City Game Studio Your Game Dev Adventure Begins

City Game Studio is a long-running solo developer project simulating the video game industry from January 1976 onward. You start in a small rented room with a single first game, then grow your operation across the decades through publisher contracts, employee hires, building purchases and increasingly ambitious titles.

The simulation is unusually deep. Develop or rent game engines, receive and publish game offers, run a digital store, crack competitors' games, spy on rivals, run marketing campaigns, attend conventions, organize awards entries, port games across consoles you can also design and manufacture, hire studio directors to automate production, publish DLCs and updates, even negotiate console licenses with the competition. Twitch integration lets viewers become your employees.

Multiple difficulty levels span leisurely to permanent challenge, and a sandbox mode lets you configure every parameter. Mods, copy-paste layouts across buildings, custom company logos and unlockable game genres extend long-term play. Developed over years by a single human being (the soundtrack by Conciliator is the one exception to the solo work). Constructive feedback is welcomed; the developer is active in addressing community input.