- Our second game is out now + A new bundle - 3 November 2025
Hello everyone! 👋Our second game Tavern Keeper🍻 is now out in Early Access, meaning we’re finally living up to our name and adding the “S” to Greenheart Games! We’ve put together a special “Greenheart Games 💚” bundle with both of our games - feels good to say that! - making Tavern Keeper even cheaper for everyone who has been with us since our first title. This wouldn’t have been possible without your support and love for Game Dev Tycoon!Patty, Social and Community Manager @ Greenheart Games 💚
- Small Patch 1.7.9 - 10 October 2025
Pre-emptively fixed an issue that could have caused the share code feature to break in the near future.
- 1.7.8 Small bug fix update - 1 October 2025
Fixed: Error when engine does not have a name set.Fixed: Platform/genre and platform/audience weighting on custom console wasn't always correct.New: Show a permanently dismissable banner on the main menu for new games from us.
- SIMFEST + Game #2 DEMO available - 22 July 2024
Hello there! 👋 SimFest, the Steam festival celebrating the variety of simulation titles, has begun! And how could we not be a part of it? 😄 For Game Dev Tycoon, we are running a discount of 65% to celebrate our love for the genre! During SimFest, we are also releasing something major for our Game #2: The DEMO for Tavern Keeper is now available! As we shared a while back, we've been working on this charming fantasy business sim game for more than a decade! If you’re a fan of Game Dev Tycoon or enjoy the genre and want to see what's next from us, consider giving the demo a try! https://store.steampowered.com/app/436780/Tavern_Keeper/ This Demo is a hand-crafted experience, separate from the full game, in which the narrator is looking for the main character of Tavern Keeper. Is it you? Thank you for reading and giving us your support throughout the years! Much 💚, The Greenheart Games Te…
- Our second game now has a gameplay trailer! 🍻 - 29 May 2024
Hello! 👋 As we shared a while back, we've been working on our second game for nearly a decade! Today, we revealed the first gameplay trailer for Tavern Keeper, sharing a bunch of the systems that you'll use to manage your fantasy tavern and run the show! If you loved Game Dev Tycoon and want to see what's next from us, consider putting this on your wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/436780/Tavern_Keeper/ Thank you! The Greenheart Games 💚 Team
- Surprise: Game Dev Tycoon is now available on Netflix! - 13 March 2024
Dear Game Dev Tycoon Fans, Here's a surprise, there’s a new edition of Game Dev Tycoon available on Netflix! Truth be told, we never dreamed that we’d be able to make an update to Game Dev Tycoon as we’ve been flat out working on our second PC game but then an opportunity with Netflix came along and together with the Game Dev Tycoon mobile team we made it work. The new edition is exclusive to Netflix for the time being - we wouldn’t have been able to make this happen at all otherwise. If you have a Netflix subscription, you can download it and play it with no extra fees - it's already included with your Netflix membership. 🕹️📱 It's the same Game Dev Tycoon you know and love with a few added features: Licensed topics As you play through gaming history, you get access to licensed topics that allow you to develop games based on parodies of your favorite movies and TV shows. Each of these…
- How to avoid bankruptcy in GDT, Capitalism and Economy Fest, and more - 10 January 2024
Happy New Year, everyone! Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest Game Dev Tycoon is taking part in the Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest with a 60% discount until January 15th! What a fitting event for a game like Game Dev Tycoon! 😁 How to avoid bankruptcy In Game Dev Tycoon, your success isn’t measured only by how many 10/10 games you make - and All Games isn’t making this task easy - but also by your ability to keep your development company going and growing. The biggest challenge is avoiding bankruptcy, which is hard enough without the ultra-hard Pirate Mode, so we thought of sharing a few tips to make your playthrough a little easier! Save up a good amount of money before moving on to level 2. This can help you experiment with topics a little and gain more experience. Medium games work best if you have a team of 3, so your aim should be to get to 2 additional workers. Be mindful when yo…
- 10 YEARS GDT + A New Game From Us 💚 - 24 August 2023
TEN YEARS + Anniversary Sale Next week, it will be ten whole years since Game Dev Tycoon came out on Steam! Never would we have dreamed that our first little game would be played by so many people across the globe, that it would be crowd-translated to 17 languages, that it would have so many incredible mods, or that you could play it on mobile and Switch too. THANK YOU ALL 💚 for making this possible! To celebrate the occasion we are doing an 80% anniversary sale for a few days - our biggest discount to date! A New Game From Us While we celebrate 10 years, by fortunate coincidence, we can also celebrate that our second game, Tavern Keeper 🍻, has - as of a day ago - a Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/436780/Tavern_Keeper/ If you want to follow our journey with Game #2, please check it out. It will be a fun ride! As for Game Dev Tycoon, we’ll be back. Patrick 💚
- Small fix for Linux - 4 October 2021
Fixed start script for Linux: Instead of setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable it gets appended.
- 1.7.6/1.8.6 Small bug fix update - 7 December 2020
We've released a small bug fix where the staff welcome training was not available after importing from a mobile save game.
