out of me with this game, and if there is an expansion, sequel, or a new IP on the way, I will be eagerly anticipating it. Thanks for fueling my addiction for this genre! lol

I can wholeheartedly recommend this game to anyone that enjoys general management and the idea of making video games I hope to see a number 3 in the future with even more content !