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Game Dev Tycoon
Greenheart Games Pty. Ltd. · 23,760 ratings · ★ 4.9
4.9
★★★★★
23,760 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 9 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"game"
9 negative reviews mention this · 100% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game is now unplayable after first run. The game no longer lets you start over after you finish a game, due to a glitch. It freezes up on the garage image when you start a new game and doesn’t let you move forward. I was previously able to load unfinished games to start a new gam…" - Anarchris2032
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"load"
4 negative reviews mention this · 44% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game is now unplayable after first run. The game no longer lets you start over after you finish a game, due to a glitch. It freezes up on the garage image when you start a new game and doesn’t let you move forward. I was previously able to load unfinished games to start a new gam…" - Anarchris2032
3
"screen"
4 negative reviews mention this · 44% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game is now unplayable after first run. The game no longer lets you start over after you finish a game, due to a glitch. It freezes up on the garage image when you start a new game and doesn’t let you move forward. I was previously able to load unfinished games to start a new gam…" - Anarchris2032
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"start"
3 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game is now unplayable after first run. The game no longer lets you start over after you finish a game, due to a glitch. It freezes up on the garage image when you start a new game and doesn’t let you move forward. I was previously able to load unfinished games to start a new gam…" - Anarchris2032
5
"doesn"
3 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game is now unplayable after first run. The game no longer lets you start over after you finish a game, due to a glitch. It freezes up on the garage image when you start a new game and doesn’t let you move forward. I was previously able to load unfinished games to start a new gam…" - Anarchris2032
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"games"
3 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game is now unplayable after first run. The game no longer lets you start over after you finish a game, due to a glitch. It freezes up on the garage image when you start a new game and doesn’t let you move forward. I was previously able to load unfinished games to start a new gam…" - Anarchris2032
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"makes"
3 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fix it. I love most of this game but I cannot stand the sliders it truly ruins the experience for me. Game dev story does that part way better and I don’t get why it has to be so asinine for your game. I cannot understand how I can put the slider i…" - NameHere001
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"iphone"
3 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game Broken. Usually love this game and would give 5 stars BUT… currently won’t even start on my iPhone 13" - Jonathan.McCarthy
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Game is now unplayable after first run
The game no longer lets you start over after you finish a game, due to a glitch. It freezes up on the garage image when you start a new game and doesn’t let you move forward. I was previously able to load unfinished games to start a new game, but now it just freezes on the load screen when I try that.
Game Broken
Usually love this game and would give 5 stars BUT… currently won’t even start on my iPhone 13
No longer works iPhone 14 17.5.1
I have an an issue where I get stuck on the preloading title screen. If I can’t play the game give me my money back. Maybe it was one of my favorite games at a time but you guys really took my money and aren’t trying to fix it.
Game Won’t Load
The game doesn’t seem to load on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Been like this for months now.
Game is amazing. It won’t load.
The game won’t load past the start screen.
Fix it
I love most of this game but I cannot stand the sliders it truly ruins the experience for me. Game dev story does that part way better and I don’t get why it has to be so asinine for your game. I cannot understand how I can put the slider in the same place based on hints for a similar game and suddenly it’s 5 stars this time. It doesn’t feel like I’m putting time resources or skill into the development. The way you have the development stages designed it feels like pure guessing and luck even with the hints like +++ unlocked it’s still just wrong and then occasionally right it makes no sense how this is setup and why can a bug be put in AFTER I finished a game with no way to correct it before releasing it?!
Arbitrary and opaque
The ratings you get for games you’ve developed are extremely random, or thrown into a complex algorithm that makes it practically impossible to routinely create great games, as everything imaginable will count against you. For every good game you make, enjoy barely surviving for the next 6 games you make. Supposedly you can perform market research, but I’ve found it to be fairly useless in telling me why a game did poorly.
Sales figures seem odd at best sometimes, and in some instances make zero sense. There’s no visibility on how your profit is calculated, and while there isn’t a cash shop, it feels almost like you’re playing a F2P game that’s just edging you along in order to get you to buy a pack so you can get more cash.
I enjoyed the game for the first day I played it. It seemed fun, but as I’ve put more time into it, I’ve just become frustrated with it.
Sales figures seem odd at best sometimes, and in some instances make zero sense. There’s no visibility on how your profit is calculated, and while there isn’t a cash shop, it feels almost like you’re playing a F2P game that’s just edging you along in order to get you to buy a pack so you can get more cash.
I enjoyed the game for the first day I played it. It seemed fun, but as I’ve put more time into it, I’ve just become frustrated with it.
I just bought this last night
Hi :D, so this game I have wanted it for years but forgotten about it till I saw it last night I used to be highly addicted to watching youtubers play this back in the day.
Sometimes works
Loved the game but the fact that I can only get the title screen to load 2/10 times it makes it infuriating and not worth it. Fix your game that I paid you money for.
Sentiment summary
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Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)