I want my money back.

Game Corp DX is a interesting indie simulator where you create your own gaming company. I will add a TL;DR at the end.


This game seems to be a mix of Prison Architect and Game Dev Tycoon as you play through it. You start out by doing the obvious and naming your company, then you hire workers, start making crappy games, make slightly better games, make great games, and so on. You set your workers into 4 categories to work within for a game (Art, Sound, Code, and Writing) and each game requires more or less of each of these. The building capabilities seem to be limited and the options are decent. The game is fun but the objectives do not catch the eye (took me a while to notice them), no option to pause time so you can set up a game or look around, and the date is only seen if you mouse over the clock. I feel like there is a clear lack of customazation to your game studio. I also noticed that as I name a game, the CPU studios have longer names than I am even allowed for my games.


The Graphics are smooth and overall polished. The music was suprisingly good and I was able to enjoy it.


These are my suggestion for the game which I feel would improve the current state. Please remember these are my personal opinions.

- More customization to the building
- Ability to hold down mouse and multi-place (like with walls)
- Date being shown in the top right and being visible
- Objective being more highlighted
- Ability to choose your aimed audience for the game (child, baby, adult, teenager, etc)


Pros

+ Cheap
+ Music is nice
+ Overall enjoyable with gameplay
+ Triple-speed option
+ Critics are funny
+ Each game genre requires different amount of each skill
+ Award ceremonies

Cons

- No building customization (from what I see so far)
- Character limit for game naming is not that long
- Date is not shown normally unless you mouse over clock
- Objectives do not pop out
- No real perk/ punishment depending on who you hire.
- Can get repetitive
- No pause option that allows you to take your time deciding on a game
- No real depth
- Game just stops selling after 1 year


Overall I played this game and I didn't like it that much. There is no customization for your studio which I feel harms the game significantly. The music was nice and the concept is good but, it is really rought. I am sad to hear that it is 90% complete as it does not feel near that level of completion. There are a lot of things that just pick at you when playing (date only visible when you mouse over clock, no pause option while creating your game, objective is kinda annoying to see, etc.). The game simply feels unfinished to me.


Game Corp DX is a newly released indie simulator where you own a gaming studio. You create games, hire workers, and get hated on by critics. Overall this game is nice, but still lacks depth and customization along with other things. The game is still in the rough and I would encourage the dev to hold back on it's out of Early Acess release (october). It's got potential, but still has a ways to go. If you have the 3$ maybe you want to buy it, maybe you want a candy bar. So far the game seems far from complete and it saddens me to see that it is apparently 90% complete. In it's current state I can't say it is horrible, but I can't say it's good either.

A really shallow game studio management game.

Here's the how to win strat:
Get 4 employees as soon as possible. Buy a few training computers and train each employee in 1 of 4 specializations:
Code, art, sound, or writing

Have them make micro size games that only require 2 employees. Make sure you select genres that are currently popular and assign the correct staff to the project. After they make around 3-4 games, they'll be maxed out in their specialization. Start making small games that require 4 staff and you'll get a 5 star rating every single time. Rinse and repeat the same strategy over and over again as you expand your studio to develop medium and large size games.

There is no difficulty, there is no challenge, and the whole game is just very shallow overall.

Yes I know it's only $4 (currently $2.69 on sale) and I don't mean to sound hard on the devs but Game Dev Tycoon is better in every single way and is frequently on sale for $5. There isn't any reason to play this when its alternative is vastly superior.

Full review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YPJpbTLigU

Had more fun writing this review than playing this game to be honest... I mean I played it for over an hour and I was bored the entire time, hoping for a ray of sunshine to come in later... I was hoping it would have more depth to it like Game Dev Tycoon does, but you seriously just pick a game and let them fly... There's no sense of enjoyment or feeling of accomplishment at all. There's really no need to go into more detail than this - I like that you can set up the building and such, but there's not enough fun in just that. Unless this gets a Fun Patch ASAP, I'd just avoid it and play Game Dev Tycoon instead.