- 1.7.5/1.8.5 Small bug fix update - 30 November 2020
We've released a small update which fixes subscribing to our newsletter from within the game. 💚
- 1.7.4/1.8.4 Small bug fix update and workshop issue workaround - 19 November 2020
We've released a small update fixing a few minor cross-platform bugs, as well as aiming to restore game knowledge (and some save slots) that were sometimes lost for some players when upgrading to 1.8.x This update also introduces a workaround for a known issue where modders on Windows are unable to update their workshop mods. We've described the issue and a new workaround for it here. We expect this will be the last update for a while. Hopefully things will run smoothly now. 💚 PS: Consider following our developer page.
- Fixing disappearing achievements and game hints - 20 October 2020
We have just reverted all Windows users to the old version of node-webkit (the underlying tech making the game run on PC). Sadly our latest upgrade to a newer version caused game hints and achievements to not load (nor save correctly). The good news is that hints and achievements previously gained should now load again so there should not be any data loss. Unfortunately a proper fix is anything but simple as the issue seems outside our control for now but we will investigate any possible fixes. Other than the fact that we are now again running on an older version and thus miss out on the nicer text rendering, there is no loss of features in this version on Windows. It still comes with all the new features like save-sharing. We have left the Mac version on the newer version as the old version has significant performance and display-compatibility issues. Hopefully we'll have another updat…
- v1.8.2 is live - 16 October 2020
Bugfix: Migrating save files with custom consoles from mobile version did throw the error "InvalidStateError: Failed to execute 'drawImage'".
- v1.8.1 (small bugfix) - 14 October 2020
Bugfix: Deleting a savegame threw a "TypeError: Bad arguments".
- v1.8.0 is live - Improved text quality, better performance, better Mac support. - 13 October 2020
We've just released v1.8.0 to Windows and Mac users. This release should hopefully fix a bunch of odd issues we've recently seen Mac users report and should also have much better performance on Mac. For Windows users the main change is that text-rendering is vastly improved and performance overall should be a bit better too. We haven't updated Linux in this release, as it would not have made any significant changes. If there are any issues, please get in touch with us at [email protected], by responding to this announcement, or by posting on the Steam forums. Technical details and background information Game Dev Tycoon was one of the first games on Steam to use node-webkit to run a HTML5 game on Desktops and because of that, we were using an ancient version of node-webkit by today's standards. We often considered upgrading but every time we did, we experienced numerous new iss…
- v1.7.0 is live with new cross-platform save support 💚 - 8 October 2020
With this update, we are making it something of a tradition that every time we release Game Dev Tycoon on a new platform, we update all existing platforms with some new features. Two years ago we released the game on mobile and brought a big update to Steam including lots of UI improvements, as well as the ultra-difficult "pirate mode". Cross-platform save sharing This time, to celebrate yet another platform release (hint: something something Ninvento Swap), we are bringing a brand new feature to Steam: cross-platform save support. With cross-platform save support you can take your save file to wherever you want to play, regardless of which platform (PC, mobile, Switch etc.) you play on. To use this new feature, wait for Steam to update your game installation to v1.7.0. After that, you can access this feature in the loading screen, simply click on the little cog icon next to the slot yo…
- Have You Played Game Dev Tycoon? - 28 May 2019
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Sometimes, even when playing in the giddily accelerating wonderland of digital entertainment, the best fun is that which we make for ourselves. So it is in Game Dev Tycoon , a business simulation by Green Heart Games, dealing with the history of videogames from the early 1980s through to the mid-2010s. You see, while the game does a great job of presenting thirty years of technological and social change – during which your garage-based hobbyist will rise to leadership of a big name, quintuple-A powerhouse – the real joy comes from cludging together weird combinations of genre and theme for prospective releases, and then coming up with extremely silly names for them. (more…)
- Total UI overhaul mod "TAG" goes v1.0 - 19 November 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F5050215%2Fa5fd350b2e87e6b7821c1f3d9b34f0967bb3eed2.png The first total UI overhaul mod for Game Dev Tycoon called "TAG Mod" is now fully released. All the way back in July 2014, a small group called Throw Away Games (short TAG, hence the mod name) teased the mod on our forums with some impressive mockups. Since then they have changed their name to Bellwood Studios but kept working on the mod year after year. The result is nothing short of impressive. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F5050215%2Fc1d27fac3c819fa85649c682b8984512e8c3068a.png TAG Mod not only gives Game Dev Tycoon a fresh look but also introduces some neat convenience features such as the ability to generate a game report from the sales UI, or the super-charged game history screen showing you how you set your sliders on your past…
- Happy 5th Steam Release Anniversary - 30 August 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F5050215%2F8f6ca98966c8bbd5ed83884800772601dd79cc76.png It's been five whole years since Game Dev Tycoon released on Steam. Time for a brief illustrated trip through the game’s history. Back in 2011, my brother Daniel and I (we are both software developers) decided that we wanted to try to make a game. After days of brainstorming and discussions, we settled on the idea of making a game dev simulator. We were inspired by Game Dev Story on the iPhone (made by Kairosoft) and wanted to make a game in that genre with our own spin on it. Our intention was to make a game dev simulator where the player would have finer control over the decisions of what to focus on during game development. Game Dev Tycoon started, as many games do, on a single piece of paper. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F505021%25E2%2580%25A6
