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Mad Games Tycoon

Eggcode · 2016-09-13

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 14, 2019 (PlayStation 4), Nov 12, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 13, 2016 (Mac), Sep 13, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 12, 2019 (Xbox One)

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Mad Games Tycoon is a 2016 Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy game priced at $14.99, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 4423 reviews).

4
playing now
91%
positive of 4.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Mad Games Tycoon trailer thumbnail

Mad Games Tycoon | Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 23 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 3% of 29,343 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 111k–265k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,421 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00
GOG$7.49-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.48 at MacGameStore (2024-08-14) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 68 of 90 observed days · $6.01 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620182026Week of 2018-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

812026-09-15 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 7 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 7 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 4 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 7 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 8 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 7 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 5 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 6 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 7 players2026-10-15 03:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
4176Jan 2015Aug 2026Jan 2015 — avg 69 · peak 178May 2015 — avg 66 · peak 229Sep 2015 — avg 60 · peak 140Jan 2016 — avg 153 · peak 847May 2016 — avg 93 · peak 217Sep 2016 — avg 417 · peak 1,423Jan 2017 — avg 112 · peak 264May 2017 — avg 92 · peak 210Sep 2017 — avg 72 · peak 192Jan 2018 — avg 100 · peak 240May 2018 — avg 105 · peak 330Sep 2018 — avg 65 · peak 169Jan 2019 — avg 66 · peak 127May 2019 — avg 60 · peak 125Sep 2019 — avg 43 · peak 85Jan 2020 — avg 65 · peak 177May 2020 — avg 51 · peak 112Sep 2020 — avg 40 · peak 81Jan 2021 — avg 50 · peak 99May 2021 — avg 22 · peak 46Sep 2021 — avg 18 · peak 40Jan 2022 — avg 18 · peak 44May 2022 — avg 16 · peak 35Sep 2022 — avg 12 · peak 30Jan 2023 — avg 15 · peak 30May 2023 — avg 11 · peak 29Sep 2023 — avg 12 · peak 30Jan 2024 — avg 12 · peak 33May 2024 — avg 8 · peak 19Sep 2024 — avg 8 · peak 18Jan 2025 — avg 12 · peak 29May 2025 — avg 7 · peak 19Sep 2025 — avg 6 · peak 16Jan 2026 — avg 7 · peak 19May 2026 — avg 7 · peak 16Aug 2026 — avg 7 · peak 26
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$15.02$0.002015-01-012026-10-152015-01-01 — best price $14.992016-06-23 — best price $8.992017-04-20 — best price $11.992017-12-21 — best price $5.992018-07-27 — best price $7.492019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-09-09 — best price $14.992019-12-13 — best price $13.262020-01-28 — best price $14.992020-04-21 — best price $11.012020-07-19 — best price $14.992020-09-13 — best price $13.392020-10-21 — best price $14.992020-11-23 — best price $4.122021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-02-12 — best price $5.622021-03-19 — best price $13.392021-04-30 — best price $13.392021-06-01 — best price $13.392021-08-17 — best price $14.992021-11-03 — best price $14.992022-02-23 — best price $13.392022-08-03 — best price $13.392023-03-16 — best price $7.492023-09-20 — best price $13.392024-01-14 — best price $13.392024-05-08 — best price $14.992024-08-15 — best price $11.012024-11-24 — best price $13.392025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-08-01 — best price $14.992026-01-23 — best price $7.492026-08-12 — best price $7.492026-09-17 — best price $7.492026-10-12 — best price $7.492026-10-15 — best price $7.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

39
achievements tracked
69.8%
earned "You're Very Pretty"
34.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

18 supported languages: English, German, French, Turkish, Czech, Polish, Russian, Portuguese - Portugal, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,2665%39
PS4 (PlayStation)26514%40
Xbox One (Xbox)2424%39
PS4 (PlayStation)12316%40
Switch (Nintendo)20%0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CasualEconomySandboxTradingBuildingCraftingStrategyGameMakerCapitalismManagement

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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