Apparently set in a world with no women, seeing as how you're never able to hire any.

Oftentimes you'll see games on the Steam Store, with reviews saying things like "I wish there was a 'Mixed' rating for steam reviews, but I'll just have to say (yes/no)"
Well, this is one of those reviews.

GameCorp DX is a rerelease of a flash game you can find on ArmorGames. If you don't want to fork up the money for this, then go play that - this isn't much different. The graphics are the EXACT same, several features have been locked until later, and the creators still have no idea how to spell "ceremony". There are only a few new genres, the employees now have "personalities" (i.e they need to eat more often, almost all of them are negative), and you can finally pause the game and speed up those agonizingly long award ceremonies.

I was confused at first by the lack of a proper UI. I saw the buttons on the bottom but I had to manually count all my employees, I later noticed there was a centimeter-tall transparent bar at the top of the screen that had the information.
Playing the game, I had a few issues. Mostly with the edge-scrolling - I'd alt+tab out of the game (because even in windowed mode, the game tries to keep its custom cursor outside of the game and prevents you from doing any OS things) and come back to find that the view was all the way in the corner. Apparently it edge-scrolls when the window isn't even maximized, so I just turned off edge scrolling. The music is a bit obnoxious and loops endlessly (just remembered the company's name is Endless Loop). Workshop integration sounds great until you realize that the only customizable parts of the game are the employee's faces and studio icons. Not that big of a deal but I was expecting custom genres or at least different items.

Overall, the game - just like its original Flash game, is repetitive and lacking content. Absolutely nothing has changed in the way of graphics, it's a bit buggy, and feels unfinished, even for a game that just came out of Early Access. I don't like giving bad reviews, especially when it comes to simulation games, but this just isn't worth the price. Most of the positive reviews are sarcastic, but I wanted to provide some detail as to what exactly the game has in the way of content.
Thank you.

No. (Simple review)

Longer one:
The game itself has no challenge and therefore fails to make me interested in achieving anything.
As long as you sometimes release a newly developed game in your firm, you will earn enough money to hire new employees and grow.
Most of the included features are not necessary like the loans, if you create some game there is no need for a loan.
Also the statistics do no offer much help / information, there is no benefit or disadvantage in using them.
The creation of a game itself is not very hard, just chose anything that gives you a lot of fans. Your team will be good enough to constantly get top-rated games.

Also some of the tools are clunky: While building walls there is no line-option, like dragging a wall over several tiles. Therefore you have to click everwhere to put a wall down. The same goes for the information dialogues, they sometimes overlay other parts of the view.

Game Dev Tycoon offers much more details that you have to analyse and use properly, like finding and combining matching game genres.

Without much effort (and by pushing the "3" button to accelerate the time) you will beat the game within 3 hours tops.

But some things need a positive mention: the graphics are very nice and cute. The sound design is awesome and the overall feel of the game is good.

All in all 3€ are too much for this game, it boils down to 1€/hour fun...

木有中文！We need Chinese

I bought Game Dev Tycoon and I really enjoyed the game and the idea behind it. So, I bought Game Corp because two reasons: i) it's a really cheap game; ii) I was curious about another game to start our game studio.

Briefly, Game Corp it's a nice game, but honestly I can't see how it's possible someone play it for more than 10 hours... I played this game for 5 hours and I already won everything and get 1 billion dollars... So, Game Corp it's not a bad ideia if you want to buy something to play for a night, but nothing more.

I found the same problem with Game Dev Tycoon. I played it a couple of hours and then the game just got boring. In this point, Game Corp it's worst.
Anyway, Game Corp has some nice things, like other companies to beat... but well... like I told before... it is too simple.

I honestly don't get all the positive reviews. This game gets boring really fast. After 15 minutes, it keeps cycling same boring stuff with some minor changes. Sometimes, with no changes at all.